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William Stewart's avatar

Remember Canada.

You currently have a PM who was head of a company that loves China big time and has billions invested there and who to this day likely has huge amounts of his income derived from that company but Canadians have no real clue what, where and how much is involved.

What one can be relatively assured of is that as long as those foreign ownership benefit Brookfield, China and some well connected Liberals there will be little to no problem with them.

It's the way Canada's PM and the Liberals roll with but one seat shy of a full majority and should that happen (which perhaps would regardless, make no difference at this point) they will care about Canadians think even less than they do now.

Richard Robertson's avatar

This article illustrates the profound ignorance of the Canadian public of the economics of a resource based economy. A company that produces copper must go where the copper occurs and apply their expertise to produce it at a profit. The copper then flows to countries with the expertise and regulatory environment that allows it be manufactured into its various applications from electricity to alloys, also at a profit.

Canadians who want to confine resource ownership and development to Canada would turn it into a cottage industry, which it was in the Middle Ages.

John Nolan's avatar

The plan to Make America Great Again through self-reliance rather than tapping the expertise and products of other nations through economic co-operation are clear. America and Canada were both great, before Leaders with overly-inflated egos and self-serving agendas started controlling business decisions, leaving the public to suffer the consequences.

Harold's avatar

So you are saying that Canadians cannot create a copper producing corporation and sell it to the world for a return; that only foreign entites know how to do this?

Prior to the roll out of NAFTA, the industries within Canada were owned by Canadians. NAFTA was a free trade from Canadian ownership to foreign ownership and control.

Step back, and In 1974, the Bank of Canada was handed over to the IMF - the Rothschilds Banking Cartel. Upon the globe, who do you think picks and controls the winners and losers? The central banks that the Rothschilds' - are not in control of, just happen to be the Central Banks within the countries that the USA and Israel were, and are currently at war with - post 9/11 to date. IRAQ for an Example: From a State controled Central Bank prior to war, Iraq post war now has a Rothschilds' controlled Central Bank.

We have lots of money to support foreign aid, and lots of money to support foreign wars -created by the Rothschilds Cartel, but none to support canadian ownership of the production of our natural resources and its distribution; the money must come from foreign investors who come from countries that Canada is funding with taxpayer money in our many foreign aid programes.

This article illustrates the profound ignorance, not of the Canadian public, but of Quinn Patrick of True North, care of Juno News.

John Ravenhill's avatar

This article makes it sound like government should develop mines and of course support from indians who get their money from government. If the government "invests " in mine develop, where does the money come from? The cupboard is empty.

John's avatar
Dec 29Edited

Competancy does not appear out of thin air, which means that you have to have people doing things (mining, manufactoring, farming) and developing thier own skills to be secure.

This means we have to have a local economy where local business develops our own technology's. If we allow outsiders to develop our industry we loose our sovereignty. So when we buy mining machines from Germany the parts also come from Germany. If we have a dispute with the German Government, the parts stop coming, and we no longer have a mining industry.

The above statement is true with respect to China, Israel, Hungry, US, Britain, India.......

If we want to be secure, our critical industries need to be owned in Canada, and the Technoligies they depend on need to be owned by Canadians. This is not a statement against any particular country, but a statement of "Real Politic"

Andree's avatar

Is it not the WEF plan that we own nothing (and supposedly be happy)? I think that Carney has been deputized to do just that. I also think that for the British Empire, Canada was always supposed to be a backward colony that could be used as a wedge to weaken the US that they are still trying to control subvertly (the special alliance). Carney is helping in this also. So if we truly want to claim ownership over our country, we have to seriously work at it. Is it time to let go of the monarchy first, have a republic?

John's avatar

History is written by the people with the money to pay the historians.

I think we will find over the next 20 years a lot of history will be rewritten, especially with respect to the British Legacy in Canada. The left likes to talk about Decolonization, but they have a very childish few of the British that fails to understand how the British actually governed, and in many ways still govern. Carney seems unfortunately to be a represenitive of the British Crown, the City of London, and to a lesser extent Wall Street. He represents their interests and not the interest of Canadians.

