Canadians have heard a lot of ‘talk,’ but we are still waiting for meaningful action from our new prime minister. The ‘Elbows Up’ crowd are still beating their chest in glee, as they still believe they won something big. So far, it appears Canadians did not win big! Or is hope still on the way?
Some grand pre-election claims and promises were made. In particular, Carney’s self-declared strong capability to talk tariffs with President Trump with assured victory didn’t materialize. They talked, but there was no victory. Since then, Canada Air has zipped around the world to more countries and conferences than I can name, including Davos and NATO, holding meetings with countries we have never dealt with before to make trade deals that fail to make economic sense given they are so far away. And we don’t have a lot to sell, except of course our oil and gas, which is a silencer to the ‘no more oil’ crowd. The process of importing across oceans, docking, unloading, reloading and trucking the products across our vast country makes little sense. The obvious approach is to continue doing what we have done for years – trucking things back and forth across an invisible border to the largest buying market in the world. And furthermore, does anyone seriously believe three flights a week to The Emirates will occur? And for what purpose? I can only guess it would be tourism.
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