Ways Obama can screw Canada........ HARD.........

I have been watching with amazement this past week peoples reactions to the inauguration of B. Hussein Obama, as President of the USA. Seemingly rational people become irrationally giddy whenever the name Obama is mentioned. It is as if the trees would sprout gumdrops, the rivers would flow chocolate, magical cornucopias of plenty would spring from the earth spewing abundance in all directions, people would realize that arms are for hugging not war, and death would finally be conquered. Sound strange to you? It certainly sounds strange to me, as this altered perception seems to have hit most of the world with the exceptions of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ann Coulter, various cranks & yours truly.

Before you get angry at me, take a deep breath and remind yourself which country of the world you reside in. Remember that manias such as dotcom, real estate, tulips and 1870s railroad stocks always have an underpinning that the laws of nature have fundamentally changed when nothing has occurred.

I am a Canadian. I put my country, Canada first. I wear the Maple Leaf, and am proud of what it represents. When I am abroad, I have no shame as to my nationality, and I proudly wear Canada's colours. I put the well being of the residents of Canada first ahead of the well being of residents of other nations. I feel that as far as Canada, and Canadians are concerned the election of Obama sucks big time. Here are a few ways that he can screw Canada over, and why I feel as a Canadian we will possibly be worse off.......

1> He curtails the importation of "Dirty Oil"

Canada is one of the worlds top ten producers of petroleum and we are a net exporting nation. Canada is the number one source of the United States petroleum imports. Canada mines the bitumen deposits in the desolate north west corner of Alberta, and through hard work and ingenuity turns this oily dirt into a liquid goo that can be shipped south to the USA through a pipeline. There is only one market for Canada's golden goo and that is the USA. Canada's oil pipeline network runs North-South, instead of East-West meaning that there is no domestic or foreign market for Canada's bituem other than the USA. Northern Alberta has been the primary engine of Canada's economic growth for the past five years. Fort McMurray has provided sufficient jobs for enough young Canadians that were entering the workforce from all regions of the country that it generated a lift in real wages nationwide.

Fort McMurray oil has a higher "Carbon Footprint", than oil from the tar pits of Venezuela, or Saudi Light Crude. Fort McMurray's oil production 1.5 million barrels per day is lower than the the 3 million barrels per day of capacity that OPEC has cut. With one stroke of a pen, President Obama can painlessly stop the importation of Canada's "Dirty Oil", and announce progress towards reducing the USA's "Carbon Footprint". At a price per barrel of $50USD, a ban on the importation of dirty oil would cost Canada's economy $30 billion of exports per year. With one stroke of a pen he can destroy the Alberta economy. With a single stroke of a pen he can make every resident of Canada significantly poorer. While George Bush slept peacefully at night with visions of Houston North fueling Americas SUVs, Obama has promised to act on the USA's "Carbon Footprint".

We breath it out, while plants breath it in. CO2, Obama calls it pollution, I call it life. Besides, I always thought that the sun warms the earth.......

2> Re-negotiate NAFTA.

George W. Bush was a free trader. He was opposed to any barriers that impeded the profitability of large American corporations. Obama is a protectionist who believes in protecting US jobs by beggaring the USA's trade partners. Canada is the USA's single largest trading partner.

3> Restart the "Brain Drain"

Historically Canada would lose its best and brightest in all fields to the USA. We would spend a fortune training a physician only to see the physician move to the USA. We would see our top academics accept posts at US universities. This horrible state of affairs was the norm prior to George W. Bush. This state of affairs reversed itself during the George Bush presidency. Thanks to number 43, Canada saw more physicians return than leave. Ask yourself how many really cool Americans have you met in the last eight years that were "Bush Refugees"? Ask yourself how many young Canadians would go south permanently if the USA were suddenly cool?

4> Drag Canada further into the Afghan conflict

I support Canada's role in Afghanistan. Our NATO ally, the USA was attacked. This attack killed over 2,000 American civilians and many Canadian citizens. Our NATO commitment requires us to treat an attack on any of our allies as an attack on Canada. A group of jihadists that were protected by the Taliban were responsible for 9-11. The Taliban earned a shitkicking, and we as a nation were honour bound to help the USA retaliate.

Obama wants to widen the Afghan war and turn it into a conquest. He has cast the beguilement spell on so many Canadians that I foresee Canada's doves wanting to increase our participation in this folly. 30,000 additional American troops with a like number from the ranks of NATO allies. What purpose would these additional soldiers serve other than to raise the number of NATO casualties?

Afghanistan is referred to as the "Graveyard of Empires". It has earned this distinction because nobody was ever able to make the occupation of Afghanistan a successful lasting conquest. A conqueror could hold the towns, but never the countryside, and attrition and hunger could do the rest. Alexander the Great could not do it. The Mongol Empire could not do it. The British Empire with the Maxim gun could not do it. The Soviet Union with all its might could not do it. B. Obama, a President with far less military experience than George Bush thinks he is capable of doing it.

I make my case.