These are mediocre political footballs that do not interfere with the true power relationship between the US and its metropole allies. So long as your leadership is more worried about Wall St and mining companies, this is what you will be asked to focus on. If you think what I am talking about is some kind of diversion or technicality, you need to get real. The US doesn’t need Canada for manufacturing or something. It’s like Japan, RoK, the UK, they put up the barest facade of sovereignty while adhering slavishly to US economic policy. That is where the leverage comes from. Not your tourism, not your consumer spending, but the leverage over your own leaders that you refuse to exert. Without that every decision they make will uphold the dollar system and nothing you guys are linking me to can move the needle. That’s the nature of finance, it has exponential political power when allowed to run everything and it crashes and burns. Stop them!