Originally Posted by senor rubirosa

He was my paternal granddick.
(Actually, no ... I thought initially I would be on the board for two weeks or so, and when I realized that I would have to choose a name, that one just popped into mind. But we both have 27 ever-throbbin' centipedes.)



It's an important point -- and reason why Canada hasn't a great deal to fear from any reopening of the NAFTA. We have a lot of leverage.
But did you realize that the U.S., for all its energy woes, is the third largest producer of oil in the world? Not many people seem to know that.
And you're by no means stragglers behind numbers one and two ... Saudi Arabia produces 10.66 million barrels a day; Russia, 9.67 mbd; and Merka, 8.49 mbd.
We in Canada, back at number seven, produce only a bit more than a third of the oil you do, 3.36 million ... but of course, to our mutual advantage, much of that is for export since our economy is so much smaller than yours.



Once bitten, twice shy, I hope.
(BTW, mlb ... Newfoundland is one word.(:-{ }) )



"Thy valour, steeped in faith,
Will protect our homes and our rights."
I'm impressed, mlb.
Not many Canadian anglos, much less American ones, know the French words to O! Canada.

Apropos of nothing, I once lived on a street in Old Quebec City where either Calixa Lavallee, the composer, or Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier, the lyricist, lived.
I don't remember which, so I've lost the details of my near brush with greatness.
Dommage!