Andree's avatar

I agree. After all he defines himself as an European, an elitist and a globalist.

John's avatar

Point taken.

What a concept the "Royal We". It is assumed that the King & the people are one & the same and have the same interests. I think there have been times where there was at least some truth to this notion as the King often allied with the Commons against the Nobility, at this point I have no connection to King Charles. I do find it of some value to have the "Governor General being separate from the Prime Minister but that is minimal when the Governor General is little more than a place holder.

Personally, I would like to see Canada decentralize at every level as I do not see any level of government as being responsive to the citizens. Not sure how to achieve this but until we as Canadians start to dream, nothing will happen and we will be stuck in the same bad dream for generations to come.

Harold's avatar

Nowhere in their oaths, provincial or federal, do they swear an allegence to the people of Canada; their allegiance is to a foreign King in a foreign land, the CEO (king) of the CROWN, of the City of London. of, and for, the Vatican City.

In Court, you are facing the KING'S BENCH; a "bench" is a BANK. You are facing The King's Bank. In Court you will see nothing but money changing hands; nothing more. In a Bank or financial institution of any kind, at the bench you will see money changing hands, and nothing more.

The Governor General is a representative of the Office of the Crown. (London) By the power of the Office of London, the Governor General in Canada is the Commander-in-chief. "Prime-Minster". What is a "Minister"? In this case, the oath of Office tells you what a minister is, and is not. What is a Premier? A Premier's oath of Office tells you what a Premier is, and is not.

To achieve independence, you have to separate yourself from the crown; separate yourself from Canada, your Province, and your Municipality; the three are one. You do this by re-naming your region, creating a flag, create a constitution, and have it ratified by the people in your region; once completed, the geographical boundaries of your region will become a new country; within the boundaries of that newly formed counrty, the CROWN will have no jursidiction.

Anthony Tasker's avatar

I don't think our government is capable of doing anything except taxing Canadians and selling canada to large foreign corporations

Tatanka's avatar

Canada for Canadians only.

No foreign ownership of any kind.

Investments yes but no outright ownership...period.

sandi ross's avatar

It should be 99% of Cdns DO NOT want foreign ownership in our resources. Get rid if this greedy European PM who will further destroy us with his failed green agenda & get working on Canada as a sovereign nation. We can be strong & vibrant again but not under this woke clown show.

Colin Anderson's avatar

For years Canada's capacity to produce has been hampered by increasing levels of public opinion on matters that are not even rudimentarily understood. On the issue of minerals and petroleum, the issue is a Provincial one. The entity of Canada owns NOTHING, the owner is the province or any freehold owner of rights.

Indeed the Federal government has interjected itself in an obfuscatory way, seeking nothing more than control at the cost of development - all for principally political purposes.

The issue is a public being asked an opinion on something that isn't well understood. Ask any socialist whether a foreign company should operate a project in Canada and they will curse, ask them who will invest billions in a project and their eyes will cross and say the government. At the same time ask an investor to finance it and they'll point to the risks of incoherent socialists making the project uninvestable.

We need to stop serving ignorant opinion and provide legitimate regulatory basis under which activity has surity of execution.

Marilyn Hagerman's avatar

“Nearly 60 per cent of respondents said they considered losing sovereignty over developing the country’s critical minerals, such resources to be a larger threat to Canada than “missing out on development and jobs because of a lack of investment.”

How intrinsically sad these 60% of supposedly knowledgeable Canadians choose to think this way! Meanwhile globalist Carney quietly continues to convince these “uninformed believers”to take the country closer and closer to a Beijing controlled nation. Because folks - that’s exactly what’s happening!! Sit down and listen to Sam Cooper’s recent podcast. Irregardless of what you’ve been led to believe, Cooper is recognized across the world for the authenticity of facts he reports!!

Andrew's avatar

Who has the capital and knowledge to get these projects going? Better foreign than nothing, unless it's China. (Canadian miners in Indonesia benefited Indonesia too.)

Don Hrehirchek's avatar

It would probably surprise one as to the knowledge that Canadians have about mining. It is not a lack of knowledge , but dollars!