The fundamental nature of socialist economics is to use governments to rig markets in favor of certain groups and outcomes. Canada has been exploiting this dynamic for decades (along with their proximity to the largest consumer market in the world), in order to secure optimal benefit for their GDP and their liberal leadership. US tariffs, love them or hate them, are one of the few mechanisms available to level the playing field against countries (and corporations) that abuse global trade.
Rather than admitting that the jig is up and accepting that trading with the US is going to require more balanced arrangements from now on, the Mark Carney Administration has decided that Canada is entitled to special privileges when engaging in commerce with America. If they can't have unfair advantages, then they will go to war with the US instead.
It sounds like madness given that Canada relies on the US for over 76% of their export sales, and exports are over 30% of Canada's total GDP. Meanwhile, the US only sells 16% of its exports in Canada, and exports make up a comparatively small 11% of American GDP. There's no debating it: Without the US, Canada's economy will implode. Without Canada, the US will barely notice.
Carney's war campaign is already off to a rocky start, with 42,000 jobs lost in August and another 68,000 jobs lost in September. That's 110,000 workers laid off in only two months in a country with a population roughly the same size as California. The majority of these losses are due to Canadian-based manufacturers and companies shifting operations outside the country, or shuttering factories until the tariff situation changes.
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