How about a referendum to drop out of the NAFTA next year, would you vote for or against it?
NAFTA goes hand in hand with increasing the foreign ownership and corporatism we see in Canada, and contributes to the trend we're seeing where Canada basically sells off its natural resources wholesale and makes fewer genuine products of its own. I don't want any of those trends to continue. Maybe it puts us 'ahead' in terms of numbers, but I don't see it contributing much to developing our society.
Free trade didn't damage the logging industry in BC - it destroyed it. The BC owned corporations are gone, replaced by US behemoths. It was never about competing - it was about destroying an industry, and picking up the pieces on the cheap.
It's Time Canadian took our country back and kicked out our corporate overlords.
Our water gets sent south to get bottled and sold back to us at a higher price.
Our raw logs get sent east to get processed and turned into products which are sold back to us at a higher price.
Our oil gets dredged from the ground to be made into gas which gets sold back to us at a higher price.
Our minerals get shipped all over the place for the same reason: So that other countries can use what we have and sell it back to us in the form of finished, and often cheaply made products for us to consume.
We should be training and employing people here to make those things ourselves. It would keep more jobs and skills inside the country instead of favouring cheap labour elsewhere. It may not look like a big deal now, but we're going to need to learn how to live more locally in the future whether we want to or not.
SICE: Trade Agreements: North American Free Trade Agreement
When America sends us their immigrants, they are not sending their best, the ones that are coming are loud, obnoxious, fat, arrogant, steal our resources, get uncontrollably drunk on real beer with 6.1% alcohol.
Canada should build a wall on our southern border and have those bloody Yanks pay for it.
If Trump gets in he will tear up the agreement for us, Boomer. He might even build a wall, in which case, the US indeed would be paying for it.
As for your other remarks.
America does not
send us their immigrants - Canada decides who will and who will not be welcomed to our country - not the US. I know a few American ex-pats around here and to a person they are good, decent, friendly folks who are truly thankful to be living in Canada. They are great neighbors and quickly became a part of our community.
I think you either need to stop hanging out in places where you run across the types you mention above, or get some new friends.
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