We need to recognize that ultimately, the only ones that we can always depend on are each other
Yes but this sentiment extends globally too.
Again I fully support Canada becoming more independent I am just saying that we do need all of each other, isolationism is always worse in the end, which doesn’t mean we have to be maximalist about it or not recognize the damage economic systems have done that have promoted offshoring industries.
What it means is that we need to all recognize when a shitty leader or administration topples a collective prosperity and causes everything to atomize that at a basic mathematical level it diminishes the overall potential of everybody who experiences that shattering. That is part of the basic crime of it, and we shouldn’t let those shitty people get away with not answering to that crime just because Canada is in the mood for more isolationism right now in an understandable and justifiable way.
I agree with the sentiment that isolationism is not the answer, but I also think we need to accept reality that as the US falls apart our global supply chains are going to be incredibly vulnerable going forward. I don’t want to end foreign trade, but the extreme fragility of just-in-time supply chains is simply not going to be an option, likely ever again. If we cannot provide at least a minimum level of self-sufficiency, we cannot consider ourselves a legitimate nation. Period. If the US decided to enforce an illegal embargo on Canada the way it’s doing to Cuba right now, how long do you think we’d last? With the human and natural resources we have, there is absolutely no excuse for the fact that the correct answer is “Not very long.” When you live next door to a nation of pirates, raiders, and thieves, not being capable of weathering a siege is incompetence and mismanagement. Having a minimum level of strategic domestic production of everything from glass, to chips, to refined oil products is table stakes.
Yes but this sentiment extends globally too.
Again I fully support Canada becoming more independent I am just saying that we do need all of each other, isolationism is always worse in the end, which doesn’t mean we have to be maximalist about it or not recognize the damage economic systems have done that have promoted offshoring industries.
What it means is that we need to all recognize when a shitty leader or administration topples a collective prosperity and causes everything to atomize that at a basic mathematical level it diminishes the overall potential of everybody who experiences that shattering. That is part of the basic crime of it, and we shouldn’t let those shitty people get away with not answering to that crime just because Canada is in the mood for more isolationism right now in an understandable and justifiable way.
I agree with the sentiment that isolationism is not the answer, but I also think we need to accept reality that as the US falls apart our global supply chains are going to be incredibly vulnerable going forward. I don’t want to end foreign trade, but the extreme fragility of just-in-time supply chains is simply not going to be an option, likely ever again. If we cannot provide at least a minimum level of self-sufficiency, we cannot consider ourselves a legitimate nation. Period. If the US decided to enforce an illegal embargo on Canada the way it’s doing to Cuba right now, how long do you think we’d last? With the human and natural resources we have, there is absolutely no excuse for the fact that the correct answer is “Not very long.” When you live next door to a nation of pirates, raiders, and thieves, not being capable of weathering a siege is incompetence and mismanagement. Having a minimum level of strategic domestic production of everything from glass, to chips, to refined oil products is table stakes.