The Decline of Free-Trade?

[Michael Hardner]

11 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

1. Global consciousness? They dumped on fossil fuels Mike. The send millions of jobs to India, China, anywhere that slave labour is ok. They literally siphoned wealth out of our nation. They should be put in fcking jail!

2. Where does outsourcing create jobs for Canadians?

3. So dispense with the globalist ideas at the government level and incentivise bringing jobs back.

4. Mike...everything is tougher HERE! We allowed our wealth to be siphoned out. Everything built by our forefathers...hollowed out.

1. Yes.

2. Because lower tariffs allow us to export more goods and products.

3. The government would have to subsidize that right?  

4. But our GDP is many multitudes higher?

[Aristides]

BREXIT was a perfect example of the perils of falling for jingo bullshit  populism. Trump is another. Will we learn? Who knows, as the man said, the only thing we have learned from history is that we don't learn from history.

[eyeball]

2 hours ago, Nationalist said:

The send millions of jobs to India, China, anywhere that slave labour is ok. They literally siphoned wealth out of our nation.

You're sure your not a lefty still?

2 hours ago, Nationalist said:

We allowed our wealth to be siphoned out. Everything built by our forefathers...hollowed out.

Who's this we you're talking about?  Are you completely oblivious to how supportive right wing conservatives were when the world was pushed in this direction?

Now look at you.

7 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Huh? Is that a joke?

You tell me.

[Nationalist]

On 3/24/2025 at 9:03 PM, Michael Hardner said:

1. Yes.

2. Because lower tariffs allow us to export more goods and products.

3. The government would have to subsidize that right?  

4. But our GDP is many multitudes higher?

I find it disheartening to know that you, or anyone, is willing to gut our workforce for t-shirts at Wallymart.

Edited March 27 by Nationalist

[Michael Hardner]

46 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

I find it disheartening to know that you, or anyone, is willing to gut our workforce for t-shirts at Wallymart.

The idea that jobs must be protected over general prosperity has not been embraced by any federal party since Ed Broadbent.  I used to think this, and trust me I do empathize and admire the humanism at the heart of this but the basic math says that some work is best done elsewhere.

Of course, it's commerce so greed is involved and other factors like national security but specialization is a general rule of thumb that provides goods and services most efficiently.  Any humane country should cushion the impacts of reallocation, and displacement and you can see that Canada has been far better at this than the USA.

[herbie]

On 3/24/2025 at 6:18 PM, Aristides said:

BREXIT was a perfect example of the perils of falling for jingo bullshit  populism.

and now Canadians can too!

Guess my choice of new car will be much easier now I can eliminate any US built models. That Mitsubishi is looking better day by day