The ESA and cohorts' plea has gone unheard, or at least has not been honored. For a fourth consecutive year, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab has jotted down Canada's name on a low-level watch list, instead of the blacklist. This doesn't mean that the government isn't watching for evils that might be leaking through the porous border to the north. It's just that pirated software and its ilk aren't a priority concern for Homeland Security -- probably because there's no offshore warehouse large enough to contain all of the potential violations (there's a lot of piracy going on, ya know?). That or the administration has faith in its consumers' moral compasses. Is yours in line?For Canada the listing means rubbing shoulders with other mid-level offenders, like Brazil and Poland. It's sorta like juvie, minus the cells and deranged Kevin Bacon types.
