It isn’t just the Right that is self-parodying these days.
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I don’t see how this helps, unless we not going to spend that money or spend less of the money. If we spend that money elsewhere, then its 100% useless to me. We obviously do not have the ability to spend this money here or else we would already be doing it.
That ability is increasing, and as a policy change it will definitely increase it. My concern is that military procurement has been a mess in Canada for years, and the government is generally not particularly good at managing these mega projects. A mega project in military procurement is going to be a ripe opportunity for some pork barrel. However, it is not as if military procurement in the US is not stuffed to the gills with absurdly overpriced boondoggles - all things being equal I guess I would rather buy $300 hammers from Bombardier than Raytheon.
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Coucou France is over here 
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Trump will be out of office way, way before this will come to fruition. I would still want them to do this anyway to future proof. What will probably happen is we will spend a few billion on the concept and then scrap the idea and raise/create a tax/debt in order to fund the wasted money.
I actually know someone in military procurement and can confirm that they feel exactly the same way. They would be forced to buy something from a “supplier” that does not specialize in cold weather equipment, and then have to spend another 25% of purchase price to winterize it.
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In 2023, I did a canoe day trip near Shawinigan with a friend who works in Quebec City. He made reservations for a dinner on the way home at a restaurant he raved about - I joked about how good could poutine really be. What happened is a love letter from my home province, canoeing the late Spring high water on a fantastic river, then driving to an astonishing meal. I was absolutely blown away, exquisite cuisine in a village in the middle of the Laurentian forest.
I was delighted to see this today. We’d probably have to change clothes today though.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/benabed-restaurant-auberge-michelin-9.7200526
Particular nod to the power of immigration to enrich our society. Born in Quebec, parents came from Morocco.
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There’s some big news out here in BC how a band just took a couple hundred square KM out of the crown lands for their own. Not the land that is important, it’s the victory in the courts which will have a precedent
Couple of drunk natives showed up in our campfire the other night talking shit about “getting off their land”, the ruckus that started isn’t publishable. No sense in trying to have a discussion at 2am with that lot
This the Cowichan ruling, or another one?
No that just opened the floodgates. It’s becoming a punchline now
35,000 sq km…this area is fucking huge and it’s the largest recreational fishery region in the province.
Billie Eilish approves of this.
Silly, this country is overly apologetic and guilt ridden. A sensible middle ground is considered bigoted.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2091933377255424179
Not sure what will come out of that long term, but there is more and more talk among academics and economists (also in Europe) regarding Canada eventually even maybe getting some sort of membership long term or at least much closer cooperation.
However, this alone only partly improves Canadian and European security (in theory, it can also deteriorate Canadian security if the US truly has imperial ambitions and seeks forced vassalage down the road, like Russia did in Ukraine, I note. ) And that paranthesis is insane, right ? Well, it would have been before Trump was reelected and before MAGA became conditioned to territorial expansion, but now it is merely “unlikely” (which means you have to plan for Worst Case and “the unlikely” if you are not a banana republic).
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This is stupidity. As a Canadian there is only one loser in this “war”, and we pissing upwind.
I am sure there are things that I 100% don’t agree with when it comes to the “deal”, what I can 100% agree with is that the Canadian economy needs to stop being a dumping ground for cheap Chinese goods, or faux Canadian products that get “assembled” here after abusing cheap foreign labor, that then get shipped over the border thereby killing industry on both sides of the border.
It is absolutely stupid, but Canada was left with no choice.
The re-assembly ‘industries’ were absolutely on the table for negotiation, and weren’t even a particularly difficult point. But the demand that the US de facto be allowed to set our tariff rates was a non-starter, and was going to do far more than address some perceived loopholes.
It is not as if cheap Chinese goods are not pouring into the US at even higher volumes per capita.
Fundamentally, the US position is not as strong as the administration thinks it is, especially with their fiscal chaos. Far more of Canada’s imports are of commodities with elastic demand and high added value. For better or for worse, Canada supplies inputs to the US economy far more than it supplies finished goods. This basic point becomes obvious when you look at the sectors that the US is putting tariffs on.
A simple example is the (absurd) fact that Canada does not produce aluminium beverage cans. The US aluminium tariffs will make those cans more expensive in Canada and in the US, because Canadian consumers will have to pay the US tariffs on the input. Canadian tariffs on aluminium will simply increase those costs - but as soon as Canadian production comes online, Canadian consumers avoid both those sets of tariffs though probably pay a higher price than ex ante. The US is not realistically going to produce aluminium in the next 5 years to avoid that dependency.
The US certainly has the capacity to destroy the Canadian auto industry. But their demands on Friday amounted to that anyway (take away the truck category and the North American manufacturers collapse) so Trump’s threat to increase tariffs to destructive levels is beating a dead horse. Five years from now we may have no auto manufacturing left, but we won’t be driving American made cars.
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Damn…Alberta just delivered their budget update. Thanks to the American genius of starting a war with Iran with no exit plan, AB’s projected $9.4B deficit has turned into a $2B surplus.
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there’s lots of companies making beverage cans. Alna, Canadian Canning to name a few.
Bitter pill for them to swallow when all that money disappears into the federal coffers.
A question to the people here… Do you feel sorry for the auto industry in Ontario? I personally find it hard to support an industry that can’t survive on the 20m consumers at their disposal, and rely on someone else’s market to such an extent that they in dire straits when it becomes unsustainable to trade with them. I have over the year found it extremely annoying that we have so much industry here, yet I pay significantly more for the same car would cost in the US, even taking currency exchange into account.
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Drill baby, drill
Brain didn’t complete the thought- the final step of producing the cans from sheet is done in multiple places in Canada, but the can stock sheet is produced in the US from Canadian aluminium.
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