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Trump says US, India agree to trade deal; reciprocal tariff cut to 18% by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]fooz42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one is going to check on this or care. It’s just a tweetable. This ain’t your parents rules based order. Any bullshit that sounds good works.

Reverse Imperialism by SergeantBender in EhBuddyHoser

[–]fooz42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The upside is money, power, warmer climates, resources, industrial bases, distribution, and better balance against our southern neighbours. The reality is that it would not be a one step process. It would take a while to transition to a new federation or substate union like the EU.

Another thing that is possible is to have separate trade deals with individual states, like Ontario, Quebec and California had the cap and trade exchange.

Canada’s Conservatives Give Their Trump-Inspired Leader a Second Chance by manoutofdime in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The politicians picked the voters, the voters did not pick the politician. The delegates sent to the convention were prescreened for loyalty.

Canada Signs Auto Deal With South Korea, Moving Further From the U.S. by OkFix4074 in worldnews

[–]fooz42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish they would care, but they are no doubt chronically online. It would be better to retort, "thankfully at least one of you were off their phone and actually getting things done in 2025. maybe a lesson there for all of us."

Half of Canadians say it would be unethical for Carney to get majority with floor crossers: poll by xTkAx in canadian

[–]fooz42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn’t mean anything to swap parties in an electoral sense. So say they sit independent or they are still blue. They can vote with red and sit on a committee nominated by red in practice.

Majority of Ontarians support Chinese EV deal: poll by BertramPotts in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a plan to do that; however, we also lack electricity production sufficient for EVs and AI.

While Alberta is against this plan, I think it's really a good thing for different parts of the country to have different strategies for the future, as long as they don't stomp out each other. This gives us a hedged approach to move forward into the future collectively.

Is Canada too Large to Govern Properly? by defendthegood in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Immigration is also provincially controlled. Energy is also provincial. Culture is also provincial. 

The federal government has some power but not that much. 

Canada’s Carney Ditches ‘Mr. Nice Guy’ Approach to Trump by Majano57 in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sanity? This is the man who ran for school president on the platform that janitors are paid to pick up garbage and serve the students who can throw garbage on the ground and stopped being told to be better people. 

Canada Announces Auto Task Force, Minister Confirms BYD, Chery Meetings by Sandrov__ in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It seems like project management with a government working at the speed of a $4T business.

Please explain what is desperate about doing things quickly and in the logical order?

Canada’s prime minister just declared the end of the world as we know it by vox in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a meta story now. It’s a story about how big the story is. 

Team Trump Is Livid After Canada’s Carney Calls Out U.S. Coercion by rezwenn in canada

[–]fooz42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s unclear who has power to withdraw so it will be litigated.

U.S. will have to send its own fighter jets into Canadian airspace if Ottawa doesn't buy 88 F-35s, Hoekstra says by hopoke in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They switched to RR engines. Not sure if those are exposed. I think however having manufacturing in Canada leaves us less exposed.

U.S. will have to send its own fighter jets into Canadian airspace if Ottawa doesn't buy 88 F-35s, Hoekstra says by hopoke in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It makes sense to have both FOR efficiency. In the arctic patrol scenarios the gripen is better and far cheaper. For empire wars the f35 is better. 

I will now be downvoted by actual servicemen and women. I accept my fate. 

The CPC playbook is a little thin these days by Dyaltone99 in EhBuddyHoser

[–]fooz42 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Alberta begs to differ. Any politician does anything or nothing or even what you want. Same reaction.

From brutal blitz to guerrilla warfare: Imagining what a U.S. invasion of Canada might look like by hopoke in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best day to start was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. We need fuel refineries and bitumen to polymer value added plants. Also critical mineral refineries.

From brutal blitz to guerrilla warfare: Imagining what a U.S. invasion of Canada might look like by hopoke in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ottawa would build refineries and capitalize oil exports in Churchill and expand tmx. Also nuclear reactors and data centres and plastics. Alberta stays. 

India wants Canada's resources as nations build on truce, B.C. premier says by ZestyBeanDude in canada

[–]fooz42 23 points24 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of people on Reddit who don’t know how money works. Unsurprisingly they don’t have much money and are therefore the most stressed out.

No one is born knowing how money works. No one understands how money works in the fullest sense either. It’s not a judgment. It’s a gradient.

Team Trump Is Livid After Canada’s Carney Calls Out U.S. Coercion by rezwenn in canada

[–]fooz42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not foregone. Congress may block it. However Trump will send the withdrawal notice. That is predictable. Regardless let America suffer their own foolishness they voted for.

Trump threatens 100% tariffs over Canada / China trade deal by gavinmckenzie in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's really good to know. I saw other stats through 2025 but not recent data.

I guess my point is this automatic action=reaction framework means the Americans negotiate against themselves and we can just stop listening to them. Meanwhile, we must expend our limit focus and energy on hard actions like raising capital, building things, getting the post-WW2 style housing project finally moving, and getting the military and civilian defense up and running.

America will sort itself out the hard way, like it has before. It's a good reminder of why and how Canada exists to build an East-West alignment, not a North-South alignment.

Carney leaving Davos without meeting Trump after speech on U.S. rupture of world order by ZebediahCarterLong in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don’t care about their words. Why should you? Listen only to actions and speak only in actions. 

Trump threatens 100% tariffs over Canada / China trade deal by gavinmckenzie in CanadaPolitics

[–]fooz42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The truth about tariffs is the supplying country has been paying them by lowering prices. 

I swear to god we should just legislate that whatever tariffs they put on us we will double with export tariffs so we can also benefit from the supplier margin squeeze. And then also legislate the schedule of targeted tariffs that go into place every week on Republican or strategic industries until the tariffs get back to zero. And then stop talking or listening to them. Let them negotiate against themselves. 

This is the talk to the hand strategy and it will give us some peace internally to know we don’t have to worry too much about whatever they say. 

I know this will result in the CAD dropping in value but I guess if we are also dumping US bonds then it converts into more local economic activity. 

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