Washington tried to make Canadian aluminum expensive enough to move south. It forgot the one thing a smelter can’t pack in a moving truck: the power grid.
Best, absolutely the best, news of the day! My black heart 🖤 Fred! Black for trumps egregious attempts on our economy, and big heart for Carney’s great moves! 🍁🇨🇦
Thank you so much Fred. Always appreciate your responses, but especially this one - so kind. And I think you’re fulfilling your “want.” You keep writing, I keep reading. Be well my friend! 🫶
This is such good information to learn. Why do we Canadians not know such things as routine? Why has our once world class media sunk to the depths of Fox wannabes? I just hope this is not a bigger argument for 51. Thanks, Fred.
We shouldn’t have to go digging through trade reports and industry data to discover what Canada actually brings to the table.
And no... I don’t see this as an argument for becoming the 51st state.
I see it as the opposite.
**The more Canadians understand what we own, produce and contribute, the less believable the argument becomes that we couldn’t stand on our own two feet.** 🇨🇦🍁
Maybe part of my job here is simply helping more Canadians realize how much damn leverage we already have.
I wasnt thinking us defending us becoming 51 but fear that some orange creature might take it that way. Anyway fafo as Charlie Angus keeps taunting. We might need to not overween that confidence, not enough people have done without anymore to understand how bad things can get, but it s really good to hear and believe that we do have leverage. I wish there were more Canada minutes and interviews with previous generations, make what they lived more accessible to today s folk. They seem enchanted with the past but they re veyr disconnected to it now. Those 60s movies and series with all the modern comforts are very misleading. But they ll have to fund their own courage. Lots of folks in Ukraine and Syria and Gaza can share what happens. But when your grandparents with their old wound scars and silences and habits and glazed eyes tell you of other times, it has a way of staying with you until it s needed in your own life. You grab the torch from them.
This is good stuff Bev! And I thank you! I find the current situations all over the world terrifying. I do feel a sense of relief on these pages. Your astute assessment of CBC’s “ two sides” mentality has been taken straight out of MAGA playbook. I wonder if it’s because in part that people are afraid to call out evil. Or in the alternative, they’re unable to actively identify evil when they see it. But either way, or indeed, any way, I am with you!
I think because Bev, most of our MSM is American owned. I have though noticed a definite right turn at CBC that I’m really not happy with. There are also moves toward authoritarianism world wide, and I think it affects all the news. But I also believe there is emerging a hard turn toward democracy. I cite the overturn in Hungary to democracy, the apparent coming fall of putin, the apparent coming fall of trump. We are I believe in a transition period in time. The year of the horse, dontcha know, is fast and furious. 😡 It does give me hope, as does PM Carney. Oh, sorry, back to your question - I think previous PM’s were afraid to anger US. And then we had Mulroney and Harper who were hand in glove with US presidents. Also we didn’t have one who was able to effectively think waaaaay outside the proverbial box. And perhaps it was also that lack of vision because of the convenience of dealing with US. Just my thoughts for what they’re worth. 🇨🇦
Thank you Fred! Super good analysis and food for thought as I always find it! The other very large piece in all this, and I think the biggest and most important piece, is the coming forward of Mark Carney to serve. I have visceral nightmares about what it would all look like had he not seen, and come forward. He is what has brought the light and the path forward. Think this is definitely a black heart 🖤 moment. Black for the current global atrocities, mostly to the south of us as most dangerous. But heart for our incredible good fortune to have the current world leader as our Canadian Prime Minister! 🫶 🇨🇦
PS I ve been devastated by CBC s perfidy and shallowness and despicable “ both sides” equating good and evil for a couple of decades now. It keeps getting more and more obvious I think but hardly anyone says so. And I am shocked that we still fund news media despite american or any other ownership and let them undermine everything they re supposed to be supporting. The Globe and Mail s editorial board disgusts me. I m quitting both them and the Star as my subscriptions run out this fall. The libraries no longer carry a good array of international objective press. certainly lack of funding is a factor here in Halifax. and I really wonder what s left. Evcen the Guardian is dismissive and erroneus about Canada when they even think of us.
