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Saturday, January 7, 2017

Inside #Quebec’s Great, Multi-Million-Dollar #MapleSyrup Heist | @VanityFair

Americans are focused on the wrong border. It's not Mexico, with all this dubious talk about building a wall, but Canada, with its Mounties, and comedy writers who move among us, betrayed only by the occasional mispronunciation of "about," that threatens our way of life. If this nation was not founded on the free flow of syrup, it should have been. And now, as anyone with kids can tell you, the price of syrup has remained stable and high; it's more expensive than oil. Is it Arab sheikhs who did this, Russian oligarchs? No. It's Canadians, who, organized into an ironfisted cartel, have established a stranglehold on that honey-flavored elixir.

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