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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6019)	3/31/2002 2:23:28 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

The U.S. argument is that Canada provides too many subsidies to our lumber industry for their U.S. counterparts to compete. The fact is you can't compete with Canada, the U.S. economy depends on Canadian timber and would be crippled without it. The quick simple fast solution to the matter is to stop shipping hardwood to the U.S. for a few weeks. Some places would call this tactic capitalist economics. Canada effectively controls uranium, potash and for a large part nickel, copper, gold and diamond yet for some reason we have a problem with lumber. I think the U.S. is playing hardball because they want to be in a control position when they start importing large amounts of water from Canada. You will see the same group negotiating that crisis as are involved in the current lumber dispute.