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2 hours ago, Yzermandius19 said:
That would be nice.
Actually, I don't think it has tariffs against other provinces, but it does have trade barriers of other kinds none the less. It should unilaterally drop those.
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On that note, I do think Ontario should unilaterally drop tariffs against other provinces.
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15 minutes ago, Yzermandius19 said:
Canadian provinces already have tariffs against other provinces, that's one of the biggest problems with confederation, a lack of internal trade, it not like America where no state tariffs the products of another other state, America is a free trade zone, Canada is not.
And so that would be the advantage of provincial jurisdiction in international trade. You tariff us, and we'll just drop tariffs against the world and trade with it instead.
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34 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:
We can’t undercut such low offshore wages. I don’t think it would matter how low our other input costs are.
Look at Hong Kong. Tariffs increase the cost of living which thus forces our wages up so we can survive. Free trade would reduce the cost of living which would thus make us more willing to work for lower wages while still maintaining the same standard of living. It's the tariffs themselves that are forcing our wages up.
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10 hours ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
Go for it....Canada is far more dependent on export trade to a single nation than is the United States. Canada is more dependent on exports than even China. Canada lacks sufficient market size and domestic capital resources to abandon trade and foreign direct investment with the United States.
Canada will never, ever win a full out trade war with the United States.
As for Harley-Davidson...Canada doesn't have one...or any domestically owned auto makes.
Who said anything about a trade war? I'm talking about unilateral global free trade.
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10 hours ago, Yzermandius19 said:
Simple, manufacturing and production would go up, because there would be no tariffs on any materials that manufacturers need to import to do that, which would reduce their cost of doing business, especially in relation to the competition located in foreign nations with higher tariffs on those same materials.
That's what happened to Harley Davidson. Trump raised tariffs on products that Harley Davidson depended on, so Harley started to relocate out of the US.
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10 hours ago, Zeitgeist said:
Under those conditions, why manufacture or produce anything? How would people be employed and paid? You need to explain that.
Simple. As more factories move to the US, the USD would rise relative to the CAD. It wouldn't take long before Canadians couldn't afford US products and Americans start willingly paying the tariffs for better-priced Canadian goods. The US would soon paint itself into a corner in its dependence on tariffs.
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11 hours ago, Yzermandius19 said:
Milton Friedman's Hong Kong sure rode that strategy to prosperity, despite being a desolate rock with no natural resources other than a natural harbor.
Don't see Canada adopting that policy though, if the Zombie Confederation ceases to be, perhaps Upper Canada without the baggage of the rest of Canada, would be more likely to adopt such a strategy.
But as long as Quebec remains a part of Canada, they will demand their supply management gulag be propped up by insanely high tariffs against their foreign competition, so that's a non-starter.Let me propose a radical solution to that. What if Ontario and Quebec and other provinces got together to propose a simple constitutional amendment to transfer international economic policy to the provinces. This would mean that provinces that want protectionism could have it while those that want free trade could have that. Each province could adopt its own foreign trade policy. This would include its own packaging and labeling, phytosanitary, banking, and other standards too.
Of course this would mean that a province could raise tariffs against other provinces too, but so be it. It would do so to its own economic peril and the other provinces would have no obligation to reciprocate the foolishness.
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1 minute ago, Yzermandius19 said:
Canadian tariffs hurt Canadians more than they do anyone else and American tariffs hurt Americans more than they do anyone else. Both sides would be wise to knock it off and come to their senses, but I wouldn't hold my breath on either side realizing that any time soon.
And even if one side chooses to remain foolish, that doesn't force the other side to act equally foolishly. If the US wants to maintain tariffs against Canada, so be it. Canada should just adopt unilateral free trade in tariffs and quotas and make the guarantee of its right to maintain that policy a condition of any trade agreement with any state. No trade agreement that Canada signs with one state should ever force Canada to raise tariffs or quotas against any state.
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54 minutes ago, Yzermandius19 said:
Canada should shoot itself in the foot if the US insists on shooting itself in the foot, yeah, would be nice if we just didn't shoot ourselves in the foot instead, not buying. Canada has more ridiculous tariffs on US goods than vice versa, Canada is in no position to pretend like they are the good guys in the trade relationship with America.
And the worst part is that Canadian tariffs hurt Canadians more than they do anyone else. If the US raises tariffs against Canada, Canada can always just sell to someone else. If Canada raises tariffs against foreign imports, Canadian consumers are trapped.
