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Political impacts of Ukraine war

Reading this document might give some insights into what the Yanks are beating us up about.
That Canada is investing 50% *more in USA than vice versa?
 
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That Canada is investing 50% in USA than vice versa?

Didn't say it was rational...

But skimming some of the early paragraphs there seems to be a lot of chatter about barriers to investment. It's almost as if the complaint is that they can't get enough of Canada....

Maybe we should be looking at Hawaii's history.


The Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown in a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani that took place on January 17, 1893, on the island of Oahu. The coup was led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents (five Americans, one Scotsman, and one German and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu. The Committee prevailed upon American minister John L. Stevens to call in the US Marines to protect the national interest of the United States of America. The insurgents established the Republic of Hawaii, but their ultimate goal was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which occurred in 1898.

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More realistically the stuff they reference is things like restrictions on banking, purchasing residential land, multiple jurisdictions, digital taxes.... a lot of stuff that shows up in the news recently.
 
That Canada is investing 50% in USA than vice versa?

Further to...

Best revenge would be to create a climate in which Canadians kept that 700 BUSD at home and invested it in Canada.

Just as a reminder that is a rate and not a sum. Canadians sending 700 BUSD per year out of the country to invest in other peoples' projects because they get better returns on the investment and have more faith in getting their money back.

There are bound to be some Canadians, presented with the right terms that would be willing to invest in HSR? Or East West Pipelines, or Energy Corridors, or Eagle Spirit or Northern Gateway or Nuclear power or Windmills....

700 BUSD annually. 20 TMX pipelines a year. Or 7 HSR projects a year.

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It strikes me that somebody is doing something wrong.
 
Canada has the potential to fill a good portion of the of the Arsenal of Democracy.

We just need the will.
You need more than the will, you need actually industrial capacity and diversity.

BAE would be a good entity to partner with as they have a slew of products, and with a lot of their production being US based, it would offer a North American option for those who don’t want to buy American.

*Yes BAE bought up FMC and others defense arms, so many to the designs are US IP and ITAR restricted, but BAE has a lot of non US based systems.

They also make Surface Combatants (like the CSC Type 26 base) and Submarines, Nuclear and Non).
 
You need more than the will, you need actually industrial capacity and diversity.

BAE would be a good entity to partner with as they have a slew of products, and with a lot of their production being US based, it would offer a North American option for those who don’t want to buy American.

*Yes BAE bought up FMC and others defense arms, so many to the designs are US IP and ITAR restricted, but BAE has a lot of non US based systems.

They also make Surface Combatants (like the CSC Type 26 base) and Submarines, Nuclear and Non).

That's called the will. We can do all this, we just have to want too.
 
You need more than the will, you need actually industrial capacity and diversity.

BAE would be a good entity to partner with as they have a slew of products, and with a lot of their production being US based, it would offer a North American option for those who don’t want to buy American.

*Yes BAE bought up FMC and others defense arms, so many to the designs are US IP and ITAR restricted, but BAE has a lot of non US based systems.

They also make Surface Combatants (like the CSC Type 26 base) and Submarines, Nuclear and Non).



CV90, CV90MkIV, CV90 IFV, CV90120, CV90 Mjolner, CV90 Armadillo,
AMPV, Bradley, M109A7, M109-52, ACV, M113
Archer, Archer Switzerland, Tridon AAA, Caiman MRAP, RG33 MRAP, Tactica APC
BvS10, BvS10 Beowulf
 
That's called the will. We can do all this, we just have to want too.
Not having the siren song/arm twist from south of the border working against establishing a domestic capacity (whoever owns it) won't hurt either.

Time to encourage Korean, British, German, Swedish, and French firms to build plants in Canada, as well as making room for purely domestic outfits. See if there's any defence firms in Ukraine who might benefit from being somewhere that's not alive with Russian drones or spies, especially anyone building things that will persist in value post a Russian defeat.
 
Not having the siren song/arm twist from south of the border working against establishing a domestic capacity (whoever owns it) won't hurt either.

Time to encourage Korean, British, German, Swedish, and French firms to build plants in Canada, as well as making room for purely domestic outfits. See if there's any defence firms in Ukraine who might benefit from being somewhere that's not alive with Russian drones or spies, especially anyone building things that will persist in value post a Russian defeat.

We can offer Chinese drones and spies! 😆
 
Not having the siren song/arm twist from south of the border working against establishing a domestic capacity (whoever owns it) won't hurt either.

Time to encourage Korean, British, German, Swedish, and French firms to build plants in Canada, as well as making room for purely domestic outfits. See if there's any defence firms in Ukraine who might benefit from being somewhere that's not alive with Russian drones or spies, especially anyone building things that will persist in value post a Russian defeat.

Well, we already tried that...

Fate of $100 billion in Canadian EV projects in doubt as political landscape shifts​

As Trudeau prepares to exit and Trump takes helm in U.S., policies that helped prop up the industry are being scaled back or cancelled


But as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to exit office in March, construction on many of those projects has hardly begun, and only a fraction of the estimated $31 billion in federal support has been distributed. That, in turn, has raised questions about whether any of the proposed EV projects will be scaled back or even cancelled, especially if EV sales stutter.


 
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