Trump's going to end up saving Canada in the long run. A proper technical recession is something we've refused to accept going on 20 years now.
In 2008, we got lucky off our oil sands. OPEC collapsed our oil sands and we sold Vancouver to the Chinese. Trump tried weening us off China money with calling on us to detain the Huawei princess. The Chinese wouldn't have us and we opened a fucking floodgate to go quantity over quality opening up our visa system as a permanent residency stream and selling that to literally millions of Indian, African, and Arab migrants.
Our whole system is just borrowing against houses (Home Equity Lines of Credit) to buy rental properties to pack with migrants. And something similar and adjacent with construction jobs to build towers for the same.
We've gone soft on drugs. Decriminalizing them so that dealers have an easy market. We decriminalized a lot of precursors and lab equipment and have some of the most sophisticated drug labs in the world. The proceeds of that get laundered for more easy money and multiplied at leverage when they're used as collateral for just more real estate that our government recklessly packs with migrant student workers.
Canada does not have the stomach to clean this up but will make big moves to save what little legitimate business still exists in Quebec and Ontario. If the choice is collapse either way and one of them lets us escape tariffs and hold onto our productive economy, we can rebuild. And maybe Trudeau decides he wants to stick the next guy with this and fucks off before April. If that happens, maybe our capital gains and carbon taxes back down and the Canadians who want to help rebuild won't get drowned.
Trump's going to end up saving Canada in the long run. A proper technical recession is something we've refused to accept going on 20 years now.
In 2008, we got lucky off our oil sands. OPEC collapsed our oil sands and we sold Vancouver to the Chinese. Trump tried weening us off China money with calling on us to detain the Huawei princess. The Chinese wouldn't have us and we opened a fucking floodgate to go quantity over quality opening up our visa system as a permanent residency stream and selling that to literally millions of Indian, African, and Arab migrants.
Our whole system is just borrowing against houses (Home Equity Lines of Credit) to buy rental properties to pack with migrants. And something similar and adjacent with construction jobs to build towers for the same.
We've gone soft on drugs. Decriminalizing them so that dealers have an easy market. We decriminalized a lot of precursors and lab equipment and have some of the most sophisticated drug labs in the world. The proceeds of that get laundered for more easy money and multiplied at leverage when they're used as collateral for just more real estate that our government recklessly packs with migrant student workers.
Canada does not have the stomach to clean this up but will make big moves to save what little legitimate business still exists in Quebec and Ontario. If the choice is collapse either way and one of them lets us escape tariffs and hold onto our productive economy, we can rebuild. And maybe Trudeau decides he wants to stick the next guy with this and fucks off before April. If that happens, maybe our capital gains and carbon taxes back down and the Canadians who want to help rebuild won't get drowned.
Trump has exceeded expectations already.