This excellent article summarizes a common theme in many of your recent postings. There's an elephant in the room, and we all know who he is. He's someone who's clearly unhinged, and spends large amounts of time on his so-called Truth Social. He posts an image of Joe Biden, a truly decent man, who is presently fighting stage 4 prostate cancer, floating in sewage. He posts an image of himself carved into Mount Rushmore. He brags about passing a basic cognitive test and concludes that he's a genius. I could go on and on! We're all aware of his attitude towards our country Canada, and the damage he's inflicted on the global economy (and the US economy as well unless you're a billionaire oligarch).
I've been retired for many years, but recall early on in my career, when I was working for the Canadian branch of a major US corporation, our skilled and talented engineers and technicians created a unique and highly valued product. When the parent company got wind of this, they quickly shut it down and transferred everything to the US, including staff willing to move. This pattern has been repeated too many times.
Having said all that, the silver lining for us Canadians, as Fred's timely articles point out, is that we've woken up from our complacency and branch-plant mentality. To conclude my rant, let me just say that in an ironic way, we owe a debt of gratitude to this unhinged POTUS.
And now the orange despot and his Canadian henchman Hoekstra are yapping their 51st state trolling again. I think it's about time that Canada courted Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, and Oregon to join us as our 11th to 15th provinces.
I think it's high time that Hoekstra is shown the door. At a minimum he should be treated as persona non grata.
So today, as our government begin CUSMA trade talks with the USA, they announce a new set of tariffs on 99.6% of countries from which the USA imports anything! This includes Canada, Mexico, UK, EU, China etc. Across the board! Why? Because these countries are not doing enough against forced labour, either within their country or importing from countries that use it.
So my question would be, since the USA is setting itself up as this all-righteous example deep caring for the little guy, and chastising and penalizing every country that doesn’t meet its exceptionally high standards of labour, what examples might there be to show how hypocritical they are? Low minimum wages? Lack of health care? Lack of union support? Lack of low cost housing?……..how many examples of NOT caring can you think of?
This excellent article summarizes a common theme in many of your recent postings. There's an elephant in the room, and we all know who he is. He's someone who's clearly unhinged, and spends large amounts of time on his so-called Truth Social. He posts an image of Joe Biden, a truly decent man, who is presently fighting stage 4 prostate cancer, floating in sewage. He posts an image of himself carved into Mount Rushmore. He brags about passing a basic cognitive test and concludes that he's a genius. I could go on and on! We're all aware of his attitude towards our country Canada, and the damage he's inflicted on the global economy (and the US economy as well unless you're a billionaire oligarch).
I've been retired for many years, but recall early on in my career, when I was working for the Canadian branch of a major US corporation, our skilled and talented engineers and technicians created a unique and highly valued product. When the parent company got wind of this, they quickly shut it down and transferred everything to the US, including staff willing to move. This pattern has been repeated too many times.
Having said all that, the silver lining for us Canadians, as Fred's timely articles point out, is that we've woken up from our complacency and branch-plant mentality. To conclude my rant, let me just say that in an ironic way, we owe a debt of gratitude to this unhinged POTUS.
And now the orange despot and his Canadian henchman Hoekstra are yapping their 51st state trolling again. I think it's about time that Canada courted Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, and Oregon to join us as our 11th to 15th provinces.
I think it's high time that Hoekstra is shown the door. At a minimum he should be treated as persona non grata.
Brilliant analysis and really great strategic actions by Ottawa
You have to diversify your business community
Well written and to the point.
So today, as our government begin CUSMA trade talks with the USA, they announce a new set of tariffs on 99.6% of countries from which the USA imports anything! This includes Canada, Mexico, UK, EU, China etc. Across the board! Why? Because these countries are not doing enough against forced labour, either within their country or importing from countries that use it.
So my question would be, since the USA is setting itself up as this all-righteous example deep caring for the little guy, and chastising and penalizing every country that doesn’t meet its exceptionally high standards of labour, what examples might there be to show how hypocritical they are? Low minimum wages? Lack of health care? Lack of union support? Lack of low cost housing?……..how many examples of NOT caring can you think of?