"It doesn't make any sense to me."
It was as close as any high-profile American has come recently to saying what many Canadians have long suspected - Washington wants our water.
Officially, the U.S. government says it's not interested in Canadian water. But many believe the issue will soon break into the open.
Maclean's magazine recently ran a cover story arguing that Canada should sell its water "before they take it."
"This country is in a position to provide a solution that would yield enormous economic and humanitarian benefits for the entire continent, even the world," the magazine wrote. Such viewpoints don't sit well with Peter Lougheed, the former premier of Alberta.
In a recent speech to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Lougheed called for an all-party declaration in the House of Commons confirming Canada's refusal to allow large-scale water transfers to its southern neighbour.
"We should not export our fresh water - we need it and we should conserve it," Lougheed said. "And we should communicate to the United States very quickly how firm we are about it."
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060101/export_water_060101/20060101?hub=Canada
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By: Michel Chossudovsky<br />
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<a href="http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/75357">www.iraq-war.ru/article/75357</a><br />
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Water will be more valuable than oil very shortly. We already sold our oil soul to the U.S. SUV demon, let's not sell our water soul so Americans in the Southern states can keep their pools full, and Texans to keep pushing it under the ground to get out their last drops of oil.
What it means is that the Canadian automotive industry is benefiting from one of the largest and fastest growing market segments in North America. The nation is also reaping economic benefits, as the motor vehicle industry accounted for nearly 13% of the total manufacturing sales in 2002. Ontario motor vehicle makers alone employed more than 42,000 workers in 2002, or 4.7% of the province’s employment in manufacturing.
Despite recent record high prices for crude oil, which began climbing in late 2002, North American consumers have had a big appetite for SUVs which tend to be less economical on gas consumption than passenger cars. Sales reached all-time highs in both Canada and the United States in 2003."
-- statcan.ca
you want to have your cake and eat it too? you have alot more in common with your american liberal brethren than you'd like to admit.
btw: texas is not the kind of place you portray it as. it has a very vibrant liberal democratic party, it has a MINORITY white(anglo) population and it's capital, austin, would make ottawa seen reactionary by comparison.
By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | December 3, 2005
"The Florida state Senate has asked former Massachusetts governor Paul Cellucci to testify in a probe of a Canadian gambling company that paid for four Republican legislators to travel to Canada in July while the company was seeking legislative approval for slot machines at a racetrack it owns.
"Canadian-based Magna Entertainment Corp., where Cellucci is now executive vice president, took the four lawmakers in a private plane to Ontario in July and entertained them at Niagara Falls and one of the firm's casinos. The lawyer for the Senate president this week asked Cellucci and five other executives of Magna to testify in the Senate's inquiry into the trip."
boston globe
this the kind of man paul cellucci is.
We know, we know! You won't find many Celucci supporters here . . .
But you may notice, the story is about 'Water'. Doesn't even rhyme with 'Celucci'.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
as for exporting water,why wouldn't canada export some of it? canada is never going to have a large population and it's excess water is a great resource and commonidity, but it's worthless if it's just sitting there. and cellucci is right, it's renewable, so what's the big deal? again,considering the massive trade canada does with the united states it would not at all be in canadas best interests for the 300+ million united states citizens to be starving for water. if the american economy coughs, canada catches the cold. although i think there's alot of hyperbole going on here regarding the need for canadian water. this has more to do with business than politics.
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Vera Gottlieb
btw: earth's largest aquifer, the ogalalla aquifer, is located under the u.s. midwest.
i see no reason why the upper midwest aerospace consortium and rice university should lie.
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Your mantra has been your opinions are stifled due to their contrary nature, when they are actually stifled for being without perceivable foundation