Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[Brad Sallows]

Michelle Rempel Garner on "the speech" (also archived here) ....

... with this bit standing out for me as at least suggesting that PP will likely continue more down the opposing path than trying-to-help-where-he-can-support-it path:

Poilievre is going to first have to learn the difference between constructive criticism and fly-shit-in-pepper-gotcha. Then he's going to have to apply it remorsely, never yielding to the temptation to revert to the latter.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

I guess what I want to know is what is a “strategic partnership” and why are we in one with two of the most odious regimes in the world?

People who are smarter than me who get paid more than me to think about national security are very concerned.

Because maybe the US will eventually stop being so odious?

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

That was disingenuous my friend....

China is, and always will be an adversary / competitor....but that does not mean that we can't and shouldn't sell them stuff

They can buy all the coal, potash, minerals, grain and oil we can sell them aa far as I'm concerned.

 

[Eaglelord17]

They can buy all the coal, potash, minerals, grain and oil we can sell them aa far as I'm concerned.

We still need to make sure we diversify. China will weld those ties as weapons when needed to decimate our industries.

Can’t put all our eggs in one basket, the US is showing us that.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/250306/t001a-eng.htm

We are a trading nation....with many baskets.

 

[GR66]

We still need to make sure we diversify. China will weld those ties as weapons when needed to decimate our industries.

Can’t put all our eggs in one basket, the US is showing us that.

I'm not sure where this idea that by regaining access to the Chinese market for some of our products and in return allowing China to export a limited number of EV's to Canada (which Canadian are under zero obligation to buy) somehow translates into us putting "all our eggs in one basket" or not diversifying.

We are regaining some market access in China and in return allowing China to regain some market access to Canada. That's how trade works (but don't tell Trump that because he believes trade can be made to flow in one direction only).

We're certainly not limiting our efforts to expand and diversify our trade to other countries outside China but don't be surprised if our trade with a country with the 2nd largest economy and population in the World ends up being somewhat more than our trade with 2 million Slovenians.

Definitely we need to ensure there are controls to protect against security threats, etc. No argument there.

 

[suffolkowner]

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/250306/t001a-eng.htm

We are a trading nation....with many baskets.

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might be a limited number of baskets within the basket though. Witness the canola situation. Are we overly dependent on one basket-China to export canola to? Is there a remedy?

 

[daftandbarmy]

might be a limited number of baskets within the basket though. Witness the canola situation. Are we overly dependent on one basket-China to export canola to? Is there a remedy?

Like most of our current trade profile, not just for canola, we're over reliant on a very few markets:


China deal eases pressure, but research indicates Canadian canola market still at risk

Report says Canadian canola is overreliant on two major markets: China and the United States

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/china-trade-deal-canadian-canola-9.7052468