Officials will arrive at the posh Chateau Montebello resort armed with statistics to support their case.
Those numbers tell a different tale than the alarmist coverage of many cross-border events: Canadian tourists killed in Mexico; U.S. handguns being smuggled into both countries; illegal Mexican immigrants sneaking into the U.S.; trade disputes; and new passport requirements.
The reality is Canadian exports to the U.S. have risen almost 50 per cent since Sept. 11, 2001 – to $303.4 billion U.S. in 2006, from $216.3 billion five years earlier.
Canadian imports have done the same, rising to $230.6 billion last year from $163.4 billion in 2001.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/212694
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control. Why should we believe all those statistics,
which I assume are spit out by economists on the
Government's payroll? And if those stats are to be
believed, what do they have to do with disproving that
deep integration is happening behind the backs of the
masses? Why all the secret meetings? Why the
mainstream media silence on the issue?
"But they say there's also a need to answer what they
call the ``Lou Dobbs-Maude Barlow coalition" –
American right-wingers and Canadian leftists who
decry any integration as a loss of national sovereignty."
Oh, here we go with the predictible labeling and
namecalling again - you knew it was coming. These
guys really need to find a new tactic to defend their
dubious policies.
"The words `deep integration' have become a dirty word
to an odd coalition of people," said one official."
And like most dirty words, I am sure they would love to
censor them from the vocabulary.
Yup, they don't want to admit that many on the right also oppose this crap.
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