Politics is always about games within games. Using the useful idiot "muh environment" people to cover for what is really a ploy to ensure they can't undercut lumber trades agreed with Canada and North America, among other things, and ultimately to help keep Brazil under heel as a bargaining chip for other trade deals. Make your opponents think you want something other than what you're really after. Global politics, like politics in general, is a gigantic game of lies.

But if Canada gets such trade deals, it gets to undercut some of the imports from the United States more cheaply. And, in the past couple years, lumber exports to Canada have absolutely fallen through the floor. As well as imports from Canada. So what Canada is probably trying to do, like it did with its garbage and coal shipping to China, is export its "environmental" concerns to somewhere else to claim being a "global leader" in environmental bla bla bla. It's all a lie, of course. If you counted what they export, and the damage that causes, Canada is absolutely atrocious.