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Well, here I am on my second last day in Costa Rica before I fly home, laying in the hammock and sipping tea, with light and pleasant thoughts rippling through my head, such as current US attempts to interfere in Canadian sovereignty.

Perhaps you’ve read of the request to extradite Marc Emery for mailing marijuana seeds to US addresses? Or the intention to confiscate the Canadian land under which a tunnel was built leading to the US border?

Whatever you think of marijuana, Marc Emery, or the tunnelers – if any laws have been broken in Canada by Canadians, then it is up to Canada to prosecute those crimes if, when, and how we choose. Extraditing Emery for mailing seeds would be akin (in principle if not in severity) to extraditing a Canadian on the charge of littering when his kite string breaks and the kite lands on US soil.

These events, combined with recent US decisions on softwood and beef, should give Canadians reason to reconsider our participation in NAFTA. Approaching the EU for increased trade might be in order.

In the meantime, I’m having a daydream in which all Canadians obtain marijuana seeds and mail them to George Bush. If just 50% of Canadians did so, old George would have another 15 million extradition requests to fill out.

President George Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500