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NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA St. John's Coast Onlookers on the rocky shore will be the first in North America to greet the new millennium --Free --50,000 to 100,000 expected...
...raised Canadian eyebrows last month when he suggested that his province placed its highest priority on relations with the states of the U.S. Midwest. "I really see you as very, very strong allies," he told a meeting of Great Lakes Governors in Cleveland. "More so than many parts of Canada." The implication that Ontario might line up with Michigan, Wisconsin or Ohio against sister provinces--or even Ottawa--if economic interests required it was hard to miss. Was this sedition...
...really. Political boundaries have not defined economic relationships on this continent for decades, and the Michigan-Ontario relationship is the paramount case in point. Since the Canada-U.S. auto pact was signed in 1965, the two places have been economically intertwined. Last year two-way trade between Ontario and Michigan amounted to an astonishing $52 billion, much of it related to the automotive industry. The so-called automotive alley of assembly plants and partsmakers that stretches from Toronto and London, Ont., to Detroit is one of the world auto industry's most productive centers. But autos are nothing like...
...easiest way to America? That's simple," says Dick Ashlaw, who runs the U.S. border patrol in the region. "Go to the McDonald's in Cornwall, Canada, take a seat and look lost. It takes about 10 minutes. Someone will tap you on the shoulder. And from there it's into the reservation and a three-minute boat ride to the United States." The going price is $500. Those who don't arrive with the aid of smugglers simply walk off the reservation and catch a Trailways bus. The local bus stop is the Big M Market in Massena...
According to tribal police and federal authorities, the smuggling took off several years ago when Canada lowered its cigarette tax. Until then much of the reservation's cash came from buying cheap cigarettes in the States and selling them illegally in Canada. "You could make 600% on a case of cigarettes," says Mohawk Charlie Little Tree. "When that ended, people became the easiest commodity." Little Tree is now facing charges for smuggling aliens; his son is already serving time for the same offense...