Canada scores victory in softwood fight
March 4, 2008
4 March 2008
Canada scores victory in softwood fight
The following article is excerpted from the 4 March 2008 edition of “globeandmail.com”.
Canada won a sizeable legal victory today over the United States Tuesday after a private court settled the first dispute to flare up over the 2006 softwood lumber deal between Ottawa and Washington.
The decision is expected to infuriate the hard-line U.S. softwood lumber lobby, which will likely push for a judicial review of the ruling…
…the point Canada won – whether Alberta and B.C. producers should have been paying higher export taxes in the months after the deal was inked – will save those provinces as much as $75-million in export levies…