Everyone forgets that Canada spent 1/10th of the 20th Century at war with Germany and half of that guarding a border with a neutral neighbour.
Will Tump Tear up NAFTA???
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Everyone forgets that Canada spent 1/10th of the 20th Century at war with Germany and half of that guarding a border with a neutral neighbour.
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I would say Justin is pretty much a world wide laughing stock and has been ever since he said all refuges are perfectly welcome to bunk down here.
Canada talks tough on trade as endgame on NAFTA talks nears
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...as-endgame-on-nafta-talks-nears-idUSKBN1F01Y1
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...as-endgame-on-nafta-talks-nears-idUSKBN1F01Y1
According to one pundit on the Global News tonight, it's not going to make a hell of lot of difference to Canada either way...............like 1%.
I've got to thinking if Trump wants to be a prick about it, it could likely be more skin off his ass than ours! We have the natural resources that they are pretty much out of.
He slapped a major tariff on our softwood lumber just before a series of devastating hurricanes, wildfires, mudslides, tornados hit the US. They don't produce anywhere near enough lumber to re-build all of that. The Canadian producers are probably exporting at close to the usual rate anyway and the tariff is a tax grab targeting already hit flood, etc. victims.
I would be more on board if the Libs. would stick to an economic deal, not playing hardball on protecting Quebec's interests, and not try ramming a Social clause into the deal.
NAFTA talks that were supposed to end last year might continue into 2019
Talks aimed at reaching a new trade agreement involving the United States, Canada and Mexico are expected to continue for months beyond a March 31 deadline and could even extend into next year, according to industry executives and others close to the negotiations.
The delay means that the contentious three-way bargaining �� involving lucrative markets and issues of national sovereignty �� may collide with elections later this year in both Mexico and the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/?wpisrc=al_world__alert-world--alert-politics&wpmk=1
Talks aimed at reaching a new trade agreement involving the United States, Canada and Mexico are expected to continue for months beyond a March 31 deadline and could even extend into next year, according to industry executives and others close to the negotiations.
The delay means that the contentious three-way bargaining �� involving lucrative markets and issues of national sovereignty �� may collide with elections later this year in both Mexico and the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/?wpisrc=al_world__alert-world--alert-politics&wpmk=1
Had Canada been smart about it, it would have imposed an equivalent export tariff on lumber and presented it as a friendly gesture to the US so that the US would no longer need to impose such tariffs.
Trump will end up signing it. He's just playing a little "hardball". Justin has pretty well made it clear he will sign anything.
If Trump drops NAFTA/FTA will Eastern Canada lose out on access to I90 because Ontario is so f-cked they can't afford to improve The Trans Canada from it's 1960s origins?
TPP is going to rely on US highways and rail for Eastern Canada to benefit.
TPP is going to rely on US highways and rail for Eastern Canada to benefit.
The demand for softwood lumber has skyrocketed since the major disaster damage in the US last year and I don't know if the sales HAVE been reduced. There aren't enough trees in Oregon.