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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MrsNose who wrote (508)	4/1/2001 2:25:29 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

SI down for hours this morning ... there was a surprising interview on cbc radio, Michael Enright phoned up Jimmy Carter who is apparently heading up or at least joined with some timberland owners' group which is planning to make war on us now that the softwood lumber 'agreement' [it was no agreement, it was a capitulation to previous bullying of an identical nature] expired last night at midnight ... ME didn't pull any punches - JC was droning on real slow and not saying much and ME asked him to speed up his responses, JC didn't like that and asked ME two minutes later to speed up his questions, lol .... towards the end ME asks [paraphrased from memory] - 'how does a washed-up peanut farmer like yourself get to be such an expert on canadian matters' .... well i just about fell off the chair ... lol ... takes guts to call bullshit on a personality with those initials and the reputation of a saint in some respects ... JC called him a rude person and said if the cbc called him for another interview would they please have someone else do it, lol ... [ME interviewed him on As It Happens when he was president and not threatening us, as i recall it was more amicable] This is a serious thing and we must not blink nor waver ... Stephens is right - if they make war on the forest industry, let 'em learn to speak arabic and read by candlelight .... the mouse can get the elephant's attention with a long enough hatpin .... and of course more US citizens support free trade than oppose it - ca.us.biz.yahoo.com ... but the land barons down there have a powerful lobby group with lots of cash behind them ... we will very likely take some hits and they may be severe, however it is vitally important that for once this country stand up on its hind legs, develop a little political spine, and don't take that bullying crap no more.