Softwood Lumber: State Legislatures

Transport Trucks Dept: Nudged along by Stephen Harper, Canadians increasingly mistake their prime minister for a U.S. president. Now, as construction begins on a border perimeter, they are making the flip-side error of assuming Barack Obama has Harper s power to deliver promises, according to The Star. When push comes to shove, as it has in so many disputes from PEI potatoes to softwood lumber, what the White House says is not necessarily what America does. From Congress through state legislatures to the border guard inspecting transport trucks, local politics and regulatory prerogatives are the slips that occur between cup and lip and oTTAWA Few of the checks and balances constraining the president limit the Prime Minister. In practice that means Obama can t guarantee the cross-border free flow of people, goods and services that Harper hopes to secure with sovereignty concessions. As reported in the news.
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