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The former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page projects a contraction in the neighbourhood of the 2009 recession, somewhere between a 2 to 2.5 per cent drop in GDP, along with a ballooning national deficit and debt.
But there's an even bigger story being re-written. It involves Canada's place in the world after 90 years of increased tethering to the U.S. If Trump plows forward he'd be interrupting far more than a few decades of Canada-U.S. free trade; he'd be ending an era that stretches back even longer.
Canada and the United States have steadily built closer economic ties with each other since 1935, as they clawed out of an interminable depression.
These two leaders, Prime Minister Mackenzie King, left, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, spent a year negotiating the removal of tariffs on hundreds of products during the Great Depression. It set the pattern for generations of trade opening. (National Archives of Canada)
Our politicians are already planning to act accordingly with retaliatory measures. What would you prefer they do instead?
"we will be allied again" - Ford.
There needs to be movements to decouple from US empire, instead of promising loyalty forever, no matter what. US needs to be made to beg for forgiveness. ALL international partners that can aid and diversify Canada trade needs to be brought onboard. Big 3 automakers need to pledge loyalty to Canada, and if they don't, our extreme subsidy level for them needs to be transferred to ones who will commit to Canadian market.
I don't know how Canada-Mexico trade will work. But foreign assistance to get ships to transfer goods may be needed. Demonizing Russia needs to end. Can get them to refine our oil into gasoline if we need, enrich our uranium either for export tariff to US, or realizing we need enriched uranium for defense.
That's really up to Russia, isn't it
This guy can slip pro Russian propaganda into a comment on literally any topic. I've had him tagged for months, often the highest level comment will seem pretty normal and then the deeper you get through the comments the more it just becomes "Russia good".