Dougie93

Plenty of social welfare being paid for, my effective marginal tax rate, federal, provincial, municipal, exceeds 50%, which is confiscatory.

Oh, spoke to soon. You don't have the courage of your convictions after all Without a Red Army, One World Government Kumbaya, is hung from the proverbial lampposts with ease. Thank goodness.

Thankfully the fate of the Zombie Confederation is entirely in the hands of the Americans. And they don't cotton that sort of thing round here.

World Socialist Revolution? Well at least you have the courage of your communist convictions. Good luck with that.

The flaw in your assertions is that globalization is not a scheme, it is simply the collapse of the Iron and Bamboo curtains opening the other half of the world up to trade. Skimming is just another word for profit. No scheme, just profiting from the collapse of artificial barriers. Canadian wannabe commies would like to try to construct their own Iron Curtain? Do what you want, we can't stop you from cutting your own throats, nor do we care to, because Canada is a Nothing Burger.

The purpose of a corporation is to make money for its shareholders. Nothing more. Not one thing more. As a corporate shareholder, I want my money, and I buy and sell as I please barring a declaration of war under the Hague Convention. Tariffs are irrelevant. Go ahead and tariff, doesn't stop us, doesn't even slow us down. It's not a barrier to trade its just another nanny police state tax on behalf of entrenched interests. If Canada cannot understand how that works, not my problem. /shrugs

Trade deals simply reduce tariffs and harmonize regulations, but there's no way of shielding Canada from trade with the second largest economy on earth, there's no relationship other than Canadians choose to buy Chinese made products and sell to the Chinese, despite the tariffs. Tariffs are just another form of tax, the government taxes the import, but the Chinese don't pay that, the Canadian consumer does when it gets passed through in the price.

There are no trade deals between Canada and China. These are the trade deals which Canada is signatory to; North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA Mexico United States 17 December 1992 1 January 1994[a] Canada–Israel Free Trade Agreement CIFTA Israel 31 July 1996 1 January 1997 Canada–Chile Free Trade Agreement CCFTA Chile 5 December 1996 5 July 1997 Canada–Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement CCRFTA Costa Rica 23 April 2001 1 November 2002 Canada–European Free Trade Association Free Trade Agreement CEFTA Iceland Liechtenstein Norway Switzerland 26 January 2008 1 July 2009 Canada–Peru Free Trade Agreement CPFTA Peru 29 May 2008 1 August 2009 Canada–Colombia Free Trade Agreement Colombia 21 November 2008 15 August 2011 Canada–Jordan Free Trade Agreement Jordan 28 June 2009 1 October 2012 Canada–Panama Free Trade Agreement Panama 14 May 2010 1 April 2013 Canada–Honduras Free Trade Agreement Honduras 5 November 2013 1 October 2014 Canada–Korea Free Trade Agreement CKFTA South Korea 11 March 2014 1 January 2015 Canada–Ukraine Free Trade Agreement CUFTA Ukraine 11 July 2016 1 August 2017 Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement CETA European Union 30 October 2016 21 September 2017 (provisional) Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership CPTPP, TPP-11 Australia Brunei Chile Japan Malaysia Mexico New Zealand Peru Singapore Vietnam

The incompetence of not being able to secure 4,000 miles of border with the CONUS? Exactly how do you suggest to close a border that long? With what? You're going to build a 4,000 mile Trump Wall?

Unless you are in China and/or transiting the China Seas, not really much the Chinese can do to you, their power projection capabilities are rather limited.

That's not the boonies. There's a Costco in Kingston.

Singapore is definitely my kinda thing, but I mostly eat European cheeses, I just pay the premium rather than eat Mangiacake cheese.

The only other technically Asian member of TPP is Singapore, but frankly, Singapore is more Western than the West is now.

Main difference being that the Asian TPP members; Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei; are China's adversaries.

If Canadian cheddar I prefer Balderson. Get it from Costco tho, when its on sale. You don't seem to understand what the TPP is tho, because China is not in the TPP, that's the whole point of TPP.

TPP is all to the good, down with the supply management cartels Although I'm not likely see any milk from new Zealand, if I could buy NZ milk I would, then just boycott Canadian milk mafia milk.

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At the same time Information worker jobs continue to move to Ontario, because OHIP provides catastrophic medical coverage which is a huge chunk of the cost of American information workers, and Western European information workers are even more expensive, so Ontario is a better deal for European multinationals particularly those doing business in America. Pretty simple; if you're an information worker, you are going to be fine, if you are an industrial labourer, Mexicans will be replacing you. Adapt accordingly.

Meanwhile due to Trump's trade war Chinese banks and companies are rapidly expanding their footprint in Mexico, along with the rest of the world, in order to bypass tariffs by offshoring to Mexico, to access the North American market, to include Canada, via USMCA.

There are no Canadian Values other than keep the Americans out, keep the French in, and keep the Indians down.

In constant dollars, manufacturing wages are actually lower in Mexico than they are in China, hence why offshoring switched to Monterrey, even the Chinese are offshoring jobs to Mexico.

Since Lucic and Ericksson are playing in the league and at least putting up some points, I would submit, the Karl Alzner contract is arguably the worst contract in the league now. If there's a worse NHL contract playing in AHL I'm not aware of it.

China is transitioning into a digital service economy, the idea of China being a low wage ghetto is out of date, most of their lower classes are actually peasants not industrial workers, most of their industrial workers endeavor to advance into the service economy. China is transitioning through all the stages of the twentieth century, just at fast forward speed. This is why Hauwei is so important to them, Foxconn is the past Hauwei is the future.

Trump is doing what he was elected to do, that's how elections work, trade war for the industrial workers of the rust belt and rein in international obligations.

Jesus was a businessman, fisherman by trade, all Jesus said is take care of the poor and don't rip people off.