the primary objective of the liberals is to retain powerHow are liberals too dumb to see this?
This is not the liberal party of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin.
it is the liberal party of Gerald Butts
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This is not the liberal party of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin.
it is the liberal party of Gerald Butts
I'm simply saying Trump and COVID did not create your structural problems. If Trump backs off of his trade war with Canada, not much is going to improve in Canada in the intermediate term. Sure, there might be a temporary bump on the TSE.
It's clever rhetoric by several Canadians. It also feeds us into the Carney will save us from Trump mythos. You lean into that pretty heavily.
I agree. That's why I like all the deals Carney is working on. It was the kick in the pants we needed.
How do you feel about the Gordie Howe Bridge and Trump threatening to shut it? That looks like great infrastructure publicly owned, cheaper than the Ambassador Bridge and eventually mutually owed.
Do you agree with Trump?
it is about maintaining power.
The current liberal party is completely focused on implementing Gerald Butts ideology
Here is a perfect example that illustrates this
The federal government tracks important statistics like investment in industrial equipment
It does not take a noble prize in economics to see the impact of the Trudeau/ Carney policies / excessive regulation on investment in industry into Canada
Trudeau was elected and the investment tap was turned right down
Investment money avoids stupid
This investment disaster will further erode the countries competitiveness productivity and our GDP a direct driver of living standards
This problem was quite evident as early as 2016 yet The Trudeau government ignore factual evidence and maintained its failing Ideological driven agenda
Mark Carney is an economist and any economist worth his salt would have view this data (that's is what economist do) and declared Hold on Whow !!!
we need to reverse the foolish policies and regulations to fix this trend or the country will be screwed
Instead Mark Carney off loaded the evil carbon tax onto our industries
He poured gasoline into a dumpster fire. "There I fixed it"
A politically motivated move to retain power
Think about that: An economist ignoring economic data to ensure an ideological driven agenda remains intact and the liberal party remains in power.
No matter how you slice it he is not acting in Canadians best interest
Carney will likely get his majority , ensuring continued under investment in Canada for another 3+ years
Layer on Trumps open invitation to move production to the USA where one can be profitable and our industrial base will have vanished
Investment money avoids stupid
Economic suicide via the Liberal Party of Canada
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This not to mention Carney's conducting trade junkets to countries where you were told you had trade agreements in place for a couple years.
Trade agreements are like candy to naive supporters. You often can't measure results, but they feel good. Years later, you wake up wondering what happened to all those trade benefits. Even some of Trump's nonsense about this deal and this foreign investment is mostly hyperbole.
I hate to say it, but direct intervention like tariffs and quotas work on some level.
Trump's success will be measured in years not months. He could very well be scaring manufacturers into investing in the U.S. and away from China over the long-run. If you are a multinational American or foreign doing a lot of business in the U.S. you don't want to be caught flat-footed. A Democratic President might also see trade restrictions as beneficial and will know the U.S. media will give them cover.
I haven't followed the story in depth.
I would just say it's about trade negotiations and limiting access to the U.S. market.
The bridge will eventually be opened.
i have him on ignore so I will assume you have accurately conveyed his view
He could not be more wrong
Productivity directly impacts GSP
GDP per capita dictates a countries standards of living
Canada abysmal productivity record will result in a relative decline in Canadian living standards
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The ground work was already laid.
Carney should be asking why we have not expanded trade with our new 39 trade partners ?
Instead he makes globe trotting political theater about finding new trade partners
Don't forget Canada has been a member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) since 2018.
Wisely, Trump decided that the U.S. didn't need to be a part of another bureaucratic trade entity.
Biden passed on joining as well.
The bridge will eventually open.
I would get back to worrying about the U.S. annexing Alberta.
In trumps case , why sign a new trade deal if you are going to implement a trade war?
Sleepy Joe was ........ sleeping when that option was discussed, who actually decided while Joe took his nap will remain a mystery
Yes, Ottawa needs to stop screwing Alberta and offer a better deal than the US will offer
Why assume the crushing liabilities of the irresponsibly spending of Ottawa while the manufacturing base in Ontario disappears and Quebec still demands its extortion Money?
And the same damn fools in Ottawa seek to strangle Alberta's economic engine via regulation
Do not walk away, run away
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You're probably in a lower tax bracket then. If you make $150K a year in Ontario you're paying 34.4% tax/CPP/EI. And for each additional dollar you earn you're paying 43.4% of it in tax. That is burdensome.
I think many might wonder why now and not the first term.
The U.S. government is infested with opportunists. During Trump's first term, these opportunistic bureaucrats had no interest in representing the United States' trade interests or the Trump agenda. It was business as usual as far as they were concerned.
I assure you it's a different approach with different people in charge.
Maybe I am wrong, but Alberta isn't going anywhere.
The precedent had been established by Quebec.
Use the threat of secession to get a better and in this case more fair arrangement with Ottawa.
no
Trumps thing is leverage , not restricting compition
he sees >100% tarfiifs on US Dairy and concludes this is not free trade, it is restricting competition for US Dairy
Canada is the ''food inflation capital of the G7"
Yet Canada maintains supply management insanity to enrich the politically connected Quebec Dairy cartel
we should have needed to be bullied into correcting policy which is hurting ten million Canadians for the benefit of very wealthy special interest groups
time to wake up
