Hi, Doug...

From a moral or ethical point of view, the US should not keep the sanctions. But...the moment the sanctions are gone, the power of the allmighty buck will pour over the border with all its inducements to the greed of the common man...

And in short order the ordinary Cuban will no longer be able to get free medical care or free education...cos it won't be free any more...and his rent and hydro will go up 400%, and there will be people living in holes in the ground...like I saw in Mexico.

That's why I say it's the height of irony.

Sorry, but I do not have a convenient and handy solution for this situation, and if I did, no one would do anything about it anyway.

Canada is presently just a branch plant of the USA. The Canada I knew as a boy is virtually dead and gone. Only the bare edifice remains. Behind it stand ranks of McDonald's and WalMarts.

Doug, I despair at what has happened to my nation. A society that lives by the credo of the "bottom line" is a society that has lost its soul. You have to go somewhere else, before you really notice the difference, and sense the hollowness within. Soon there may be nowhere else left to go.

- LH