To: Bilow who wrote (309 ) 12/2/2001 3:30:24 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to NAFTA was certainly sold to canadians on its supposed spirit of 'free trade', it's recent enough to remember quite vividly ... it was definitely presented as 'inspired by principles', no doubt about it, people would never have stood for it if they'd known how one-way it would end up ... it was supposed to be a win-win deal where a larger trading bloc with shorter north-south lines of transport would benefit all concerned, but in the end it's basically that southern Ontario and Québec get the Auto Pact, the US gets cheap oil, and the rest of the country has to admit US imports tariff-free while their own products are blocked at the borderDo you really want Americans to think that that's what Canadians think of us? ' - consider yourself in the same position, what would you be thinking? ... let's say you were in a community whose surrounding land was suitable only to cattle raising, your whole state was a big cattle producer in fact, and all the neighbouring states said hey you can't export any more, you'd have to pay 32 per cent extra, and you know there isn't 32 per cent profit margin in any business, much less cattle or timber in a world with expenses gone mad ... to justify their actions these neighbouring states lie outright and use all manner of meaningless numbers in twisted form, meantime you are required to admit their products - now, What would you think of them?
