@ckpgnews@GFry_CKPG Ask anyone related to or who knows someone who is a nurse. They will tell you that cutting back on programs like nursing will only lead to a continuous shortage of these health care professionals.
Canadians are done with Trump’s shit.
Instead of backing down, they’ve settled on $155B of retaliatory tariffs (on the same day they’ve asked the UK for nuclear guarantees against the US)
And here’s the critical part:
-Most Canadian imports to the US are raw materials, at preferred prices, that the US doesn’t have other sources for.
-Most US exports to Canada are finished products that Canada has other sources for, even if less preferred.
-US oil refining is 100% reliant on Canadian processing minerals.
-US fertilizer and thus US farming, is reliant on Canadian minerals and potash.
When it comes to trade, the unique relationship between Canada and the US means Canada can punch *FAR* above its weight in how its tariffs impact America.
You’d rather have $20 of generic Chinese tariffs, than $1 of targeted Canadian ones.
If Trump doesn’t back down on this, Canada can continue to tighten the screws.
And honestly the political will of Canadians united in hatred of this moment and not wanting to be pushed around, suggests that Canada’s population is far less likely to blink first, when compared to a divided, exhausted and price-gouged American population.
In wars we talk about the “defender benefit” in trade wars that holds true as well.
Having something worth fighting for and a unified hate of a common enemy is a powerful thing.
Something that Tanya Talaga said a couple of weeks ago that hasn���t left me: when you think of Murray, think of the weight of hearing thousands of accounts of untold horror, and the toll it would take on your body. Think of taking that on. https://t.co/30LQbg26Q2
During the election UBCM has been highlighting challenges facing local govs in: infrastructure, housing & emerg. management—and calling for increased transfers related to gaps in these provincial services and increased legislated mandates. #bcpoli https://t.co/N3R3tYHAVb