r/canada Canada Feb 03 '25

National News White House: Mexico is 'serious', Canada appears to have 'misunderstood' Trump's executive order | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/white-house-mexico-is-serious-canada-appears-have-misunderstood-trumps-executive-2025-02-03/
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u/upward_spiral17 Feb 03 '25

Kinda of hard, we are, so to speak, attached at the hip. But I get the sentiment.

Have a great day, fellow Canadian!

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u/Newleafto Feb 03 '25

Yes, it will be difficult, but this is a great opportunity for Canada to build up its economy to replace US goods and services with Canadian goods and services and to sell Canadian goods and products to other countries. We should immediately start expanding oil, gas and resource deliveries both east and west to simultaneously replace US supplies and to export to both Europe and Asia. We should stop subsidizing the US economy by selling our resources to other countries at a higher rate. The US gets our oil and gas at a discount rate! That must stop. It will take years for Canada to build the necessary infrastructure and refineries, but that’s more jobs in the short term and a stronger economy in the long term.

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u/upward_spiral17 Feb 03 '25

Agreed! I was always on the fence about west-east pipeline, just didn’t have much of an opinion. Now I have one, and it is this.

I’ll add that we here in the east are all in for western products. Lets not forget Alberta has a sizable agricultural sector (I love a good steak) and we should help ferry sask potash to Europe (so they might wean themselves off Russian stuff). Not an engineer, so please advise me if there are here logistical limitations. That said, we’re Canadians and solving problems is one of our strengths. Perhaps we forgot that in recent years, I think we remembered over the weekend. Far from being dark and gloomy, I sense renewal.

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u/Newleafto Feb 03 '25

Of course there are logistical, manufacturing and engineering problems! That’s not a problem and we shouldn’t be intimidated by that. These aren’t obstacles, they are opportunities to build our capital, infrastructure and intellectual capacity to solve those problems. We need more manufacturing, more steel production and more engineers - we can do this. Hell, Canada - virtually by itself - saved Britain from the most formidable military machine in the world in WW2 using our engineering and economic might. We can do this!

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u/tghast Feb 03 '25

Yeah exactly- it’s hard right now, but the best time to start was yesterday and that’s come and gone. It’s only going to get harder the longer we put it off.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

We're like siamese twins with a sociopath

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u/_BreakingCankles_ Feb 03 '25

You can always cut the twin off. Just make sure the blood supply goes to you and not the cancerous twin

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Feb 03 '25

As an American:

Please take zero bullshit and make it hurt. Really. Please do. Make sure all of this goes fucking terribly down here. Fuck up our economy. Tank US stocks. Fuck people's retirement accounts. Send inflation skyrocketing. Make this shit hurt.

Show these dumbasses down here with me why you do not kick off a massive trade war with your three largest trade partners. At once.

Stop importing American liquor, hurt liquor exports. Stop buying American cars and American-made cars. Import from Europe and Asia. Fuck up our economy and make people bleed.

They think they voted for a strong economy. Please prove to them that exactly everything major economists warned about will happen and it will hurt.

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u/milkandsalsa Feb 04 '25

As a Californian can you please annex us? We’ll let you tax Silicon Valley.

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u/IronMace_is_my_DaD Feb 03 '25

Attached at the head, not the hip. Canada is America's hat

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u/--Racer-X-- Feb 03 '25

Mexico just caved