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Originally Posted by Iceman
Free trade agreements and police from America coming into Canada are the least of the worlds problems me thinks....truly
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For Canadians they are the height of issues. Canada has always had a difficult relationship with the US being so close. NAFTA is also far from a free trade agreement. Its a contract that the US selectively respects. Free trade is meant to be without tariff or border tax, but routinely canadian goods are charged simply because they're more competitive than the American equivalent. That isn't part of the deal, and every single arbitration has agreed. The US still ignores it. For my country it is a big deal.
And that is only the surface of it. It isn't just innocent robbery on the part of American tariffs which have actually forced saw mill closures in BC over softwood lumber, no its more than that. There is a concerted effort to dissolve the borders between our two countries and to negate Canadian control of our territories. I've already mentioned the North-West passage a few times. American submarines have a few times openly violated our waters just to prove that they can. An American judge also ordered the seizure of the Canadian end of a tunnel used to smuggle drugs into the US.
I think that if it were your country's sovereignty being violated you'd give a damn.