Jim Peterson Quotations

We stand ready to vigorously defend the NAFTA and we will take all steps open to us to ensure it is respected.

We're going to examine this decision very carefully. My message is very simple: We want the U.S. to live up to and respect the Nafta.

We would welcome the decision to repeal the Byrd amendment. But we strongly maintain that the Byrd amendment should be eliminated immediately. The WTO ruling was clear.

There are no experts out there willing to testify that because these guys are testing negative now that they will continue to test negative. The jury is still out and will be out for a long time as to whether these people are disease free. It might be five, 10, 15 years down the road before we know whether they'll continue to test negative.

We have said all along that the Byrd amendment must be withdrawn,

We're grinding the trees first to try and break down into finer pieces, so we can extract the needles.

Significant challenges remain ... including what can be achieved in Hong Kong in December so we need to continue to press as hard as we can,

Obviously, that's another factor that's going to play into spring wheat trends.

I'd like to see it keep going, but it's just not there. We're getting less and less people in there and the overhead keeps going up. I don't know what else to do.

It is only an interim decision. We are examining it very carefully. We were disappointed, of course, we would have liked to have won. But over all, our thrust remains, the U.S. has to live up to the NAFTA.

Panel after panel has found that Canadian softwood lumber is not subsidized, ... The United States claims that it has complied with NAFTA. In fact, the United States will only have complied with NAFTA when it stops collecting the duties and refunds the deposits.

My persistent message is that Canada is the bridge to the world's richest market.

Manager turnover is not necessarily bad. Maybe a manager is leaving and there's a perfectly adequate team in place, or the new manager has been groomed.

We have sorely neglected our trade relationships over the years with the new and emerging markets - the Chinas and Indias,

We must keep our eye on the ball; the NAFTA must be respected. Here is a prime opportunity for the U.S. to recommit to the treaty it signed, plain and simple.

We are not getting our fair share of Chinese trade and we want more of it,

We are naturally disappointed. . .We would have liked to have won, but overall our thrust remains: the U.S. has to live up to NAFTA,

We have been looking for an upward move in large-cap growth, and we started to see that in the last three months. In the last five years, value stocks have trounced growth stocks, and it is time for that trend to change.

We will continue to enforce our legal rights under the WTO, NAFTA and before the U.S. courts, and we will continue government-to-government advocacy, but we will also take our case to the court of public opinion,

We've come a long way from the charcoal grill by including gas ranges, sinks, faucets and countertop prep areas along with pizza ovens, fireplaces and even concrete seating. Long gone are the days of drab, grey concrete. Through methods of stamping or staining, there are hundreds of color choices, patterns and designs that can be used to create any shape you can imagine.

We've been off the gold standard for an awful long time in this country. We want to see NAFTA respected,

What is most frustrating about U.S. protectionism is that it protects no one, ... Rather than encouraging engagement, it allows an inefficient U.S. lumber industry to turn its back on a rapidly changing global marketplace. Protectionism removes the impetus for industry to invest, improve, adapt and be globally competitive.

We were primarily interested in getting something pretty.

Very often (data disparities start) on political boundaries, where one country had better surveying than the other,

This new flexibility which goes well beyond the 1995 agreement will improve how the NAFTA works and it will make North America more competitive.

I've talked to some old-timers. Nobody's ever heard of anybody doing that before.

The story of the training in Utah is just not well-known.

So we're making great steps in order to enhance our presence there. . . . We want a bigger share of those huge markets which represent 38 per cent of the world's population.

Decorative concrete is one of the hottest building trends today. The more understanding that a contractor has about what consumers are spending big money on, the more successful they will be. That's why we supply this valuable data to the market.

a serious option that we won't take off the table.

Back yards are being transformed into luxurious extensions of the house. They're the new favorite room to relax, entertain, and cook. And the heart and soul of the backyard resort area is the concrete patio.

That park hasn't been paying for itself for a long, long time.

It's one world -- we needed one look.

It's unlawful, it's wrong and it must be repealed. Only some special interest groups south of the border stand to benefit from (it), while American consumers continue to pay more for Canadian products than they could be.

strongly opposed any motion to delay the inevitable.

It's a matter of funding. As we get the funding, we can bring more vintage aircraft in.

It seemed like the old mayor had his own agenda ahead of progress. We need to move forward and be more progressive here on things like liquor-by-the-drink, in order to bring more restaurants and business here.

It was odd, watching the wake roll out the front windows; like watching a movie in reverse.

This is a very big increase, ... It demonstrates the concerns that have been expressed by the prime minister that we face new challenges and vast new opportunities. If (Canadian companies) don't remain globally competitive they will not be in business very long.

Income can come from a variety of sources - not strictly fixed income.

If there's no sign that the EU can put a better offer on the table, ... I'm sure that there will be those who will say at the table, they're not interested in looking at other issues.

If the United States actually does the right thing -- that is, drop the duties and return our money -- the support package can be reviewed. Until then, the Government of Canada will stand behind our workers and we will keep reminding the United States of the need to respect the letter and spirit of NAFTA.

By ignoring that market, you're ignoring a lot. Investing internationally isn't about chasing returns, but achieving diversification. Sometimes U.S. stocks do really well, and sometimes foreign stocks do really well. They don't move in tandem, but, for the long run, they should be roughly similar on average.

You'd be literally flying around the data in 3D and all of a sudden see this tower.

The lawn will look as good as you want it to. And it's safe enough to eat the grass after it's treated.