[Lemmy]

Khar Khar:

..this was not done just because someone wanted to do it, it was done to reflect the ongoing reality of the lumber industry.

One of those realities being, as I stated earlier, that the Americans have no intention of playing this game with any honour. Canada is left with no recourse but to suck it up and deal. It reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode where the child has the power to kill with his mind, so all the adults have to bend to the boy's whims (there was an homage to that TZ episode on one of the Simpson's Hallowe'en specials, where Bart turned Homer into a Jack-in-the-box). We have to play nice, lest become Jack-in-the-box, when it comes to selling lumber to the Yanks.

[andyt]

Just read a paper by Herb Gruebel that said BC did change to a market pricing system on the coast. The bark beetle wood is all in the interior. I'm not clear what pricing system they use there. At one time the coast was king - it's where the most valuable, high profit wood came from. It's what built this province more than anything else. But the interior has long surpassed the coast, which has stagnated.