SO thanks to Fred and the few others who seem to have an eye on things and a good conscience and a clear way of presenting information. We re missing that.
You’re waaaaay ahead of me on CBC Bev! It had been my go to radio station for a number of years - but mostly for the programming that I enjoyed. I hadn’t noticed what you did decades ago. I’m just very thankful for the emergence of Substack journalism, and journalists, like Fred! I’m also recently hearing that it’s now being compromised (who didn’t see that coming) by false and corrupt media. So I have certain ones I trust, and will continue to follow.
It helps that I carry a grudge for a really long time. When they split up the stations and cancelled the classical music programs and ruined Sunday mornings( and Saturdays) saying they were going to attract young listeners and I thought what about keeping old ones too. I did have another 30 years in me then and am still going. But my love of CBC formed from Gerussi and Gzowski, Frum and Clyde Glmour and most of all Allen McFee. Incomparable! I did keep listening to news programs but during the harper years they started to get really distorted and I had to give them up or go mad. Ethics just got a very different face. It came to the boil slowly and some things were still Ok and then they weren t.
When they cancelled the classical music, it just wasn’t worth listening to CBC 2. But I did listen to CBC1. By then I’d retired and I had it on as I “did stuff.” Thankfully I hooked into Substack, and it’s taken over my life. Oh well. Get lots better info.
Patricia I love how you think. A lot of folk here on Fred's list make me feel like I m not entirely the alien I seem to be many other places.
It does kind of feel like we re facing some classic good and evil battles in the 21st Century. I m coward enough that I hope I dont have to be here for them but yes we do seem to be gaining hope again and there are more people building momentum. I hope they hold to the best beliefs and visions of those who built this country. well we re still bulding it. We need more First Nations recognized participation this time. They keep their eyes on the prize better than the money grubbers.
To answer your point about previous PMs, Trudeau pere was defintely an independent thinker and I remember thinking at the time of the Consitution, how quaint and old fashioned of him. With humility and gratitude, I ve been doing penance in recent years. And in characterizing us as the mouse sleeping with the elephant he reminded us we re still our own entity. Might be time for a new analogy though.
And I LOVE the way you think Bev. Perhaps a little bit of “like liking like.” But yes, it is encouraging to be in on the information and conversations here. Like you, I am somewhat relieved that my time here is limited. I just no longer have the energy to go to the ground on what most distresses me now. Also really liked your comments on Trudeau senior. I think he has been so undervalued. Well, and especially here in Alberta, HATED. The haters haven’t ever gotten over the NEP. But that’s how they think here - one thing becomes the whole. It’s the whole lack of critical thinking ability. So thank you much for the comments. I was just thinking that in addition to trump and co, and their machinations, serving to bring Canada together, that this site is also serving to assist that movement. 🫶🫶🫶🫶
It s really nice that the best journo in Canada right now is Max Fawcett. He tells it like it is, has a great sense of justice and is a terrific voice for both the country and Alberta. I wish he were better known and supported.
Although he s pretty prejudiced about Boomers and we ve had words there. Nobody s perfect.
Well this is just one of the reasons Trump wants to annex Canada. We are a resource-rich wonderland. We know what we have, he knows what we have, and he doesn't give a shit that this is our home.
Goose, the more I dig into this stuff, the more one thing becomes impossible to miss...
**Canada is sitting on one hell of a hand.**
Energy. Water. Critical minerals. Potash. Uranium. Timber. Hydroelectricity. Aluminum. And a whole lot more.
Whatever Trump’s ultimate motivation, his repeated 51st-state talk lands very differently once Canadians understand just how strategically valuable this country is.
Maybe the most important thing we can do right now is make damn sure Canadians understand what we have...
