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Brent Beach (ub359@victoria.tc.ca) wrote:
: I agree with many of Eric's concerns listed in this note.

: Perhaps because he is closer to the problem in that the existence of the
: industry affects his economic outlook a lot more than it does mine, his
: views of the causes for and remediation of the problem are not the same as
: mine.

Eric is a narrow minded right wing "neo-con" artist and appologist for
capitalists in BC that are hampering the rapid expansion of new technology
in Canada. Anyone with have a brain knows that the only way forward is
with good scientific research and development, and no where is this more
required today in Canada then in the field of economics. Economics as a
scientific study in Canada is almost nonexistant in Canada today. What we
have instead is a lot of right wing hysteria and propaganda with a witches
brew of alchemy (Adam's Smiths "invisible hands" etc, etc).

Forestry is a vital industry whose main role in business has yet to be
identified and understood, let alone developed. As an "energy industry"
its value has rarely even been calculated, although at current natural gas
prices, wood is worth over $2.00 a pound in terms of heat content. As a
source of fertilizer, it is vastly superior to anything developed thus far
by the petroleum based fertilizer industries.

And governments, particularly in Alberta, have sold out the natural
heritage of its citizens to multinational capitalists who waste the
resource and do not know how to extract the maximum economic benefits from
the resource.

: Forestry has been a political football in BC as long as there has been an
: industry. The current "water bed" process is just another example of that.

Its a football only because multi-national companies are allowed to spend
money on propaganda and write it off as a business expense. It seems to me
that a much better solution is to fine multinational companies at ten
times the amount they spend to produce propaganda that must be undone with
public education efforts later. Just look at the bullshit put out by the
pulp and paper crowd in Alberta for instance. Clean rivers my ass.

: Lets hope Campbell gets rid of the waterbed, which appears to be no more
: than a mechanism that allows political favours in one area to be paid for by
: the rest of the province. Did you know that lumber going into the Skena mill
: was paying 25 cents a cubic metre stumpage, while lumber going into the
: Carrier mills was paying $40. What a farce.

Lets hope that Campbell remembers his "liberal" roots and uses the grey
matter between his ears, and does not buckle to the country club set in
Vancouver with more money than brains.

Joe Green