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

[Jarnhamar]

He will end Pierres career as leader of the opposition, but no way he wins the leadership. Harper and Poillievre will actively tank this man.

Poilievres interview on Joe Rogan was supposed to end his career.

 

[Altair]

Poilievres interview on Joe Rogan was supposed to end his career.

It did. His career as PM.

He isn't going to be PM.

Jamil will end his career as leader of the opposition.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Poilievres interview on Joe Rogan was supposed to end his career.

Good point - but now, there’s someone actually not precisely in lockstep with the coach (other than saying Team Blue Ontario’s way too Red) in a public way. That said …

Jamil will end his career as leader of the opposition.

… while intriguing as the tiniest bit of freelance narrative stretching, still way too early for me to agree with “will.” Still worth watching, especially with the link to the US Veep.

 

[PrairieFella]

100%

We should have went with something more useful than Lotus electric cars.

Toyota is barred from offering a range of light truck and commercial trucks in our markets, some of which are quite practical and appealing.

Opening up the market for Hiluxes and Kei-trucks is a smart play.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Jamil will end his career as leader of the opopposition.

How would he do that?

 

[HavokFour]

Opening up the market for Hiluxes and Kei-trucks is a smart play.

Now you're speaking my language.

 

[Good2Golf]

Opening up the market for Hiluxes and Kei-trucks is a smart play.

I’ll take a 100-series Landcruiser with 4.2L Tue odiesel, 5-speed and dual fuel tanks, please. Loved driving one of these in AFG, wish I could have brought it home.

 

[Genetk44]

Opening up the market for Hiluxes and Kei-trucks is a smart play.

Hilux is an awesome truck.

 

[Altair]

How would he do that?

Same way PP knifed O'Toole.

 

[MilEME09]

Hilux is an awesome truck.

Good enough for mounting a ZSU-23 good enough for the farm

 

[lenaitch]

Apparently its California wine and Bourbon (from Kentucky) were the big ones we put on our shelves.
American beer was never really a big seller up here.

The big one to watch out for here is Canadian hard liquors (Such as Forty Creek Rye and Canadian Club Whiskey), are 70% export product, the majority of it going to the USA.

All fine, to be "elbows up" and stand by your principles, but principles won't feed your family, pay your ever rising electrical bills, pay your mortgage or rent, etc.

Now, this will piss some of you off. Why does PM MC have roughly 90% of personal assets invested in American companies? It has been asked again and again. How "elbows up" is he really?

I spoke to my friend Dan, who is a third generation dairy farmer here in Ontario (he is 41 and considered a baby in the dairy farming circles). There are many in dairy who do want to see a gradual phase out of dairy quota system. It has not over the long term saved dairy farms. In Ontario, we have lost the vast majority of them in the last 50 years. My uncle gave up his quota in 2005 and refused to let his sons take it over. My grandfather (as I stated previously) was one of the lobbyist to help implement the system and before he died in 2012 (at the ripe young age at 99), he stated he was very disappointed by what the dad system had become.

Australia and New Zealand phased out their supply management systems for dairy. Older farmers got out and retired with their skin in tact. Younger more ambitious dairy farmers who put in the work and sought out new markets, grew their farms.

WTF are we holding onto with supply management?

It would be interesting to know how Au and NZ wound up their supply management system. Pre-supply management here, dairies were close by, and dairy farmers complained that they would truck their milk to them only be told they don't want/need it and they ended up dumping it. We won't see village dairies anymore. I wonder if the Aussies and Kiwis sign supply contracts with their dairies.

Ask your friend Dan what he paid for his quota and how he thinks that debt should be treated.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Good enough for mounting a ZSU-23 good enough for the farm

Hilux is the Go To truck for farming in over half the world. Border Collies in the British Isles are genetically adapted get in them. The public doesn’t understand how much of an upgrade such a truck would be.
And their new 4 cyl diesel with the flat deck folding side and the FJ cruiser front end. Oh my Lord, what a beautiful beast.

But no, not enough NA content so let’s bring in Chinese electric junk.