This Week February 14, 1990. Page MIS _CANADA, EH? ve done a little hop-scotching around the country this past couple of weeks. My travels have fetched me up in locales as various as Windsor, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Montreal, Brandon and Lethbridge. Now I'm not pretending that’s anything close to a comprehensive cross-country survey but it’s a pretty fair ramble across the glorious chunk of terra firma we call Canada, and there is a common connecting thread. All the communities I spent thread. All the shopping was paid for in Canadian money. And all the things they purchased were bought in the States. Folks in all the communities I visited routinely nipped south of the border, if only to fill their gas tanks and pick up a few groceries. Or to mail a few letters. Did you know it costs you 16 cents less to send a first-class letter to a U.S. address if you mail it from the States? A lot of small Canadian siding. Reason: simple. Even after paying customs duty itll cost him half as much as it would in Thunder Bay. Now, it’s one thing to find out that a bottle of Jack Daniels Sour Mash whiskey or a CE. Martin acoustic guitar costs more in Moose Jaw than it does in Poughkeepsie, New York — those things are, after all, made down there. But Molson Canadian? Tongue and groove pine siding? Aren’t those in our department? Sure they are. Theyre cheaper south of the border because U.S. retailers time in are, as so many Cana- dian cities are, snuggled up pretty close to the southern boundary of this country. don’t pay Canadian tax. It’s all very nice that Cana- dian shoppers are enjoying a windfall of trans-border bar- Which is to say, no more than a short drive from the Cana- da/ U.S. border — a.k.a. the World’s Longest Checkout Counter. — Basie Black gains, but what is it doing: to By ARTHUR BLACK our Canadian merchants? An- swer: driving a lot of them into putting “For Sale” signs Folks I talked to in all those communities had a lot of things on their mind. They spoke out forthrightly about Meech Lake, the possibility of arranging urine tests for Bill Vander Zalm, the Liberal leadership race, George Bush’s bush-league switchblade-rattling exercises in Cen- tral America, the Gretzky/ Lemieux duel for on-ice divinity ... The Canadians I met in all of the afore- mentioned communities talked about all those subjects — eventually. But what they talked about first and foremost was Buying Things. In a word: shopping. They talked about buying lumber, beer, gas, and stamps. And once again there was a common businessmen have figured that out. So has Tourism New Brunswick. Officials there claim they saved $70,000 last year by trucking their foreign mail across the Maine border and posting it stateside. ITEM: I have a pal in Windsor, Ontario who drinks beer. 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