The feud between the Canadian and U.S. softwood lumber industries is easily summarized but not so easily solved.
Canadian producers say they want free trade.
U.S. producers say they want a level playing field. Both claim their industries are hurt by the trade agreement governing how softwood, the lumber often used for home construction, crosses the border. Neither side is willing to budge. He said the United States was swamp-dirt dumb for signing it. Lumber prices are down and U.S. workers are losing jobs, Wood said.