[VegChat] Consider these enviro issues please.

[David Wardell]

Consider,


Canada has extensive mining, forestry and industrial agriculture 
industry. Almost all of this output is for export, to support the needs 
of populations elseware in the world. This industry causes enviromental 
impacts on the landscape of Canada as if several hundred million people 
were living here. The lakes and rivers in Canada are becoming polluted 
even though there are very few people living here.

While this is going on, Canada has almost no enviromental protection 
laws. And where there are, almost no enforcement is carried out.

One recent example when Paul Martin was pri-minister. In the softwood 
lumber dispute with the United States, Martin anounced that lumber could 
be exported to China if you can believe that! Clean all the forests out 
of B.C. to build housing in China? Use Martins Canada Steamship lines to 
ship the wood I suppose.

The basis of the softwood lumber dispute itself? Unlike in the U.S. 
Canadian lumber companies pay very little for the right to cut trees. 
For a few thousand dollars paid they get to cut down tens of millions of 
dollars worth of trees.