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   > They mentioned on the news today that almost all of our trade routes   
   > for highway, rail and oil pipelines run North South, to trade with   
   > you rather than with the rest of Canada. There is talk of totally   
   > changing that as well.   
      
   Part of that might have something to do with how your population is spread   
   out, the climate, and the geography.  IIRC, there is only one highway that   
   runs E-W that connects all the provinces, and only one or maybe two rail   
   lines.  The Great Lakes get in the way of running too many of either across   
   Ontario and hitting an area that is actually populated.  If you go much   
   farther north than Lake Superior, there really are not many people up   
   there, and maintaining the roads in the kind of winter weather that would   
   be received would be a large, and expensive, effort.   
      
   In the case of rail, I suppose the corridors that exist could be double or   
   triple tracked to allow more trains to go E-W.   
      
   I think the western provinced may have more than one highway link but,   
   IIRC, the lakes are a bottleneck area.   
      
   > We have more trade restrictions between   
   > provinces here than we do for trading with the USA.. The problem   
   > with this is, once changes are made, even if your next President   
   > reverses the bad ideas, the changes we make to survive them may   
   > stay permanent now that we see that the trusting relationship we   
   > have had with the USA can be changed on a whim..   
   > We will always deal with you due to proximity but likely do less   
   > trade and do more with the rest of the world.   
      
   My opinion is that Canada (and Mexico and probably everyone else) really   
   needs to start planning long-term to do their own thing and not rely on us   
   as much.  It is going to get to the point where what the USA is doing is   
   likely going to swing wildly every 4 to 8 years and, if I were in another   
   country, I would certainly not want our economic well being tied to that.   
      
   > MP>He should be trying to do good things to stand out.  Not so sure that idea   
   >   >has sunk in, though.  :(  If it were me, I would prefer not to be known as   
   >   >the President who ruined Canadian-American relations.  I guess he maybe   
   as   
   >   >other ideas.   
      
   > Yes, really.. I suppose for him it will be a win-win though no matter   
   > which way it goes. He'll be famous for doing something amazing or for   
   > (more likely) doing so much damage he'll be held up forever as the   
   > prime example of what Not to do..   B)   
      
   Maybe his plan is to break a bunch of stuff so that only his administration   
   can fix it.  ;)   
      
   Mike   
      
      
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