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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 ::
We're not out of the softwoods yet Toronto Star
Even if they are wrong, as the World Trade Organization and a NAFTA panel have ruled in the past, American lumbermen have everything to gain and nothing to lose by stringing out every contentious issue to the bitter end.
A final dispute resolution would also harm U.S. lobbyists and lawyers who have made careers of fighting this battle over the past generation.
If the softwood lumber dispute was settled once and for all, some of them would have to find new employment. That's precisely what many Canadians have had to do since the massive anti-dumping and countervailing duties were imposed by the Americans. Thousands of them have been laid off, especially in British Columbia, our major exporter of softwood lumber. Mills have been mothballed, businesses have gone under and small towns have been decimated by restrictions on our lumber exports.
This is an edited version of an editorial from the Red Deer (Alta.) Advocate.------------------------------------------- posted 6:25 AM :: reference link ::
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