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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (12088)	11/30/2001 12:37:44 PM
From: Doug Soon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>The Canadian government should find out how much the market will bear for the price of gas. > Some would claim that the Canadians were doing just this when we had the California power crisis occurred, >and Natural Gas soared from $2 to $10 within the space of a year. This is a more complicated issue as they usually are. "the Canadians" you refer to are companies, some of which have a large amount of their equity owned by US interests. Further, this law of supply and demand effect on prices affected Canadian residential and industrial users as well. Some Canadian industrial users perched on the brink of bankruptcy until the crisis ended. Tying energy issues with the softwood lumber issue may not necessarily solve all the issues in the forest sector today. Gains on one side will cause losses on the other side etc. All that being said, NAFTA has proven to be a paper tiger as there is nothing "free" about this behavior at all.