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   RM>> 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.   
      
   MP>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.   
      
   The Great Lakes are more or less a border between our countries, so   
   to the furthest points south. You do have to move up a bit to get over   
   them but the rest of Canada West of Ontario is actually all further   
   North than those lakes. But you were right about population centres.   
   Ontario has a great deal of the population, resources and manufacturing   
   and, until you get far out West, the provinces between are mostly   
   farming areas with some having a little or a lot of oil. But, back to   
   where we started, about 2/3 of the country is West of the Great Lakes   
   so are not affected..   
      
   MP>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.   
      
   Probably a good idea but for 50+ years our relationship has benefitted   
   both countries with stable, reasonably wealthy, markets and shared   
   manufacturing and it would be a shame to lose that situation..   
      
   We are used to the rest of the world being unstable but were always   
   able tp rely on our closest neighbours..   
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