Don Foreman wrote:

If your government creates impediments to trade that cause you
inconvenience and discourages US vendors, perhaps you should direct
your rants at them. Perhaps they're convinced that your
inconvenience serves the greater overall economic benefit of Canada
by keeping Canadian money in Canada as much as possible.

You are unusually ill informed for you on that one, Don. Try checking
into US impediments to trade. e.g. softwood lumber. "Free trade" seems
to mean that the US should be allowed to export anything anywhere.
Imports are an entirely different matter.

Ted