As the title entails, nationalize steel and Aluminum production. Why?
The high cost of these materials which should be dirt cheap, because the technology is old. Cheaper price steel of quality, would mean cheaper highrises and lower cost of apartment buildings. (please don't mix up cheaper prices with cheap knock-off crapy materials). The idea would be that anything using steel or aluminum, has to be built in Canada. Mined, manufactured and then constructed by Canadians.
Wood is too expensive to build buildings especially those 4 story apartment buildings. Look at the cost of a 2 X 4, it doubled during covid and with inflation its still very high at over 8.00/board or more (depending on size of board).
This would create more manufacturing jobs in Canada.
If you limit the amount of steel for importing, it creates jobs for Canadians.... Canada is still a raw material producing country.
The prime reason I chose this subject was because a few years ago, the construction of the Johnson street bridge in Victoria was delayed waiting for cheaper Chinese steel, who usually imports raw iron from Australia. Why weren't Canadians making their own steel? Too expensive, being under sold by other countries. What is good for one company building a bridge or building, in term s of money, is not good for the Canadian economy as a whole because of the lack of jobs in the heavy manufacturing. Trains, planes and automobiles.... The Ontario economy basically collapsed over night in the 80s-90s over the fall of the auto-pac (manufacturing cars in Ontario- when the jobs went to Mexico). Canada biggest challenges ahead comes in terms of Transportation (whether that is Electric or hydrogen fueled). For high density areas, subways and rapid transit are the key. Also highspeed trains between Canadian cities, instead of airplanes burning fossil fuels.
One thing Canadians are very bad at doing is planning for the future, while they maximize their profits and spend their money outside of Canada.
Seems drastic to national steel and aluminum production, but it will keep the heavy manufacturing in Canada (increases local economies too).
One thing is steel or aluminum can be stored in freezing conditions in buildings that do not need to be heated. One of the greatest things that business is doing is limiting the number of items, due to having to store things at room temperature. This creates a demand for items as they are scarce, and thus increase the price of individual items, leading to inflation. Inflation we are all feeling due to lack of items on stores walls.
Manufacturing is slowly going from moulded/machined items to 3D printed items, which can vastly lower the cost of production due to limiting the number of steps in production.
Steel is used in ships, cars, trucks, cement, buildings (highrises) for strength and durability. Aluminums is used too, but mostly because it is lighter than steel. The thing that probally pisses me off the most is the high cost of bolts or screws, when they are dirt cheap to produce, so why are they so very fucken expensive.
Thoughts?
The high cost of these materials which should be dirt cheap, because the technology is old. Cheaper price steel of quality, would mean cheaper highrises and lower cost of apartment buildings. (please don't mix up cheaper prices with cheap knock-off crapy materials). The idea would be that anything using steel or aluminum, has to be built in Canada. Mined, manufactured and then constructed by Canadians.
Wood is too expensive to build buildings especially those 4 story apartment buildings. Look at the cost of a 2 X 4, it doubled during covid and with inflation its still very high at over 8.00/board or more (depending on size of board).
This would create more manufacturing jobs in Canada.
If you limit the amount of steel for importing, it creates jobs for Canadians.... Canada is still a raw material producing country.
The prime reason I chose this subject was because a few years ago, the construction of the Johnson street bridge in Victoria was delayed waiting for cheaper Chinese steel, who usually imports raw iron from Australia. Why weren't Canadians making their own steel? Too expensive, being under sold by other countries. What is good for one company building a bridge or building, in term s of money, is not good for the Canadian economy as a whole because of the lack of jobs in the heavy manufacturing. Trains, planes and automobiles.... The Ontario economy basically collapsed over night in the 80s-90s over the fall of the auto-pac (manufacturing cars in Ontario- when the jobs went to Mexico). Canada biggest challenges ahead comes in terms of Transportation (whether that is Electric or hydrogen fueled). For high density areas, subways and rapid transit are the key. Also highspeed trains between Canadian cities, instead of airplanes burning fossil fuels.
One thing Canadians are very bad at doing is planning for the future, while they maximize their profits and spend their money outside of Canada.
Seems drastic to national steel and aluminum production, but it will keep the heavy manufacturing in Canada (increases local economies too).
One thing is steel or aluminum can be stored in freezing conditions in buildings that do not need to be heated. One of the greatest things that business is doing is limiting the number of items, due to having to store things at room temperature. This creates a demand for items as they are scarce, and thus increase the price of individual items, leading to inflation. Inflation we are all feeling due to lack of items on stores walls.
Manufacturing is slowly going from moulded/machined items to 3D printed items, which can vastly lower the cost of production due to limiting the number of steps in production.
Steel is used in ships, cars, trucks, cement, buildings (highrises) for strength and durability. Aluminums is used too, but mostly because it is lighter than steel. The thing that probally pisses me off the most is the high cost of bolts or screws, when they are dirt cheap to produce, so why are they so very fucken expensive.
Thoughts?
