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Do you have to be Canadian to be the Canadian Ambassador to the US or the Canadian Trade Minister?
Why do I ask?
Well it has to do with this business of their bullying Canadian companies into accepting the softwood lumber capitulation.
At first I thought that the Glimmer Twins had just given up on the Lumber Co's when they started changing the rules at the end of the game:
Canadian Trade Minister David Emerson, facing growing opposition from lumber firms, is no longer requiring that 95 percent of the industry back the accord. Instead, he's only seeking "substantial" support, said the people, who spoke on condition their names not be used.
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"It's (the term substantial) not an absolutely fixed number," (Ambassador) Wilson said.
But now I'm thinking that the 'substantial' gambit was all a ruse and that the following was the real hammer.
The government had also asked all firms to drop litigation in the dispute.
However, Wilson said on Monday (Aug 21st) that companies refusing to drop litigation wouldn't be able to veto the lumber agreement.
All of which makes it very difficult to not conclude that the hardest of the hardball bargaining by Messr's Emerson and Wilson has not, in fact, been done with the Americans, but rather with the Canadians.
Isn't there a name for people who screw their own country to advance the agenda of another?
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