You have to remember that dickhead Harper sold our major media outlets to the Americans. All we have is the CBC, and God only knows where they are on any given day, and the Canadian Press. We need to find our own streaming services and podcasts. I cannot begin to tell you how irate I get when I hear creepy PeePee supporters rave on and on about what a wonderful Prime Minister Harper was. I just want to scream…….. I do actually, scream that is!
Something Alberta keeps ignoring re their offerings. I live here. UCP cancelled all green energy projects when Smith took office. Alberta lost 91 million dollars in tax revenue and over 33 BILLION dollars in investments along with a possible 24,000 jobs when she shut down the Renewable energy programs and industries.
The oil and gas industry has zero restrictions on it. They do not clean up their orphan wells. Be zen leaching into the soil. Tailings ponds leaking into Athabasca river and no one did anything about it despite knowing about it. UCP and Imperial knew. They also had a duty to inform the First Mations down river and they did not do so. Then there is the coal mining at Grassy Mountain whuch will leach Hugh levels of selenium into head waters that flow into Saskatchewan. It kills the fish and will impact farmers and ranchers equally causing degradation to food standards. All of these are environmental killers. They will also impact trade as other countries have high standards re what they will purchase. Degrading the quality of the produce will result in buyers going elsewhere. That as well affects ranchers and their cattle as selenium and coal dust and deposited by air flow from the mine via water and air. Selenium has a very harmful effect on cattle causing a hoof specific disease. Other provinces in acanada are offering the products Europe requires re their standards but Alberta’s products are all harmful and dirty and zero measures being taken to operate a « clean » environment. They cut pretty much all environmental assessments for all industries.
Kay, there’s enough in that comment for me to disappear down about six rabbit holes. 😄
But you’ve raised something that connects directly to this aluminum story...
**Environmental advantage is becoming economic advantage.**
Quebec’s hydro doesn’t just make Canadian aluminum cleaner... it helps make it competitive in markets increasingly concerned about the carbon and environmental footprint of what they buy.
That means environmental policy, energy policy and trade policy aren’t separate conversations anymore.
I want to dig into some of the Alberta examples and numbers you’ve raised before commenting on them as fact, because there’s a potential bigger story here...
**What happens when one province treats environmental standards as an obstacle while Canada's future customers increasingly treat them as a requirement?**
Don’t forget the Rio Tinto aluminum producer in Kitimat BC.
Powered by the Kemano Hydroelectricity facility, it produces 420,000 tones annually.
I know we have 10 smelters and 9 of them are in Quebec, but with smelters on both coasts we can export easily east or west.
And thanks to European buyers we have enjoyed a 51% month over month jump in sales to Europe in May alone, reaching 850 million USD for just that single month. And prices bid reached record highs!
We should be patting ourselves on the back for that extremely quick pivot away from the USA.
What astounds me is the speed we are moving. I can’t think of a single time in my life where the Canadian government moved this fast on trade with any country!
I'm American, and I'm tickled to death to see this. I hadn't thought of the power costs of refining aluminum, but our idiot has screwed himself coming and going on that: He's hell-bent on keeping out renewables, but he also has to prop up his buddies' data centers, which are sucking up energy like giant vacuums. Not enough Americans are hurting enough yet to get him out of the white house, but having yet another drain on our power grid might help get their attention.
I love Carney and all the great stuff he's doing. If I can't be happy with the idiots running *my* country, it's nice to be able to look north and get excited about the heroes running yours!
Local newspapers used to have the staff, time and resources to dig into stories like this and explain **why they mattered to the people reading them.**
A lot of that capacity has disappeared.
And that leaves a pretty ugly information gap.
Maybe that’s one reason I’ve become so obsessed with digging these stories out.
Canadians shouldn’t have to be economists or trade experts to understand **what this country has going for it.**
If the old media isn’t going to tell enough of these stories anymore, some of us old buggers are just going to have to keep doing it. 😄
I understand the Europeans pay a premium price for our more ‘environmentally cleaner’ aluminium. Hopefully we’re charging Americans that premium price now.
