This is in response to the UPDATE line.

Things have changed! Talk to any Canadian today and they will nearly all (there are losers in all countries :) tell you how tragic and horrid this event is.

Talk to them last Monday and they would have spoken of the injustice of the new timber tariffs, and how the US uses its weight to break and pull out of NAFTA agreements when it suits them. Talk to them 2 years ago and they would have told you about the Alaskan boats trying their hardest to make Salmon an extict species.

Don't get me wrong, I live and work in the US, and I was almost as stunned as any of the Americans I worked with (I say almost because I don't have the same nationalistic pride being bombarded on top of everything else), and this in NO WAY, SHAPE, or FORM CONDONES OR SUPPORTS THE ACTS OF BRUTAL TERRORISIM!

I like the US and so do most other Canadians, but we have also been bullied by the US, and it hurts because they don't remember things like being able to divert all air traffic to thier northern neighbour when it comes tarrif time.

"Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!