canada, one of america's most important trade pefrz.the president risking some real tension with a very important neighbor over this pipeline? >> i don't think so. and for two reasons. first of all, as you mentioned, there is just too much at stake here between the u.s. andcapped. trans canada, the company that wants to build the pipeline said the time is now. let's get this over with. but when you consider the fact that part of that relationship between the united states, part of what minds us in the economic relationship is, we are canada's biggest customer for oil. we import a lot of oil from canada as it stands right now. just to go back to something michael said, i mean this issue got into the political realm. when it gets into the political realm, it's not about sweet reasons. it's not about how many barrels a day are going to be flowing down. it's about staking out a position, a hot-button issue that gets obvious striated and gets viscerally emotional and blown out of prop portion. at the end of the day, if you are talking about