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A simple question. Trump's tariffs against Canada actually caused Harley Davidson to move some of its operations abroad and we can reasonably presume that they hurt other US industries that depended on imported materials too. Given that, why would Canada want to copy Trump's example?
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7 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:
Canada should not only maintain the tariffs but should NOT ratify USMCA, a shit deal for Canada. Hopefully the Dem controlled Congress doesn’t give Trump a happy dance over his extortionist trade deal. No trade deals until US steel and aluminum tariffs are removed!!!!
I actually agree that we shouldn't ratify the USMCA. Instead, we should show the US the proverbial finger and adopt a policy of unilateral global free trade in tariffs and quotas, and then return to the US to offer to negotiate a more comprehensive free-trade agreement beyond tariffs and quotas (like packaging and labeling, phytosanitary regulations, banking, etc.) if it wants to, but on the condition that any agreement must guarantee Canada's freedom to maintain unilateral global free trade. Should the US refuse to negotiate on that basis, then no-deal it is, and Canada satisfies itself with unilateral free trade in tariffs and quotas with the US.
If the US wants to raise tariffs against its own consumers (which has already hurt Harley Davidson, talk about backfiring, and that had nothing to do with Canada's tariffs against the US but rather with the US' own foolish tariffs against its own manufacturers who depended on materials imports), then that's its foolish prerogative. Just because Trump decides to shot US manufacturing in the foot with his tariffs, we don't have to follow suit and shoot ours in the foot with our own. Let Trump do what he'll do, and we'll do what we'll do.
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24 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
It's not about the impact on consumers....if that were the case, Canada would not have such a protectionist tariff scheme for dairy, poultry, etc., years before and regardless of Trump.
Are you saying that Canada's been shooting itself in the foot for years now already? I agree.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...iffs-1.5004736
Let me get this straight. The US raised tariffs against Canada and so essentially shot itself in the foot in the process. Well, we can't have that, so Canada retaliated by raising retaliatory tariffs and so essentially shot itself in the foot in retaliation.
Ontario and Quebec are now asking Ottawa to stop shooting Canada in the foot and Ottawa says it refuses to do that until the US stops shooting itself in the foot first since to do so would equal surrendering to the US. Did I miss anything here?
To be honest, even if Canada unilaterally dropped its tariffs against the US and the US didn't reciprocate, so what? Just because Trump is foolish enough to hurt US consumers doesn't mean Canada needs to act equally foolish so as to hurt Canadian consumers too. Let Trump do his thing, but Canada should focus on wise economic policy, not economic emotionalism.-
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21 hours ago, Argus said:
I figure that if it looks like she might actually be extradited she will simply disappear, get aboard a private jet at a little-used airport, and head back to China.
I doubt Beijing would tolerate that since it wants to save face by having Canada formally release her.
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I would support a free-trade agreement between Canada, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan on the condition that they all respect the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Beijing might be angry at this, but to not destroy Hong Kong's and Macao's economy with the rest of China's, it would probably begrugingly allow them to trade freely with Canada while trying to have Hong Kong resell mainland gooods. Fine, by all means. This would just make preserving human rights in Hong Kong more important than ever for China's own good. It might even motivate China to grant more human rights to residents of Shanghai too so that Shanghai could join such an agreement too. After all, Hong Kong's ports could handle only so much daily traffic.
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8 hours ago, Argus said:
China uses an organization called United Front to corrupt Canadian politicians, academics and industry, and uses its overseas diaspora to further its global agenda. And we let them.
The scene outside the offices of the Toronto public school board was raucous.
It was October 2014, and the board was planning to vote on a contract with the Confucius Institute, an organization affiliated with the education ministry of the government of China, which had offered its services to teach Mandarin to the city’s schoolchildren.
Critics decried the arrangement, calling the institute a propaganda or espionage arm of the Chinese state. But its supporters were out in force, scores of them, rallying noisily and waving Chinese flags in the heart of Canada’s biggest city.
“You are a damn traitor to China,” one of them shouted to an institute opponent of Chinese descent. “Down with traitors!”
Most of the Chinese-language media in Canada are now owned by businesses tied to Beijing, offering positive coverage of China, while Chinese-Canadian community groups have largely fallen under the sway of the “motherland,” Burton says.
