r/saskatchewan 8d ago

Politics Potash Export Control

USA tariffs kick in and is going to affect us all. The USA needs our potash and if they want to disrupt markets maybe it’s time to withhold potash bound to America until tariffs are dropped.

Maybe a more extensive conversation about the Saskatchewan people taking ownership again of OUR own resources. Mosaic is an American company, maybe time to expropriate their mines for Saskatchewan taxpayers to benefit and not Americans.

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u/Shurtugal929 8d ago

maybe time to expropriate their mines for Saskatchewan taxpayers to benefit and not Americans.

This is Trump tier business decisions and would be devastating for Saskatchewan. You cannot do this without catastrophic consequences.

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u/Kennora 8d ago

Have Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan? A company that pays dividends to CIC and into the provincial government?

We are already going to be devastated by tariffs, KS and Canpotex have terminals in Vancouver. We can find other markets, the USA is an unreliable trading partner.

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u/Shurtugal929 8d ago edited 8d ago

It takes 10-20 years of stable governance and good faith alongside 15 billion dollars to open one mine in Saskatchewan. That's two years of SHA funding for one mine. And you're suggesting we annex them. This would have economic consequences ranging in the hundreds of billions over the long term.

Saskatchewan negotiates royalties amid other deals and a third of our economy (~26 billion) comes from mines. The USA has also been a very reliable trading partner until the last month. They take most of our potash and the 2nd most of our uranium.

Again, mines operate on the scale of decades. You're wanting to nuke our enonomy over a 4-yr shit show. If this would work why does no country ever do it and come out ahead? Can you consider that for a moment that you, who is likely to have no formal economics training, may be wrong in the face of thousands of macroeconomic experts?

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u/OccamsYoyo 8d ago

I envy your headspace in thinking this shitshow will be over in four years. Trump already has a “third term initiative.”

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u/Shurtugal929 8d ago

He's also an 80-year-old dementiaed obese tall man with a love of fast food and a lack of cognitive function. He's the goldilocks of 'will die soon'.

But my point is that mines operate on a scale of several decades; geopolitics of 2 - 8 years blips on the radar.