President's speech

[scalerman]

I really am not concerned about Quebec "separating" from Canada. They have not thought all of that through. It does not work. It would take a very long time to negotiate all of the necessary aggreements, If they really thought about it they would become one of the most impoverished nations in the world overnight.

How long will it be before we all realize that the possibility of a terrorist attack is not based on where we live but on what we do (or do not) believe. Any person in the world whose belief system does not line up with theirs is susceptible to attack. You will notice that they oppose the killing of "innocent" people. The interesting thing is that they continue to kill those that we would consider innocent. It is obvious that their definition of innocent is slightly different than ours.

I need to aploogize for the "freeze to death in the dark " comment. My frustration lies with the softwood lumber (dis) agreement. I am trained as a log scaler and am now working in consrtuction in another province as a result of the issues related to softwood lumber. It looks to me like the American consumers need to get up in arms about it and demand some action. Now I am willing to admit that maybe my view is a little simplistic but this is how I see it. When you go shopping for lumber at Home Depot- or wherever, the clerk does not say to you here we have two choices- the cheaper manufactered in the US lumber or the more expensive manufactured in Canada stuff, no it is all the same price- the US consumer is being ripped off. Not only that the US lumber manufacturers want to get their hands on the money that is being held in trust from the tarriffs. Most of the lumber companies that operate in Canada are US owned anyway so I don't get it. From where I sit it looks like the only ones who are suffering from this whole thing are those who are buying the lumber while the price is artificially inflated. It is not about fair trade at all- it is about fleecing the public out of as much money as possible.