Carney hasn’t been doing nothing. He’s been aggressively pursuing expanded trade with other nations. Obviously this can’t match the volume of potential trade losses with the US, but it’s not nothing either. He was on the verge of concluding a not great but not terrible deal with the US when their negotiators threw in multiple poison pills at the last minute. That wasn’t successful, but again it wasn’t doing nothing.
I’m curious what you think the Carney government ought to be doing that it isn’t doing, other than reiterating that he should convince Trump of things that Trump can’t be convinced of.
Removing the regulations that kill industry in Canada as a start. Remove arbitrary taxes such as carbon that result in higher prices for consumers and make Canadian industries less competitive. You can’t fight a war with one hand behind your back.
He campaigned on having done it to lower consumer costs to Canadians, but also he did this to take away PP’s “axe the tax” slogan from being a factor in the upcoming election (which it wasn’t, Trump insanity and trade became issue number 1, 2, 3, and 4 in the election right upto today).
Its wild to not even mention he had already done this.
And that was all of them, right? Does a consumer tax make industry less competitive? Eventually as people have less money to spend. So, what was I referring to? Could it be the industrial carbon tax? Could that make industry less competitive?
Lower taxes tend to make society in general poorer, and industries less competitive since fewer people can afford their products. The engine of the economy is the consumer, not industry. We’re just constantly beaten over the head with the idea that giving more money to the wealthy will improve the economy because the wealthy want t that way; not because it works.
As exemplified right now, by Trump making sure that more and more wealth is diverted to the already wealthy (especially himself) and regulations slashed, while the economy goes to hell as a result. Canada following the US into the same pit won’t help it in any way.
To fix your analogy, the master mechanic needs parts that only the manufacturer makes. He tells you the car needs a $500 throatwobbler and the manufacturer has them in stock and can deliver within a week. When he calls to order the part, the manufacturer calls the mechanic “very nasty”, changes the price to $10,000, and doesn’t think he even wants to sell it to the mechanic. That’s who we are dealing with.