Canada cannot win a trade war with the US. When we are on our knees he’s going to ask for Yukon, nwt and nunavut. Saying basically nobody lives there and we don’t need it. He can easily buy out northern Canadians by offering lots of money or citizenship and the other 39 million Canadians will reluctantly agree it’s the best compromise.

He knows climate change is real and it makes the north more and more viable every day due to its resources and shipping route.

Another obvious hint at this was traitor Danielle Smith suggesting US military bases in the north just last week.

  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
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    1 month ago
    1. Canada’s economy only looks bad if you use one metric on the economy, GDP. That metric happens to omit exports as well as public sector.
      E.G. the US spends twice what we do on healthcare, and huge profits are made from it. According to the GDP metric, that means it is better.

    In reality, Canadians are doing better than the Americans for health care access and we have the same number of doctors and nurses per capita. We also live longer and are healthier

    1. Canada supplies 60% of the US oil. If we want, we have them by the balls and there isn’t a damn thing they can do.
    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      1 month ago

      Canada supplies 60% of the US oil. If we want, we have them by the balls and they’re isn’t a damn thing they can do.

      Canada supplies 60% of US oil imports. The USA also uses domestically produced oil. So it’s not true that Canada supplies 60% of their oil in total.

      This is a bit out of date but just for example:

      in 2020 America produced 18.4 million barrels of oil per day and consumed 18.12 million. And yet that same report reveals that the U.S. imported 7.86 million barrels of oil per day last year. Source

      That would make imported oil about 43% of what was consumed, and Canada’s contribution about 60% of that 43%, so about 26%.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
      31·
      1 month ago

      I’m curious where you got that 60% number. The US is the largest oil producer in the world.

      • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
        7·
        1 month ago

        The US produces crap oil that US refineries can’t even process. We export that, then import the good stuff.

        • bitwise@lemmy.ca
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          1 month ago

          It’s actually the opposite; US shale oil is very high quality in terms of purity. The problem is that their refineries are built around the idea of processing lower quality crude because the by-product is used in manufacturing other goods.

          Canada’s oil sands produces the crude they need to make money off that by-product.

          https://youtu.be/_l1cj_AyR1E

          Which is great for us, because it means export tariffs would have an outsized impact on their secondary petrochem product prices.