Are Canadians Ready To Cave In On Softwood Lumber ?
I have this television image of Stephen Harper standing before the White House media alongside George W. Bush, bathing in the President’s blandishments, even as the media wanted to talk about North Korea. I couldn’t help but recall his infamous speech delivered to a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing U.S. think tank when he said….. You’re (the United States) the second greatest nation on earth…..Your country, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world…..Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it. Canadians make no connection between the fact that they are a Northern European welfare state and the fact that we have very low economic growth, a standard of living substantially lower than yours, a massive brain drain of young professionals to your country, and double the unemployment rate of the United States”. M
