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: By DUSTIN QUEZADA

: SKEENA-BULKLEY Valley MP Nathan Cullen is the latest

- parliamentarian comparing Prime Minister Stephen Harper

» to his U.S. counterpart, President George. W. Bush.

But the local elected official i isn’t talking about the Harper
: government’ $ stance on the Israeli-Hezbollah standoff.

- AS provinces and forest industry people continue to ques-
: tion the Conservative government” s softwood lumber agree-
‘ ment with the U. S.,’ Cullen says the prime minister’s late
~ April announcement of the deal reminds him of the presi-

- dent’ s proclamation. of the end of major combat in Iraq made |

‘ona aircraft carrier in 2003.

“(The deal] is premature and more wrong “than.we
*. thought,” said Cullen. “It’s on the barest.of life support.”

_ Cullen says the opposition parties in Ottawa have agreed
‘ to recall parliament during the summer recess’ but the gover-

- nement has so far refused.

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“He's. pot to be cautious

oS “I’m sure getting people ;

.The seven-year accord was signed July 1 and will be in-

. : troduced into legislation this September and i it could-then be

‘in place by Oct. | of this year.

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-on the softwood file,” con-
“cedés - former . minister. of .
: State for forestry operations, :
“Roger Harris: -

‘like-me using the. term ‘spe-
‘cial economic zone” - makes 7 oot
him alittle nervous.”

* But, Harris says “whether “Rick Brouwer

cit S called a special economic zone or not doesn’t matter °

cas there i is no disputing the unique characteristics that exist

‘in. the. northwest and that” those factors beg for immediate
* ‘changes.

“You don’ t need to name something you just need the:
polices in place that work.”

» And he says it’s time for the government to look : at mak- |

cing policy changes that reflect those unique characteristics.
“We are talking about some pretty radical and significant

changes in forest policy in the northwest,” says Harris...

“There’s no one initiative that is going'to change our re-

» tality. It’s going to be a combination of initiatives that. will
 thave to come into place and even then we might need help

* The biggest i issue is how can the sector make the extrac- _

‘from the marketplace,” ‘says Harris.

tion of pulp profitable in the northwest.

Last week Harris, along with half a dozen other people

from the forest sector, met with Coleman.

Bernie Banovic of Timber Baron, city councillor and
“foriner forest district manager er Brian Downie, Dave Mar-
tin, president the Northwest Loggers Association and Rick
Brouwer from Northwest Timberlands joined together to.

. drive home the importance of making changes here.

While they recognize. the dangers of appearing that

’ changes could be seen as a subsidy, what they want is the

recognition of the factors that make this region unique.

. They say what.they want is not unlike the province’s rec-
ognition that.the pine beetle epidemic in the interior is a cri-
sis worthy of policy changes.

“Over the past 30 years we’ve had:a series of failures of
major neensees and we haven’ t.seen that i in other parts of

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“industry doesn’t drop ‘its litigation in U. S. courts,” Cullen

‘billion in duties collected since 2002 from Canadian Jumber

oo they are saying it's an area in crisis and this area is in crisis
too.” "

- the kind of money that can be made on pulp. quality logs.

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What Cullen says his NDP party is promoting are guar-
anteed, continuous and fair market conditions for Canadian
lumber.

“Tt’s. open season on Canadian (tumber) trade under this
deal,” Cullen said. “The security market is virtually nil.

“The softwood lobby in the U.S. wants to shut down mills
like the one in Terrace,” Cullen said.

The MP added the deal: needs something similar to the
North American Free Trade Agreement’ s (NAFTA) dispute -
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the province,” says Rick Brouwer, a registered professional
forester.

“I guess the question is you just have: to start to treat it .
similar to how you are. treating the mountain pine beetle area

- Brouwer suggests a complete change i in how the province :
charges for wood that's cut here. _
That's because the costs of logging here often far exceed ..

“The way we calculate stumpage right now is, you calcu-
late a number-and if it’s negative you pay 25 cents per cubic

But he says the real value of the wood is less than 25
cents... mo

Brouwer’ S floating the idea of what he calls a. stumpage ;
ledger whereby if the calculation ends up being a negative.

then be sold to companies who pay higher stumpage rates.
‘They could then use what they buy as credits to offset
their own stumpage rates. It’s a concept that already exists
in the United States and elsewhere. where large industrial
companies buy greenhouse gas ‘credits to offset pollution

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local officials.

“I think the full spectrum of ideas will get a ‘fair hear-
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