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Trump is starting a trade war. If he wants to absorb Canada, what comes next will be worse (www.cbc.ca)
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Experts say annexing by 'economic force' involves more than just tariffs

The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired.

Whether it escalates beyond the planned 25 per cent tariff into a wider economic war depends upon how genuinely serious President Donald Trump is about annexation, experts say.

Tariffs are one thing. While painful and destructive, experts agree duties alone would not crush the Canadian economy, nor the political establishment, into submission.

Prior to his inauguration, Trump threatened to use "economic force" to compel Canada to become the 51st state in the union.

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What does a full-blown economic war look like? Think sanctions, import and export restrictions, trade embargoes, theft of intellectual property.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

On the plus side, get to contribute to getting better leaders to vote for. Democracy at the federal election ballot box isn't enough. Too often we end up in the "least worse" or "they're all shit" situations when there were much better people who lost by a sliver during the party leadership elections. We need to take more active role further down the chain of democracy. This is one way. I know I'll be switching party membership in order to vote in future leadership elections. Perhaps even in the conservative one although I'm not sure I want to have that in my record. 😂

Also at the local, municipal, provincial, workplace (union) levels.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's great advice! I joined the PC's one year (because it was $5) I'm a very NDP type guy but I was hoping to steer towards a better political leader unfortunately Shear won. I got to see all his emails though and that showed me how awful he was as a candidate and probably a person.