‘Support Canadian’
Dear Editor:
Canada’s not for sale, we’re giving it away.
Why is our government still sponsoring the country that has declared a trade war against us, instead of keeping Canadian interests first?
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford made claims that they would stand strong against the attrition from our southern neighbor, yet still continue to support and submit to them.
The U.S. has instilled tariffs on our products to the point we can’t sell our wares below the border, while our government drops our tariffs against them (at the insistence of U.S. President Donald Trump). This has made it challenging for Canadian industry to compete even domestically, so they’re jumping ship (just like Trump anticipated) and moving operations to the U.S., where they can have tariff-free production and commerce with the U.S., plus face no levy to sell their products here.
The States get our industry, and a free, open market to sell here. It’s a win-win for them. This is their design for protecting the free trade agreement, which Trump will likely walk away from anyway. And why not, he has nothing left to gain if we have nothing left to offer. Do we even have any Trump cards left to play?
And why, with the oppression we are under from the states (including the ongoing threat to our sovereignty), would our government buy any of the outdated F-35 fighters from them, when we have the potential to build/buy fighters domestically?
A Swedish company has offered to set up industries here to build fighters, creating up to 15,000 jobs, if we’ll buy some. We’re buying fighters anyway, and I’d rather sponsor companies that are providing employment here building them, rather than the U.S., that won’t be.
Besides, I don’t think it’s prudent to have our entire air force under the control of a country with an underhanded leader like Trump.
It’s up to us now, the consumers, to support Canadian manufacturers before we don’t have any. If we don’t build it, we don’t buy it.
Paul Dunnill,
Fergus