Obama/Democrat protectionism has taken hold. So much for Obama promises of standign by their obligations. This is another example of the elephant and th mouse. The USA has the weight behind it to do whatever it wants and unless they stick to their promises there is NOTHING we can do.
John Ivison: Canada starts to feel the bite of new U.S. protectionism
When Barack Obama came to Ottawa in February, Canadians lowered their defences and surrendered, seduced by the new President’s promises that the United States would stand by its international trade obligations and resist protectionism.
It was an object lesson in why politicians should be judged on results, not their intentions. The reality is that Canada and the United States are engaging in skirmishes that threaten to erupt into an all-out trade war.
John Hayward runs an industrial equipment company, Hayward Gordon, in Halton Hills, Ontario, but is in the process of transferring some of his company’s manufacturing capacity to the United States from Canada, with the loss of Canadian jobs, because he is being shut out of the American market by President Obama’s stimulus bill.