In his own region, the Niagara Chinese Cultural Association was once dedicated to domestic causes and reaching out to the wider community, but now seems just as interested in cheering on a rising China, says Burton, a fluent Mandarin speaker. Both the Canadian and Chinese flags are raised at meetings today, and there was even discussion of adding the Chinese anthem, he says.
“An organization that once had another purpose has gradually been taken over to serve China’s national interest. Where United Front work becomes problematic is when it’s engaging persons of Chinese origin who have Canadian citizenship … to serve the interests of the motherland, when in fact the motherland should be Canada.”
Canada needs to build closer ties to Taiwan. They can provide qualified Mandarin teachers too but without the partisanship.
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On 1/24/2018 at 2:33 PM, Goddess said:
There are a lot of surveys and studies that agree with the "2/3 of rapes and assaults are unreported."
There are a variety of reasons why women don't "officially" report.
Case in point: the guy that molested 6 girls at the waterpark in Edmonton is currently on trial and so far it seems his excuse is going to be - "It wasn't me." Which now becomes a he said/she said thing.
All good points. It doesn't matter the sex of the aggressor or the victim: sexual assault is usually extremely difficult to prove beyond reasonable doubt. Even a rape kit test might prove nothing more than that sexual intercourse occurred, not whether either participant was willing or not.
If the victim knows there's now hard proof of uwilling participation, that's a strong incentive to just let it go. It doesn't make the experience any less traumatic though.
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11 hours ago, QuebecOverCanada said:
Legault is right.
Stop with the Haitians and Algerian influx and have real workers here rather than welfare parasites.
The Chinese are among the most employed in Canada.
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On 8/19/2018 at 9:51 AM, Argus said:
So the police launched a media campaign to warn women out drinking not to get too drink and wander out into the darkness alone, and to encourage their friends not to abandon them while they're drunk, and social media and indignant feminist groups are outraged at 'victim blaming'. Only the rapist is at fault, they say. Well, yes. On the other hand, do none of us have any responsibility to try and act responsibly in order to minimize the likelihood of being victims of violence?
Even as a man, I've tried to abstain from consuming alcohol and meeting strange women alone and especially in private and I'd advise any man to do the same. Does any man among you feel triggered by my recommendation?
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On 1/20/2019 at 4:16 PM, QuebecOverCanada said:
-I don't know what he says, but as long as he looks good.
Heard from a female student in Montréal, 2015, the year she voted for him.
Was that feminist member of the matriarchy lusting after Trudeau, objectifying him, thinking of him just as a sex object? Oh the toxic feminism!
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4 hours ago, betsy said:
Remember the influx of refugees from Syria? And, how Goodale and Trudeau assured us about the vetting process?
How do you explain this?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbsa-permanent-residency-error-1.4978765
How do you make mistakes as serious as this? When national security is involved - we can't afford any mistakes!
How many more "mistakes" are there that hasn't been discovered yet?
The Trudeau and Goodale must be held accountable! These two were the ones who'd open our borders despite concerns about the vetting process!
You've never dealt with the CBSA, have you? I have and among the ones I'd dealt with, at least a few were functionally illiterate in their language of work. It wouldn't surprise me if there are a few more like that embedded among their ranks.
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3 minutes ago, Boges said:
It's established that appealing to Anglo or Judeo-Christian heritage of a Candidate is frowned upon.
But what's good for the Goose is good for the Gander.
I absolutely agree. Like I said, I don't condone that Chinese candidate's comment and she should retract it.
I'm just saying that that Anglos (and Francos too by the way) are not immune from it either.
But I digress. Back to the OP: she should formally withdraw her comment or face the consequences. I as a voter would certainly reconsider voting for her for that comment.
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9 minutes ago, Boges said:
Cite context? Harper certainly broadened the ethnic "Big Tent" element of the CPC. Any attack that it's a party of angry white men is just an old Liberal mantra.
I lean conservative myself and I certainly reject any Candidate that appeals to his or her Chinese or any other ethnicity, but I include Anglo ethnocentricism in that too.
Ottawa says Ontario's call to drop retaliatory tariffs would mean 'surrender'
in Canada / United States Relations
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Let's not confuse nationalist politics with sound economics. Ontario has a massively populous market right on its southern border. In terms of transportation costs, etc., it makes more sense for Ontario to trade withNew York State than it does with British Columbia. In the same way, it makes more sense for BC to trade more with Washington State than with Ontario, given the comparative cost of transporation of goods. Tariffs distort that.