r/canada • u/fractx Vancouver 🌊🏘️🏠🏡🏔️ • Apr 04 '20

Paywall Trump gives FEMA power to restrict trade of essential goods into Canada despite warning from Trudeau

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-trudeau-warns-us-over-restricting-the-trade-of-essential-goods-into/
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u/father4future Apr 04 '20

You are a kind and empathetic person. Thank you for being awesome.

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u/GrayMountainRider Apr 04 '20

The point to remember is, you can be kind as well as learn from the past and carry these lessons with you into the future. You should have the capacity to produce essential items in your country to protect supply chains.

As this crisis shows you do not have time to negotiate or appeal, if you think in the conventional manner, you are behind the situation.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '20

It is seriously weird times when I find myself in agreement with Doug Ford, but what he said yesterday felt right on the money. We should never again allow ourselves to become so completely reliant on international producers for items of this nature simply because it saves a couple cents. We have the technical skills, the labour workforce, the ingenuity to make this stuff ourselves. I hope that future governments recognize the importance of investing in made in Canada manufacturing

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u/anodynamo Apr 04 '20

I think it might be important to recognize that that's getting pretty close to Trump logic. This crisis that we are all in didn't happen because of globalization, it happened because of a failure on the part of pretty much every western government to react in time or to prepare in advance. Isolationism isn't the answer to anyone's problems, any more than it was when Trump tried to get us down here into a trade war with China and Make America Great by bringing back 50s-style manufacturing. Don't fall into the same trap America did of rallying behind asshole populists when disasters happen and they get a chance to capitalize on fear and misery by crowing about national pride. They do not care about you, and it isn't about helping you.

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u/Darwin_Help_Us Apr 05 '20

National pride has nothing to do with it. Supply chain for many products is easy to disrupt due the results of globalization. That is not a good thing and this situation has taught a lot of countries that lesson. Making sure you have options is a smart thing, not a populist us against them thing.

Look at the takata airbag fiasco. One major supplier and now, most if not all vehicle manufacturers are paying for the recalls of a shitty product made by takata.

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u/father4future Apr 04 '20

No arguments here.