Barry Zekelman, the chairman and CEO of Zekelman Industries, delivered a scathing assessment Thursday of how the Liberal government is handling the tariff fight with the United States, accusing the government of squandering opportunities to resolve the issue months ago.
Zekelman, a Windsor, Ont. native who heads a steel empire that has operations in both Canada and the U.S, was asked by MPs about the impact of tariffs on his Canadian operations.
“They have stalled and blown this big time, and our consumers and our industry in Canada is suffering because of it,” Zekelman told MPs on the standing committee on international trade.
“We’re waiting for someone’s ego. They need to get into a room and get the deal done … whether Freeland picks up the phone and calls (U.S. Trade Representative) Robert Lighthizer and says here it is … the deal is available this afternoon.”
it will be fun watching Andrew, alla S and unDork tie themselves in knots trying to “know” metal trading better than Zekelman.
and that strutting bitch has an EGO, she’s just plain stupid, just like the TurD’Oh
Cheers Bro
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Reading the comments of CBC zombies is extremely depressing. They hate people who run real businesses. No wonder they love the ‘Palestinians’. It’s a moral failing ever to act in your own self interest?
The hypocrisy smells like rotten eggs.
NPCbc
Trudeau Priorité
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Sacrifice you all but us Elites: You betcha ALL high on POT and just as DUMB as Free lander!!
This is what happens when you put a grade nine class in charge of a country.
The comments to this article are overwhelmingly in favour of the juvenile pm. I am still banned from commenting on CBC, permanently I guess.
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Apart from anything else, was that the Liberal Party uthpiece picking faults with the interviewee?
The misconception is that Freeland is interested in reaching a deal, when all indications are that her goal is helping the Democrats undermine Trump.
Joseph: You are bang on….she does like interfering with the American politics!!
From Freeland’s acceptance speech of the 2018 Diplomat of the Year Award:
“Why are our liberal democracies vulnerable at home? Angry populism thrives where the middle class is hollowed out, where people are losing ground and losing hope, even as those at the very top are doing better than ever. People feel their economic future is in jeopardy — when they believe their children have fewer opportunities than they themselves had in their youth, that is when people are vulnerable to the demagogue who scapegoats the outsider, the other, whether it is immigrants at home or trading partners abroad.”
But isn’t that what she just did for Trudeau by vilifying President Trump?
The comments on the CBC website are truly disheartening.
What blocked the deal is Chrystia Chomiak’s Jew-hate.
She thinks Trump is a Jew and is convinced that the “woke” will seize power and send the entire Trump family to hell or “Palestine” in the very near future, so why bother negotiating with the old K-word anyway?
(Donald Trump is not Jewish! you say. You are at liberty to try explaining that to the little Ukrainian Nazi dog who passes for our foreign minister, because she clearly didn’t get the memo.)
Well, I’m told, that there is more than one way to skin a cat.
On the other hand, there is no way to skin a Rottweiler, as far as I’m concerned — you’d have to skin me first, would never happen. Sayin’.
On the other, other hand, while it’s demonstrably true that Ms. Freeland “is in over her head” (I had written more, but deleted it on account of potential legal liability), and that she can’t think straight, I would recommend the following measures:
— trade the very well-prepared-for-competition agricultural quota system (everywhere in southwestern Ontario);
— in exchange for an exemption from the metals quotas.
Remind me, again, what this is all about?
Canada will win on this.
No mention of Alberta’s oil industry being strangled by Canadians. As an Albertan, I don’t give a shit about Ontario’s steel industry or Quebec and BC’s aluminium industry. Go Trump, make it a 75% tarrif.
On the other hand, for your consideration, here’s part of a case I have very recently made to an important commentator, whom I won’t name:
“- Let’s say Ms. Wynne’s “Fair Hydro Plan” prospective public indebtedness of $45 billion (roughly) goes ahead unabated under the Ford administration at Queen’s Park;
– And let’s say that Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG)’s refurbishment program (first and foremost, but not exclusively — hydro-electric generation facilities also require refurbishment — attaches to the Darlington NGS, which is now 30 years old) goes ahead at a cost of $15 billion, all in, including potential cost-overruns (probably low, and I’m told — not directly related — that there is still more possible exposure around HONI’s transmission system around the lower Great Lakes) of further public indebtedness, give or take;
– By my count, that would be at least $60 billion dollars of further public indebtedness in Ontario (one province), which would generate exactly $0 of sustainable increase in Ontario GD(P)P, without an uptick in demand for electricity in Ontario.
Now, let’s compare that, for a moment, with the oil pipelines, which would unlock untold sustainable increases in GDP:
– Keystone XL (call it $10 billion in privately-funded costs);
– Northern Gateway (call it $10 billion in privately-funded costs);
– Energy East (call it $8 billion in privately-funded costs); and
– Trans-mountain (call it an additional $8 billion, on top of its acquisition cost by the Government of Canada of $4.5 billion; more below).
By my count, the oil pipelines would cost about $42.5 billion, with public debt of $12.5 billion, assuming the federal government can’t find a buyer for the Trans-mountain enterprise.”
What I’m here to say is very simple: the pipelines — all of them, together — will cost less than the prospective long-term payout of the Green Energy contracts agreed by the previous Liberal government of Ontario.
One set of options increases Canada’s GDP greatly; the other set of options increases Canada’s GDP by $0.
So, us southwestern Ontarians (not all of us, but most of us) get the picture — in droves, actually.