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To: knight who wrote (2184)	4/11/2002 7:38:28 PM
From: Elizabeth Andrews	Read Replies (2) of 8273

Why don't you tell us what rights you think they should have and while you're doing so why are they different than other citizens of your fine country? By the way I believe it will be proven that BC does subsidize its forest industry. There's a company up there called Timberwest. It owns its land and doesn't pay crown stumpage. It gets more money from offshore buyers for a cunit of fir saw logs that it can get from a BC mill. Why is that? You should read their annual report and see what it says. When BC produces copper, gas or oil it sells at a commodity price that everybody pays. Not true for logs but its true for lumber. Why doesn't the government just auction off the logs to the highest bidder. The price would be determined by the market with respect to the world market demand for lumber. A BC or Manitoba, Washington or Oregon or a Japanese mill would pay the same price for the commodity. Then it would be up to the productivity of the labor to determine the profit margin on the lumber. Pretty simple formula but somebody's afraid to try this free trade idea. Who may that be?

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