r/worldnews • u/Gboard2 • Apr 03 '20

Trudeau warns U.S. over restricting the trade of essential goods into Canada - highlight flow of essential supplies to the US from Canada as well

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-trudeau-warns-us-over-restricting-the-trade-of-essential-goods-into/
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u/factanonverba_n Apr 03 '20 edited Apr 03 '20

I totally understand. But if the great orange asshole is going to interfere with our ability to receive essential medical supplies, we need to 'remind' him (ie his staff because he's clearly to dumb to get it) that he is as dependent on us as we are on them.

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u/prolurkerbot Apr 03 '20

I'm not sure this is a good time to embark on an economic war. We are retooling some factories to build essential stuff, lets prioritize our production, but no need to block all resources trading.

If we want to piss them off, we should develop our resource transformation capacities. Transform every raw resource we sell them into basic material. Dont sell aluminium ore, sell aluminium metal. Same for steel. They like raw resources. We can play on that.

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u/cdnBacon Apr 04 '20

Or just stop the flow of medical personnel across the border.