'Economic destiny'
"This will be an incredibly exciting time as we take control of our economic destiny to create a new Canadian economy," Carney said.
To this end, he promised to abolish existing trade barriers between Canadian provinces by July 1 to expand the economy, and to strengthen trade with "reliable allies".
this will be an exciting time indeed; I'm eager to see how this develops and Canada's economy decouples from the USA's and flourishes in spite of it
I like the idea of decoupling from the US. I'm concerned by the idea of putting "economic growth" (which usually means growing the wealth of the wealthy) above everything else.
What we need is to grow our economy from the bottom up, but doing that involves making moves that work against the interests of the wealthy.
Hit American services with an import tax.
USA always push numbers on trade excluding services, because USA has a huge surplus on services.
Stop buying American weapons and planes.
Those are often excluded too in trade numbers, and again places where USA has huge trade surplus.
Then form a "country club", where Canada and other countries work together to prevent dependency on USA. I'm sure EU and other European countries would love to cooperate more with Canada.
Also, don't concentrate people in a single place. It's wrong to have a 4% population growth in Toronto and 0.5% elsewhere.
Is there a mechanism for anchoring immigrants in a specific location? My understanding is that our charter right of freedom of movement means that if everyone wants to go to Toronto, we can't stop them once they're in the country.
We need an ecological destiny, not an economic one. I'm glad Carney got elected as he is the best to negotiate with Trump but I fear it'll ultimately be more of the same old, same old.
I feel it's never going to happen so it's safe to fantasize about, but nationalizing all of the US assets in Canada and seeing Trump implode would be a fun tv show to watch
Why? If they want to be here, they can apply like everyone else. I don't want taxpayer funding going to some stupid advertising scheme to convince "the good ones" to come here.
Sure, and we have lots of immigrants already, including from the US. We take in around 300,000-500,000 immigrants every year. Why should Canada specifically do (and spend) more so that we can get more Americans to come here? I know Americans want that, but why should we do it? I don't see a benefit.
We're even passing legislation lately that makes it so that we take in fewer people. Why would we change that for Americans?
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this will be an exciting time indeed; I'm eager to see how this develops and Canada's economy decouples from the USA's and flourishes in spite of it
I like the idea of decoupling from the US. I'm concerned by the idea of putting "economic growth" (which usually means growing the wealth of the wealthy) above everything else.
What we need is to grow our economy from the bottom up, but doing that involves making moves that work against the interests of the wealthy.
The above plus:
Hit American services with an import tax.
USA always push numbers on trade excluding services, because USA has a huge surplus on services.
Stop buying American weapons and planes.
Those are often excluded too in trade numbers, and again places where USA has huge trade surplus.
Then form a "country club", where Canada and other countries work together to prevent dependency on USA. I'm sure EU and other European countries would love to cooperate more with Canada.
Latest quarterly population data has growth back down to historic norms.
It's the only way to keep the working-age population steady, sorry.
The problem is we're living longer, and that's your 3% increase. You could try culling the oldies but it may be a hard sell.
Is there a mechanism for anchoring immigrants in a specific location? My understanding is that our charter right of freedom of movement means that if everyone wants to go to Toronto, we can't stop them once they're in the country.
Lost me at “Justin Trudeau did a lot of good things”.
We need an ecological destiny, not an economic one. I'm glad Carney got elected as he is the best to negotiate with Trump but I fear it'll ultimately be more of the same old, same old.
I feel it's never going to happen so it's safe to fantasize about, but nationalizing all of the US assets in Canada and seeing Trump implode would be a fun tv show to watch
Why? If they want to be here, they can apply like everyone else. I don't want taxpayer funding going to some stupid advertising scheme to convince "the good ones" to come here.
Sure, and we have lots of immigrants already, including from the US. We take in around 300,000-500,000 immigrants every year. Why should Canada specifically do (and spend) more so that we can get more Americans to come here? I know Americans want that, but why should we do it? I don't see a benefit.
We're even passing legislation lately that makes it so that we take in fewer people. Why would we change that for Americans?
No
this has “with us or against us “ energy