In the movie 300, a fictional version of the very real Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., Sparta’s King Leonidas found himself in a conundrum. It’s the same conundrum that Americans and the truckers in Canada are facing, today. Xerxes, king of Persia, sent messengers to Sparta to force him into a Faustian bargain: “If you value your lives or your complete annihilation, listen to me,” the messenger said. “Xerxes conquers and controls everything he rests his eyes upon. He leads an army so massive, it shakes the ground with its march – so vast, it drinks the rivers dry....