Tuesday, March 21, 2006  Quick. Cancel NAFTA.  The solution is
so, so obvious. First, we have the Americans, being the complete
dicks they've always been with respect to NAFTA and softwood,
even in the face of a unanimous ruling against them:  The U.S.
Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports was not happy with the ruling.
"The NAFTA panel decision issued today is gravely flawed, and
signifies a potential end to an important antidote in the U.S.
lumber industry's efforts to counter the poison that is Canadian
lumber industry practices," coalition chairman Steve Swanson
said.  The Canadian industry gets "enormous subsidies" and "we
will not stand for this absurd and unjust result," he added.  At
the same time, we have the spectre of the U.S. using other
provisions of NAFTA against Canada (as quoted here at POGGE):
Since the signing of NAFTA in 1992, gas exports to the US have
sky rocketed from 41% to 56% of our total Canadian production,
and oil from 44% to 63% of production. What’s more, as US
exports continue to