Okay, this is the last ignorant comment for which I will respond. The Trump tax cut in 2017 put $30k more in my pocket. Gasoline price for 91 octane in 2017 was less than $2. There were no wars! He has been in office three days and I filled up today. It was $2.90 per gallon, down over 25 cents in three days. Some hostages have been released and a cease fire in Gaza. That is pretty huge! Just like the US, those that don’t make money in Canada, hate Trump. He doesn’t believe in a free ride on other peoples money. I don’t care if you’re poor, life sucks! However to working American, thus far, Trump is awesome. Illegal aliens have all but stopped, Iran is thinking twice and the cartels in Mexico are waiting for Seal Team Six to pay a visit. MAGA is absolutely awesome and I highly suggest Canada get on the Trump train, contrary to what you have been told, America does not need you. There are many countries that want to take your place! The United States in the richest, most powerful country in the world and all the Canadian pride will not change that fact.
American needs Canadian resources....
No man is a island, same goes for countries.
You are so focused on making money, you forget about the little guy. The US was built by immigrants. The problem is the wealth of America is concentrated into the very few, who control the congress and senate to do their biding (less taxes for the rich). The main idea these day is the quick profit. Or it the buy and sell on the stock market. Its profit, profit, profit, now, now, now. There are no long term investments for people today because of Profit, Profit, Profit....
There is a line in an Eagles song "raped the land". In the book Collapse by Jared Diamond he talks about the gold mining done in Colorado. Companies from NY started gold mines, mined the gold and left toxic waste dumps behind. Hid the profits in shell companies. The state of Colorado was left with the cleanup bill. The taxpayers. In Ontario there is a Aboriginal reservation that has to have water trucked in, because the nearby sources of water (lakes) are contaminated with mercury from a British company working in Ontario. Again taxpayers have to pick up the bill.
So there is a need for pollution controls.
The most powerful country in the world today is China. The US is afraid of China because they have lost 1st place, and are now in 2nd place...The US is not a great power anymore, it is a hollow representation of itself. Look at its politics for the last 40 years. The US has barged into countries, has set up dictatorships in countries and when these countries threw them out, the US uses its influence to cut trade with these countries. Also lets talk about drone strikes in foreign countries, and this is why the is Muslim extremists blowing shit up in Europe and in America. Meanwhile China is investing in these countries that the US doesn't want to industrialize.
US Corporation have moved most of their manufacturing to China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia for the cheaper labor costs and material cost. American corporations don't believe in investing in their fellow Americans.
Look at Amazon, it is shutting down its Quebec plant, because it unionized.
When the going gets tough, the rich just move to another place. Since the earth is getting polluted, why not move to the moon, mars, asteriod belts etc ....