It’s a unsurprising given Canada’s economic relationship with the US which counts for three quarters of Canada’s exports and half of its imports.
The report should also be a wake-up call in my opinion that Canada must not rely on any single country for future trade. This week, Carney visits China, and the same Eurasia Group report leaves no doubt about the Chinese economy and the government’s policy. In brief, it says:
Beijing won’t break out of its deflationary trap this year; instead, it will keep trying to export its way out, flooding global markets with cheap goods at everyone else’s expense.
The whole report makes a worthwhile read. China has been pursuing coercive trade practices with literally all countries for a long time, showing that it’s not a reliable trade partner. The country is highly dependent, however, on foreign markets to sell its overcapacity made by cheap -and often, forced - labour. (An important detail here is that exactly China’s huge labour force will be tested soon as researchers such as those by the World Economic Forum project an labour force gap in the next decade due to population decline.)
All these are reasons to diversify trade further away from countries with self-centered governments. To gain at least some degree of predictability in an increasingly uncertain geopolitical landscape, Canada should reach out to its European allies and some in the Indo-Pacific (Australia, New Zealand, Japan, …) and put together a united front against any aggressive actions taken by the U.S. president as much as against autocracies like China and Russia.
No shit, we’re right next door and have way, way more of what they want than Mexico.
Greenland is the foreplay. Canada is the big finish. They’ll complain if they don’t get to completion.
Yeah well when the Canadian government has a couple hundred billion invested in just one investment alone, it’s quite clear that Canada is fucked (isn’t the travel boycott like 100b max?). Still Canadians refuse to boycott the S&P500 because there is nowhere else to invest (other than precious metals lol) and citizens refuse to remove their accounts on non-essential American services (Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Paypal, etc). Canada can’t even get their own local e-commerce platform down, Amazon is mostly foreign goods but it is currently the most dominant way to distribute goods and that will not change anytime soon due to insane commercial real estate pricing. For reference Czechia has quarter the population yet has their own massive ecommerce platform Alza.cz, Amazon isn’t even able to compete in that country. Hell, the Canadian government will not stop using D365, Azure, AWS. God damn Canadians are deluded as to what is coming in their future.
Alberta is Canada’s Sudetenland, except with digital American propaganda blended in, not radio, posters, or little flyers that are dropped from above. There are many so called “Canadians” who are cheering for the annexation of Alberta online and in real life. Appeasement from the prime minister and citizens in other provinces can be considered traitorous and is causing irreparable damage by providing pretext for invasion (what can you expect from a corpo-fascist crook who has more in common with a BlackRock board member than a Canadian citizen?). If this succeeds make no mistake there will also be Canschluss, this is what they mean when history rhymes. Czechoslovakia lost part of their country and eventually everything, can you imagine what a defense they could have put up since the Germans were hesitant to invade? Thanks to appeasement by the British, the Germans were empowered to destroy significantly more lives.
Tech is America’s biggest product, meaning their most valuable. Canadians are unwilling to hit yankees where it hurts them the most. It’s time to get shit done, and fast. Not in a couple years, not even in a year or two, this has to be a months, even weeks long process. Real Canadians will begin their support and know how to begin the real movement right away. No problem, sometimes it takes time to find the right direction. It all starts with unheard speech just like this and making it commonly accepted. Let me remind that the first victims of Nazis, were Germans, but that rot spread until it was dealt with the right way.
My thoughts from early last year are that Alberta 2025 was Crimea 2012 or 2013. Following a similar pattern. I could certainly see a referendum with disputed results and “little green men” suddenly appearing across the border.
Canadians are deluded as to what is coming in their future
We see what’s happening, and most of us are in the process of disentanging over a hundred years of having our economy and systems intertwined with the Americans.
Yes, there are still some maple maga idiots who are dreaming of the taste of Trump’s boots, but they are a minority. A noisy minority to be sure, but a minority.
We have amazing snipers.
raises hand - even the retired ones are still decent. And prepared.
I’m just a hunter but I’ve been shooting since I could hold a rifle. We will need people to train us up too. There are many of us willing and also prepared. Im a former medic as well and am fully stocked with field supplies as well as my gun cabinet. It’s beyond time for us Canadians to organize.
We really need trained drone operators. It’s still something that the Americans neglect as far as I’m aware.
We need nukes and we can build them.
TIL Canada doesn’t have nukes.
