As an American, good. Give us the pain.
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Yeah, fucking with peoples money is the only way to get through to some.
I bet when Trump said trade wars were easy to win, he meant they should be easy to win for him. Canada is treating him bigly poor.
Canada is, and I say this very often and in fact I was the first one who said it, is and it’s very unfair the way I’ve been every time I go around they’re always saying it, but tariffs, tariffs, and it’s very easy, very normal, and it’s great, I’m great, many business, business, well known business has and have heard that even amongst the very far and radical left, which is only a very small number, actually, a very small number but I heard it and they said
Now imagine if our federal government would do the same. Reduces our contractor expenses and gives our local economy a much needed push.
Doesn't infrastructure falls mostly under provincial government control?
https://opencouncil.ca/level-of-government-responsibilities/
I guess it depends on what you mean by infrastructure.
Feds have their own IT group which usually means out sourced or heavily contracted to firms and consultants.
Feds manage, maintain some bridges and dams, Alaska highway, ports, seaways, and all their Crown real property. If it isn't Crown owned it is leased. Unsure who the biggest landlord is I would assume Brookfield. Big real estate projects are contracted out, look at Parliament. Usually it's BGIS, PCL, EllisDon or local contractors.
Thanks for explaining.
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Fetch
Is this going to affect production of American tv shows? I know a lot of them are made in Vancouver.