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Jack Wilson's avatar

The recently elected President of the US is pursuing his mandate in a forthright manner. It is a USA first mandate that has been widely publicized before and after the US election. We should not be surprised that he is using all the legitimate tools at his disposal to fulfill his mandate, including tariff policy and tax and investment strategies to lure business into the US.

The correct response is not to bleat about the US President doing his job. It is to get federal and provincial leaders to do their job. That can include negotiating better trade arrangements between Canada and the US, using our own tariff regime and international adjudication tribunals as required. More broadly we need to create an investment climate in Canada that is even more appealing to international investors than that on offer in the US. That means lowering taxes and drastically reducing the regulatory burden that has been sold through climate alarmism.

The federal Liberal/NDP Alliance and the NDP in BC are itching to fight elections on the hatred they and their media servants have whipped up against the US Administration for simply following its well publicized America First policies. It's an electoral strategy, folks. As soon as the election in Canada and the likely BC provincial election are over, officials from Canada and the US will put aside their theatrics and sit down and calmly work out new Canada/US trade arrangements. Until the elections are over though, we're going to be in for a lot of unseemly fear mongering, posturing and spittle. Shameful.

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Austin's avatar

Looks like what we desperately need in Canada are laws that make it impossible for an elected government to legislate that they can do whatever they want and temporarily dispose of all the checks and balances that are required for accountability.

We all saw this during Covid and now with the "big, bad orange man" in the US playing hard ball with our governments, it's being done again.

Too easy to go from democracy to totalitarianism in a heartbeat.

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