Well it would appear that Cheney (You remember Enron Dick right??} and his "puppet" president Dubbya are angry with us....again. Whoopee!!
U.S. said to be deeply angeredWashington furiousGood to see a Canadian Prime Minister standing up to the American Government......even if it just happens to coincidentally be happening during an election. ;)
This latest happens to be over the Kyoto Accord, however, Martin has been taking shots at them recently also over softwood lumber and their ridiculous stand on that issue....."free trade" my ass.
Why do we Canadians have this notion that we need them more than they need us?? We are the single largest supplier of Energy to the U.S. in the world. We supply them with more oil now than Saudi Arabia.
In 2004, Canadian energy exports to the U.S. were valued at over US$50 billion.
Canada supplied the U.S. with:
85 percent of its natural gas imports; or 17% of total U.S. consumption
96 percent of its electricity imports
27 percent of its uranium used in the production of nuclear power and
16 percent of its imports of crude and refined oil products - more than any other country at over 2 million barrels per day.
Important to our economy?? Damned right. But that goes in reverse as well. We've seen how supply problems {or perceived supply problems} of oil alone can make the volitile U.S. markets go into a panic. Maybe we should stop acting like grateful country cousins and take our rightful place in this "partnership". Maybe we should have a "National Energy Holiday" in January or February. On that day, for 24 hours, no oil, gas, or electricity would enter the U.S. Maybe then someone would point out to Bonzo where exactly we are on a map.
Of course, he might have one of his "bad spells" and send in the troops after us......oh wait they are all in Iraq right now.....I think we'd be safe.
Also, when are we going to hear Mr. Harper’s plans on how he'd deal with the American Government on these issues and others?? I bet it involves sucking up.
