Any time you order from Amazon...most of the stuff is made in China
When Cargojet flight 1392 touched down in Hamilton on Saturday it brought with it millions of badly needed N95 respirator masks to help in the fight against COVID-19.
The Boeing 767 was the third delivery of critical supplies arriving under a made-for-Canada plan set up with the help of diplomats and consultants in China, a warehouse in Shanghai, and two of Canada's airlines.
The plan was born out of urgency. With the global market for medical supplies overwhelmed by chaos and acts of piracy, Canada needed to take some of the risk out of securing everything from badly needed medical masks to gowns to gloves.
Federal bureaucrats and political staff handling procurement of medical supplies were frustrated by deliveries showing up late. Unreliable and profiteering brokers were driving prices through the roof. Rival countries were buying shipments out from under each other...…...More
So Canada is receiving PPE from China?
We dont want the cancer causing and repetitive stress or just dangerous to begin with jobs back, do we? How much manufacturing is now robotic or batch products?Start buying Made in Canada or Made in The USA!!
Bring our jobs home.
Not without our permission, anyhow."Assembled in Canada" is more likely than "Made in Canada".
The only way to beat Shenzhen is build a bigger more efficient Shenzhen in North America.......
Or there is another option. Air raids on Shenzhen.
That ain't gonna happen.
Shop class , how droll , and 19th century.Another option is to teach Nor Am kids in kindergarten how to solder.
Too masculine and feminine for today's whatevers.Shop class , how droll , and 19th century.
So Canada is receiving PPE from China?
Yes and no. One of the major catalysts for the move to offshore all that manufacturing were the new investor protection laws that were brought in after the ENRON fiasco. The law stated that publicly traded companies had a legal responsibility to shareholders to keep the profits up. So by moving manufacturing offshore to places they could pay 1/10th the wage they do in NA they were merely "obeying the law". I hope you also read my response with the cynicism that was intended. I'm not defending the move, just explaining it.I'd love for all Canadian made products.
I'd love to not have "Buy China" or "Buy USA" as an option.
So here's the question then for all those who would rather not buy China or anywhere else...
Are you willing to pay the increased prices for things made in Canada? Cause that's what will happen. You know all those rules and regulations we have that the corporate doesn't like? That's one reason they go to China;
There is also the near total lack of environmental rules in these places. They cost megabucks to adhere to.Yes and no. One of the major catalysts for the move to offshore all that manufacturing were the new investor protection laws that were brought in after the ENRON fiasco. The law stated that publicly traded companies had a legal responsibility to shareholders to keep the profits up. So by moving manufacturing offshore to places they could pay 1/10th the wage they do in NA they were merely "obeying the law". I hope you also read my response with the cynicism that was intended. I'm not defending the move, just explaining it.
However, as China's prosperity increases so do the wages. There's already been a slow move on businesses leaving China for places like Vietnam, Bangladesh, and other potential third and developing world locations in Asia because they can pay less in wages while still being within to the massive Asian market.