Perhaps this is the greatest, and perhaps only, benefit of having the orange menace as president: forcing independence of the US. As an American I want Canada to punish our sorry excuse for a new government. While you are at it, ban Tesla across the board. I would suggest that you import BYD cars instead, but I would much rather see you expand bike lanes. Don't send your trees to the US, we just use them for toilet paper and paper towels. Use a bidet, let the trees grow bigger, then follow your advice and build with timber, selectively cut, and preserve the biodiversity that is Canada. We Americans have to deal with our orange marmalade mistake on our own. I am afraid it won't look pretty, but I for one, won't mind if you laugh.
My house in Maine is all electric. But most people in Maine heat with oil. All the heating oil used here comes from New Brunswick. Same with gasoline. Advice to my Canadian friends. Please don't elect a fascist idiot to lead your country nor your provinces. Fascist is bad enough. Stupid is bad enough. But combined? We're screwed.
Great piece Lloyd. Excellent advice. I also agree Canada should put a 100% tariff on Tesla. The tech bro is a driver of the orange plague in the US. There are many other EV choices.
Well, this American is pretty ashamed of how our new government is treating our long-time friends North and South of our borders. Do what you have to do, Canadians, and remember many of us (in fact, most of us) down here in the US didn't vote for this, and don't support it. Some of us are doing what we can to resist actively. Please do what you can to support us... we need you!
Oh, I was just wondering about something. I thought the fella in the White House is the world's greatest dealmaker? I thought NAFTA 2.0 was his most beautiful deal ever? Why the tears now? Oh, I forgot to whom I was referring?
Ok, this read made me go from ”free” to ”paid subscriber”. This is the way to be thinking. And as an American (now also a Swedish passport holder since the first time Trump was elected) I agree that Canada should be more Scandinavian than American! And yes, travel to other countries, not the USA, if you really need some sunshine!
What a wonderful piece, I can see why you were eager to get it posted, and what a great collection of posters! Kelly's veg shopping looks just like mine this week.
Lloyd, just a question as many - myself included are advocating for removing barriers in Canada to interprovincial trade. One area we can have influence/impact is changing (getting rid of) the Provincial professional associations' dictate for licensing professionals (Architects, Engineers, Doctors, Nurses, lawyers etc) in each province they wish to do work/projects. A license to practice in Canada should be sufficient. I was working at this change some 20 years ago for engineers and it's still NOT resolved. Separate licensing is an unnecessary added cost to professionals, projects and lengthy nightmare for procuring services. The construction industry has the Red Seal program which allows/encourages across country mobility with ONE certificate/licence. We have to strongly advocate for this change and quickly.
The new and old way of exercising control is through economic means, the United States has finally woken up to this, but at the same time they are still asleep on other tremendously important factors specially when it comes to foreign policy!
This line of thinking was the first place my thoughts took me to as well. An opportunity to rejig things to our benefit. It does need to be said that this is going to suck for people who are already struggling. However, maybe it will put a damper on our out of control consumerism. And maybe it will elevate awareness about local economies, locally made products and services, interprovincial trade barriers etc etc etc.
That's really funny, I belong to a Scotch club that met yesterday and I bought a bottle of Lot 40 so that we could have some Canadian content and it was great! I am switching to it.
So like you, just before Christmas we started buying Ontario Organic Apple Cider & other things from the US have started to drop out of our shopping list. Be cautious with what you replace US things with. Canada Dry hasn't been Canadian in decades, PC products, as with most private labels are from the lowest cost providers- often from the US, Old Dutch is a US company, etc. etc.
Funny story. I just got back from the grocery store with some driveway salt & as one enters there's a giant display of a skid of oranges with California in big colourful letters. So poor timing on their part!
Good advice, JS. I love my Kenora Dinner Jacket, but it came to me in Canada from L.L. Bean in Maine, so its replacement would presumably be subject to Canada's proposed countervailing 25% tariff. But wait a minute—the label also says 'Made in Sri Lanka'. Perhaps it will be tariff-free? How much value did L.L. Bean add? If our addition is on only the increased value added by the importer, that could be—er—tArrific.
I am really at a loss here as to why the U.S. would want to place a 25% tariff on goods and materials moving across the border between the United States and Canada and between the U.S. and Mexico. I keep hearing from different sources about how Canada, Mexico and the United States are allies. I have never known the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to cause such consternation as these tariffs appear to be causing.
Personally, as an American, I don’t want to pay more as a consumer for imported products and materials coming across the United States’ northern and southern borders. But isn’t that what’s effectively going to happen with these tariffs in place?
Unless there’s something I’m missing here, the only possible good that I can see coming as a result of these tariffs being imposed, is a lowering in emissions mucking up the common air that Canadians, Mexicans and Americans all share.
I am not sure where you are getting your news from, but the reason is illegal immigrants and drugs. And a little bit of a trade imbalance. But the former is the most important. Notice not one thing was said about the illegals and drugs. Now you know where their priorities are.
Perhaps this is the greatest, and perhaps only, benefit of having the orange menace as president: forcing independence of the US. As an American I want Canada to punish our sorry excuse for a new government. While you are at it, ban Tesla across the board. I would suggest that you import BYD cars instead, but I would much rather see you expand bike lanes. Don't send your trees to the US, we just use them for toilet paper and paper towels. Use a bidet, let the trees grow bigger, then follow your advice and build with timber, selectively cut, and preserve the biodiversity that is Canada. We Americans have to deal with our orange marmalade mistake on our own. I am afraid it won't look pretty, but I for one, won't mind if you laugh.
