This is a big F! U! to alberta, be assured.
Even after science has confirmed that the Mad Cow action in Alberta was probably started in the US, and that all canadian beef is okay, the US is still dragging its heels on this crap.

Mr. bush says he want a resolution, oh, well you know...you can do it anyhoooowwww:
"President Bush clearly said -- and said many times -- that it was his wish to find a rapid solution to this and that he's asking his officials to find an early resolution to this problem," said Chretien spokeswoman Frederique Tsai.

Well if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you're not going to make it with anyone anyhoooowww...:
for chretien, this almost perfect....it affects a "politically unreliable" (how kim jong-il of you, mssr chretien) part of the country he'd like to see starved of its economic power (the west, namely alberta) while for bush, it means easy pandering to the electorate he protects with the biggest agricultural subsidy in the history of man. wow. perfect stuff guys! keep up the bs, and you can both seek your mutually beneficial aims.

I gauran-damn-tee that if this was alberta cutting off oil to the US, this resolution would have been resolved in about one second.