[chris vickery]

Here is how I see it from the Canadian perspective;
We have, over time, allowed many foreign companies to invest within Canada.
At the same time, we have shipped jobs out of the country because of lower pricing. In the meantime, all the foreign investment here has grown, to a point where we cannot deny importation of foreign goods into Canada, nor can we impose levies or taxes on them.
This is because in many companies, the foreign investors control the majority of the shares, hence controlling our Canadian market.
We continue to sell off our natural resources at an alarming pace for cheap prices to other countries, in turn, buying foreign made products back.
It is to a point now where many of our resource based companies are owned and controlled by foreign investors.
We are stuck beteen a rock and a hard place, as our government has allowed this trend to happen and continue.
Eventually I see Canada as the "have not" nation while 2nd and third world nations become the driving economic force. Sooner or later when all the money is gone from Canada, these foreign nations will no longer have a market for their cheaper built junk.
I, for one, try to purchase Canadian made products whenever i can, even if they cost more. If more Canadians would just say no to buying foreign maybe we could at least turn some of this mess around.
In the meantime, our politicians need to stop selling us out and keep control of our money here at home.