U.S. Ambassador Praises Premier For Visits South

Downplaying trade irritants like the two-year beef border closure, softwood lumber and grain tariffs, Wilkins told reporters the good thing emerging is the two countries now see such disputes as "a shared responsibility rather than whose fault was it or is it. "I know that's the way the premier looks at things," Wilkins said. "That's the way I look at things and that's the way our two governments are looking at things now." Asked about the damage that trade irritants like softwood lumber and the BSE border closure may have done to the Canada-U.S. relationship, Wilkins stressed that "the fact that BSE has been solved" and that softwood lumber "appears to be headed towards resolution" will have a very positive impact on the relationship and perhaps make it even stronger. http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/city_province/story.html?id=597897c4-1869-4539-b6af-1c387257641d

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