US bought the dressed from the Japanese? Oh my!!! I wonder who has an interest in the Japanese companies profiting?

Of course, we ship iron ore out of Quebec and Labrador daily to the US and Japan, Korea and others. And our once tremendous steel industry is in dire straights.

Look at refridgerators. For fifty years, we held the patents. We made the units, shipped them to the US, they made the fridges, shipped them back... and we paid a King's ranson for fridges compared to what you could buy them for in the US.

Then, just before the patents ran out... global warming... the ozone layer... ban the refridgerants... ban the refridgerants... and patent the new ones - $$$$. CFC's? Bullshit. The amount of CFC's released in one day from the near surface volcano action near the Hawaiian Islands far exceeds the CFC's realeased from all the refridgeration and foam McDonald's hamburger containers over fifty years. The rich get richer and the poor get screwed.

Oh, BTW... I will say this now and get it over with.... no, I am not a Nobel winning scientist and I will not argue with those who know that global warming is going to kill us all and that it is my fault.