[Charles Martel]

If our Conservative leader, Stephen Harper was involved in the planning, then the jokes on Bush as the NAFTA Highway appears to enter Canada near Thunder Bay, where there nothing, nada.
The 50 Canadians living within the 1000 sq miles up there will not present many export/import opportunities.
I suspect that this story is a pile of horseshit..

The NAFTA template has always involved natural resources from Canada and labor from Mexico. The lightly-populated area near Thunder Bay would seem a logical place for what will be essentially a huge freight yard. What do the road and rail infrastructures in that area look like?

[CaptainCanada]

Well, there's the east-west trans Canada highway and the major east-west rail lines.

[Sweetjustusnow]

"The NAFTA template has always involved natural resources from Canada and labor from Mexico. The lightly-populated area near Thunder Bay would seem a logical place for what will be essentially a huge freight yard."

I wish I could remember where I just read this, unfortunately I don't, but I just read it today, and that was a mention of how we recently conducted Navy type maneuvers or some such thing, with Canada up there. This was very recent.

I'm sorry I didn't take the time to really read the article. At the time I was looking for something else and just skimming, as it were.