Honestly Obama shouldn't even have to break the trade agreement if he wants American business to revitalize. All he really has to do is sign a short and sweet bill that greatly lowers the corporate tax rate in America. There you go Obama, I just saved you all the trouble and all the stimulous spending you want to do with just a simple solution.

Not to be rude, but isn't that kind-of like asking "If ponies grew wings would airplanes become obsolete?"

The strategy the NDP are currently following (appease Quebec at all costs to maintain your electoral gains) is incompatible with forming a government; especially when the parliament is finally expanding to reflect that growth in this country has occurred primarily west of Quebec.

For some reason I quoted you instead of other post; sorry

Wow. Can you live without softwood lumber, gold, oil, diamonds, motor vehicle parts, plastics, etc.? I didn't think so.

Your completely correct, Conservatives at the moment have the country in their back pocket with the exception of Quebec. Thing is you never know if that will change by the next election. I mean the Liberals had the country completely under their control prior to Paul Martin, the NDP being the official opposition could always turn things around. Though I agree on their present course (Kissing Quebec butt) they won't rule the country. But like I said things can change alot can happen in a few years, also alot of those who voted Conservative are actually former Liberal's and NDP to begin with. If the NDP were to win over those former NDP and Liberals they could potentially challenge Conservative control.

Same can be said for Canada, why should we have to let America trade and sell stuff in Canada as if they were a Canadian business? If we stopped the US would be harmed more then Canada, despite America buying 70% of our exports Canada imports more American products then it exports.

The simple reason is jobs and money. If the US can't sell products in Canada who are they going to sell them too? Judging by your statement you don't understand the basics of trade. The US benefits a ton from selling products in Canada and having Canadian products sold in Americ

Read the other replies and you'll see how important Canada is to the United States, that is why Canadian businesses deserve the same treatment as American ones. Not to mention it doesn't even matter why the US signed NAFTA fact is they did, you can't just go around breaking your agreements.

You do realize that all these resources we already have and are perfectly self sufficient. The reason we import oil, and use electicity through Canada is to conserve our own for when it's really needed. As I stated, even with the oil situation, we could really go centuries without relying on other countries' oil. The US used to export many products and US made products were considered top quality. Due to corporate greed with the whole outsourcing, plenty of jobs were lost here, and many of the products we export to your beloved Canada are merely assembled here our brought over from China and other nations. We can live perfectly fine without Canada to be quite honest with you, and no offense to you, but I couldn't care less about Canada and their crying about the free trade agreement. In fact that is the absolute worst decision the Bush administration could have made. You should try checking out interviews with the late Aaron Russos, and even check his documentary "America: Freedom to Facism" to have an idea on many of these factors that have screwed us while benefitting you guys (and the greedy) more than us.

Wow, just wow. lol you honestly think the US has enough oil to be self sufficient for centuries? Last I heard from Obama the US has enough stock piles to last the country about 34 days. Don't believe me check the stats, You honestly believe that the US the largest consumer of oil on the earth is going to be self sufficient for a hundred years?

P.S what power do you think the US could power itself with without Canada? The uranium in your nuclear power plants that power your country came from Canada, their wasn't much in the US for them to use. Then because the nuclear plants can't power the whole country and other electricity shortages occur , Canada sells its electricity to the US. If the US had all this abundant energy why would they be buying it from Canada?

Also what about fresh water, the US is running out. At the moment Canada has a limit to how much fresh water is exported to the United States but the US's stockpiles are beginning to shrink. Then how about lumber yah the US has lots of lumber, but it would run out very fast if they didn't import lumber from Canada and South America.

The US is far from self sufficient when it comes to any resource. You have been severely misinformed if you actually believe the US doesn't need Canada.

Umm no I'm not going to subject myself to brainwashing trash so I won't watch that documentary lol. How exactly has Canada benefited more then the US from NAFTA?

I mean the lumber dispute the US gov stole billions, all of our gas prices are higher because we export our natural gas to the US. In fact you say America doesn't need our natural resources they have their own. So why the heck is America buying our gas , oil and resources when they have a huge stock pile? Who's benefiting from that? Not Canada, if your right the US is stealing billions from Canada for its own self preservation.

I mean if your right what is Canada going to do when we run out of our resources because we sold them all to you, who didn't need them to begin with. Well that would leave Canada a little screwed over now wouldn't it, the US would have all these resources while Canadians rot. Yah I can see all the benefits we are getting.

Drive our prices higher because products have to sell to more then 400 million people, but if it was just being sold to Canada the market would be much smaller which would mean much cheaper prices for basic resources.

So basically your saying the US is a selfish greedy a-hole and Canada should terminate all trade immediately so that the US doesn't suck us dry anymore. If what your saying is correct Canada is loosing on a daily basis to your greedy , selfish country! Because the US already has everything it needs, it just wants to suck Canada dry so that it has more resources saved for later.

You know how twisted your Government must be, to use and abuse all the countries it trades with!

Luckily your theory is nuts and the US needs Canada just as much if not more then Canada needs the US. The US also needs international trade just as much as any other G8 country! You'll need to do some research other then propaganda documentaries before you go on here and trash talk your countries most important ally!

Yeah, but then you end up with either a huge deficit or are just smacked right back in the face when things change back.

Honestly what would help buisness the most is to do.... NOTHING.

Just stop everything new, and say "Hey this is our situation, we aren't changing anything."

There is so much shit going on, from the new healthcare law, to Dodd-Frank, to whatever stimulus stuff may happen, that nobody has any idea what the fuck  the landscape is even going to look like in the future, so all the buisnesses are just standing pat.

Getting rid of Dodd-Frank, and not doing a stimulus would go a LONG way to fixing things.  Espiecally since Dodd Frank has basically been crafted to wipe out small banks. (which are the only banks that loan to a lot of entrepenuers).

No doubt Dodd Frank will happen, small banks will be wiped out, then the big megabanks will use the fact that lower middle class entrepenuers can't get loans as an excuse to remove dodd frank, which won't much effect said loans, and suddenly everyone will know why Chris Dodd, the senator who got the most Big bank bucks wrote a law that was so "anti-bank."

I mean, it'd help even more if they got rid of the new Healthcare law too... but I mean, that's basically all Obama has done, getting rid of it is unrealistic.

I hear you there. Get rid of Dodd Frank, undo the workings of the healthcare law, and roll back a lot of the regulations that have been put in place in recent years. I agree the U.S. economy needs stability and an assured scope of what is going on.

Well, that's what you get when the government is allowed to get so big. It starts meddling in things it shouldn't be. Then you get people who say we should have a world society, yet want to pass laws that hinder and control free trade with other countries. Then these same people think the US can provide for everything that its people require/want, yet pass regulations and new taxes that drive business out of the country because they can barely profit here. Then if a company does try to profit here, those same people scream they are being greedy because they have to charge more for their products than most can pay.