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From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: free trade
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 09:44:30 EDT
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> I am yet to hear anyone reconcile the "buy American" tenet (myth) attributed
> to US citizens with the fact that the US has a projected trade deficit
> of $150 billion (US). Doesn't sound like them Yankees are buying American 
> to me. [And let's not forget California (pop. 25 million) where one out of 
> every two new cars bought is an import.] Note that we have a trade *surplus*
> (~$20 billion) thus  implying that Canadians "buy Canadian" (even if it is 
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Or that we sell an awful lot of stuff outside of canada.

> because we're coerced into doing so).
> 
> J.B. Robinson