Okay,sounds good.
I get up to Alberta's " Yukon City" every now and then too.
My sister & her family live there plus,we have friends east of Edmonchuck.


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This is an editorial from the Ottawa Sun Newspaper outlining what has and is happening regarding the softwood lumber ordeal.

Smokescreen
Amid the smoke and tear gas of the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City last April, U.S. President George W. Bush talked the talk about free trade.

Less than a year later, it seems part of it, at least, was a smokescreen. When it's time to walk the walk, it seems the principles of free trade apply primarily when it's in the U.S. interest.

Events of the last few weeks should be troubling for those expecting Bush to honour his commitment to expanding free trade.

When talks on resolving the softwood lumber dispute broke off last week after early optimism, the U.S. prepared for a cash grab by imposing tariffs of 29% (a 19.31% countervailing duty and a 9.6% anti-dumping tax) on Canadian lumber. They are to become final on May 6, when Canadian exporters must replace bonds with cash to cover the tariffs.

Canadian International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew rightly called the tariffs "obscene."

The money will go directly to a southern U.S. lumber industry whose product is inferior to Canadian lumber and whose efficiency cannot match its more modern Canadian counterpart.

The U.S. softwood industry claims stumpage rates on Crown land in Canada amount to an unfair subsidy, a charge that has been rejected three times by the World Trade Organization. Still, the Americans choose to tie Canada up in dispute resolution for years. It should be noted both the influential New York Times and Washington Post have written editorials criticizing the U.S. position.

The fact they're playing this game says volumes about their commitment to free trade.

Then, this month, Bush announced tariffs up to 30% on steel imports (Canada and Mexico were excluded) in a move some see as a payoff to some states for support he garnered in the U.S. election.

Now, sabres are rattling on both sides of the Atlantic for a trade war with Bush. The 15 European Union countries hit with the steel tariff are poised to retaliate with import taxes on U.S. goods that may include steel, textiles and citrus products. In Canada, where tariff-induced job losses have already hit 15,000 softwood workers, the Industrial Wood and Allied Workers Union will ask the federal government to impose tariffs on all natural resources heading to the U.S. -- "everything from logs to fish to hydro."

The same nations Bush considers friends for his proposed expanded war on terrorism may become his enemies in a world wide trade war. Bush's actions belie his words in Quebec City.





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