Feelings in our Guts

From today's Citizen, concerning difficulties in getting around US arms export restrictions amongst Canadian manufactuters:

 

Greg Suchan, the senior State Department official leading the current negotiations, said he hoped a solution could be found, but stressed his government controls access to its military technology because "we have a feeling in our gut" about the link between nationality and possible threats.

"I understand there is concern here in Canada about the treatment of nationality," Mr. Suchan told a symposium on Canada-U.S. military co-operation. "If somebody is a citizen of a country that is very, very problematic for export-control purposes, we need to take that into account."

That policy worked so well with the Japanese-Americans during the second world war, didn't it?