There are about 3.47 million km2 of forest and of that 2.06 million km2 are covered by a management plan that includes production, conservation or other uses[1]. That does not mean all 2 million km2 are tree plantations. In fact relatively little will be - there is a ton of natural forest in that area and it's not all for commercial use.

The rest of the 3.47 million km2 is located in more remote and northern areas and often relatively undisturbed by human activity. Accessibility is the distinction, not if it's a plantation or not.

[1] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/16-201-x/2018001/sec-2-e...

Have you never left a city? The idea that half the forests in Canada are plantations should be ridiculous on its face.

The entire world deforests around 10m hectares per year commercially[1]. It doesn't follow that the global economy could support 200m+ hectares of plantations, never mind 200m+ in Canada alone.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation

I suspect that 234.5 million just means: crown land permitted for forestry development, not reflecting its actual replanted vs not-replanted status.

'Not much' means 180 million hectares? So just an area three times the size of France.