Greg Morrow 🇺🇦🇨🇦

Executive Director, UCLA Master of Real Estate Development. Views expressed here are mine alone.

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@DimitrisSoudas This assumes all 100 are present. It requires a quorum of 51 but the 2/3s needed are of those present. So the number could be less if Republicans opted not to be present (in theory, it could be as little as 34!).

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Haley Stevens is the poster child of why so many people are disillusioned with politics. Abandoning positions she purportedly believes in 2 days before the election out of self-interest makes you wonder if she believes in anything or if it was always just about gaining power.

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@jkenney Donald Trump also wants to take architectural style back to the past. Design should reflect the culture, context and technology of their time. Shim Sutcliffe's Ace Hotel in Toronto is a good example of contemporary Canadian design. https://t.co/c8zK03iRjG

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@acoyne Notwithstanding policy choices, businesses have no more or less patriotic duty than citizens. That said, just as it's fine for the PM to challenge Canadians to buy Canadian, there's nothing wrong with the PM challenging CEOs. I do think Canadians are more risk averse.

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@jamiljivani The CPC must never want to be the governing party in Canada again. The US picked this fight for no reason. If you want to be useful, backchannel facts to your MAGA buddies to stop this nonsense instead of placing the blame on Canadians. Do better or you will be out of a job.

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Top countries with whom the US has the largest goods & services trade deficit:

1 Mexico 194B
2 Vietnam 177B
3 China 172B
4 Taiwan 143B
5 Ireland 115B
6 Thailand 70B
7 Japan 59B
8 Germany 58B
9 India 46B
10 South Korea 42B
11 Malaysia 35B
12 Italy 32B

Not on this list? CANADA.

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@ItsDeanBlundell There's no indication that export taxes on energy are forthcoming.

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@douglasritz @NightShiftMD Canada includes 15-yr-olds and passive job search. The US unemployment rate starts at 16 yrs and requires resume submittals, going to interviews. These differences add 1-1.5%. The current (Canadian method) is 6.4%, so in US terms that's 4.9-5.4%.

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@VincentGeloso It will be min 18 months for court challenges to reach a decision as with IEEPA. In the meantime, Canadian businesses are disadvantaged and go out of business. Countermeasures protect workers while court cases are pursued. If not, you signal weakness.

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@ddufort Trade law gives countries the right to enact countermeasures to protect industries that are disadvantaged by unfair tariffs. Saying that's discriminatory doesn't pass legal muster. It's not either/or but both. Protect industries and let US courts address the legal issues.

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Google changed Lake Ontario to Lake America in the US. We truly live in the dumbest of times. Fortunately, there are alternatives. I've removed Google Maps from my apps and I recommend others do the same. Apple Maps is vastly superior anyway!

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@mattyglesias check the data. vanishingly few Canadians go to the US for medical treatment of any kind. very much a niche thing.

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@MichaelManvill6 Any preemptive pardons? :-)

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@acoyne A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

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@Cazzy The top tier of US schools don't take many students. So top Canadian universities (UofT, McGill, UBC) are easier to get into (they accept more) but harder to graduate from. Canadian universities are more demanding and grade harder. But the US has better graduate schools.

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@dillonliam Indeed, just as inevitable and foreseeable that YIMBYs would continue to object to the carve outs, and just as inevitable and foreseeable that cities who do as much as they can to avoid it. Everyone is doing what we expect them to do! ;-)

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@mitchellvii Exports to the US account for 17.8% of Canada's GDP according to Stats Canada. That's significant but it's not 75%. It's embarrassing that the US Trade Representative doesn't know these basic facts.

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@TondaMacC @aballinga @TorontoStar It feels to me that Carney is doing what he thinks is right for Canada, more so than aim for narrow political wins. It seems like he prioritizes practical outcomes that balance multiple objectives in light of the existential changes Canada's economy faces.

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@MikePMoffatt The 14 regulatory hurdles are barriers to building more housing, period. All good things to reform. But few people can afford what large units in central locations would cost to build. It's the same reason why there's a bigger market for 4-br homes in Aurora than in Rosedale.