Thanks to Sid, as always, for posting the article on the IMF's "recommendations" to Canada. I do have a question, though. I hear a lot of Canadian lefties decry austerity, and I'm certainly with them on that, but I rarely hear them say anything about Canada's debt problem. It's real, isn't it? It's not just an invention of Moody's, the IMF, and the right-wing press, is it? If it is real, then what is to be done about it? Another thorny question for Canadians. I hear a lot of complaints about the loss of national sovereignty for Canada, much of the complaint coming from the same people I'm alluding to above. How much sovereignty has Canada really enjoyed? Would Canada be a rich country if it hadn't been riding in the slipstream of the US? Is national sovereignty that good a thing, really? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
