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  • Throughout history, immoral leaders from the developing countries have lied and sold their people out for their own monetary interests. I do not believe that global warming is taking place in these countries! lol BUT MONEY TALKS!

  • @H204Real

    Who did they sell their people out to? Who was the puppet-master? In Mexico, the drug cartels insist that politicians are either bought or shot. How does our record compare? What do we in the West do when we come across a developing country's leader that cannot be bought? At the minimum, we make sure (or try to make sure) that they don't stay in charge for long.

  • And that lumber dispute cost a loss of 100,000 jobs in British Columbia.

  • @ThisBoyTV

    100,000 illegal jobs used to remove lumber from land that was stolen. British Columbia is the only province that has not signed a treaty with the indigenous people. Treaties were required under British, and later Canadian, law prior to any trade or settlement (i.e., the 1763 Royal Proclamation).

  • That is an under estimate of the jobs lost. Those jobs supported families, including yours, all over BC.

  • @ThisBoyTV

    Your statement that lumber jobs supported me and my family is false. Most of my family don't even live on Coast Salish territory where the majority of the lumber is from. I've been here for about 16 years and have never seen any evidence that the people here were dependent on the softwood lumber industry in order to survive. This industry will continue to shrink and the people will have to adjust. Like it or not. There are more important industries out there.

  • Regardless of whether or not my family and I were supported by jobs in the forest industry, it's never been sustainable and would need to be in order to have a future. The jobs lost would be better put towards renewable and sustainable fields like solar, hydro, geothermal, tidal, wind, local farming, recycling etc. Relying on only one industry for your economy to survive on is a death sentence. We need diversity if we want to even stand a chance of making it through tougher times to come.

  • Holy, that is scary figures and stats.

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