• Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I think it’s a great opportunity for Canada to develop more partnership with Europe, Mexico and the rest of the world. USA is an ennemi now, a dangerous one, it’s time to bring this under-educated country to his knees. They need to pay for all the suffering they brought to the world. Sorry USA, we cant not friend anymore, you made your choices.

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      I agree, but we should have diversified our trade in the 90s when we realized Mulroney’s us/can free trade agreement wasn’t going to last forever, and when it was becoming obvious that China was rising fast as a manufacturing powerhouse.

      IMO, we should have forged a tightly integrated trade agreement with the EU and spearheaded the Trans Pacific Partnership way sooner.

      We’re in the pickle of current events because we were largely complacent at the table of a global market that marched ahead without us in the ways we wanted.

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        The problem is that it’s very difficult to move from a trading partner you share a land border with to ones that you have to cross the world’s largest oceans to get to. Not just difficult, but largely undesirable. While national security might argue for diverse trading partners, short of applying extraordinary incentives business is going to go where its easy and profitable to go, and that’s the US.

        Since the nineties Canada has signed and ratified 15 free trade agreements. But none of that matters when we have one of the world’s largest and wealthiest markets right next to us. Not unless we’re willing to take extraordinary measures to change that dynamic.

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    2 months ago

    If you are a non-Trump voter in a red state, especially if you work for the flagship company or industry in that state, I would like to apologize on behalf of all Canadians for what our government is about to do. We don’t want to do it but it is the only way to deal with a bully.

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    2 months ago

    People, please don’t forget that they (the trump admin) redid the trade agreement with Mexico and Canada in their previous term. We are in this shit because they couldn’t even make a deal previously and still think they are masters of deals.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Does nobody understand the term “cash grab”? He’d play hell raising taxes on us to get what the tarrifs will get him

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    How UNLIMITEDLY DISINGENUOUS of the WSJ…

    THEY blatently wielded disinformation to prevent Kamala Harris from having fair-chance,

    but … suddenly … they want to be seen as having “integrity”??

    They are every-bit as responsible as the WW2 Appeasers, & the Nazis who were “just following orders”,

    & G-D can’t unsee what any phenomena in OceanOfAllPhenomena/Universe enacts, no matter what that phenomena’s “identity” is.

    The 2-facedness/2-heartedness of such scum…

    May their Continuums/Souls have absolute purification, … but not until this entire-world is gone, so that their Souls have to find “home” among some other world, other-than the world they betrayed.

    ( the alternative, tbh, is for their Continuum-purification to be sooo savage as to succeed in short-timespan, which … would be sadistic.

    Purification’s mathematically-inevitable, as the root-guru of the Christians identified: what any Continuum “sows”, that Continuum “reaps”, aka Karma,

    but the better way of saying it is that any meaning that a Soul emits, that Soul has no alternative but to reabsorb, until it ceases to have any Soul-ignorance in it.

    The greatest monsters, … in future-worlds, … become the greatest saints: action->reaction.

    As some True guides have pointed-out, Continuums/Souls are neither inherently-evil nor inherently-good: they’re inherently NEUTRAL!

    Which means that the evil committed by an ignorant-Soul, exactly balances the good that that same Soul commits when it has earned purification…

    The greater the Soul-ignorance, the greater the future-Soul-gnosis…

    There’s nothing “political” in it: it’s just an impersonal-function of reality…

    All this means, of course, that there’s no logic in my wishing for karma to be on anyone: that’s inherent, & my intending any such thing just makes my Continuum’s cycle worse…

    but honesty’s a good method, & at the moment my wishing for karma to be biting … immediately on the worst narcissist-machiavellian-sociopaths/psychopaths … is honest.

    I’d rather this world wasn’t being turned into the social-civil-spiritual equivalent to “Drano”!

    : )

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