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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Okay but all our other neighbors are an ocean away. This is hard mode.

[–] ThuggyG@piefed.ca 27 points 3 days ago

Yes but the alternative is to become hostage to a hostile nation.

You cave now and they will do it again. We also have to stop pretending these are Canadian firms leaving. We’ve allowed many of our manufacturing companies to become subsidiaries of foreign companies.

[–] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

I mean, same with China for the most part? And yet they manage to be an industrial powerhouse. Shipping is not impossible.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

We also are their biggest export market. If we start "eating our own dog food" then those overseas exports will be enough to make up most of the difference, but we have to double down on the effort to build and buy anything but American.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We also have a land border with Denmark

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Lot of international trade possibilities on Hans Island?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I hear they like poutine.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 points 3 days ago

Historically, there's been a bit of a whiskey trade on the Denmark-Canada land border.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We probably need to build a pipeline over the border

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah but also a lot of countries are looking to diversify away from the us who is just as far from those potential partners.