U.S. Cites 58 Countries, Including Canada, For Unfair Trade Barriers

Wonder if they included themselves in this?

Wow! Top marks for the U.S., they really do their homework. I expect our response will be to try to reduce the number of pages devoted to Canada in the next issue. "Where's the beef?"

With friends like theirs, who needs enemies, eh? Looks as though our low pharmaceutical prices will come to an end before long. The yanks have become wise to the fact that they have to pay more for their OWN meds, lol, because of the government price controls in effect in Canada and the E.U. which forces the pharmaceutical companies to charge more to those countries, whose governments DON'T control the prices in order to operate at a profit as opposed to a loss. SO...it's only a matter of time before we will be expected to pay our fair share, as the American people aren't willing to continue to foot the bill for our health care. Also read today about all the penalties our astute Liberal government is going to impose on American goods. Now that's going to get things moving in the right direction for our beef, lumber, & wheat industries isn't it? After the support we gave them in defending the continent from nukes...and giving the Iranians their security info about measures to prevent terrorist access to civil air flight in and out of their country they entrusted to us in confidence. After Desmarais, and Chretien screwed them...hey...let's go force a trade war now ...with a country that over 80% of our national economy depends...woo-hoo...we're smart, yup, yup...uh, huh...alrighty now....

The fear of loss and punishment in our people, real or imagined, is very sad. We've obviously gone down the wrong road with this NAFTA.

This is as good as their last report on nations that use torture. Oh the irony of it all.

Talk about someone who can't see the forest for the trees. They cut their own economic throats by shipping all of their manufacturing jobs to China and then blame the rest of the world for the fact they are bleeding to death.

the biggest barrier to trade is the system of pyramidism, where the elite perch themselves at the top, create laws, issue propaganda and force wars.

the enslaved rabble then stay at the bottom, happy to be thrown a bone or two.

We've had pyramidism, or the class system, for a long time. Corporatism is a type of class system, where merit supercedes breeding. But within the hollow halls of government, we firmly see the class system at work.

I say: Screw government, and the pandering lapdog elites. You can fight to change things, but you won't. Get into power and you will be told, as was Preston Manning, .. you will be told who runs the place, and it won't be elected officials.

Real good ploy, the US accuses other countries of doing what it does. As far as them being our biggest customer, try to remember that we are the biggest customer of 38 of their states. So we have some economic clout too, although you wouldn't think so to hear anonymouth tell the tale.

I don't believe the United States has ever tried to force us to buy their products as we have been trying to do with them (although w/o much luck). Somehow I think the path to sucess for Canadian's wishing to sell their products to the U.S. is to provide a good quality (and safe) product at a fair price. Use good "salesmanship". Be friendly, open, and honest. It's called good business. Mobsters try to FORCE people to buy their "products" no matter how dangerous, inferior, or over priced. I don't think we here in Canada have the "muscle" to play mobster with the United States...it's government, OR it's people. Once we start thinking, and acting less like wannabe mobsters/thugs and more like honest business persons with a valuable commodity to sell we might see more success. If Saddam couldn't bully America into getting his way under threat of force (with a FAR more powerful military than ours) without getting laughed right out of the contest, what makes you think WE will fare any better? I dare say, if we don't have the muscle, but we fancy ourselves to have the brains, then might we use same to our advantage? 85% of our economy depends upon it. Or we could just pi** them off royally to make ourselves feel better (and superior), and then sell our goods for about 10% of what we could have received for them to Indonesia, India, Russia, and China thereby creating all KINDS of high paying jobs in Canada for Canadians, eh? I vote for using our heads and looking out for our own people personally. Thanks for reading.

Yes indeed. Canada the corrupt, organized crime run country just figured out that it can't FORCE it's customers to buy it's products. Specifically when they are contaminated with deadly BSE! One single light bulb went on in a single arrogant, idiot Canadian head. Christ Oh Mighty, it might be a sanity epidemic going on. Nah. If you've got have a working brain you will realize Canada is run by organized crime and will have to leave. Only the angry young retards are left. Too bad.