"We hope they will offer an indication of good faith very soon."
The panel, struck under the North American Free Trade Agreement, has repeatedly called on Washington to all but eliminate its crippling countervail duties.
But U.S. Commerce officials say they need more time to decide what to do.
"This administration is fully committed to NAFTA and to coming to a lasting agreement with Canada to resolve this dispute," U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said in a statement.
"The department has requested clarification because we have significant questions about the methodology applied by the NAFTA panel."
Trade Minister Jim Peterson said the delay only hurts American consumers who already "pay too much for their homes" because the dispute drives up lumber prices.
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We have to keep our feet planted firmly on this and not let them try to re negioate a better deal for them and worse deal for us. They signed the deal is good faith like we did, we live up to it they do not. It is time for them to live up to it.
This is why we should not have all eggs in one basket and I hope we can get other markets to buy our lumber, which is higher quality. Then we wont have to worry about US so much and when lumber in America goes up and people start paying a lot more for houses maybe then the US government will ignore the powerful US Lumber Lobby and do what is right for their people.
I don't believe Peterson has to much concern for American consumers. I don't think the Americans believe him either. Martin is trying to get the average American to put pressure on their government and it's not working. Martin & Peterson should stand up and flatly tell the Americans that the logging companies in Canada want their money back. Americans are capitalists and support big corporations. They would understand. Yeh right!
Most hilarious was his attempt to blame the Americans for the failure of Canadians to enforce the Canadian side of the border.
Indeed.
Honestly, all he did was prove that Canajians haven't any real point, you know. They just need to bitch. In their all-to-brief autumn, looking at trying to survive the next six months of snow-bound cabin-fever facing them, they just bitch a little louder, before the inevitable blizzards mute their drunken voices.
Go go Gomery! Vote Liberal!
Canada deserves nothing more.