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Didn't think we'd stay away with the Pub open again did you?

Just another day, another 12 hour shift.

Yup. All well.

How things with you? You haven't been to The Great White North for a while.

WEGO !!!!!!!


Not my fault about overshooting the chair. I haven't polished the floor.........................








..............Yet

k. Should have specified...having productions in would make 'work life' more interesting. Empty studios and unused sets are booooooring!!!!

Life itself is already interesting

The old pub is 16 pages back. I brought it back a couple of times. Dusted and polished the floors.

I work, I pay taxes and the government is happy. Same old. Wish that we'd get some productions in to make life interesting though.

Since you didn't bring back the old pub. Then I put up sign here too.

Psst. Now calculate using conversion. Still takes less CDN$.

I didn't say that we weren't hurting. I stated that our companies aren't asking taxpayers to pay for them.

With the wages that the unions demand there the cost of the finished product will increase meaning the construction industry has to pay more so projects cost more and the taxpayer is caught with the bill. What were you saying about tax money? Like paying more do you? The more things cost to produce the more the cost is passed on to consumer.

Uh, our companies haven't asked for bailouts, our banks haven't asked for bailouts.

Again the steel is BOUGHT by Canadian companies. You aren't giving it to them.

Ask Omar Khad if he was tortured with peach cobbler.


Despite having had charges against him dropped twice, Omar has been continuously held by the U.S. for nearly five years, much of it without being charged or provided access to lawyers. Moreover, it remains the position of the U.S. government that even if acquitted by a military commission, Omar could remain imprisoned at Guantánamo for the rest of his life.

Even innocent they'd hold him. Great system.

With Hydro-Quebec technology since Hydro-Quebec is world leader in the field.

Besides which it's not your taxes being used to create Canadian jobs. The steel is bought by Canadian companies and made into finished product with the finished product sold to American construction industry. Where is your tax money in there?

Hydro-Quebec supplies residential / manufacturing power to New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine. Currently these states are looking to increase what they receive from Hydro-Quebec. As I said protectionism is a no win game. Quebecer's are a strange breed who are likely to say that since Americans want to take away their jobs then 'laisser les Americains crever du froid en noirceur' ... **let the Americans freeze in the dark**.

Our manufacturers haven't asked for a handout. Our bankers neither, in fact bank CEO's are giving themselves pay cuts. American banks came here looking for support from Canadian banks.




Really???

USA Slips Behind Ecuador in Environmental Ranking
DAVOS, Switzerland, January 23, 2008 (ENS) - A ranking of 149 countries based on indicators of pollution control and natural resource management released today at the World Economic Forum puts the United States in 39th place, behind Ecuador and Albania.

Compiled every two years since 2002 by the Yale University Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the 2008 Environmental Performance Index is based on 25 indicators.

These indicators are grouped into six categories - environmental health, air pollution, water resources, biodiversity and habitat, productive natural Resources, and climate change.

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http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2008/2008-01-23-01.asp

If the finished product is made in US instead of here then the economy here loses the jobs provided to make those products. That means that those jobless now have less money to buy other products, some of which are imported from States. Less products sold overseas then less work in States. More job loss.

Protectionism only leads to others doing same. Nobody wins.

As I said on the other thread. Steel made in U.S. is bought by companies here to be formed into I-beams etc and then resold to the U.S. construction industry. So where the steel is U.S. steel, the actual finished product used in the construction is 'Made in Canada'.

Loss of export of finished product means less steel bought from the States as well. Hurting both economies.

Part of the problem being that steel made in U.S. is bought by companies here to be formed into I-beams etc and then resold to the U.S. construction industry. So where the steel is U.S. steel, the actual finished product used in the construction is 'Made in Canada'.

Loss of export of finished product means less steel bought from the States as well. Hurting both economies.

I don't watch hockey either.



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......................100 YEARS !!!!!.................

Poutine..mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!

The one advantage to living in Quebec.

2nd largest country by area.

EB: 9,984,670 km² 6.7% of planet surface
America, North ..... Largest country in the Western Hemisphere. Longest coastline.