‘Economic destiny’
“This will be an incredibly exciting time as we take control of our economic destiny to create a new Canadian economy,” Carney said.To this end, he promised to abolish existing trade barriers between Canadian provinces by July 1 to expand the economy, and to strengthen trade with “reliable allies”.
this will be an exciting time indeed; I’m eager to see how this develops and Canada’s economy decouples from the USA’s and flourishes in spite of it
I like the idea of decoupling from the US. I’m concerned by the idea of putting “economic growth” (which usually means growing the wealth of the wealthy) above everything else.
What we need is to grow our economy from the bottom up, but doing that involves making moves that work against the interests of the wealthy.
We need an ecological destiny, not an economic one. I’m glad Carney got elected as he is the best to negotiate with Trump but I fear it’ll ultimately be more of the same old, same old.
I feel it’s never going to happen so it’s safe to fantasize about, but nationalizing all of the US assets in Canada and seeing Trump implode would be a fun tv show to watch
Consider attracting Americans who hate Trump and want to leave.
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I’m not talking about conservatives, I’m talking about the people who voted against him. Or, do you hate all Americans, even the ones who support you?
this has “with us or against us “ energy
To do list for Mark Carney:
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Encourage all Government Agencies to switch to Linux. It’s completely ridiculous that hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money are wasted every year on Microsoft licenses. The French Gendarmerie switched to Linux and they never went back to Windows. They saved millions. Money that they can spend on actually doing their job.
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Create a Canadian fund to encourage Open Source Software. A $10 million fund over 5 years would not be much money, but it could help open source software developers. A small $100 000 grant could really help Gimp, Kdenlive and Krita fight Adobe. Too many Canadian artists and Canadian production companies are exploited by Adobe.
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Ban foreigners from owning more than 40% of any Canadian media outlet. It’s absolutely sickening that an american hedge fund (Chatham Asset Management) currently owns 20 different canadian newspapers.
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Reduce the immigration rate. Justin Trudeau did a lot of good things, but immigration was one of two biggest failures. Under his leadership, the population increased by 3% a year. The Canadian population increase twice as fast as the population of Mexico, Brazil, Spain, the United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia. This is too extreme. Canada should aim for 2% population growth instead of 3%. Also, don’t concentrate people in a single place. It’s wrong to have a 4% population growth in Toronto and 0.5% elsewhere.
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Improve the voting system. This was the second failure of Justin Trudeau. The First-Past-The-Post voting system is just flawed. It is basically designed to create two very powerful political parties, at the expense of pluralism. FPTP is the reason why the US is stuck with only two parties.
Lost me at “Justin Trudeau did a lot of good things”.
Also, don’t concentrate people in a single place. It’s wrong to have a 4% population growth in Toronto and 0.5% elsewhere.
Is there a mechanism for anchoring immigrants in a specific location? My understanding is that our charter right of freedom of movement means that if everyone wants to go to Toronto, we can’t stop them once they’re in the country.
Reduce the immigration rate
It’s the only way to keep the working-age population steady, sorry.
The problem is we’re living longer, and that’s your 3% increase. You could try culling the oldies but it may be a hard sell.
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