Letters to the Editor
Tom Paine
Published Letters: 3 Editor's Choice: 2
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NAFTA: Old and toothless
[Read the article: Canada's ferocious NAFTA growl]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you everyone for saying such nice things about Canada. We have felt a bit unloved at times in our relationshp with the United States. And I am pretty sure that we will be happy to sell more oil/natural gas/electricity and uranium. After all, these are all at world prices or under long-term contract. The NAFTA clause is that in the event of an emergency, the US will continue to have access.
Turning to NAFTA itself, I am continually suprised by the negative views on it in the United States. In its early years it was an effective tool to increase trilateral trade but now, 15 years later, all the benefits of NAFTA have been realized and it is business as usual now. Canadian trade with the US has in fact stagnated since 2000. And the industrial jobs lost in the last few years have not been going to Mexico: they were either redundant, in the case of the car industry, or else they have gone to China. But I guess you gotta blame something.
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Fascinating, indeed
[Read the article: A taste of North Korean beer propaganda]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a very interesting story and I have read a bit more about the USS General Sherman. Apparently the USS Pueblo, the intelligence ship captured in 1968, is moored near the spot where the General Sherman was burned and is a tourist attraction. It is still commissioned in the US Navy!
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It sure isn't about the music...
[Read the article: Britney Spears, feminist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While driving home last night "Womanizer" came on the radio and I somehow managed to endure it without swerving off the road. Whatever message is contained in this dreadful, over-produced mess is lost to me. "Hit Me Baby One More Time" is, by comparison, Bruckner's 8th Symphony.