It’s not really all that amazing or shocking, but when Canadians when to the polls and elected a bunch of pseudo-Americans to run our country, we got a Harper government* that would represent Americans, not the actual citizens of the country who elected him.  We won victory after victory in the courts, a clean series of wins that said without any doubt at all that by the mutually agreed upon rules of NAFTA the US tarriffs on Canadian softwood lumber were illegal.  And yet, despite Canada having won all the battles, the Harper government* gave up the war and negotiated a loss.  Well done folks.  Why the hell do we even pretend to have free trade when (a) the Americans elect right wing idiots who flaunt the rules at every opportunity; and (b) the Canadians elect right wing idiots who shamelessly give away the keys to the henhouse to the biggest baddest foxes they can find?

Sorry about the multiple posts on politics today, folks, but I’m all insane in the membrane over this.

* puke, etc