I wish @tim443 was here to participate in this thread. It would be nice to hear what a Canadian thinks of this.
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Canada also uses it’s railways to ship oil, while not the ultimate way to do it, when the price is high enough they will ship it to the ports.
Yes. Because the primary goal of any politician is to ret re-elected and to remain in power. This applies to bad politicians … “I need to stay in power to continue my nefarious ways and to cover up any previous corruption”. And it also applies to good politicians … “I am a true patriot and I am better than the other guy so I need to stay in power to continue my good stewardship of the country that I love so much”.
Except he is stepping down and not running again. But who knows what happens in the future.
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Man, I can only hope and pray Trump gets his wish. That would be the absolute best thing from his presidency to add 40 million angry Canadians to our voting rolls.
Dems might actually take back the senate and most certainly would win POTUS.
Let’s add Greenland while we are at it.
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yes and to add another California to the Union? No.
If he does it, he should add Canada as a US territory like Puerto Rico or Guam. No vote for them.
No Presidential vote is only in Puerto Rico–because they do not have any Electoral College representation. If they are living in any of the 50 states, they can vote–the same as any other US citizen.
Residents in US territories cannot vote.
That is why the US should not make Canada its 51st state but one of its territories like Puerto Rico to circumvent the angry residents there.
Of course there are canadians living in the US but those are well assimilated and not so angry. The Puerto Ricans living in the US are not, right?
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LOL I can’t believe people are even discussing Canada becoming anything to the United States. If that was going to happen it would have happened decades ago. Canada was under British rule and they will never be put under American rule so quit chasing that squirrel.
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He is a very serious man. After all he makes such lofty promises and he means to keep them. He is honest?
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I’ve been wondering for a while now what happened to him. Not seeing him on the New TMF either.
IP,
hoping nothing happened to him
I opened a sub account that trades forex.
Good bye yellow brick road.
His not running again is what probably loosened his tongue.
IP
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Sometimes the best thing to do is just sit in cash. Some people call it king
yes I could have meant it that way. I can also mean it literally. Hasn’t Trump been literal? we think it is crazy but it happened.
Sure this is noise. One needs to consider what he is trying to do. The goal is not his only but some question his ways. May not work even if they hope it will or think it will. Or, it may. Some hope it will not.
Canadians, get ready for the Brave new World.
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Tim left the Fool as the discussions here were not terribly relevant to him. I still receive an e-mail from him from time to time.
Steve
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TIG is now threatening Canada with tariffs on lumber and dairy products.
Steve
That is the big problem. He is doing things in such a precipitate and chaotic manner that no-one knows what to do.
Take the USMCA provisions for cars: raising the minimum requirement for in-zone content, and establishing a carve out for parts produced by labor making at least $15/hr, meaning US and Canadian labor. All done in a reasonably measured manner.
What they missed with the USMCA was they did not increase the 2.5% tariff on non-USMCA product, so there was little incentive for “JCs” to come in off the golf course and rework their supply chain to take advantage of the treaty.
If the tariff on non-USMCA product was stepped up, in a rational, incremental, pace, then we could see a situation now where USMCA product, which has a high in-zone content, and a protected US/Canadian content level, would have a significant advantage over non-compliant products, that would have seen their tariff stepped up from 2.5%, to 5%, and, maybe, now, 7.5%. That might be enough to get the “JCs” off the golf course for a bit.
Steve
If he was literal than people wouldn’t have to keep explaining what he meant.
United States get ready for a brave new world. I don’t think Canada will miss the United States as much as people think. It will be strange not to see Canadians coming down for the winter.
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The U.S has had tariffs on Canadian lumber for decades already.