Brazil and Canada lead the world in pulp exports (Ibá, 2024) because they have sectors linked to pulp exports, the basic raw material for which comes from forestry. However, the fundamental difference between the countries is the source of the raw material and the ownership of the land. In the case of Brazil, the raw material comes from eucalyptus monocultures (7,317,653 million hectares) - an exotic species in the country - and land ownership is private and individual, companies buy/rent land. In Canada, on the other hand, the basic raw material is the various species of pine, native to Canadian forests, so 95% of these areas are owned by the state, with the exception of private land on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It is on the basis of the difference in the relationship between private ownership of land that this text aims to understand the logging industry's strategies for accessing and controlling land in Brazil and Canada, based above all on land as a commodity in capitalism, from the Marxist theory of land rent. From a methodological point of view, we used public sources on the sector in Brazil and Canada, as well as data produced by companies in the sector. In Canada, timber companies have two options for accessing land with forest areas: a) acquiring a forest management license, issued by each province, which allows for limited and taxed extraction; b) acquiring timber from private land, which is less heavily taxed. In these situations, companies have to pay for the land to extract the raw material, i.e., as in Brazil, they pay a tax on the land, the land rent. In Canada, for example, this tax can be paid to the state or to the landowners. In Brazil, it is paid to the landowners.