U.S. Canada Relations - is there a conflict in Ideologies

Prime Minister Harper, President Filipe Calderon and President Obama held a news conference yesterday after the Three Amigo Summit in Guadalajara, Mexico. Canada's position on the "Buy America" clause in the U.S....

Obama's appointment for Ambassador to Canada - David Jacobson

President Obama has appointed David Jacobson as his Ambassador to Canada. Although he still needs to be confirmed by the Senate, there is little doubt that he will be. Jacobson told a Senate Committe that the...

Mexico Requires Visas for Canadian diplomats-Retaliation

Canada has implemented the requirement for visitors from Mexico and the Czech Republic for Visas.  The stated reason was that 9400 Mexicans applied for refugee status and Canada was attempting to slow this...

Canada's Premiers want a new Trade Deal with the US

Canada's Premiers called for a new agreement with the US to extend free trade to municipalities.  Lobbyists fanned out over Washington to press US Legislators to soften their Buy America policies.  The...

Harper Calls for Bringing Local Contracts into NAFTA

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called for bringing municipal and provincial contract bidding into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The announcement was made last night at a private dinner in Quebec City, where he and Quebec Premier Jean Charest...

LaHood Overhauling Mexican Truck Program

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a National Press Club gathering May 21 that his plan to overhaul the controversial Mexican truck demonstration program is now being vetted by the White House and has the support of “a number of members of Congress.”  If he...

North America's Iron Curtain: They Should Learn From Europeans

WHY CAN'T AMERICA & CANADA FIX THEIR BORDER & TRADE LIKE EUROPEANS DID 30 YEARS AGO? While the border issue is still fresh on my mind, I thought I should question why Americans and Canadians are...

U.S. Border Paranoia Continues

Homeland Secretary Says Canada Border Should Be Treated At Par With Mexican Border OK, don’t hold your breath any more. It looks like the Obama Democrats won’t change much, or anything at all, when it...

Mexico To Raise Tariffs on US Exports to Mexico

Mexico has decided to raise tariffs on 90 types of goods coming into Mexico from the US in response to the cancellation of the Mexican trucking program in the omnibus spending bill just passed by the Congress and...

The OBAMA "change"

Well I guess most of us will get a little change. Big Union corporate “talent” that run their companies into the ground will get the big money and the rest of Americans will be lucky to get a little change....

NAFTA, the Good, the Best, and the Ugly for the Americas

NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, has been getting a lot of not so favorable, and sometimes, controversial headlines in recent years. Some critics blame it for the current labor shortages in the United States, due to the fact that most U.S. companies have been...

$3Billion Port Mann - bridging the super highway

Its reported now that the new "twinning" of the Port Mann bridge will cost $3billion -twice as much as previously specified. Mainly due to the fact that now the twinning will become a 10 lane superhighway. Ring...

Hurtig: Transnationals take-over 11,254 Canadian-owned companies

Industry Canada has just released its most recent startling figures re Foreign Direct Investment, these covering the period from the beginning of Investment Canada, June 30, 1985, to the end of 2008... internet site reference:...

Canada to lobby over "Buy American" Protectionist Bill

  Barry Artiste Op/EdThough one can certainly understand the US Position of "Buy American" in these troubling times. US Taxpayers, like Canadian Taxpayers want to know that if their money is going to Bailout...

Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye

The view from the other-side of the pond... Watching the swearing in of the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama from a locale, somewhere north of the Great Lakes I was stunned by just how much the...

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