I agree; when the American car manufacturers move back south we should invite BYD to fill their factories with affordable electric cars.
Canadians are too polite to laugh...
Not some of the ones I know! Besides, if you can't laugh, you might have to cry all the time.
My house in Maine is all electric. But most people in Maine heat with oil. All the heating oil used here comes from New Brunswick. Same with gasoline. Advice to my Canadian friends. Please don't elect a fascist idiot to lead your country nor your provinces. Fascist is bad enough. Stupid is bad enough. But combined? We're screwed.
Fascism and stupidity are much the same thing
Great piece Lloyd. Excellent advice. I also agree Canada should put a 100% tariff on Tesla. The tech bro is a driver of the orange plague in the US. There are many other EV choices.
Well, this American is pretty ashamed of how our new government is treating our long-time friends North and South of our borders. Do what you have to do, Canadians, and remember many of us (in fact, most of us) down here in the US didn't vote for this, and don't support it. Some of us are doing what we can to resist actively. Please do what you can to support us... we need you!
Oh, I was just wondering about something. I thought the fella in the White House is the world's greatest dealmaker? I thought NAFTA 2.0 was his most beautiful deal ever? Why the tears now? Oh, I forgot to whom I was referring?
Ok, this read made me go from ”free” to ”paid subscriber”. This is the way to be thinking. And as an American (now also a Swedish passport holder since the first time Trump was elected) I agree that Canada should be more Scandinavian than American! And yes, travel to other countries, not the USA, if you really need some sunshine!
Thank you!
What a wonderful piece, I can see why you were eager to get it posted, and what a great collection of posters! Kelly's veg shopping looks just like mine this week.
Those posters are priceless!
Lloyd, just a question as many - myself included are advocating for removing barriers in Canada to interprovincial trade. One area we can have influence/impact is changing (getting rid of) the Provincial professional associations' dictate for licensing professionals (Architects, Engineers, Doctors, Nurses, lawyers etc) in each province they wish to do work/projects. A license to practice in Canada should be sufficient. I was working at this change some 20 years ago for engineers and it's still NOT resolved. Separate licensing is an unnecessary added cost to professionals, projects and lengthy nightmare for procuring services. The construction industry has the Red Seal program which allows/encourages across country mobility with ONE certificate/licence. We have to strongly advocate for this change and quickly.
The new and old way of exercising control is through economic means, the United States has finally woken up to this, but at the same time they are still asleep on other tremendously important factors specially when it comes to foreign policy!
https://open.substack.com/pub/ragalla/p/dreaming-the-problem-with-migrants?r=55jm5x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
This line of thinking was the first place my thoughts took me to as well. An opportunity to rejig things to our benefit. It does need to be said that this is going to suck for people who are already struggling. However, maybe it will put a damper on our out of control consumerism. And maybe it will elevate awareness about local economies, locally made products and services, interprovincial trade barriers etc etc etc.
Also, I want to put in a plug for an absolutely delicious, 100% rye whiskey made right here in Toronto. Lot 40 has been my go-to for years. Try it!
That's really funny, I belong to a Scotch club that met yesterday and I bought a bottle of Lot 40 so that we could have some Canadian content and it was great! I am switching to it.
It's delish!
So like you, just before Christmas we started buying Ontario Organic Apple Cider & other things from the US have started to drop out of our shopping list. Be cautious with what you replace US things with. Canada Dry hasn't been Canadian in decades, PC products, as with most private labels are from the lowest cost providers- often from the US, Old Dutch is a US company, etc. etc.
It's hard to know! but some stores are putting labels on their shelves and new lists are coming out.
Funny story. I just got back from the grocery store with some driveway salt & as one enters there's a giant display of a skid of oranges with California in big colourful letters. So poor timing on their part!
Good advice, JS. I love my Kenora Dinner Jacket, but it came to me in Canada from L.L. Bean in Maine, so its replacement would presumably be subject to Canada's proposed countervailing 25% tariff. But wait a minute—the label also says 'Made in Sri Lanka'. Perhaps it will be tariff-free? How much value did L.L. Bean add? If our addition is on only the increased value added by the importer, that could be—er—tArrific.
Well done Lloyd. Rally the troops at the checkout
I am really at a loss here as to why the U.S. would want to place a 25% tariff on goods and materials moving across the border between the United States and Canada and between the U.S. and Mexico. I keep hearing from different sources about how Canada, Mexico and the United States are allies. I have never known the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to cause such consternation as these tariffs appear to be causing.
Personally, as an American, I don’t want to pay more as a consumer for imported products and materials coming across the United States’ northern and southern borders. But isn’t that what’s effectively going to happen with these tariffs in place?
Unless there’s something I’m missing here, the only possible good that I can see coming as a result of these tariffs being imposed, is a lowering in emissions mucking up the common air that Canadians, Mexicans and Americans all share.
I am not sure where you are getting your news from, but the reason is illegal immigrants and drugs. And a little bit of a trade imbalance. But the former is the most important. Notice not one thing was said about the illegals and drugs. Now you know where their priorities are.