AND WE JUST SOLD LOTS OF IT TO GERMANY. CANADIAN TECHOLOGY AND PRODUCTION VALUES MAKES OUR ALUMINUM THE BEST AND THE WORLD WANTS. WE DONT NEED AMERICA.
Best, absolutely the best, news of the day! My black heart 🖤 Fred! Black for trumps egregious attempts on our economy, and big heart for Carney’s great moves! 🍁🇨🇦
Patricia, I think you nailed the bigger story.
Trump keeps trying to make Canada weaker with every new squeeze... and Carney keeps looking for ways to make us **less dependent on the squeezing.**
That’s the Canada I want to keep writing about. 🍁❤️
Thank you so much Fred. Always appreciate your responses, but especially this one - so kind. And I think you’re fulfilling your “want.” You keep writing, I keep reading. Be well my friend! 🫶
With a bonus prize of more competitive prices.
This is such good information to learn. Why do we Canadians not know such things as routine? Why has our once world class media sunk to the depths of Fox wannabes? I just hope this is not a bigger argument for 51. Thanks, Fred.
Bev, that question bothers me too.
We shouldn’t have to go digging through trade reports and industry data to discover what Canada actually brings to the table.
And no... I don’t see this as an argument for becoming the 51st state.
I see it as the opposite.
**The more Canadians understand what we own, produce and contribute, the less believable the argument becomes that we couldn’t stand on our own two feet.** 🇨🇦🍁
Maybe part of my job here is simply helping more Canadians realize how much damn leverage we already have.
I wasnt thinking us defending us becoming 51 but fear that some orange creature might take it that way. Anyway fafo as Charlie Angus keeps taunting. We might need to not overween that confidence, not enough people have done without anymore to understand how bad things can get, but it s really good to hear and believe that we do have leverage. I wish there were more Canada minutes and interviews with previous generations, make what they lived more accessible to today s folk. They seem enchanted with the past but they re veyr disconnected to it now. Those 60s movies and series with all the modern comforts are very misleading. But they ll have to fund their own courage. Lots of folks in Ukraine and Syria and Gaza can share what happens. But when your grandparents with their old wound scars and silences and habits and glazed eyes tell you of other times, it has a way of staying with you until it s needed in your own life. You grab the torch from them.
This is good stuff Bev! And I thank you! I find the current situations all over the world terrifying. I do feel a sense of relief on these pages. Your astute assessment of CBC’s “ two sides” mentality has been taken straight out of MAGA playbook. I wonder if it’s because in part that people are afraid to call out evil. Or in the alternative, they’re unable to actively identify evil when they see it. But either way, or indeed, any way, I am with you!
I think because Bev, most of our MSM is American owned. I have though noticed a definite right turn at CBC that I’m really not happy with. There are also moves toward authoritarianism world wide, and I think it affects all the news. But I also believe there is emerging a hard turn toward democracy. I cite the overturn in Hungary to democracy, the apparent coming fall of putin, the apparent coming fall of trump. We are I believe in a transition period in time. The year of the horse, dontcha know, is fast and furious. 😡 It does give me hope, as does PM Carney. Oh, sorry, back to your question - I think previous PM’s were afraid to anger US. And then we had Mulroney and Harper who were hand in glove with US presidents. Also we didn’t have one who was able to effectively think waaaaay outside the proverbial box. And perhaps it was also that lack of vision because of the convenience of dealing with US. Just my thoughts for what they’re worth. 🇨🇦
Patricia, I think your point about **convenience** may be one of the biggest pieces of this whole puzzle.
For decades, America was next door, wealthy, familiar and buying what we were selling.
Why look halfway around the world when your biggest customer was across the driveway?
The trouble came when convenience became **dependence... and dependence became leverage.**
Whatever happens politically in the U.S. or elsewhere, I think Canada has finally received the wake-up call...
Diversify our customers, understand the value of what we have, and stop assuming Washington will always be the friendly neighbour.
