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TheStar.com - Business leaders quaking in shadow of Uncle Sam Brian Mulroney was right: There isn't enough anti-Americanism in Canada to elect a dog-catcher.

Anti-Bushism is another matter, although French vintners are learning that the current administration no longer recognizes the distinction.

The CEOs who worry we'll be frozen out of the U.S. market believe that the integrated North American economy makes us beholden to the White House.

Abetting them in this alarmist view is Globe columnist John Ibbitson, who reminds us of the folly in thinking that the United States is rather dependent on us, too. "Most of the people who believe this argument are on a methadone program," he says.

We'd love to see the medical records to back up that assertion, and maybe we someday will if Canada ever harmonizes itself with the McCarthyesque U.S. Patriot Act.

Among those drug-impaired analysts, presumably, is the New York Times reporter who this week noted that the United States relies on imports for 66 per cent of its shoes and leather goods, 46 per cent of its apparel, 42 per cent of its computers, 37 per cent of its oil and gas, 36 per cent of its forestry and fish products, 30 per cent of its electrical machinery and 29 per cent of its autos.

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