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:: Thursday, December 18, 2003 ::

Alberta joins Ontario in panning softwood deal while B.C. sits on the fence By AMY CARMICHAEL, CP
Alberta joined Ontario Tuesday in panning a proposal to end the softwood lumber dispute, while B.C. politicians continued to sit on the fence and many worried the deal would die.

"The B.C. government has got to start building consensus among the provinces and getting the players in line," said Gian Sandhu, president of Jackpine Forest Products, one of many small B.C. producers who say without a deal their companies won't survive another year.

But Alberta's Minister of International Relations told the federal government it wants to hold out for a bigger share of the U.S. market than is being offered to Canadian producers under the deal.

Saskatchewan seeks changes to softwood deal CBC
Saskatchewan is joining Ontario and Alberta in seeking changes to a proposed softwood deal with the United States.The province argues the deal is flawed and could devastate Saskatchewan's lumber industry. The biggest problem for smaller lumber producers is the quota being proposed by the United States.

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