Softwood deal widely panned

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A Canada-U.S. pact to end the contentious softwood lumber dispute - or at least enforce a truce for a couple of years -will be pushed through over the objections of some lumber producers.

Kullar says Prime Minister Stephen Harper has betrayed Canadian producers, and he believes the B.C. government's about face, to support the deal, was made so as not to jeopardize Ottawa's Gateway and Olympic funding.

Harder said Canadian companies can not afford to continue the legal battle, without Ottawa's support.

Kullar says large B.C. forest companies may support the deal, because they see that smaller companies will fail.

http://www.langleytimes.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=47&cat=23&id=716467&more=

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1. Vancouver Olympics gets cash infusion

Vancouver Olympics gets cash infusion
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 | 1:57 PM PT
CBC Sports

Organizers of the Vancouver Winter Olympics will receive an additional $110 million from the Canadian and B.C. governments to cover escalating costs of building venues for the 2010 Games.

Each level of government will contribute $55 million, bringing taxpayers' expenditure on venue construction to $580 million.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/08/30/2010funding.html

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2. Campbell got his payoff for betraying the lumber producers in B.C.

pathetic, truly pathetic albeit not surprising.