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But Laxer explains that the U.S. actually poses serious security concerns for Canada; for guns, banned drugs, explosives, pornography, toxic waste, and some animals, plants and food products.

Black Liquor Sparks New Trade Feud and Old Controversies : Law is Cool 2009

James Laxer, in his book The Border: Canada, the US and Dispatches from the 49th Parallel, describes this position as follows,

Black Liquor Sparks New Trade Feud and Old Controversies : Law is Cool 2009

Laxer also points to legal concerns raised by former Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy, who said,

Black Liquor Sparks New Trade Feud and Old Controversies : Law is Cool 2009

The current debate on deeper integration is dramatically different from the free trade debate that preceded it years before, according to Laxer:

Black Liquor Sparks New Trade Feud and Old Controversies : Law is Cool 2009

We would also be by-standers in any important decisions made, resulting in what Laxer calls a “Finlandization” of Canada,

Black Liquor Sparks New Trade Feud and Old Controversies : Law is Cool 2009

Gordon Laxer, Director, The Parkland Institute, Alberta : "…if we go along with the Americans on their military, on their human rights, on their Patriot Act, on immigration and refugee policy, on energy, on all kinds of regulations over pesticides or whatever, then they will allow us access to their markets."

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Gordon Laxer, Director, The Parkland Institute, Alberta : "…if we go along with the Americans on their military, on their human rights, on their Patriot Act, on immigration and refugee policy, on energy, on all kinds of regulations over pesticides or whatever, then they will allow us access to their markets."

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Laxer then slips into a short apologetics for empire saying that the demise of empire had the effect that "people reverted to more primitive ways," which carries the assumption that empires are better than the previous existing civilization and after them is only primitiveness.

Book Review - The Perils of Empire 2008

When "Facing Up to Empire," one of the initial statements is "An empire is first, last, and always an affair of blood," while shortly Laxer says, "the benefits of empire are many," without defining what the benefits are.

Book Review - The Perils of Empire 2008