That's why trade diversity is key! I am not sure why the leadership in this country always considered the Americans as their "brothers with different moms" and blindly followed and supported the US policy in all aspects. Though the US did so many things to weaken this country's technological & military advancement by subversion! It started with the Avro fighter jet, then Nortel Networks...Blackberry... etc. and the list goes on! When we tried to build a new pipeline to export oil/gas to the Asia market, they used professional protesters to intervene the development under the "bad for the environment" excuse. In the meantime, we continue to send the oil & gas down south at rock bottom price and depending on them to export the rest which they get another cut from our profits! Why can't people see through all these? Now that Orange man subjected us to 35% tariffs, calling us Canadians nasty and names that we finally woke up! We should have waken up a LONG TIME ago!!! I for one, never trusted the Americans one bit and quite frank, I have been avoiding using products or companies associated with the US in the past 5 years. Canadian, European & Asian companies are my choices even though the cost for me is higher and I make less profit! As Canadians and a nation, we SHOULD boycott all US products, companies, stop vacationing in the US, or cross border shopping. We should have our own independent foreign policy as a sovereign nation (or else we will become the 51st State) and we should put Canadian and Canada FIRST! Diversify your market to different parts of the world and stop exporting to the US. Let's see if they still have the oil and gas to fuel their military hegemony, hydro to keep the lights on, uranium to keep the nuclear reactor running, potash to grow their disguising DNA modified food and steel to make their trucks and cars. Don't just sing the Canadian national anthem, do something realistic and meaningful to help and unify this great country and fight the Yankee to the last Canadian!
The problem is the people that own companies in Canada, don't want competition. They canvass MP and Senator to control the economy, through government handouts. I won't say that civil servants do own stocks in those companies... This is another unseen problem with our economy. Canadian policy is to be ethical, but reality sets in.
What Canada really needs to promote is self reliability.
-Food within 50 miles
-Canadian products for steel, clothing, vehicles, ships, heavy industry (big dump trucks and machines)
-Canadian sourced material to build things.
-winter greenhouse for food in winter. In WW2 landplots got bigger to encouage people to grow vegatables for their own use, as other production went to war time material (including food). Today land plots get smaller to rely on grocery stores and mass profits for contractors.
-limit profits to under 7%
-Decrease supply chain
Some thoughts on:
-kill monopolies on food, drugs, computers technology
-Charge superstores (Walmart, superstore, costco, home depot,etc) 15% tax
-ignore patent rights for certain industries. If you can copy it, copy it.
-Higher tax rate over 200,000.00 a year. max out at 50%. 1% per every 100,000.00 after 200,000.00
-2 house capital gains free for married people.
Still there is a need to have safe products, so jail time for people selling toxic products.
Tougher laws against financial fraud. Bring back the chain gangs....
Need some super-projects:
More Dams - BC Alberta, NWT
More Nuclear Plants
Wind Farms and Solar farms
High speed passenger trains between major cities.
Oil pipelines and refineries
Water pipelines (desalinated water from oceans) for fresh water lakes or dry areas of Canada. Look at the American Southwest states who have a water problem due to shortage of water at Lake Mead. Been in a drought since 2010.
