Canada’s leadership can’t help but shoot itself in the foot when it comes to negotiating a new trade deal with the Americans. We continue to cling to a digital services tax that has angered all sides in Washington and Tuesday passed a bill making it illegal to negotiate anything related to supply management.
On Tuesday, the Senate passed Bill C-202, a bill brought forward by the Bloc Quebecois that makes it a law that negotiators at the Department of Foreign Affairs are not allowed to put supply management on the table. That means no negotiations for quotas, prices for quotas or market access to the chicken, egg or dairy sector are allowed as part of any trade deal.
Before we get into why this is such a horrible idea, consider that the sponsor of this bill is Yves-Francois Blanchet, the leader of the Bloc Quebecois. Canada’s trade policy has now been surrendered, handcuffed you might say, by the leader of the party that wants to break up Canada and who claims that Canada is not a real country.
He’s not wrong.
Canada died 10 years ago. Nothing has changed my mind since then.
Canada: the longest documented MAID case in history.
I hope Ontario liberals who voted for this are happy that they just killed the steel, and auto industry, if it wasn’t already dead.
The “Elbows Up!” retards are quite pleased with themselves.
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Well, then let’s add oil and gas to the list of products covered by Supply Management.
Quebecers will now be prevented from buying their gas from anywhere else, and the new price will be $5.00/liter.
Actually back during Trudeau ver 1.0 they tried that in reverse by telling the west they could only sell their oil for less than the market price.
To satisfy Quebec of course.
That’s how the game is played – just like the Canadian Wheat Board. Every cartel benefits only the same people and screws the west.
And yet some people think the game isn’t rigged and will be solved when we elect the controlled-opposition UCP. Or any other party for that matter.
We are not governed, and we have never been governed. We are ruled. All it took was to convince us that we the people are in charge, and that we elect people who represent us.
Canadian eastern voters reflexively support the dairy cartels because Trump wants them gone.
Too blindly stupid to understand that they are supporting higher grocery prices for themselves.
Trump doesn’t have to do anything to get another state added to the Union.
The combined effort of the liberals pretending to act, the sanctimony of the useful and useless idiots, the media concerned more with what isn’t happening to gain favour and obtain tax payer funded largess, with a government premised on a belief that only the state can grant (and deny) rights that determines who succeeds and who fails, it’s inevitable that British North America will be absorbed by the US either in whole or piece by piece.
The US can’t afford to take Canada on as a state. The additional electoral votes that would give the left would guarantee they win every election.
We could take just Alberta/Saskatchewan, or the whole thing as a territory not a state.
“ The additional electoral votes that would give the left would guarantee they win every ”
I used to believe that now I’m not sure that’s the case.
If I’m wrong I will accept that.
But from my understanding when a state is admitted to the union they only receive two seats in Congress and two in the senate, so the ability to tip the scales of the electoral college would be moot.
Secondly, in the US there is no liberal, Conservative Party on the ballot, and if you want to vote you have to register. The fun part is that if you want to vote in the primaries you have to register as your party of choice, either Democrat or Republican.
Thirdly, have you seen the state of the DNC lately? They make the NDP look mainstream.
Last, the change from being Canada to a US state is that Ottawa and the “charter” would be replaced with DC and the US constitution.
-Each state gets 2 Senators
-Each state gets X number of seats in the House of Representatives based on population
– Each state gets electoral votes equal to their number of House seats + 2
Canada wouldn’t be added as one state, its too big, but even if it was it might have a lesser effect on the Senate, but completely hand control of the House and Presidency to the Dems.
Bringing on the provinces as states would give them the Senate as well.
Good points. All individual provinces, under such a scheme, should be treated as a separate state with representatives allocated to both house and senate in an equal proportions.
bverwey
Canada is asshole.
Funny eh!
Yves-Francois Bullshit did not get one GD vote outside of the province of Quebec and here he is driving the bus.
canada a real country?
Hasn’t been for decades!!
And the cowards in the west will do what, exactly? They will bitch and moan, but vote for separation, puh-leeze. They are just as terrified of responsibility and the real world as all the other Canadians. Quit your bitching, drop your heads and take it chickenshits, you don’t have the guts for more. Shithole.
If the Albertans of convenience were to go back to their countries and provinces of origin, there’d be a majority of Albertans who would separate in a heartbeat. Sadly, they’re mostly the older generation however.
Those who wouldn’t are the usual suspects – public sector union cultists, the lazy, the ignorant, and the parasites.
The people that are being hit the hardest is industrial Ontario. I hope all the laid off steel and auto workers will be happy paying for over-priced milk to satisfy the only important people.
It is my hope that Trump sees this very big opening and drives a Mack Truck through it. We will not need a referendum. The place is going to crack apart here in very short order.
God willing
“ a bill brought forward by the Bloc Quebecois”.
Let me correct that for you Brian, a bill brought forward by the Quebec wing of the lieberal party.
So politicians, who draw their wages from a country they want to leave, have voted to support a flawed supply management system that only benefits a few people in Quebec. And this is the first legislation from the retread government led by Canada’s CEO, Mark Carney. That’s real elbows up nation building, that is. He must be so proud.
Obviously as the first piece of legislation passed, it was most important, never mind that China inflicted tariffs on Canadian farmers.
There is a good chance that President Donald Trump will offer tier 2 Canada a free trade deal, and suggest that it is a “take it of leave” it offer.
After Canada refuses it, President Donald Trump will offer an amended offer which is less favorable to Canada, while raising tarffs again on Canadian sourced goods, to such an extent that we’re stuck with a bunch of crap that no other countries can use this year, maybe in 2 years? In the meantime… lives go on, and bills are not paid.
Everywhere you look, disaster for Canada, and hopefully freedom for AB/Sask.
Well Canada … enjoy your isolationism. I guess that’s what post-National States do.
On this topic: New Conservative Opposition, same as the old Conservative Opposition.