Mike Thompson: “Well, to me it means that we have to treat them and their people the way we treat ourselves and our people. That is a…”

“Well, to me it means that we have to treat them and their people the way we treat ourselves and our people. That is a fundamental of trade and trade agreements, and something that is fundamental to this particular agreement. It has to do with the concept of equality and comity. It doesn't matter that one country is richer than another or has more population than another. It puts countries, from the standpoint of the agreement, from the standpoint of trade, on a basis of equal trading partners. We will treat you the way we treat our own people. I must say, if we violate that and we treat them worse than our own people or worse than another trading partner or partner to the same agreement, such as Canada, then obviously they are going to reciprocate. And they are going to treat our people--in this case, our truckers--seemingly, however they feel they are entitled in reciprocation of us violating the agreement.”