"Canada suspends softwood talks with U.S." posted by proud YANK.
Boy, you teed up a good one.
Why can't all foreign policy be this simple? Whiners put their tail between their legs and run off and hide.....
If America didn't want to keep its agreements, it shouldn't have made them, simple as that. Its behaviour over softwood lumber is dishonorable, to say the least. Its clearly defined in the NAFTA treaty the terms of the treaty, and these support the Canadian position. The ruling upheld the validity of Canada's complaint. Now America is just going to ignore the agreement that it convinced us to join, and the ruling?
It's shameful. I support America on most things and in most endeavours. But disobeying the terms of an agreement, and a ruling, is dishonorable. I hate to say it, but if America doesn't keep its end of the bargain, we should do what Layton suggests and put export taxes on gas, oil and uranium coming from Canada.
Willie, call your buddies and tell them to get over here and see an example of how we have given up our sovereignty to these trade organizations. Woe is us!
Unleash the Canada PING!
Call up the troops of our fair dominion.
They are "very" upset about this. What are they going to do... send in their armed forces? Ha, ha, ha, ha!! Maybe some of those un-armed citizens. Of course they have lots of draft dogers and gay's that could really whomp on us.
Meanwhile...raw logs are still exported in higher quantities than the finished product "softwood lumber" and no one is saying Jack S about that...
Easy fix, frame with steel, don't send it to Asia..keep it here, or, buy the finished product (logs from Canada) milled locally in the USA...
I'd hate to have soft wood.
"stakeholders" is that doublespeak for envirowakos?
I thought George Bush was for more open trade?