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    Flaherty reluctant to counter U.S. pulp mill subsidy with Canadian payments

    Canadian mills say they can’t survive without help from the feds

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    Government, the economy, and why Canadians should happily keep on being hewers of wood

    Sit down for an on-the-record conversation with the average industry lobbyist in Ottawa, and the chat is likely to be bland—a mix of flattering the party in power and trying to cast a particular industry’s narrow interests as national ones.