After reading the majority of the comments below I wonder about a few other things besides beef and wood, what about water and oil? The USA would like more of both of those commodities from us: why not build that TransCanada line we have been going on and off about, again and again that would make us more self sufficient instead of shipping more South. And why not look at the new Infrastructure Account to build our own factories instead of shipping everything South and then buying the finished product back from them.  I know economies of scale and all but surely it is time we also started walking on our own two feet a bit more.