That lesson may turn out to be one of the best things to come from this whole mess.🍁
Thank you Fred! Super good analysis and food for thought as I always find it! The other very large piece in all this, and I think the biggest and most important piece, is the coming forward of Mark Carney to serve. I have visceral nightmares about what it would all look like had he not seen, and come forward. He is what has brought the light and the path forward. Think this is definitely a black heart 🖤 moment. Black for the current global atrocities, mostly to the south of us as most dangerous. But heart for our incredible good fortune to have the current world leader as our Canadian Prime Minister! 🫶 🇨🇦
PS I ve been devastated by CBC s perfidy and shallowness and despicable “ both sides” equating good and evil for a couple of decades now. It keeps getting more and more obvious I think but hardly anyone says so. And I am shocked that we still fund news media despite american or any other ownership and let them undermine everything they re supposed to be supporting. The Globe and Mail s editorial board disgusts me. I m quitting both them and the Star as my subscriptions run out this fall. The libraries no longer carry a good array of international objective press. certainly lack of funding is a factor here in Halifax. and I really wonder what s left. Evcen the Guardian is dismissive and erroneus about Canada when they even think of us.
SO thanks to Fred and the few others who seem to have an eye on things and a good conscience and a clear way of presenting information. We re missing that.
You’re waaaaay ahead of me on CBC Bev! It had been my go to radio station for a number of years - but mostly for the programming that I enjoyed. I hadn’t noticed what you did decades ago. I’m just very thankful for the emergence of Substack journalism, and journalists, like Fred! I’m also recently hearing that it’s now being compromised (who didn’t see that coming) by false and corrupt media. So I have certain ones I trust, and will continue to follow.
It helps that I carry a grudge for a really long time. When they split up the stations and cancelled the classical music programs and ruined Sunday mornings( and Saturdays) saying they were going to attract young listeners and I thought what about keeping old ones too. I did have another 30 years in me then and am still going. But my love of CBC formed from Gerussi and Gzowski, Frum and Clyde Glmour and most of all Allen McFee. Incomparable! I did keep listening to news programs but during the harper years they started to get really distorted and I had to give them up or go mad. Ethics just got a very different face. It came to the boil slowly and some things were still Ok and then they weren t.
You are funny my friend!
When they cancelled the classical music, it just wasn’t worth listening to CBC 2. But I did listen to CBC1. By then I’d retired and I had it on as I “did stuff.” Thankfully I hooked into Substack, and it’s taken over my life. Oh well. Get lots better info.
Patricia I love how you think. A lot of folk here on Fred's list make me feel like I m not entirely the alien I seem to be many other places.
It does kind of feel like we re facing some classic good and evil battles in the 21st Century. I m coward enough that I hope I dont have to be here for them but yes we do seem to be gaining hope again and there are more people building momentum. I hope they hold to the best beliefs and visions of those who built this country. well we re still bulding it. We need more First Nations recognized participation this time. They keep their eyes on the prize better than the money grubbers.
To answer your point about previous PMs, Trudeau pere was defintely an independent thinker and I remember thinking at the time of the Consitution, how quaint and old fashioned of him. With humility and gratitude, I ve been doing penance in recent years. And in characterizing us as the mouse sleeping with the elephant he reminded us we re still our own entity. Might be time for a new analogy though.
And I LOVE the way you think Bev. Perhaps a little bit of “like liking like.” But yes, it is encouraging to be in on the information and conversations here. Like you, I am somewhat relieved that my time here is limited. I just no longer have the energy to go to the ground on what most distresses me now. Also really liked your comments on Trudeau senior. I think he has been so undervalued. Well, and especially here in Alberta, HATED. The haters haven’t ever gotten over the NEP. But that’s how they think here - one thing becomes the whole. It’s the whole lack of critical thinking ability. So thank you much for the comments. I was just thinking that in addition to trump and co, and their machinations, serving to bring Canada together, that this site is also serving to assist that movement. 🫶🫶🫶🫶
It s really nice that the best journo in Canada right now is Max Fawcett. He tells it like it is, has a great sense of justice and is a terrific voice for both the country and Alberta. I wish he were better known and supported.
