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To: Snowshoe who wrote (1269)	10/16/2006 8:35:03 AM
From: Tommy Moore	Read Replies (1) of 1293

Why is it the Canadian government has such a penchant for taking it up the ass from the US. Mr Harper held a gun to the head of the lumber industry to sign a deal that everybody new was a sellout. What a disgusting end to a very long expensive battle. Companies have disappeared, workers have been displaced, and lives disrupted, it is a final indignity to see things end as they have. "The Vancouver Sun reports in its Saturday edition a U.S. court on Friday ordered the Bush administration to pay back all of the $5.3-billion (U.S.) in duties collected from Canadian lumber companies. The Sun's Gordon Hamilton writes the ruling came one day after Ottawa voluntarily implemented a negotiated agreement that leaves $1-billion of that money in the hands of the Americans. The belated legal victory in the softwood dispute provides "absolute vindication" the U.S. duties were illegal and that Canadian lumber is not subsidized, opponents of the negotiated settlement said. The U.S. Court of International Trade ordered the refund after having already found the duties were illegal. But it does not change anything, according to a statement released by the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. "Today's ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade does not legally affect the settlement agreement," said USTR spokesman Gretchen Hamel. "This is insanity," said Russ Cameron, of the Independent Lumber Remanufacturers Association in Vancouver. "We just gave away a billion dollars and subjected ourselves to a border tax. It doesn't make a lot of sense." The settlement went into effect Oct. 12"

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