... obvious impact of American society can be seen in the balance of trade and reliance of the Canadian economy on the American market for their goods. A recent example is the PEI potato ban America put on Canada in October of 2000. The situation is straightforward, though an unnecessary punishment from the US onto Canada. In 2000, approximately 2.5 million hundredweight of P.E.I. potatoes ... these potatoes, from one acre of a 60-acre lot, were found to have a fungus known as potato-wart on them. When the US discovered this, they banned the sale of PEI potatoes, causing tens of thousands o...

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