sloppychops

I guess it would allow him to circumvent Congress? I'm not sure.

My God (ﾟ_ﾟ)

I feel like there's about to be overlap. Whatever he says, that's their opinion.

This guy looks like the offspring of Noddy and a glazed ham.

Oh, you'll both need to be on the application, regardless. Unless you're OK with a Zoom marriage.

You might need to offer bribes.

"A turd of emotions" is such a keeper.

I member the McDonald's banquet.

The americans asked us to keep their competitors out, probably. Although I believe CETA eliminated those tarrifs so you might start seeing them around. I always loved that shitty little Citreon C3.

We may be talking past each other, but in any case, I don't think that is a useful way of presenting this information.

Gross domestic product calculates only for the net effect of imports and exports. That is to say, the balance of trade.

56% of Canada's GDP is consumer spending. 19% is investment. 23% is government spending. And 2% is net exports.

That's the $2.2/2.3 trillion GDP of Canada broken down. Yes, it's technically true to say that the trade relationship represents a value roughly equivalent to 40% of Canada's GDP, but I don't believe that's very helpful framing.

Using the same method, we might say that the various trade relationships of the US represent a value that is roughly 25% of US GDP.

If Canada's GDP, an acronym that many people take to be synonymous with 'economy', was 40% US trade, we'd be talking about more than a 3% recession.

I can't help but think of the 'length of a football field' or 'weight of an elephant' mode of analysis.

Also, your definition of the fallout this could create seems very limited in scope, but I take your point that you are only defining said fallout within the confines of the immediate and specific effects of the tarrifs themselves, and not all the various ripple effects.

Otherwise, we probably agree more than we disagree. Trump's a cunt is about what it boils down to for me.

I mean, that's like 20/25% of Canada's total exports to Mordor. I assume we'll see the same climb down on most other natural resources, with the exception of lumber, for a total of about 40/50% of all exports.

All against the backdrop of the endless whining, "we don't need Canada for anything.'

"We're going to whine so much, you're going to be so sick and tired of whining."

Yes, which is impossible to fail.

As I said in a previous comment, it's a pretty drawn-out process requiring financial stability, credit, health and background checks, proof of employment and education history, etc.

It's not difficult, just time-consuming, and I'd be very surprised if you and your wife didn't meet the minimum points threshold.

Oh, you'd get PR easy through express entry. The application is all online and pretty straightforward if a little time-consuming.