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To: tom pope who wrote (117290)	2/1/2009 12:13:22 AM
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I've been fortunate to work with business and labor from both sides of the line. You're right; there are jerks everywhere. The underlying question for Americans and Canadians both is whether they choose to share a productive relationship, or let it fall prey to protectionism and factionalism. Hard times promote polarization - people naturally gravitate to simple extremes: "us" against "them". It's a logical consequence of this economic crisis that the US standard of living will decline; most people understand that. Compensation will decline as the US seeks to regain its competitive position, to manufacture and trade hard goods again. From NORAD to NAFTA, we have decades of cooperative agreements on many fronts. But if people in the US get the idea that Canada is obligated to take some kind of subordinate status, to buy and sell only from the US, and that Canada is somehow to blame for the fix that the US has put itself in, there will be problems. Then, the US will find that Canada has options - and more important, that it has poisoned a beneficial friendship. In the troubled future that's coming, let's hope reasonable voices prevail. Jim