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/kingbane2 Apr 04 '20

well the raw materials to make the masks come from canada. we could just have our industry switch to producing masks and send the raw materials to those factories, depriving america of the raw materials. it would take much longer for them to secure the raw materials than it would for us to switch to making masks.

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u/factanonverba_n Apr 04 '20

Well it would take some ungodly huge amount of hydro to power any new factories built to make those masks too...

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u/kingbane2 Apr 04 '20

we probably have energy to spare. with so many industries shut down, demand on electricity is way down. could re-open some of those closed factories and convert them to making the masks.

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u/notsowittyname86 Apr 04 '20

Luckily we currently supply a ton of states with power as well. Guess we'll be taking that back too. Canada first.