Although he s pretty prejudiced about Boomers and we ve had words there. Nobody s perfect.
Well this is just one of the reasons Trump wants to annex Canada. We are a resource-rich wonderland. We know what we have, he knows what we have, and he doesn't give a shit that this is our home.
Goose, the more I dig into this stuff, the more one thing becomes impossible to miss...
**Canada is sitting on one hell of a hand.**
Energy. Water. Critical minerals. Potash. Uranium. Timber. Hydroelectricity. Aluminum. And a whole lot more.
Whatever Trump’s ultimate motivation, his repeated 51st-state talk lands very differently once Canadians understand just how strategically valuable this country is.
Maybe the most important thing we can do right now is make damn sure Canadians understand what we have...
**and why it stays ours.**🍁
YEEEESSSSSSS! Thank you Fred! 🫶 🇨🇦
That's why this platform is so valuable right now. I share as much as I can.
You have to remember that dickhead Harper sold our major media outlets to the Americans. All we have is the CBC, and God only knows where they are on any given day, and the Canadian Press. We need to find our own streaming services and podcasts. I cannot begin to tell you how irate I get when I hear creepy PeePee supporters rave on and on about what a wonderful Prime Minister Harper was. I just want to scream…….. I do actually, scream that is!
Very good to know there are at least 2 of us!!!!
Something Alberta keeps ignoring re their offerings. I live here. UCP cancelled all green energy projects when Smith took office. Alberta lost 91 million dollars in tax revenue and over 33 BILLION dollars in investments along with a possible 24,000 jobs when she shut down the Renewable energy programs and industries.
The oil and gas industry has zero restrictions on it. They do not clean up their orphan wells. Be zen leaching into the soil. Tailings ponds leaking into Athabasca river and no one did anything about it despite knowing about it. UCP and Imperial knew. They also had a duty to inform the First Mations down river and they did not do so. Then there is the coal mining at Grassy Mountain whuch will leach Hugh levels of selenium into head waters that flow into Saskatchewan. It kills the fish and will impact farmers and ranchers equally causing degradation to food standards. All of these are environmental killers. They will also impact trade as other countries have high standards re what they will purchase. Degrading the quality of the produce will result in buyers going elsewhere. That as well affects ranchers and their cattle as selenium and coal dust and deposited by air flow from the mine via water and air. Selenium has a very harmful effect on cattle causing a hoof specific disease. Other provinces in acanada are offering the products Europe requires re their standards but Alberta’s products are all harmful and dirty and zero measures being taken to operate a « clean » environment. They cut pretty much all environmental assessments for all industries.
Kay, there’s enough in that comment for me to disappear down about six rabbit holes. 😄
But you’ve raised something that connects directly to this aluminum story...
**Environmental advantage is becoming economic advantage.**
Quebec’s hydro doesn’t just make Canadian aluminum cleaner... it helps make it competitive in markets increasingly concerned about the carbon and environmental footprint of what they buy.
That means environmental policy, energy policy and trade policy aren’t separate conversations anymore.
I want to dig into some of the Alberta examples and numbers you’ve raised before commenting on them as fact, because there’s a potential bigger story here...
**What happens when one province treats environmental standards as an obstacle while Canada's future customers increasingly treat them as a requirement?**
That one has my attention. Thanks, Kay.
Don’t forget the Rio Tinto aluminum producer in Kitimat BC.
Powered by the Kemano Hydroelectricity facility, it produces 420,000 tones annually.
I know we have 10 smelters and 9 of them are in Quebec, but with smelters on both coasts we can export easily east or west.
And thanks to European buyers we have enjoyed a 51% month over month jump in sales to Europe in May alone, reaching 850 million USD for just that single month. And prices bid reached record highs!
We should be patting ourselves on the back for that extremely quick pivot away from the USA.
