Posted AT 6:12 AM EDT on 18/10/07
Tough talk on forests smacks of pulp fiction
MONTREAL — By the way they talk, you'd think most Quebec politicians were unreconstructed lumberjacks. So hot is forest talk in Quebec City these days, it's as if 125 Joe and Josephine Montferrands had taken up residence in the National Assembly.
Nothing tops the fall political agenda more than saving forest jobs.
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