[Bobcat]

Wayne ... I didn`t intend to imply/say that the US and Canada were/are enemies .... or offend you . What I should have clarified was , as I said , it was 10 to 12(?) years ago ... and at that time , there were a host of factors that figured into the equation . One of which was the difference between the value of the US dollar and the Canadian dollar ( about 25% at the time ) and the environmental issues the US producers were starting to face . The people I worked with in our Canadian region told me that at the time , the regs in Canada weren`t as tight as they were here ... but that has since changed . Also , back then, a lot of the timber was being put out of bounds by environmental groups here , a lot of the mills here hadn`t upgraded their equipment as fast as they should have .
We are actually more in agreement than disagreement on these issues , but back then it was a fact that Canadian lumber could be put on a boat in Mobile as cheap or cheaper than the local mills could ... and this is not intended as a slam on anyone .