That's not something i would say, John ... my comments have been consistently specific to the one-way 'free trade' situation imposed on my province by the Bush II regime, back to the summer of 2001 when Dubya's Commerzwaffe put the jackboots to my neighbours ... what i don't know about other industries would fill volumes, ditto overall trade circumstances, none of it is relevant anyway to the indefensible actions of current US admin against some pretty decent people here and against home builders and buyers in the US to whom the tariffs are a sleazy backdoor consumption tax
I can't see the article you posted, the Globe site gives my browser illegal operation, shuts it down ... 'neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures' my arse [that's part of their masthead slogan on the dead-tree edition]
You mention oil and gas .... interesting, that's a trade that in dollar figures far outweighs our forest products, yet does not provide near the employment to us ..... there is no particular advantage in pretending we have 'free trade' with the US, and shipping south all the cheap energy we can pump out of the ground, while their rulers are screwing us on forestry .... we can sell that oil to anybody, pump it into ships, take it to the japanese, the french, whomever, for this we don't need some phoney one-way 'free trade'
If i did go out and cut some timber, an activity i thoroughly enjoy by the way, and i happen to hold a fair bit which i will cut one day in the distant future, your Great Hee-roe Dubya for whom less voted than did for Gore even though Nader split the electorate would have his minions whack me for twenty-seven per cent on my product, even though it would be clearly market wood, willing seller to willing buyer and all that, just like the pine lobby spiel goes, but it wouldn't matter, your doofus presidente du jour would simply strike at me because i am a british columbian .... you see, it's not what they say that counts, it's what they do, got to watch for the hypocrisy out of these types, John |
