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From: jims@hcrvax.UUCP (Jim Sullivan)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: The all-too-mighty dollar
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:37:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 09:37:21 1985
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> 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