Bloody Americans

[mbarrick]

OK, we took all your planes on September 11th, we have troops in Afghanistan, we even lost some of our own people in the WTC and this is what we get for helping. Bad enough that your dumbass president forgot to mention us in his speech on September 19th, but now, after all our help we're just getting fucked over. We should cut off all the electricity we export. See how things change when L.A. and NYC go black...

"Our forest dependent communities and forest dependent families are under attack by a hostile foreign power," said De Jong, who was at the negotiation table when talks failed. "It made everyone in that room in Washington sick to their stomachs to watch that unfold."

He suggested that American negotiators may have misplaced Canadian compassion and generosity after the September 11 terrorist attacks in Washington and New York.

-- BC Forestry Minister Mike De Jong (CBC)

Comments

[hisbeauty.livejournal.com]

So many lives are going to be affected in a negative way because of this Bullshit :((

*sigh*

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

It has me worried.

[verkan-vall.livejournal.com]

I can't comment too intelligently (not enough time) on this issue so instead I will simply say nice song selection.

Impasses like these make me worry about how it will be when we are competing for the resources themselves. Neighbor against neighbor. :shudders:

If Mr. De Jong would bring some Horton's baked goods and toffee coffee, I think the U.S. negotiators would crack.

AHA!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

That's it! Timbits for everyone! Damn. If only someone had thought of this last Thursday before the talks broke down.

Either that or we can revive the long-standing Canadian tradition of getting everyone drunk so they'll sign anything.

On the subject of energy

[reive-d.livejournal.com]

Refusing to export energy to the states merely harms another of our industries, and thus our economy.

As an alternative I've been recommending this: pass a law (with a sunset clause, obviously) that directly ties the rate of import tariff on Candian softwood to an export tariff we place on energy. That's right, you think energy prices were too high last summer? Try adding 29% to that.

Oh, and to be REAL pricks about it, it applies to energy that resellers purchase from the states and then sell back to them as well.

Re: On the subject of energy

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

In fact, emotional reaction aside, I like Dhaliwal's idea (http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/SearchFullStoryPrint.html&cf=tgam/common/GenericSearch.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&encoded_keywords=lumber&option=&current_row=10&start_row=10&num_rows=1&search_results_start=1). We simply say "no" to their pipleline plans until they negotiate in good faith.