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>Well Hilmar, if the NAFTA is of any indication, I would not sign any agreement with the US, for in the end they will do as they please, take the Canada-US lumber dispute as an example.

Yup. And hidden away in there was that a proportion of out gas/oil production would always go to the U.S.

It was a barely sufferable deal when signed, and the U.S. actions since have shown otherwise but that they know we have no choice now.