Citizenship discrimination and Political hypocrisy

From The Globe and Mail, 061005, page A5:

"To undertake discriminatory employment practices based on nationality is contrary to Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. [...] Complying with [State Department] requirements to identify dual nationals and using that information for discriminatory purposes is contrary to the Canadian Charter," said a document prepared by Dan Ross, the senior bureaucrat in charge of procurement at the Department of National Defence.

Apparently this is hindering Ottawa's negotiations with the U.S. company Boeing Co. to purchase four giant C-17 cargo planes (at a cost of $3.7-billion) and 16 heavy-lift Chinook helicopters (for $4.7-billion).
The Harper government plans to buy another $9-billion in military equipment, including smaller cargo planes, ships and trucks. Those purchases will also be affected if they are made in the United States.
The document adds that the U.S. government has been enforcing its restrictions more stringently in recent months, hence the current predicament.

No kidding?! Unless an exemption is obtained, the only way to get this equipment is to buy it from the US Government directly, with a 400M USD brokerage fee no less. The Canadian government wants the equipment badly, the American government wants to bolster the appearance of national security (and lining their own pockets is a nice bonus), and there is no incentive for the States to play nice at all: we want this equipment to assert our independence from them (currently we rely on them a lot to move our troops and military equipment around the world), and because our inability to patrol the arctic with their continued presence there gives them a legitimate claim over that territory.
Personally, I believe the American insistence to enforce the "dual-citizenship with proscribed countries" rule is entirely reasonable, and it will come up again and again, especially as Canada seems to want to beef up its sovereignty. After ignoring it during the Israel-Lebanon-Hezbollah conflict, perhaps we could use this situation to revisit the dual-citizenship concept now, in a less culturally-tangled context?
Side note: interesting how Harper speaks nicely to the Americans while beefing up our military to allow us to distance ourselves from them, while attacking the Liberals for bringing up such topics in political circles yet doing nothing to strengthen our military. Doesn't that make Harper look a little hypocritical, or at least expose his american-style attitude? I'm not a gambling man, but I'd put my money on winning a debate rather than a battle...