President-elect to direct U.S. agencies to study trade deficits — but he’s not going through with tariffs yet
I’m still not forgetting all the things he’s said.
That he can unilaterally threaten this and be cavalier about breaking our critical trade agreements means we have no option but to divest ourselves of American trade. Similarly his comments on annexing Canada are too plausible and consistent to ignore.
That doesn’t mean not to trade, but to build up our own independent industry and finally vertically integrate instead of exporting our raw materials for the US to draw all the value on (steel, crude oil, lumber, pharma, manufacturing).
We should also be building up our own defence sector, both as a jobs program and to increase independence – Canadian sovereignty in this century requires that we should be able to build our own aircraft, submarines, and have a nuclear arsenal of our own.
I know we do sell arms, but we should be able to stand firm if our allies ever turn their backs on us.
I recently learned we don’t have any nuclear weapons. I was shocked. I was also shocked that I didn’t know that. 🥹
I thought we had a few that were in a state of disassembly that technically qualified for the purposes of international treaties as not existing.
