{"id":291,"date":"2005-03-31T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=291"},"modified":"2005-03-31T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T01:42:00","slug":"291","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Clamming Down<br \/><\/span><\/strong><br \/>Good on Canada for finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20050331.wtrade0331\/BNStory\/Business\/\">flexing our muscles <\/a>a bit towards the US. However, since this is Canada, we&#8217;re flexing our pinky finger:<\/p>\n<p><em>OTTAWA: Canada is slapping-millions of dollars worth of sanctions on U.S. imports in retaliation for a lingering trade irritant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The announcement of <strong>a 15 per cent surtax on cigarettes, oysters and live swine<\/strong> from the United States came Thursday, just as the European Union took similar measures.<\/em><br \/><em><br \/>The measures are expected to be worth about $14-million annually.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This begs two questions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Are the United States going to notice a 14 million dollar tariff?<br \/>2. Oysters?<\/p>\n<p>If we really want to get their attention, we&#8217;d threaten to legalize prostitution if they don&#8217;t open the border to BSE and we&#8217;d send a married gay couple to Washington to make out on the White House lawn every day until the Softwood tariff gets lifted. That&#8217;d get Bush&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clamming DownGood on Canada for finally flexing our muscles a bit towards the US. However, since this is Canada, we&#8217;re flexing our pinky finger: OTTAWA: Canada is slapping-millions of dollars worth of sanctions on U.S. imports in retaliation for a lingering trade irritant. The announcement of a 15 per cent surtax on cigarettes, oysters and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}