Also on the agenda is America's dispute with Canada over softwood lumber, and the status of Mexican workers in America.

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Japan's continuing malaise, the United States' recession and the impact of American duties against softwood imports have all hammered British Columbia.

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On the trade front, not only did President Bush enact tariffs on steel, softwood lumber and shrimp, his administration regularly bashed Chinese export policies, as has the Obama administration.

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The answer is not to promote boycotts of tropical timber or insist, as the Forest Stewardship Council does, that the same forest management rules apply to planted softwood as rainforests.

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Tourism here is down, and thousands of jobs got axed when the U.S. slapped tariffs on exports of softwood and then banned Canadian beef after an outbreak of mad cow disease.

FORBES: Inside Dope

The list of errors by Bush (think steel and softwood lumber tariffs, Ben Bernanke, Harriet Miers, Obamacare designer John Roberts?) could surely fill a book, but with space in mind, his saving grace in 2004 was that the horrors of his dollar policies had not quite hit the economy yet, plus we were at war.

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