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Aside from energy, the US actually has about a 50 billon trade surplus with Canada in goods and services.

Must admit, if you are going to pose with a beer, that was an odd choice.

It's so bloody complicated, Anheuser Busch is owed by InBev so it isn't even American anymore. Drink Sleemans, the Japanese own them.

The world is turning away from the US. https://www.reuters.com/%2Fmarkets%2Fglobal-markets-investors-analysis-2025-03-05%2F?utm_medium=paid&utm_source=meta&utm_campaign=traffic_channel%3Ameta_obj%3Apageviews&utm_term=subs_creative%3Aimage_name%3Amarkets&utm_id=120214912132090545&utm_content=120217993911380545&fbclid=IwY2xjawI_2aNleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqxmg6Nla0QEdoeKaRP1OHVeJ2lnw6auFSBrv9nBHyd6P8wrPrC73v1jiaXIArQWa8s25_aem_5E5QHDm2GsYalve_WmIvBw

And American carriers don’t want foreign carriers flying their domestic routes. Except within the EU, no country allows foreign carriers to fly their domestic routes. A big reason Western Canada has a cruise industry is because of cabotage. Almost all cruise ships are not registered in the US so aren’t allowed to go directly between US ports and have to originate or stop in Canada on their way to Alaska.

Where?

Negotiate what? US carriers don't want foreign airlines flying their domestic routes.

You can't fly Air Canada from JFK to MIA either. It's called cabotage. American cheese is shit. Their extra sharp cheddar barely qualifies as medium in Canada.

Yes it would have cost money. Customers wouldn't have known or cared, 90% of them knew nothing about cockpit doors and 75% probably still don't.

Really? It's their job to identify terrorist threats. What happened to the CIA and FBI? Airlines operated for 60 years without the need for hardened doors. Hindsight makes everyone a genius.

The federal government is responsible for security screening in the US. If you want to make airlines responsible you better be prepared to go through screening twice, once for the government and again for the airline. Back in the day we sometimes had cockpit open houses when passengers were free to come up a couple at a time on long day flights. Flight attendants hated it but it was interesting for us and informative for passengers. Aviation has had to adapt as new threats came along (hijacking, bombs etc). 9/11 was another one. I don't know how you could hold an airline responsible for not anticipating something that had never happened before nor can you be critical of passengers who would have had no idea the plan was to crash the aircraft into buildings.

It's not revenue neutral in BC. The NDP's first order of business when they gained power was to remove the requirement to be revenue neutral. Now it is just another wealth redistribution tax. Revenue neutral means an increase in one tax will be offset by decreases in other taxes.

A job worthy of his talents.

Typhoon and Rafale seem pretty evenly matched from a performance point of view, Gripen E would probably do OK air to air against other 4th and 4.5 gen fighters. It would have been neat to see an actual fly off between the three. None would match the F-35's stealth for strike. Two types would be more expensive but that's what we had before the F-18. Sabre/CF100. F101/F104.

Saudi's by a lot of their stuff from Europe as well as the US, it has a mixed fighter fleet of F-15's, Tornado's and Typhoons.

I think there well be large and small declines with the odd up day. We are headed for a recession and it might be world wide.

The high dollar is good for consumers but it's also the main reason their trade deficits are so high.

Amerca's biggest problem is its overvalued dollar. It can never be competitive in world manufacturing while that exists.

Building nukes is the easy part, you still need a way to get them to a defended target.