Alexis, THIS is why I love the comments section.
You’ve added another important piece I should have included...
** Kitimat and the West Coast matter too.
** Canada isn’t simply sitting on a competitive aluminum industry; geographically, we’re well positioned to sell it in more than one direction.
And that May export jump is the part that really grabs me.
Canada didn’t spend years holding meetings about someday diversifying.
**The market changed and Canadian producers pivoted. Fast.**
That may be the biggest lesson here.
We spent decades thinking our greatest advantage was having the American market next door.
Maybe our greater advantage is finally realizing...
**there’s an entire world beyond it.**
And yes... that deserves a little Canadian back-patting. 🇨🇦🍁
What astounds me is the speed we are moving. I can’t think of a single time in my life where the Canadian government moved this fast on trade with any country!
Here’s hoping we keep it up!
An economic lesson worth listening to!
Thank you, Cornelia!
The more I dig into these stories, the more I realize Canada has a much stronger hand than many of us have been led to believe.
**We just need to understand the cards we’re holding.** 🍁
I'm American, and I'm tickled to death to see this. I hadn't thought of the power costs of refining aluminum, but our idiot has screwed himself coming and going on that: He's hell-bent on keeping out renewables, but he also has to prop up his buddies' data centers, which are sucking up energy like giant vacuums. Not enough Americans are hurting enough yet to get him out of the white house, but having yet another drain on our power grid might help get their attention.
I love Carney and all the great stuff he's doing. If I can't be happy with the idiots running *my* country, it's nice to be able to look north and get excited about the heroes running yours!
djw, I especially appreciate hearing this from an American.
And you spotted the part that fascinated me too: **electricity is becoming strategic infrastructure.**
Aluminum needs enormous amounts of it.
AI data centres need enormous amounts of it.
Manufacturing needs it.
Everybody wants more... but generating and delivering that power takes time.
That’s why Quebec hydro suddenly looks like a hell of a lot more than cheap electricity.
And thank you for the kind words about Canada and Carney.
I spend plenty of time criticizing what’s happening south of our border, but I never confuse the people running America with **Americans themselves.**
There are a lot of good neighbours down there watching this mess too.
You’re always welcome around this Canadian kitchen table. 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸
Why do we have local newspapers that don’t put out an article such as yours. They used to. Sad,
Stedman, that bothers me too.
Local newspapers used to have the staff, time and resources to dig into stories like this and explain **why they mattered to the people reading them.**
A lot of that capacity has disappeared.
And that leaves a pretty ugly information gap.
Maybe that’s one reason I’ve become so obsessed with digging these stories out.
Canadians shouldn’t have to be economists or trade experts to understand **what this country has going for it.**
If the old media isn’t going to tell enough of these stories anymore, some of us old buggers are just going to have to keep doing it. 😄
Yeahhhh, facts are such pesky things, aren’t they.
I understand the Europeans pay a premium price for our more ‘environmentally cleaner’ aluminium. Hopefully we’re charging Americans that premium price now.
AND WE JUST SOLD LOTS OF IT TO GERMANY. CANADIAN TECHOLOGY AND PRODUCTION VALUES MAKES OUR ALUMINUM THE BEST AND THE WORLD WANTS. WE DONT NEED AMERICA.
Oh, and Canada could stop sending electrical power to the US and see if anyone notices.
The irony of the 5 Hoover dam analogy is that the actual Hoover dam is about to run out of water.
Very timely. Also applies to other aspects: warplanes, critical industrial minerals, oil.
He is such a moron
I really wish we could have learned this lesson sooner, but better late than never.
Kalyrn, exactly.
We got comfortable because having the world’s biggest market next door was easy.
**Easy eventually became dependent.**
Trump may have taught Canada a brutally expensive lesson... but if we remember it this time, we’ll come out of this stronger than we went in. 🇨🇦🍁
Canada shifts aluminium exports to Europe:
https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/analysis-canada-turns-us-europe-iran-war-propels-aluminium/