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  • There’s not really a “should” here, necessarily. I think we all need to do what we reasonably can. What you’re saying is true and important to remember, and a reflection of how intertwined our economies have become, but if this trend of rising tensions continues then all of that might be on the table.

    At some point we may need to graduate from individual action and voting with our wallets to actual state level intervention, like asset seizure and nationalisation of certain companies or industries.

    I’m pushing myself to do the most I can accommodate in my life individually, and I’m fairly well off and can afford to take financial hits in service of this, but not everyone can do that on a personal level. Canadian economic diversity is fairly poor and enriching the same handful of Canadian capitalists isn’t great either, but it’s the lesser evil right now I think.

    Unsurprisingly with a handle like mine I’m down to eventually dismantle capitalism entirely, and at least we’ll be keeping more of our labour surplus in our domestic economy.





  • Nearly every American company we interact with employs Canadians, if you don’t have the stomach for this you’re not going to do well in these next years.

    We should use tariff revenues as well as wealth taxes and other means of economic redistribution to protect Canadian workers but we absolutely must go after American capitalists. Do you think American companies care about their workers? Regardless of nationality?

    Every Canadian employed by an American is providing more profit to that American than they’re costing, that’s the nature of capitalism. They employ us out of convenience or because we’re cheaper to employ