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Water export threat is trickling away
(November 30, 1999) Canadians have good reason to fear large scale water exports. The cost required to reroute rivers or build pipelines can run into tens and even hundreds of billions of dollars. Because the water is no longer needed south of the border, the Americans could cut off our exports at any time. And the ventures would be controlled by the very same people who have plundered our oil, forestry, fisheries and other natural resources — the politicians in Ottawa and in our provincial capitals. Continue reading
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Environmentalists sell out environment
(November 16, 1999) The World Wildlife Fund and other environmental elites — in a confused bargain with their government and industry counterparts — are selling out Canada’s environment to industrial interests. Continue reading
Posted in Forestry
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Let’s separate the wheat from the chaff
(November 2, 1999) Ending farm subsidies would send marginal farmers to other jobs, let their land go wild again. Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow wants trade equity for Canada’s farmers to protect them from the high, trade-distorting subsidies that U.S. and European governments give their farmers. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture (Rural)
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Too many farms, too many farmers
(October 18, 1999) Despite the hoopla, farms are a drain on the economy. October marks the first-ever Canadian Agriculture and Food Celebration, and Canada’s agriculture ministers — when they aren’t begging Ottawa for farm relief — are busy touting the successes of Canadian agriculture. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture (Rural)
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Six billion reasons for hope
(October 5, 1999) Next Tuesday, we, the citizens of the world, will be six billion strong, up from five billion a dozen years ago and from four billion in 1974. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Regulation, Sprawl
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