It seems not that long ago when Canada and the United States signed the Free Trade Agreement (To give a timeline, Reagan was in the White House, Gorbachev was in the Kremlin, Thatcher was Britain’s Prime Minister and Al Gore was a Senator).
One example of free trade saw a Canadian paint company go out of business. Why? Because it did not spend time modernizing its business so that it could produce as much paint as at least one competitor in the United States.
When that is combined with people who have more confidence in natural phenomena still being in the driver’s seat regarding climate change – if the United States does not want oil from Alberta’s oil sands which has a lot of greenhouse gas emissions, then that oil would be sold to those less fussy about the blather which comes from Al Gore and the rest of the watermelons who are more interested in a command style economy rather than a free market economy.
Trade has increased, and as long as there are a huge swath of Americans who mistakenly conclude that the largest supplier of oil to the United States is Canada – the negligent will be lead down the garden path yet again by the devious.
