Softwood Harper

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Now I guess we find out September 1rst how this money will be spent, but it's quite a revelation.

Do I think this money is about to be turned into political advertising or anything? No, I don't. However, the fact that we are giving nearly 500 million dollars of our lumber producers' money to the White House to spend on whatever they want... it's damn near criminal.

Their collection of the 5 billion dollars was illegal. We're only getting back 4, and on top of that now we find out half of what we aren't getting back is in the hands of Bush and company to use for political points.

Here are some more mainstream outlets reporting on the deal for background.

http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/060828/b082834.html

The price of political points for the Conservatives, eh?