Bill Clinton commented last night that he doesn’t think Paul Martin has any choice on the softwood lumber issue. We have plenty of resources in this country besides lumber. We should be pursuing a multi-pronged strategy on trade. Global warming, for instance, affects Canada greatly. The annual fall display of leaves in Ottawa this year was terrible — the summer was too hot, and the cold didn’t come quickly enough. Our climate is changing. I, for one, would be in favour of an export surtax on fuel to any country with excessive SUV usage per capita energy consumption.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
