Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hcrvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!hcrvax!jims From: jims@hcrvax.UUCP (Jim Sullivan) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: The all-too-mighty dollar Message-ID: <1851@hcrvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:37:21 EDT Article-I.D.: hcrvax.1851 Posted: Wed Jul 3 09:37:21 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 06:15:06 EDT References: <988@ubc-vision.CDN> Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto Lines: 17 > So the Americans are crying the blues because natural resources (forest > products) from BC are too cheap! Now I've heard everything. Where is all > that "free enterprise" mumbo-jumbo now? Why doesn't some free enterpriser > (read capitalist) in the USA just buy up all that cheap lumber and stockpile > it and make a fortune? Isn't that the way it is supposed to work? > > Seems that free enterprise works just fine at home, as long as you have > protectionist trade policies. > > Marc Majka - UBC Laboratory for Computational Vision I agree. With the US dollar so high, Canadian manufacturers can produce products 'cheaper' and thus, sell them for less. And to make a buck, the Canadian producer need only make $US0.73. But the protectionists in the States don't see this, and cry 'unfair!'. Jim Sullivan