Forest policies must now be vetted by U.S.

[CHIMO]

Provincial governments will be expected to vet any forest policy changes through Washington under the terms of the new softwood lumber agreement, International Trade Minister David Emerson said Friday.

Provinces must accept this as part of the price for a deal, Emerson said in an interview in Vancouver.

"The framework agreement will have an anti-circumvention clause, and nobody should be surprised by that," Emerson said.

In fact, federal officials are in B.C. now working through the details with the province on forest policy issues that would be affected by a softwood deal, Emerson said. The details will then be presented to the Americans.

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=fdc62e52-4e6b-460b-81c8-c991ca12bfcc&k=4714

[Spazito]

1. So.....what exactly did we win in this so-called settlement?

It seems to me that, not only did we give up 2 1/2 billion dollars, we also gave up our sovereignty over policy decisions. Wow, are we good or what!!!


Geez.

[daleo]

2. This is just colonialism

Some free trade - ask Washington first.

Some provincial rights - now the provinces have two federal governments interfering in their constitutional domain (natural resources).

Emerson jumped parties for this?

[arikara]

3. What an outrage

Why do I have the feeling that Emerson was going to implement this thing no matter what party he belongs to.

[HuffleClaw]

4. harper has SOOOO much to answer for

and this 'agreement' is like 'agreeing' to a savage gang rape. its disgusting how harper has sold his soul to bush and that the media isn't noticing.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. We need to concentrate on marketing elsewhere

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Our dependence on the USA for trade is a liability IMO

USA is only 300 million

I believe there's another 5 billion people out there

If we could market just to 10% of them . . .

We could kiss our dependence on the USA market goodbye

and not just for lumber

[AX10]

6. What the F@%* is this????

:wtf:? Canada has to ask a foreign government when they want to utilize their own resources?
Again I ask, WTF?

Dump the Cons, ASAP.

[Canuck55]

7. What a Son of a Bitch...

Sold out his party affiliation within a week, sells out his country's interests in less than 16 weeks. A half decade or so ago we had this thing called 'sovereign rule', the Cons should go look it up, & go fuck yourself Emerson.