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To: marcos who wrote (2208)	4/13/2002 3:32:39 PM
From: knight	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

Here's a good link for anyone interested in the Softwood Lumber dispute: for.gov.bc.ca Unfortunately, the New Democrats soured a lot of British Columbians when they forced closure on the Nisga'a treaty debate. The current referendum is somewhat of a useless exercise..I doubt if it's binding...and I believe Campbell has his own agenda anyway. I think we have all seen that demonstrated over the last few months. I don't have much respect for the political system in this country anymore...we have a virtual dictatorship in Ottawa...a clown as the leader of the country...where he will continue to be voted in even when the idiot lapses into a comatose state....and an opposition that practices cannibalism......what a sad and hopeless situation. If the aboriginal people of this country can wrest some power and control away from the political jackasses...and become masters of their own destiny to some small degree...all the power to them...we're going to be sold out anyways. oh yes....I see the feds bought 2 new jets for 100 million or something like that......way to go guys...oink..oink...oink...oink...... . . ...and don't even get me started on western alienation....;)

To: marcos who wrote (2208)	4/14/2002 5:45:40 PM
From: teevee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

marcos, I have another comment on the US global economic war: on the Canadian timber front, "excess" raw logs can be imported by American mills, duty and tarrif free(excess logs are defined as those logs not needed by operating mills).....The more B.C. mills that go out of business and the more mill towns that permanently shut down on the wet coast, the more "excess" logs there will available for export. Hell, if the duties and tarrifs shut down all the B.C. mills, every log in B.C. will become classified as "excess". IMO, the B.C. government needs to immediately put an offsetting tax, tarrif, duty or whatever you want to call it, on raw logs heading for the US so that they cannot compete with "value added" timber for export, and then change the law-period. The folks in Washington DC won't listen to reason, so maybe what is needed is for some of those US mills and mill towns getting fat on cheap, plentiful B.C. raw logs, to share some of the pain? Maybe the American politicians only listen to their own constituents?