On the news it is reported that the Americans and Canadians will re-negotiate great lakes water rights.
What do you think?
What do you think?
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Americans right to drain the great lakes
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Well, judging from past Harper deal with US - we will give them all the water..plus a Billion dollars - and then blame it on the Liberals.
Liberals would give them the water. Conservatives would sell it...which probably isn't a bad idea. Let the eastern bastards dehydrate in the dark (or something like that)
Actually, the Liberals wouldn't give the water to the Americans. Instead, they'd drain all the lakes in the West and pipe it for consumption in Ontario and Quebec and maybe a bottle or two in Atlantic Canada.
I have different ideas on this depending on the philosophical slant. If we insist that all nations are totally sovereign, then there is nothing to negotiate. The US is free to take as much water as it wants from its side just as Canada is free to take up as much wather as it wants from its side.
If we insist that in the modern world no nation ca be totally sovereign but that we must all give up some sovereingty to international law, then we should all abide by that and establish appropriate rules for all sides.
As for the US taking water from the Great Lakes, I'm not sure what to think. How much water are we talking about? What would be the impact? Any further details?
How can we sell it if they're taking it from their side fo the Lakes? Are we planning to build a dam in the middle of the lakes any time soon to keep the water on our side on our side?
Source: Metro - Cda-US to update Great Lakes water pact
Canada and the United States will re-negotiate the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
Canada and the United States will re-negotiate the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
You surrender too easily, Captain Morgan. Let me continue this debate if you can't:
How dare those Americans suggest building underwater nuclear weapons facilities in the Great Lakes!:angryfire:
Especially since the Conservatives have worked so hard at creating so-called "crisises" of radioactive hard water shortages with our underwater nuclear facilities - just so they could sell it to the Chinese...
No kidding. And what's all the fuss about diverting all North American sewage into the Great Lakes? Just adding insult to injury, are we?8O
The Liberals would give it to the Chinese while the Conservatives would sell it...which probably isn't a bad idea. Let the eastern bastards do whatever you do without radioactive hard water, in the dark.
What's this? The Conservatives under Harper are oing to sell the Canadian side of the Great Lakes to China while the liberals under Obama are going to give the US side to China? Is Obama an idiot? That's prime real estate.
Liberalman was right. This really is a hot potato issue.
Oh wow, we'd better do something to save the Great Lakes. But no worries, Trudeau... er, I meant, er, sorry. Ignatieff's here to save the day!
It's a bird....
Not, it's a plane....
No, it's.........
Super Iggyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
No problem. With the Homeland Paranoia Ministry having unlimited funds just hint that Canadian pot or better yet, Democracy is being smuggled into the US UNDER water and presto there will be a wall.