<strong>Written By:</strong> sthompson
<strong>Date:</strong> 2006-09-13 16:19:54
<a href="/article/161954150-harper-falls-in-line-behind-us-interests">Article Link</a>

There is more. When the industry balked, the Harper government used intimidation — a now-familiar tactic of our new prime minister. On Aug. 4, The Globe and Mail quoted a senior government official warning that opponents “… should prepare themselves for the consequences of rejecting it and might want to start contemplating a world where Ottawa is no longer in the business of subsidizing softwood disputes.”

The softwood deal is trade managed of, by and for the American lumber lobby. A supposedly sovereign nation signed on to an unprecedented clause requiring provinces to first vet any changes in forestry policy with Washington.

Ignored in all the hype about “how thankful we should be that Conservatives get along so well with Americans” is this reality. Canada tossed away a significant victory, won, not before the useless North American Free Trade Agreement panels, but from the U.S. Court of International Trade. On April 7, it ruled U.S. duties on Canadian softwood were illegal. Click here to find out more! This is the second time a Conservative government has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory on the lumber file. In 1986, the GATT, the World Trade Organization’s predecessor, issued a preliminary finding on the legality of U.S. lumber duties against Canada. Brian Mulroney’s government, bent on negotiating a free trade agreement with the U.S., abruptly aborted it, with the eager acquiescence of the Americans. The finding was never published. It doesn’t take a suspicious mind to assume that GATT had ruled for Canada. Mulroney foreclosed on the GATT ruling because it would have wiped out his entire argument about the “necessity” of a bilateral free trade deal.

Free trade is like a computer virus, coursing through Canada’s social, economic and political systems, eradicating everything unique...

Full article: <a href="http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/09/06/635/">http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/09/06/635/</a>







[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on September 14, 2006]

   

Everyone should e-mail this story to Harper, Emerson, Layton, Duceppe, as well as Gordon Campbell, Dalton McGuinty, Jean Charest and ask them to explain themselves.


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Canada for Canadians

   

What I cannot understand is the BQ supporting a trade deal that takes the control over the management of Quebec owned lands and places that control in the hands of Washington and its lumber lobby. The BQ also had indicated that an "independent" Quebec would adopt the US dollar. One has to wonder whether the "hidden" agenda is simply to transfer Quebec from Canada to the United States under the smokescreen of "separatism."

   

Ya I know, it doesn't make sense. Quebec - or at least Mr. Duceppe and his followers - want independence but even if they get it, they won't have it for long if Canada no longer exists as a sovereign nation. At best, they will simply be a junior partner of a territory.

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Canada for Canadians

   

Surprise, surprise! I did e-mail the article to the above listed politicians and just got my first response. hahaha, from the office of the premier of the BC Governemt saying "thank-you for bringing this to our attention". As if they didn't already know.

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Quick to judge, quick to anger slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.

   

<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/money/national/2006/09/14/imf-useconomy.html">http://www.cbc.ca/story/money/national/2006/09/14/imf-useconomy.html</a><br />
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Obviously, it is in the interests of the "powers that be" to see that Harper gets every chance to form his majority government. So the future looks rosy, and gas prices are down (a tribute to what Canadians regard as of vital importance). And we have a man in space! Now why shouldn't we give the Conservatives a chance at "real" government. After all, look at the marvels they've created under the impediment of a minority one.<p>---<br>"Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."

   

The reasoning is simple. Quebec nationalists are much like their Canadian counterparts - motivated by antipathy for the "imperial power" that they feel dominated by.

Quebec nationalists look on the rest of Canada as Canadian nationalists look upon the US. And just as many Canadian nationalists uncritically embrace any enemy of Washington's, many Quebec nationalists believe too that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

   

>motivated by antipathy for the "imperial power" that they feel dominated by.

>Quebec nationalists look on the rest of Canada as Canadian nationalists look upon the US. And just as many Canadian nationalists uncritically embrace any enemy of >Washington's, many Quebec nationalists believe too that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

An obvious over-simplification my friend. I would have to say that not only do you underestimate the average Quebecer but you underestimate the average Canadian patriot as well. Yes I'm a nationalist, that is, I want exactly what the sovereignists in Quebec want but I want it to include Quebec. Some Canadians have not only the knowledge but the inquisitiveness and courage to be nationalists/patriots/true individualists and seek the truth. Calling yourself an individualist is not enough. Your post exposes you as a sheep in an individualists clothing.

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