Major fault lies with the Chrétien and Martin governments who have done nothing whatsoever to defend us from Washington corruption, so yes there is fault here, that's the point ... producers have tried to work up other markets for many decades, with some success, and they continue to do so, however only three nations build homes the way we do - Canada, Japan, and the US ... nobody else uses such proportion of lumber in homes, though most all do tend to use some if only for window and door frames, furniture etc
This continent produces pretty near the lumber it consumes, varies each year of course, but works out mostly even ... the US produces only two-thirds of what it consumes ... Canada produces less lumber than the US [oh yes], yet our surplus of supply over domestic demand neatly fills the other one-third gap of US demand ... as a nation we export around two-thirds of our production, twenty per cent of exports go overseas, the rest traditionally to the US ... all approximate and fluctuating proportions, of course
If you'd really like to learn about the pine lobby versus BC thing there is much on the net ... the CBC has a backgrounder in the header of the Fascist Oligarchs Attack thread, where there are many other links, especially in early posts
We have always had to defend this land from attack by sleazeballs from the south, it's how we got started, it's what the quebecois and loyalists had in common ... we owe it to our friends and allies down there to stand firm, there have been times they helped us, and while they may have long hard times between their Wilsons and their Roosevelts, that doesn't mean there is no hope |
