Wie wäre es, wenn wir statt eines China-Pivots anfangen würden, zu Hause zu bauen?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-instead-of-a-china-pivot-how-about-we-start-building-at-home/
Wie wäre es, wenn wir statt eines China-Pivots anfangen würden, zu Hause zu bauen?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-instead-of-a-china-pivot-how-about-we-start-building-at-home/
33 Kommentare
Agreed. Why do we need China? Trying to pivot from the US to them is going from one merciless superpower to another.
Pretty sure our country is broke?
We can’t. We gave up our ability to be a manufacturing country by signing NAFTA
Absolutely. What the hell happened to our railways? We need a massive power network, focusing on efficient, *preferably* clean energy. We need to develop resources besides oil for once. Build up steel production. There’s so much we can do that we aren’t.
Edit: To clarify, I don’t think this should instead of trading with China. It should be done as well as trade with China.
we need people to SELL stuff to not just to consume.
We have a surplus in Energy, minerals, agriculture products and manufacturing.
We need clients and not just vendors. The US was our biggest client and now they are turning into Gilead we need an alternative.
We are 40 million people all together. We cannot consume it all.
Its wild these needs to be explained.
Probably because pivoting is easier than fixing what is wrong at home. The fact we needed C-5 to cut the red tape around projects says it all. The fact that they also gave the government the capability to choose what gets approved and what doesn’t is also telling. I have not heard a peep about them addressing the cores issues so that C-5 is not needed any longer.
Start building with what money?
Why can’t we do both?
Pretty sure Canada gave up on Canada a long time ago.
I say that as immigrant and when I came here in the 90s, there was a certain pride in building Canada. Maybe I just came at the right time, but the CN Tower was there. Skydome was there. That’s some pretty amazing building we did.
I almost seems like we haven’t really built anything big since. At least in Toronto. The last Big Thing I figure was the confederation bridge in PEI and even that was in the late 90s.
Even company wise. We just gave up on Nortel, parts of Bombardier, BlackBerry… and I’m sure a thousand other firms all over. I’m not saying there were not ‚free-trade‘ or ‚market‘ reasons these failed, but that we let our companies fail is pretty indicative that we don’t want to build anymore in Canada.
Because wages are too high to produce or too low to purchase said products at home.
Because we have different regulations, which will change products or increase costs.
Because we aren’t set up for it, we spent decades moving production to other countries.
Because it’s a huge risk and no one would survive while facing competition from countries where it’s cheaper to produce. And the tariffs needed to protect them would worsen our economic links with the rest of the world.
Sure. Will we just go into massive dept pretending we are our own huge market to sell to?
Right. Cheap oil, lumber, minerals, for all Canadians
We should just join the European Union and try to get more trade with the UK.
China is invading Taiwan in 2027, it’s not a good country to pivot too as it’ll be the next Russia
Start building what exactly? We need to attract companies and investors to do that. They left decades ago.
Multiple things are possible
There is no pivot from the US to China. The pivot is from the US to as large as possible a number of international trade partners. All of whom look saner and more predictable than Trump’s USA. And, using the benefits of that expanded international cooperation, we will be able to build more at home.
bushcraft an ev from a box of scrap in a cave?
You cant lumber, m8
That’s the idea with the pivot
How about we be diversified, and stop with these zero-sum headlines and articles?
Because no one wants to pay the cost of Canadian labour.
It wouldn’t be as lucrative, but a lot more ethical than doing more business with China or any other nation that directly or indirectly supports Russia in their war against the Ukraine.
Why not both?
These fucking neoliberals advocate for neoliberalism for 50 years and then wonder why we can’t build anything in Canada it’s too much man
You want houses to be built, reinstate the Cooperative Programs that we gutted and allow normal people to band together and build places that they will actually live in. No market downturn or speculation bubble will impede housing that is being made for people not profit.
And it can be revenue positive in the long run for the government.
Can’t, to many road blocks and treaties and hurdles in the way.
Take for example a pipeline. Good luck in getting aboriginal approval.
I don’t have a garage.
😆🤣😂 why is it always the capitalists who suggest, with a straight face, socialist/communist solutions?
We can absolutely build at home. We even probably should. But the capitalist system completely collapses when we’re not trading outside of the borders. Remember, perpetual wealth is needed to prop up capitalism. The whole reason CEO wages have absolutely ballooned over the years, but the guy who’s washing windows is actually making less than the same guy washing windows in the ’60s? Because of perpetual growth demands by Wall Street.
Even just 4% growth annually, which by many standards is considered anemic for a business, means your company needs to double sales every 17 years. Companies that are trying to maintain 6% or 7% growth year over year have an unrealistic growth expectation that almost invariably leads to layoffs and automation.
Norwegian sovereign wealth fund model.
Private:public partnership closer to 50/50 where we front a considerable amount of the money, government backed, accelerate overcoming regulatory hurdles, but also a considerable amount of the return.
Where to get the money? CPP has 700 billion in assets, almost half of which are invested in our hostile neighbor. You can still diversify, but pull in the tens of billion back home to get some projects going.
We can do both. China pivot in the short term while be build at home for the long term.
You know any billionaires or millionaires who want to throw money at us?
Because the Feds are fast-tracking the decline of Canada so they can get cushy elite jobs .