Canada is a relatively small country. Strategic partnerships are going to be critical moving forward but creating some distance with the US is a crucial first step as it is no longer a reliable trading partner.
The US was by far the greatest financial benefactor of WW2, in part due to geographic isolation, allowing it to sell weapons to its allies without having its factories destroyed by warplanes, which in turn allowed it to collect 80% of the world’s gold supply and set its currency as the global standard. As a nation, it played its hand / leveraged its newfound wealth exceptionally well in the post WW2 period.
It made sense to have a strong trading relationship at the time, given the proximity and that the war allowed the US to amass a disproportionate amount of purchasing power.
It seems that the US has decided it does not want to lead the world any longer, despite its economic might. Hopefully there is good that can come of that.
Did you really mean the US as greatest “benefactor” of WW2 (as in, helping others) or as greatest “beneficiary” of WW2 (as in, gaining from it).
Because it looks a lot like the latter since in helping others the US was mainly helping itself and that help didn’t come for free (for example, the UK only finished paying the debt to the US from that “help” in, if I’m not mistaken, 2012), plus the US gained its superpower status exactly from, as you pointed out, still having their factories and selling weapons to its allies.
We need to, it remains to be seen whether or not we will. Don’t forget, a huge number of us are still shopping american. If this situation goes away, the convenience of trading with the US could easily take over again. People lack conviction, integrity and have short memories. It will take a long-term, concerted effort by the majority of the populace and multiple governments to maintain our trajectory away from US dependence. I’d love to see it happen, but I have little faith our fellow citizens have the constitution to stay the course.
So thanks for that, but…that’s not really the point.
We’re not trying to hurt Trump and MAGA. We’re not trying to either destroy the US or get it back to where we were a year ago.
Trump - and more to the point, his re-election - was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. Canada finally has said “enough is enough.”
We’re not doing this anymore. We’re not tying our country’s fate to ANY other nation - not the US, not England, not China or Eritrea.
Canada cannot afford to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of convenience and harmony.
Canada has one direction: Forward. We are reclaiming our sovereignty, our culture, and our place as a progressive leader in the modern world.
What are you saying, that you care more about doing right by your own countrymen than you do about harming your perceived enemies??
Canada is a relatively small country. Strategic partnerships are going to be critical moving forward but creating some distance with the US is a crucial first step as it is no longer a reliable trading partner.
The US was by far the greatest financial benefactor of WW2, in part due to geographic isolation, allowing it to sell weapons to its allies without having its factories destroyed by warplanes, which in turn allowed it to collect 80% of the world’s gold supply and set its currency as the global standard. As a nation, it played its hand / leveraged its newfound wealth exceptionally well in the post WW2 period.
It made sense to have a strong trading relationship at the time, given the proximity and that the war allowed the US to amass a disproportionate amount of purchasing power.
It seems that the US has decided it does not want to lead the world any longer, despite its economic might. Hopefully there is good that can come of that.
Did you really mean the US as greatest “benefactor” of WW2 (as in, helping others) or as greatest “beneficiary” of WW2 (as in, gaining from it).
Because it looks a lot like the latter since in helping others the US was mainly helping itself and that help didn’t come for free (for example, the UK only finished paying the debt to the US from that “help” in, if I’m not mistaken, 2012), plus the US gained its superpower status exactly from, as you pointed out, still having their factories and selling weapons to its allies.
We need to, it remains to be seen whether or not we will. Don’t forget, a huge number of us are still shopping american. If this situation goes away, the convenience of trading with the US could easily take over again. People lack conviction, integrity and have short memories. It will take a long-term, concerted effort by the majority of the populace and multiple governments to maintain our trajectory away from US dependence. I’d love to see it happen, but I have little faith our fellow citizens have the constitution to stay the course.
I really wish so many people didn’t miss this point.