>>>http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/analysis-trans-pacific-trade-deal-about-more-than-resource-exports-8
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>>"Embodied in the term is the 19th-century image of rough Canadian lumberjacks hacking down trees to be shipped overseas, only to be returned a year or two later as expensive English furniture. "
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>>FWIW, the best piece of furniture we had while in the US was made in Canada.
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>The best piece I've had was made in Canada too. ;-)

In some of the less posh circles the above might be used to describe a tobacco additive or a female.
In the interest of intercontinental understanding:
does canada grow tobacco additives so much better than those coming from south ?
If not, was "sturdiness" one of the characteristics you were so fond of ?

;-)