Canada is not the US's largest trade allie... just so you know

We buy goods from Canada when we would save money purchasing them from elsewhere... Your lumber isn't cheaper you know...
why?

Because we want to support NAFTA and make it stronger.

they heckled Reagan when he spoke in Parliament, I can just imagine what they would do to Bush. I feel like going to Ottawa with a pro-bush sign, just to fuck with them hippies

Good keep him there :1orglaugh

we gave him a 2 day visa, he cant stay longer!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh
i can't believe the star posted that.

Just a couple items of note:

1) The Canadian/US trade relationship numbers are massively inflated. How so, you ask? Because those numbers measure only the value of the items crossing the border, not the ADDED VALUE of those items as they're being processed. Take this example:

- Canadian nickel from sudbury travels south to be turned into steel
- Those steel ingots come north to be forged into gears
- Those gears go back south to be placed into a transmission assembly
- That transmission goes north and gets installed into a new car, which is sold to a dealer south of the border

Looking at the 'value of trade', you can see that each stage only adds bits of incremental value, but the trade numbers report the full value of all parts irrespective of those increments. As a result, raw trade numbers are substantially overstated from the REAL trade numbers, which is part of the reason why I'm not quite as impressed as some when people mention it.

2) Apparently canadian lumber is cheaper... or at least, cheaper enough to be the source of constant NAFTA and WTO challenges by US logging firm lobbyists. Those challenges end up hurting other sectors (like house construction) and even the lumber industry (by causing issues with multinational logging corps that operate on both sides of the border e.g. Weyerhauser). I've still not decided whether they're launching all these challenges as a cynical ploy to gouge money from both us and the construction industry, or if they still genuinely consider canadian lumber subsidized even after 3 WTO ruling against them.

Four more years of laughing with Americans :)

Well, the red ones..

:1orglaugh Thats what I was thinking, I wouldnt be suprised at all if it was the sun, but the star posting something like that? crazy!

Wasn't it the Star that published the article last week suggesting that Canada seriously consider arresting him as a war criminal - citing a string of tangible legal points amounting to a primea facia (sp?) case that would hold up in world court?

But, apparently, he has dimplomatic immunity when he is on official business, and I think there are a few more reasons why this will not happen (softwood lumber and beef industries want to suck up after having been trampled by unfair trading practices and we don't want to jeopardize any chance of missing out on having a bunch of missles floating over our heads keeping us safe at night).

:Graucho

-Dino

We don't want him, take him back. Make him go away.

Canada= 51st state

This = 51st post :winkwink:

I think there's one major reason you left out... they'd bomb the shit out of us.

youll need to nuke us into submission first.


if there was ever an advance on Canada from the us..id be the first one dumping poison into your water supply


dont think for a minute that plans have not been made.....just kidding of course.

we bow to your power....lol

oh who are the underwriters for your major banks now?

The stipulation is something like you can't arrest the individual if they are still absolut monarch......uh I mean the King of Democracy......shit! I mean Maniacal despot......dammit! i'm trying to say President of the United states of Texas......close enough

Good reading from L.A. Times yesterday
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1128-25.htm

Oops... my bad :Graucho

-Dino

yayy

I want his autograph :1orglaugh

wow, I never knew a Bush thread would get two pages. maybe I'm on to something here.

He can still watch an AHL or CHL game....

he said no thank you

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That one cracked me up :D

OHL :Graucho

London Knights are on fire :)

fuck canada

:( just found out that he's arriving at Halifax Airport on the same day my wife and son's flight from there to Europe is scheduled.

Nobody consults with me these days. Writing a letter now.

Dear mr. President,

:feels-hot

You didn't get the memo?

:)

-Dino