CAN-USA 2025 Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

[Good2Golf]

A statistical outlier or one of the reasons that America’s manufacturing renaissance isn’t ready for showtime just yet?

[American] “I hate working with Americans!”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1911336243709034651

 

[HavokFour]

It has begun, Nova Scotia and P.E.I. taking point.

P.E.I. premier Rob Lantz shares plan to ease flow of goods, workers among provinces
Alt: https://archive.ph/r4PLn

And here comes Ontario, unconditionally.

Ontario to remove barriers to internal trade, labour mobility, in response to U.S. tariffs
Alt: https://archive.ph/scWm3

EDIT: Added the official news release. It has more details.

Ontario Newsroom

news.ontario.ca

Alt: https://archive.ph/0uBKl

• Moving to allow more regulated health professionals in good standing to begin practising in Ontario while they wait for registration in an Ontario health regulatory college and removing restrictions on where they may work using “As of Right” rules. The government will also begin consultations to allow American health professionals, including doctors and nurses, to be included under these new “As of Right” rules.

That would make for a pretty massive win for Ontario, Canada, and Ford.

 

[daftandbarmy]

But Canada is very bottom in terms of the commitment for equipment spending to be at least 20% of 2% of GDP.

Even worse, we're near the bottom at R&D investment (1.8%) as compared to other countries, which tends to relfect our risk averse financing and taxation culture...

Private sector = evil, public sector = almighty and eternally virtuous

Ranked: Countries Investing the Most in R&D

Amid the rapid pace of technological innovation, we show R&D investment by country as a percentage of GDP.

www.visualcapitalist.com

 

[HavokFour]

Little more movement on the home front. Hopefully we start seeing more to the west.

New Brunswick, Newfoundland sign free trade agreement

The New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador governments signed a memorandum of understanding on free trade and labour mobility on Thursday, one week after New Brunswick signed a similar agreement with Ontario.

www.ctvnews.ca

Alt: https://archive.ph/kpJIy

 

[Halifax Tar]

Little more movement on the home front. Hopefully we start seeing more to the west.

New Brunswick, Newfoundland sign free trade agreement

The New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador governments signed a memorandum of understanding on free trade and labour mobility on Thursday, one week after New Brunswick signed a similar agreement with Ontario.

www.ctvnews.ca

Alt: https://archive.ph/kpJIy

Are they going to trade moose again ?

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

Even worse, we're near the bottom at R&D investment (1.8%) as compared to other countries, which tends to relfect our risk averse financing and taxation culture...

Private sector = evil, public sector = almighty and eternally virtuous


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Ranked: Countries Investing the Most in R&D

Amid the rapid pace of technological innovation, we show R&D investment by country as a percentage of GDP.

www.visualcapitalist.com

This is part of the reason the Scandinavians remain relevant, despite their small populations.

Canada, on the other hand, has the Latin disease:

 

[daftandbarmy]

It will be interesting to see how this turns out...