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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: johnlw who wrote (1090)	10/18/2004 7:43:01 AM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 1293

So why aren't lawyers running around Washington filing countervail complaints about the outrageous oilsands subsidies? "Americans tend to be protectionist as part of their normal business," sighed Hodgman, whose organization now faces a $10-million legal bill to fight off the latest countervail attack. Or at least when it suits them. Well, unfortunately, there's the truth of the matter on all of this. Most countries become protectionist when it suits them. I've pretty much come to the realization that free trade agreements are really a joke and mean diddly-squat. There is no such thing as "free trade".