Will Tump Tear up NAFTA???

Legalist

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More bureaucrats , good for liberal votes . What's the problem ?
Maybe, maybe not...depends on how it impacts on the economy.
Hard to think the loss of NAFTA would impact favourably on the economy & therefore the governing party unless there is an
overwhelming dislike for the American President and his action. Certainly if I was running the next campaign, that's exactly where I would lay the blame.
 

Ocean Breeze

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Free-trade policies boost abortions, infertility and abuse, White House document says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-econ%2Bpolitics%2Bnation&wpmk=1


"white house " document??? Would like to see some hard FACTS if this is so.


Or more fake stuff released to muddy the situation and make the discussions more challenging??


Don't think that the US is all that REASONABLE in these negotiations......... as their demands are extreme and aggressive.
 

MHz

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I'm pretty sure in the discussion stage of a topic things that are rumors or leads are part of the things on the table that needs to be discussed a bit deeper than 'should they be on the table at all'.

Define 'situation'.

How about all of Wall St and Washington DC are arrested waiting various charges at the UN Courts building and the charges are outlined in this detailed reports from Mossad. Guilty plea means you get a homestead in Wyoming and the fines will be distributed by the UN Bank, aka World Bank with a dress on.

How do you like 'living the dream' so far??
 

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Free-trade policies boost abortions, infertility and abuse, White House document says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-econ%2Bpolitics%2Bnation&wpmk=1

"white house " document??? Would like to see some hard FACTS if this is so.

Or more fake stuff released to muddy the situation and make the discussions more challenging??

Don't think that the US is all that REASONABLE in these negotiations......... as their demands are extreme and aggressive.

Much better!
 

MHz

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https://www.thestar.com/opinion/com...tential-end-is-a-wake-up-call-for-canada.html
NAFTA’s potential end is a wake-up call for Canada

‘Instead of trying to please an ambivalent neighbour, it is time for Canada to seek more new friends on the world stage.’




We sold a division to Airbus but where are the mega deals with Mexico? Enough softwood lumber to build a fence. Can't be helped if the built houses instead. The material was delivered on time and the right location. It's loony toons time again.


Venezuela could use Canadian oil workers for the next 20 years, all of them and their wives also. Then there is the fleet of steam-boats needed to move all that stuff back and forth. Etc, etc, etc.

Much better!
You too, the only thing you left out was the 'contribution'. You guys think the middleman options can be used everywhere all the time. lol in your face.
 

Murphy

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...You too, the only thing you left out was the 'contribution'. You guys think the middleman options can be used everywhere all the time. lol in your face.

You need a spanking. :lol: The upside is that at least some of your cites aren't from woo-believer or 'out there' sources. Let the thread continue.
 

Ocean Breeze

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Instead of trying to please an ambivalent neighbour, it is time for Canada to seek more new friends on the world stage.’

agree but it should be working both : the petulant neighbor AND the rest of the world. Co dependency should be changed to inter dependency. It should never be a binary change.
 

MHz

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Closer is lower shipping charges. Would Canada abandon Canola for hemp bales being sent to Mexico, as much as Sask can grow in a season? The cheaper hand labor down there still results in clothes that are long wearing and jeans that are almost bullet-proof they are so durable.

We start producing batteries at Ft Mac using the asphalt material that is basically heavy tar so it is cheaper to make the complete product there and the shipping out is a finished product that is in demand worldwide.

South America is the only place left that isn't already being serviced by somebody. We should aspire to connect everybody in both America's at a level where we could chat with somebody from anyplace and the built in translation would be used to make that happen. We can assume all the cities are slums and bringing them up to standard would be at the top of the list. Rural places would get off the grid hardware that allows for the basic shelter and broadband ready using the equipment drilling rigs use today. Rural places could be covered in a year and the city in 5 years as moving it might be easier than repair. Built to 21 century specs means it's good for 200 years before major repairs are needed
 

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I wish salsa on his lap. Much though, I am flyer of avro cars. Avro is hobby by me. I negotiate my pants for filling. She sews seam rows in the seam shop. Why are you not eeling?
 

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Looks like Trump may win on NAFTA as well

Some Canada firms could move to U.S. amid NAFTA worries: survey

Around six percent of Canadian firms could move part of their operations to the United States amid uncertainty over the future of the NAFTA trade pact, the nation's export credit agency said on Friday.

The semi-annual forecast by Export Development Canada reflects the challenges posed by the more isolationist approach to trade of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
Canada sends 75 percent of all goods exports to the United States and could be badly hit if Washington walks away from the North American Free Trade Agreement. One way to cushion the potential blow is to set up shop in the United States.
EDC said 23 percent of the 1,002 firms surveyed said the uncertainty over NAFTA was having a negative impact.
About one-quarter of those firms, or six percent of all respondents, "indicated that they are moving - or are considering moving - part of their operations inside the U.S. border in response to the elevated uncertainty regarding U.S. trade policy", EDC said.
Talks to modernize the treaty have so far failed to resolve major differences between the United States on one hand and Canada and Mexico on the other.
The survey of 1,000 firms from Oct. 2 to Oct. 25 found 23 percent of respondents said the NAFTA talks were hitting their Canadian operations. The same percentage said they were trying to diversity their exports to new markets, with the focus on the European Union and China.
Despite the tensions, the vast majority of exporters expected overall conditions to remain the same or improve over the next six months, with little change in new orders from U.S. customers.
"Trade confidence is holding steady ... we can only imagine what it would look like without the NAFTA uncertainty," EDC chief economist Peter Hall said in a commentary.
(Export agency corrects percentage in first paragraph, percentages in 4th paragraph, adds subset data in fifth paragraph)

(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by David Gregorio)
 

Angstrom

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Nor is the opposite true. We think that the USA is a benign neighbour but that is only true until we disagree on something fundamental.

Thsts called reality. Something our communist members have a hard time grasping

They call it power politics. And after our China lesson maybe Trudeau is going to start clueing in