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Yes, it is called Ontario....or Toronto specifically. I can't speak for every region but out west these days, the US and the rest of the Pacific Rim are more of an economic concern than what goes on in Ontario or Toronto.

No it is not true although Canadian personnel were given the option of serving in the Pacific after VE day. Not many Canadian units served in the Far East and most of the Canadians who did were attached to British units. My dad was one of them. He was RCAF and spent two years in South East Asia attached to the RAF. He didn't get home till some time after VJ day and that was via England. The only Canadian ship serving in the Pacific theater, HMCS Uganda, voted itself out of the war after VE Day. On the other hand, the last Victoria Cross awarded in WW2 went to a Canadian flying off a British carrier against the Japanese mainland on Aug 9. Considering the effort and sacrifices made by both, neither country needs to apologize for anything.

Kyoto has nothing to do with clean air, it's about reducing CO2 emissions.

So basically, you think Canadian firms should be queing up at the trough for public money? You think Canadian companies shouldn't sell to foreign governments?

As CO2 is the chief byproduct of breathing and there are over 40 times more Chinese than Canadians, they produce 40 times more CO2 by just breathing.

Every region has it's own particular lottery ticket, whether it is resources or location. Some are bigger than others at different times. Right now oil and gas is a biggie so the west is benefiting but so are Quebec's hydro resources which are renewable. Ontario's mineral wealth and location next to the US northeast has been its lottery ticket for decades. For years the Maritimes was an economic powerhouse because of its proximity to Europe. Every decade there is something for Canadians to bitch about when it comes to other regions. The only thing that changes is the bitchers.

I still don't see how handing another government money is going to reduce emissions. Is there any kind of guaranty that the money will be used only for reducing that country's emissions or is it just a way for rich countries to do nothing about their own while looking like they are doing something? As stated, countries like Russia and Germany look good under Kyoto because large segments of their industrial economy have gone in the tank since 1990 because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain. I don't think that is a model we want to imitate.

That's all they want is our money. Which is also why they want a an Amero dollar, they need someone to pay all their NSF cheques floating around plus their trillions in war debt.. I've heard talk of an Amero dollar from different Canadian sources, but not from Americans.

If you live in Canada .. you should be worried about that. Of course, as usual, your facts are wrong .. but don't let that stop you. As of November 06, of the top 15 exporters of crude oil to the US only three were in the Middle east and the total from those countries was 2.286 million barrels a day. The same month, 2.065 million were imported from Canada

I doubt it, the day of the pure interceptor is long gone. Although the Arrow could still match or exceed todays fighters when it comes to shear speed, they would eat it alive in a fight and be far more capable against ground targets. The Americans already had the Century series aircraft and the F4 was being developed at the same time. They didn't need the Arrow.

US oil imports Canada's imports are split between North Sea and Middle East oil. If Canada reduced exports to the US by the same amount it imports, would the US make up the difference entirely from the Middle East? Maybe, but they don't.

The US imports almost the same amount of oil from Canada as it does from all of the Middle East.

We did? Yup, the Americans conned us in to buying their Beaumark missiles instead of developing the Avro Arrow. http://canadianconservative.townhall.com/g...db-2da7ff265509 The Arrow and the Bomarc were designed for the same purpose, to intercept manned bombers. When the ICBM and submarine launched missiles made manned bombers obsolete, so were the Bomarc and the Arrow. The Arrow was also far too expensive a project for a country like Canada without having a huge number of export orders. Everything about it was being developed from scratch, from its engines to its weapons systems. Like the Concorde, the Arrow was a technical tour de force but not viable. By the way, the author of your link should know that Beaumark is a Hudson Bay Co. trade name. Bomarc is the name of the missile.

We did?

No might about it. The US is the biggest single market in the world by far and as its biggest trading partner, Canada would be screwed the most.

Yes, without the US they would all be screwed. No other country is that important on its own. Any other country could fall off the face of the earth and not have near the impact. A lot of people don't like that idea but it is true for the forseable future.

Offering what other than oil? The US didn't oust the Shah and they were trying to rescue their own people. Civilized countries who go to war don't even kidnap embassy personnel, they kick them out. Lets see them try and get Chavez out of office. It's pretty plain that he has visions of being the next Castro.

How so? If you don't have a market for what you sell, you are poor. The more competition for your goods, the higher the price you can command. Lose your biggest customer, prices plummet and you are poor.

Where would China be without the US to buy their products? As the world biggest consumer of oil, where would the price of oil be without the US and where would the economies of Iran and Venezuela be? Where would Canada be without the US to sell our products to?

Agree to thwart US domination my ass, more like filling their own pockets. All they have is oil, without its revenues they are nothing.

Yup, we do.

Of course. That is why I previously said that it is a parental obligation to make sure their kids get at least a general education. Sure it is but so is it society's, for its own good but we are repeating ourselves.

These folks should get out more. The British two Pound coin is the same type of design as the toonie. The Brits must be doing it to.

Yes we disagree. Yes in their early years individuals have their parents act for them in executing their responsibilites. As they grow however, that responsibility becomes the individuals directly. How much of the skills they bring to market depend upon the decisions their parents make vs the decisions they make on their own, is an open question, one I'm not sure can be answered. I would say anything that involves further formal education at least. If they don't get a basic education they won't be qualified to move on.

Through their proxy, their parents. So they aren't responsible for the skills they bring to the market, someone else is. We just disagree on who that is.