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WRLA 2020 Board
as shine a spotlight on the importance of the lumber want government to understand why it’s important
and building supply industry to provincial and to work with us and to have a connection.”
federal economies.
To support this message, the WRLA put together
“One of the things that I’ve learned in my four an economic impact report for building supply
years as President of the WRLA, which I found dealers in the prairie provinces (i.e. Manitoba,
to be shocking, is how far below the radar this Saskatchewan, and Alberta) as a tool to clearly
industry has fallen in terms of government support. demonstrate and communicate the industry’s
We are a massive industry and this past year we immense value to the provincial economies.
really endeavoured to understand our impact on According to the report, the Prairie Provinces’
the Canadian economy as well as the provincial building supply dealers represent more than 1,300
economies that our members contribute to. We stores, 27,000 employees, and $7.2 billion in sales
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