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      This is a bit out of date but just for example: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