This local loss of jobs is certainly not Canada's fault; in fact many small Canadian towns and cities have suffered similar fates.    This has been the way of the Western consumer world in recent years, to ' buy cheap '.   However, in a market as large and deep as the US, there should be some onus on owners of small and medium-sized businesses to seek alternate domestic markets and/or to explore how other types of products could be produced by adapting and re-training some or most of the work force.