Quite right it’s time for leadership on all sides.
I would like to see less talk of tit for tat and more on crisis planning that acknowledges that the USA is no longer a trusted ally . All future decisions , financial, economic, military , and political are based on a long term Canada first and only strategies. We are no longer bound by considerable restrictions of NAFTA.
Canadian unity? Easy: Eliminate provincial trade barriers. Use our own energy resource to stay warm until the snow melts. Eat more Canadian sourced foods (dairy, meat, wheat and potatoes). Refocus sourcing fresh food from Mexico, Central & South America and South Africa, rather than the US. That should take care of most of our Maslow’s needs.
Now, how do we stop the oligarchs from taking over?
This will be hard. Based on my experiences (whose mileage may vary), Canadians ability to take pain, adapt, work together to reorganize gives us an edge in trade conflicts; oddly these characteristics make us the “Marines” in the scenario. We don’t start the conflicts, but we tend to finish them. That does not mean the pain won’t be real.
Canadian leadership is a vacuum. As a country, we’ve also spent the last 10 years telling ourselves that were are “post-national”, and that there are no “Canadian ideals” because our diversity is more important than our national identity, especially because were are a bunch of genocidal colonial settlers. It will be hard for Canadians, especially younger ones, to rally around a flag and a history that has been either erased or denigrated.
While I'm confident Canada will make it through this, it will not be unscathed and not without some reckoning for the terrible policies (economy, defence, immigration, social) that have brought us here. Blame Trump for the current crisis, but we have to own our role in getting us here.
Quite right it’s time for leadership on all sides.
I would like to see less talk of tit for tat and more on crisis planning that acknowledges that the USA is no longer a trusted ally . All future decisions , financial, economic, military , and political are based on a long term Canada first and only strategies. We are no longer bound by considerable restrictions of NAFTA.
Let’s move forward together.
Canadians, UNITE!!!
If we don’t, we will lose for sure.
I have faith in us as a nation. We are soo much better, and have never lost in a fight…..✊🇨🇦
It feels like this might be a good time for a national unity government
Yup. Canada has often done well with minority gov’s.
Canadian unity? Easy: Eliminate provincial trade barriers. Use our own energy resource to stay warm until the snow melts. Eat more Canadian sourced foods (dairy, meat, wheat and potatoes). Refocus sourcing fresh food from Mexico, Central & South America and South Africa, rather than the US. That should take care of most of our Maslow’s needs.
Now, how do we stop the oligarchs from taking over?
Time to remove Canadian provincial trade barriers and act like a country. Not provinces. A country.
This will be hard. Based on my experiences (whose mileage may vary), Canadians ability to take pain, adapt, work together to reorganize gives us an edge in trade conflicts; oddly these characteristics make us the “Marines” in the scenario. We don’t start the conflicts, but we tend to finish them. That does not mean the pain won’t be real.
Canadian leadership is a vacuum. As a country, we’ve also spent the last 10 years telling ourselves that were are “post-national”, and that there are no “Canadian ideals” because our diversity is more important than our national identity, especially because were are a bunch of genocidal colonial settlers. It will be hard for Canadians, especially younger ones, to rally around a flag and a history that has been either erased or denigrated.
While I'm confident Canada will make it through this, it will not be unscathed and not without some reckoning for the terrible policies (economy, defence, immigration, social) that have brought us here. Blame Trump for the current crisis, but we have to own our role in getting us here.