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Canada

Joe Shlabotnik

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2. One thing that always gets me,

Reply to ConcernedCanuk (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 02:35 PM

Mar 2013

is that Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve, but does not have its own strategic oil reserve.

It just re-enforces that Canada has always been nothing more than resource grab for the well connected, and otherwise a colony of hewers of wood, drawers of (now) tar, and occasionally suppliers of cannon fodder.

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Anyone paying attention where our oil is going? ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #1

One thing that always gets me, Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2013 #2

Canadians as cannon fodder, indeed - remember it was the USA ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #3

I agree with that 100% and it bothers the shit out of me. nt. polly7 Apr 2013 #4