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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 53 points 6 months ago (17 children)

God I'm exhausted.

At this point, we just need to cut it all off completely. Oil shipments, electricity, lumber, aluminum. All of it.

I know that that's a hard ask for those industries that are affected, and if it means the federal goverment has to temporarily raise the deficit in order to subsidize those industries it'll be crazy expensive and inflation will shoot up. But I'm convinced that that would be only a short amount of time that that would actually be needed.

Let the United States go one week without our stuff. 100%...fuck 'em. They'll last one week. Maybe two. And when they quit their bullshit, make it clear that we are diversifying our business partners making it easier to pull it from them again anytime they let Trump open is fucking mouth.

Hold our resources hostage against them.

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Economical MAD is not the answer here. It's a very complex subject that is difficult to solve.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

The destruction is mutual, but not assured and total (total just didn't make it into the acronym). Nuclear war isn't a good analogy.

Basically, do we want to continue relying on the US, or not? Not doing so has a cost, but we might not have a choice. Canada can survive without the US, if in a slightly poorer form.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I worry that Canada will not be able to export efficiently due to lack of port infrastructure, especially on the Pacific Coast. Massive industrial ports are expensive and take years to bring online.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Y'know, if you're willing to make a few small concessions on who is ultimately in control of your country, I know this great authoritarian dictatorship that's been investing in new port infrastructure projects all around the world.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

Yes, me too. It's really hard to find information on how much extra capacity there is, although I've seen indications it's not zero.

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