I've done some investigation of Dutch farming. They've actually been too successful with fertilizer run off etc.

It would be great to have some of that know how in Canada.

YouTube video by House of El Canada OUTPLAYED the US - and the Netherlands is LOVING it!

Dutch commentary on the new era of Canadian/Dutch cooperation.

youtu.be/QX-p35QUalE?...

This is great. Canada has lots of potential to exploit agri technology. We have everything we will need.

Who says subsidize anybody? But everyone should compete on an even playing field. And ideally use Cdn inputs.

Nor ON is more than "rocks". Pulp mills etc have been using tonnes of water, usually taken from the mighty rivers there that also power the hydro dam generation.

The water for data centres is used for cooling. Data centres in the north have less need of cooling 8 months of the year. It ain't Texas

I have no love for the big 3. They have produced terrible product and yet get bailed out and protected.

Maybe Cda could engage in a global auto pact where manufacturers must produce the equivalent of what they sell? No tariffs on BYD, Hyundai, or any other that manufacture some in Canada.

I'm not sure that we should be in the business of hollowing out an industry for the sake of importing Chinese product unfairly priced and produced with a huge footprint.

Honda, Toyota both have alternatives to ICEs. So do many European auto makers. Volvo and Renault were once in Canada.

To me, it's not about the assembly. It's the Canadian parts suppliers and most of them aren't unionized. The famous case is Magna Int'l that has profit sharing and is the largest parts manufacturer in the world.

He is not a libertarian. His first thing was to appoint the head of the right wing party as interior ministry then passed a law against protests of his gov't.

And still sky high tariffs to protect his 1% and their captive markets.

He's a military style gov't in a bad haircut.

I don't think we need those types of EVs desperately. However I don't mind cheap Chinese solar panels and E-bikes as they have spinoff benefits to Cda.

China is not using Cdn auto parts, steel, aluminum, labour. But will displace those that do already. Toyota and Honda both have factories in Cda.

It is more economically beneficial than selling hydro to the US.

They could be built in Northern Ontario to take advantage of local hydro and less need for AC and water. And diversify the northern economy.

In a way, Trump is inoculating Canada somewhat. We know where rightwing populism can lead.

Na. They want to freely dump automobiles and steel...hurting Canada and killing jobs.

We can find other crops to rotate instead of canola. We can find other markets for our canola.

It isn't like US farmers and soy exports to China. They are F'ed.

Yup.

US farmers' soy is a different story. Not many markets and none as big as China. China is buying from the Argies and Brazilians and will most likely continue.

He is not a socialist, but can see the pitchforks coming.

We aren't dumping cheap canola in their market. They are dumping cheap cars and steel in ours.

If we allow their cars into our market it will kill Canadian auto jobs, real and potential.

If they don't buy our canola we can grow lentils, wheat and other things on that land and ship elsewhere.

Many people who are recreating our world at worst hate people or at best find dealing with other people the greatest nuisance in life.

And we should do like Europe and have freight trains operate at night where slow 100 car trains aren't blocking traffic at crossings during busy hours.

Fast Via trains during the day would interfere less with car traffic and sell more seats...getting more cars off the road.

The source of the problem is freight owns the rails and freight trains are slow, so the tracks are allowed to be poorly maintained by CN, CP etc.

If CN can't maintain their tracks properly than we should nationalize them.

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I listen to CBC podcasts only. I fast forward through the crap like mini maga.

The choice is lazy colonialism or ambitious nation building.

It is time for the latter. Time to be masters in our own house.

Trump is an insane bully and will damage his own economy so he can make a buck, let alone ours.

Any journalist, commentator or politician who thinks there are predictable friendly outcomes available to Cda is either a moron stealing a living or a performative liar filling columns or TV time for $.

YouTube video by Paul Hinrichs Zappa defines "Fascist Theocracy"

Frank Zappa, a republican, warning that the US was heading towards a fascist theocracy in ... 1986.

youtube.com/watch?v=fam5...

Canada Reports Job Increase of 60,400 Positions in September, Surpassing Expectations of 5,000 After Last Month's Loss of 65,500 💼🍁

Canada's Unemployment Rate Remained Steady at 7.1%, Matching Last Month's Figure and Below the Expected 7.2% 📊

Big news. 60K !

It could be that there will be a US market and a separate market for the rest of the Americas or trading blocks outside the US.

We have a common market with Mexico. And we are in the TPP with Japan, UK, Australia, NZ, Chile.

Mexican and Canadian market together with NAFTA.

Canada and Mexico are also in the Trans Pac Partnership with Japan...

That helps sourcing and logistics too.

You can save yourselves. I think their strength is abusing what people of good spirit in the US have built. Their weakness is they can't create a 300 million community like that. Their strength is division, not multiplication.