majka@ubc-vision.CDN (Marc Majka) (07/02/85)
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. Even better if none of you trading partners (Canada, Japan, European Common Market ...) want free trade. The Americans want their apple pie and to eat it too. Their economic rhetoric becomes hypocrisy when they find it to their own advantage. Small wonder that the USA has earned the reputation of being an economic bully. --- Marc Majka - UBC Laboratory for Computational Vision
jims@hcrvax.UUCP (Jim Sullivan) (07/03/85)
> 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