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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Well then, I guess we should all just become slaves to China since it’s not worth putting a fight. 🙄

    Equalizing the playing field was part of the legislation that Canada just got rid of in order to import cheap (subsidized and possibly made with slave labor) Chinese cars.

    Someone else mentioned the US. We had those industries in the US, and we let them wither on the vine. Now we can’t manufacture cars because one of the controller chips is single sourced and the country that it comes from is tied up in some sort of “geopolitical tension”. Our clothes are made in sweatshops by slave labor. And many of our generic drugs are coming from countries that don’t have quality standards so they don’t work at all, or worse they actually make people sick. But hey, at least they’re cheap!


  • I hate to break it to you, but a lot of these countries aren’t interested in “working together”. In fact they want to sell you something for cheap, get you hooked, and put your own means of production and any competition out of business. This makes you dependent on them, and they can then use this to hike up prices, and exert political control.

    There’s no reason Canada can’t make its own cars. Or computer chips. Or food. Or drugs. Etc etc. Relying on a single external source for a good or service really screws you over when that country goes to war, or goes nuts.

    It’s not about isolationism. It’s about making sure there is competition to keep prices down, and making sure there is more than one source to get these goods and services from.