Suggestion from across the river. The Detroit River.
- Canada should import goods from China without limits or taxes. Canada’s cost of living will go down as the Americans learn how stupid tariffs are.
- If solar electric power is cheaper than other sources, buy as much cheap solar as the Chinese will send you. Try to reduce your electric costs. Export your hydro power to the US at high rates.
- There are cheap electric cars coming from China. Allow them in your market and benefit from low cost environmentally friendly transportation.
- If anyone threatens your sovereignty, put a warrant out for their arrest the minute they arrive in Canada, even if they are a government official. Its your sovereignty, gloves off.
7·1 day ago- Mass importing cheap low-quality goods may lower prices but (a) it increases dependence on an unsustainable and self-reinforcing economic model based on disposability and planned obsolescence, and (b) drives wages and local innovation way down. Canada (and arguably the US) need less of this, not more.
- Leaning hard into solar energy is a good idea, though the oil addiction Canadians suffer from is likely to be a real problem. Initially we could buy these from China, but there’s no reason why the panels couldn’t be built in Canada as well.
- Electric cars are not a solution worth pursuing. Sure they’re better than ICE cars, but they suffer from some serious deal breakers, like mineral availability. You simply can’t convert every ICE driver into an EV one. There’s literally not enough of the minerals required on the planet to do the job and they’d still kill more than a million people every year. A better option is to invest in transit infrastructure and back Canadian train manufacturing to make installing light & heavy rail across the country cheaper while simultaneously leaning into cycling.
- This seems reasonable to me, but could antagonise the Americans and give them the excuse to invade.
- (Your addendum: join the EU) Yes, please do this.