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My call is that we insure that we have the ability to go it alone. Work together with Canada when we can and they will, yes. But powering our country's flight and transport systems is critical to our economic and defensive well being.

P.S. Can you imagine how quickly we would have been DOING something about this instead of planning hearings on it HAD THIS HAPPENED IN D.C.

I don't want you to misunderstand, I respect your opinion, h*ll I even agree with it, but I do not think you will see it happen for the reasons I have given. The best solution would be to create a new series of micro grids that would allow one to go down without bringing everything else down with it. I am not even sure that is possible in Canada. Most electicity companies in Canada are owned by the respective provincial governments. They are heavily saddled with debt because they have been mismanaged on a titanic scale. I don't know that they could finance rewiring the whole country. I don't know what the balance sheets for the US industry looks like but it may not be much better. (anyone know) The best solution for the US might be to require that Canadian companies run transmission lines independent of their grids to US markets as a condiction of market entry. One way or the other the solution is going to be enormously expensive.