On several points Jon Kesselman is right in his submission that we need to replace the GST.

He did not go far enough, and showed his ignorance of how hard it is to do business in this country from West to East.

There are still far too many barriers in Canada to jump over in doing business from Ontario to Quebec or from British Columbia to Alberta.

Kesselman did not go far enough in his suggestions to help improve the trade situation across the USA and Canada board.

Canada needs to pull out of the NAFTA agreement and begin negotiating a sector-by-sector trade agreement package that better addresses the interests of Canada.

There is no longer any need to keep the blinders on when looking at trading arrangements or indeed security.

Security for Canada is the issue of enabling our goods and services to be traded on a level playing field in the USA. and they aren't.

If the Americans do not like our taxation and forest management system, then stop sending the raw logs to them. If we insist on raping the forests then add the GST on to the logs so we can at least pay for the unemployed loggers to find other work.

If the Americans do not want our beef. Fine. Build the Prince Rupert Port up so if can be used to ship our beef around the world.

If the Americans think they are the only country or economy wants a secure source of energy to feed their insatiable and unsustainable economic growth, they are sorely mistaken. They have only 300,000,000 people. There are another 6,000,000,000 people in the world.

Canada has got to stop looking at our trade being north and south, and change it to a vision of trade around the world.