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NEP2 = Republic of Alberta.

   

   

While true that the current recession in in the US, thanks to sub-prime mortgages failing, has severely hurt their housing market, but mills have been shutting down longer than that. I'm not simply talking about 'shortage of work' layoffs that are temporary, but condos where the mill was shut downs.
I spent many years as a logger and an active IWA member, not just the pay the dues to work kind. BC often exported logs, yellow cedar and sitka spruce to Japan for custom milling, hemlock and balsam to China, some for chop sticks, the rest for timber of dimensions different that what we mill.
Once NAFTA came in, the US became the customer of choice for raw logs, easier shipping. But still, our mills sent huge loads of lumber south. Then along came the protectionist whining about softwood, and the sanctions. Lumber sales dropped, due to tariffs, which had NAFTA been negotiated correctly, should not have applied. Then after many years of legal battles, which we won several times and the US ignored/appealed, the settlement came. It was simple easier to let them mill the lumber themselves and shut down our mills. Odd how a mill being dismantled can sell off it's equipment quickly to US mills.

   

explain

   

   

NOT IN DEMAND!! WTH!

Palliser Lumber is the second biggest reseller of wood in Canada. If they were not so busy, do you think they would have just completed 10 million in renovations.

They have trucks lined up waiting to take product back to the United States.

The reason they are number 2 right now is their competition moved to the United States.

Palliser Lumber buys Canadian lumber and is truely a Canadian company. (besides some of the owners of the Calgary Flames has stock it Palliser)

   

feeble attempt at sarcasm.

   

He is simply saying the foreign investment in Alberta is from the United States and China and they have their own countries interest at heart first before Canada.

Canada is foreign owned. Not just Alberta. We as a nation have already lost our country to Corporate America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_ow ... _of_Canada

   

Keep NAFTA

Refuse negotations with USA about it and before the election create a penalty of 50Billion Dollars if either party trys to cancle it with out negoiation

   

There is nothing in NAFTA that says Canada must continue to sell to the US first. If there is, please show me the link in the NAFTA agreement, because I've repeatedly heard this on the Left, and yet when asked, not one single person has ever been able to show me where in NAFTA it says this.

Here is the NAFTA agreement.

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Bulletins/nafta.html

What NAFTA says is that if Canada slaps on export controls, Canada is obligated to continue to export to the US the same proportion of energy relative to reserves as it has over the past 36 months.

Thus, one would think that if there are actual shortages in Canada, that means supplies and thus reserves are dwindling.

Here is the energy provision of NAFTA

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Bulletins/Nafta/06.energy

Canada does not have to sell a drop of oil to the US (though that is a practical commercial impossibility). If some non-American company offered to come and pay $200 per barrel of oil, Canadian companies could sell every drop of oil to them for that price. There is nothing in NAFTA that prevents Canadian or Canadian-based companies from doing so.

   

Yeah, as if rising oil prices have anything to do with NAFTA.

   

The green in you should be hoping for $300 a barrel of oil, because that would certainly kill demand and dramatically slow greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere!

Why should an oil-exporting country be at the mercy of world oil prices? Are you saying that we should fix the price at a higher price? And if not, why not? Why shouldn't Canadians pay a higher price of oil? Should Canadians have paid a much higher price for oil, say $50, when it was $10?

Or, put another way, why should those who work in the oil business and the provinces that benefit from high oil prices subsidize the rest of the country?

   

So Alberta could join the US then. Problem solved.

   

The search for fairer trade passes by NAFTA (ALENA).

   

YES! Get rid of NAFTA. Amd stop a lot more of the global trads. Look after Canadians first!

   

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