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Kerry Howley is a dangerous woman - just ask Burmese immigration officials!

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Obviously, Canada's «Conservatives» are not even as right-leaning as Jacob T.Levy quips. Industry minister, Tony Clement, still looks south to know how much to bailout America's Big Three.

The carmakers have dropped strong hints that, without such aid, some operations could be moved to the US. Their campaign for aid has been strongly supported by auto parts makers. Although the industry is closely integrated across the border, the fortunes of many Canadian parts suppliers are tied to local assembly plants.

Mr Clement said that carmakers would have to use some of the aid to keep paying their suppliers.

He did not provide a specific figure for Canada's contribution to the bailout, but said that it was based on the country's one-fifth share of the Detroit companies' North American vehicle output.

The Bush administration indicated on Friday that it would provide about US$14bn in emergency funding to GM and Chrysler after Congress failed to agree on an aid package.

Mr Clement said that Canada's contribution was »absolutely not a blank cheque. We have to protect the interests of the taxpayer. This is about conditional support based on their long-term plans, based on them working with the parts suppliers, based on the unions being at the table, based on the United States continuing to be part of the solution.»

What, no bankruptcy plan at all in the Conservative contingency plan? Might the Big Three flee to Canada for more favorable terms?

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This is one of those diavlogs that hits where you live.

1. Are you trusting enough to leave privacy to anonymity (anarcho-capitalism), or do you prefer government regulation (anarcho-socialism)?
2. From whence does the greatest threat come, the Feds, or Google?

Living in ROK, I think I'm uneasy about leaving the answer to these questions to custom, as Will Wilkinson argues. Experience, and my democratic proclivities, leads me to expect a global quilt mess of conflicting geographical boundaries across the earth. I would really prefer some degree of uniformity that transcends national boundaries.