text: Canada has a LOT of Crown Land and it is NOT our fault that all the US land is privately owned. Our ABUNDANCE is not, de facto, a subsidy. If we have lots, the stumpage fees are naturally less. Tell them that when they keep asking to buy our water...they'll land up saying that's subsidized too!  If we decide internally to offset their punitive taxes on our softwood, we have every right to help out our industry however we see fit until the WTO tells the Americans they are in error yet again. The US has no right to insist that they can destroy any of our industries simply because they can't match the competition.