[para transit fellow]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

Have you ever seen a large cargo ship registered in Canada or the US? I doubt it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience

Reality is a bit more murky:

All the great lakes ships in the USA have to be american registered to provide service between

In Canada, it turns out that Paul Martin's family has the Great lakes fleet registered in Canada. It is CSL's internation division that owns or operates vessels under other flags (CSL international also operates vessels on lease : foriegn ships with foriegn crews)

You can look for yourself:

Canada steamship line domestic fleet page:

http://www.csl.ca/csl_domestic.html

Canada's Vessel registry:

http://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/.../m.aspx?lang=e