The troubled U. S. -Canada relationship might be fixed by______.

The relationship between the U. S. and Canada should be as placid as Lake Ontario on a calm summer day. The border is undefended. Their peoples seem like cousins. Each is the other’s largest single trading partner. Yet there has been serious friction between the two neighbors in recent years — friction that might now be eased by the surprise election of a new Canadian Prime Minister.

ISIS takes in more than $ 1 million per day in extortion and taxes. Salaries of Iraqi government employees are taxed up to 50% ; companies may have their contracts and revenue taxed up to 20%. That revenue base will help ISIS survive even if its oil business is crippled.