But you do go on and on and have been for some time. You're kind of our sky is falling for the U.S. guy. You get some progressive guys to join in the chorus.It depends on what we are selling. Looking like lots of food. We just did another wheat deal with china in response on Trump threatening tariffs. That benefits farmers. How are some of USA farmers doing these days?
Rome wasn't built in a day. Neither will our new security and trade agreements. And of course trade will continue between us. But it ain't going to be as much, as discounted, and definitely changed on certain security matters.
More importantly however is grassroots Canadian consumers are changing their spending habits. It won't matter what trade deals get signed if we just don't buy or buy less. Same with tourism. We are traveling elsewhere. And you can't make us go there.
The wealth gap, is pressure. As is ICE, daily crazy talk, suppression of free speech(see recent Colbert viral interview as an example), real estate diving, job losses, health insurance premiums rising, bad use of military, the grifting, cripes I can go on and on.
It's even worse this time. And citizens are noticing.
I only present that many of your economic viewpoints are contradictions. One perspective doesn't jive with another. That's because economic growth and advancement isn't easy. It's also not that uncommon to hold these views. However, every political decision involves an economic trade-off. Even if Trump was trying to deal with the wage gap, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't recognize it or you would just ignore it.
Five years now, Canadians will be traveling to the U.S. in record numbers for the simple reason it's easy and close. You can even bring your car and we drive on the right side of the road.........most of the time. Canada's industrial and technological base will still depend on U.S. markets and in some instances U.S. companies. Their future is not China or elsewhere.
As I said, it's great that you have opportunities in China. I wouldn't pin too much on markets 5,000 miles away though. Australians can tell you the advantages and disadvantages of trading with China. Even our farmers know how volatile Chinese purchases can be even with announced trade deals. From a markets perspective, the biggest issue for farmers everywhere is that were in a low cycle for global agriculture prices.
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