"The United States has accepted Canada's key conditions for the resolution of the softwood lumber dispute. Canada's bargaining position was strong, our conditions were clear and this agreement delivers." – Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

"This agreement shows how NAFTA partners can overcome differences and work together. The United States' close ties with our good friend and northern neighbour made this agreement possible." – U.S. President George W. Bush.

"It's outrageous. It's a sellout. It's a crime that the Americans would keep a billion dollars of money that seven decisions have now said they shouldn't have." – Jack Layton, leader of the NDP.

"While this agreement would require each jurisdiction to make some concessions, Ontario got a critical element -- a more reasonable share of softwood exports." – David Ramsay, Ontario's minister of natural resources.

"We expect our government to help us fight U.S. protectionist forces, and get our industry a long-term solution." – Frank Dottori, co-chair of the Canadian Free Trade Lumber Council, a private advocacy group representing Canadian lumber companies.

"Each company had to assess the framework agreement through its own lens and individual analysis. Agreements of this nature are rarely perfect and the complexities of the issues will always make unqualified support elusive." – John Allan, president of the B.C. Lumber Trade council.

"Atlantic Canada has a very special privilege in that we pay fair market value, and the majority of our wood comes from private land, and therefore we enjoy not having to pay countervailing duties so we'd hope that any deal that would be struck would reflect that." – Mark Arsenault, president of the New Brunswick Forest Products Association.

"I think it will be a fairly difficult sell to the Canadian industry as a whole." – Daryl Swetlishoff, forestry sector analyst with Raymond James Ltd.

"We support the federal government's efforts and we encourage the provincial governments to support the deal." – John Weaver, CEO of Abitibi-Consolidated.

"It is certainly no coincidence that the talks deliberately exclude several key stakeholders in the debate – most notably, U.S. consumers, who stand the most to lose." – Jerry Howard, chief executive of the U.S. National Association of Home Builders.

"We applaud the tireless efforts of the Bush administration officials who negotiated a means of offsetting Canadian unfair lumber practices." – Steve Sawnson, chair of the U.S. Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports, representing American lumber producers.

"Our government should live up to the commitments we made in NAFTA rather than ignore it." – Susan Petniunas, spokesperson for American Consumers for Affordable Homes.

"We do not think this is a free trade deal at all ... Quotas are absolutely bad for this industry." – Shawn Conrad, spokesperson for the U.S. National Lumber and Building Materials Association.

"Why would you give 22 per cent to your competition? This money belongs to the companies and their shareholders, and the Canadian government is giving it away." – BMO Nesbitt Burns analyst Stephen Atkinson.

Sources: CBC, Canadian Press, Reuters.