Canada still benefits from low transportation costs with the US.
The advantage disappears as soon as you factor in the fact that the US determines how much our dollar is worth compared to theirs.
Sure open trade with the EU, or Asia, or Latin American could benefit us,
We have to supply a product they are not already getting, so far that is a blank piece of paper so the next option is to under-bid their current supplier. Latin America and south are 3rd world nations so the items they need to come up to the level the EU is at is an endless list. That is the trade we should be trying to get a monopoly on who supplies them. Rather than push what we have that they don't need we have them give us a list and we fill the items on it by using what we have and creating it if we don't.
That leaves the US to trade between States and that is fine as that is the cheapest way to fix the interior so it is good for another 100 years.
but not nearly as much as open trade with the US can.
Only if the terms are right. When they already own the corporations most of the profits already go to them so the price it is sold at means next to nothing.
Why? Well, is it cheaper to wheel a product from Seattle to Vancouver or ship it transpacific from Hong Kong to Vancouver.
Now factor how much it costs to make that product and if we can supply it at the same volume that China can. China would ship cheap ready made clothes to Latin America while Canada would ship hemp that is in twine form and the people in Latin America turn that into fabric and make their own high quality clothes for them and for us using Canadian made sewing robots.
Same with transatlantic trade.
Nobody in the EU is lacking things. The Mid-east will see a reconstruction boom but those contracts will be going to Russia and China and India, so will all of Africa.
We should trade with everyone,
We should but we can't and we aren't big enough that we can muscle into an existing market at a global level.
but let's not ignore natural geographical and demographic advantage.
That is all we have, we should be selling snowbirds property in the high Arctic that is still indoor living for the most part but the attraction is the lights in the sky that are always changing so they never get boring.
Plus, packaging and labeling is less expensive between countries with common languages too. All factors to consider.
Good reason for Canada to go single language is it not?? If it can be printed on the packaging it hardly maters if it is instructions or artwork.
Well don’t feel bad, it’s normal for people in asylums to have strokes of genius, after all, it’s a thin line between crazy and genius, so when you agree with my brilliant Posts that’s when you occasionally cross into the genius side.
Keep reading my Posts carefully and hopefully you will cross into the genius side with me more often eh
Or just stay away from him and be with geniuses all the time rather than his (self claimed) 'rare moments'.
