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...Canadian studies at North Carolina's Duke University. And no one is better positioned to exploit those new realities than Harper, thanks to networks in place among western Canadian conservatives, Calgary oil barons and U.S. Republicans. As a result, some long-simmering trade quarrels, such as the one over softwood lumber, may be moved from the back burner to the front--especially as the Alberta oil sands and proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline strengthen Canada's position as a prime energy supplier to the U.S. The irony is that Harper will be able to build on foundations laid by departing...
While the New Zealand government maintains ownership over the property, Harvard can cultivate and harvest its non-exotic forests consisting of ponderosa pines, douglass firs and other varieties of softwood trees...
...atmospherics as the summit approached seemed to support that view: the hemisphere resembled a checkerboard of multiplying trade quarrels. Just two weeks ago, despite their intimate NAFTA partnership, Canada and the U.S. moved to the verge of a multibillion-dollar trade war over softwood lumber; it came not long after a bruising spat between Canada and Brazil that involved subsidies to airline sales and, briefly, a shutdown in the beef trade. Brazil was in a row with the U.S. over the pricing of generic aids drugs that added another thorn to a perennially prickly relationship...
...mother decorated the room in green--a light green carpet, a dark green bedspread. The walls are the unfinished softwood planks my father cut for me; his brother put the sockets in. They cut a hole in the old wood and built me a skylight. They took down the venetian blinds and put up modern Levelors...
Mulroney is counting on the pact to give a boost to a country that at the moment has a modest surplus in world trade. From 1980 to 1984, Canada's exports surged from $67.7 billion to $90.3 billion, fueled largely by sales to the U.S. of such products as softwood lumber, newsprint, autos and trucks. By 1986, however, exports had slipped to $89.7 billion, partly as a result of a falloff in Canada's revenues from oil sales. Canada had an $11 billion trade surplus with the U.S. last year, but a $5 billion deficit with the rest...