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Again, this presupposes that all trade deficits are the result of cheating somehow. So let's look at Canada. Its trade surpluses with the US are, as everyone knows, because we sell them a lot of oil. And we actually sell it at below world prices! Somehow, this is cheating. But if Canada says "Okay, we'll build another couple of pipelines to the coast and ship all our oil to someone else so we no longer have any trade surpluses with you" the US would then go "No way! I'm putting even higher tariffs on you for refusing to sell us your oil!" Explain to me the logic, never mind fairness in that?

Canada's moronic dairy supply management system was part of the last trade negotiations with the US and the US agreed to ignore it in exchange for Canada giving way on other trade items.

No, it's not. This is taking from the working class and giving to the rich. The idea, as I understand it, is to have more taxes paid by those who import stuff thus lowering income taxes. Income taxes are disproportionately paid by the rich. Any cut to income taxes thus disproportionately benefit the rich. Now the rich do import goods, but the cost is largely a big 'meh' to them. And the great mass of imports is cheap stuff made in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Mexico, etc. Cheap toys, tools, cars, appliances, etc. The tariffs are going to hit all of that and will be no 'meh' to the working class or even the middle class. If you slap a 50% tax on something that's not, as Liesman said on CNBC going to discourage purchase, it's basically shutting down that trade. That will mean more products are made in the US, but they will cost more. Not just because it costs more to make things in the US but because American companies will be able to largely ignore foreign competition. Historically, see how crappy US cars were until Japanese and then German cars began to export to the US. People were amazed at how they actually worked and didn't need constant repairs and lasted so long. So Americans will have to pay more for their toys, their cars, their dishes, their appliances, computers, cell phones, clothing, hell, even their plastic trash cans. The rich won't care. The drop in their taxes will more than make up for it. Not so for the working classes.

Sooo, none of the above is remotely true. I watched Steve Liesman on CNBC this morning trying to figure out where the Trumpsties came up with these numbers. Apparently, what they did was to take any country with a trade surplus with the US, deduct US exports to that country, and the resulting figure becomes their 'tariff rate against the US. For example, if US exports to X are 100b but it only imports 50b then they say X has a 50% tariff on America, and so slap a 25% tariff back on that country. It simply assumes that all surpluses others have are the result of cheating in some way, and so must be punished. BUT... it ignores US trade surpluses in services. The US often has very large trade surpluses in services due to its megacap tech companies. The Trumpsties complete ignore that. Also, if the US actually already has a trade surplus or no deficit with a country then it slaps a flat 10% tariff on them.

Winning!

Well, I was a kid when I was watching Beachcombers. And in those days it passed for decent TV as far as I was concerned. But I can't for the life of me think of anything else I've watched on that network since then aside from the occasional hockey game. And they don't even have that anymore. What in the hell are we paying a billion and a half dollars a year for?

These are kids shows. Except Peaky Blinders and Monty Python, which are British.

Dude, you're views aren't relevant to ordinary people at all. And given you and your ilk have been doing nothing but spewing hatred of Canada for years you're hardly one to call anyone a traitor.

It was a good show. And the last episode aired thirty-four years ago. How sad is it that this was the last program you (or I) liked?

No. There's a huge difference between conservatives having some small doubts in something like gay marriage, say, and third-world people thinking gays themselves should be criminalized. I remember seeing a poll taken of Muslims in the UK not that long ago and 100% felt that homosexuality was morally inexcusable. A third wanted it criminalized. You get the difference?

The CBC is the urban university crowd's view of Canada. Which is why nobody watches it. Hell, not even they watch it. Australia has about the same population as English Canada and they have had many fine programs there that sell internationally. Honestly, I literally couldn't imagine the CBC trying to do something like Sea Patrol. Have they ever even done an actual modern cop show on the CBC?

Your excitement is premature. Nothing has been cleared with regulators. And there is absolutely no sign a Carney government has any intention of easing regulations. The real polarization is between the Left-wing extremists who hate Canada and the rest of the people.

Remind me of how much extra Ontario contributes to the federal fisc than it receives - as compared to Alberta. If Alberta were to separate, equalization payments to Quebec would pretty much stop. What happens to separatist sentiments in Quebec then? They're only here for the money, after all.

I remind you that the majority of people in many of our bigger cities are now foreign-born. In less than 15 years more than half the country will be foreign-born. And we have been telling them for decades to not adapt, to not integrate, that Canada is a terrible country on stolen 'occupied' land that committed genocide and is irredeemably racist to the core. And many would have gone to the US if they could have gotten in.

Or devolve. Wonder how long it will take when foreigners are the majority for all the most precious leftist demands to fall by the wayside. Abortion? Not allowed. Women's equality? LOL. Forget that! Gay rights? Nope. The cultures you are flooding the country with are extremely religious and socially conservative. They despise your beliefs.