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This sucks and is it the specific reason why some of the business-oriented interests have been pushing for the trade war.
There’s no way to avoid this; it’s just going to be a painful and sizeable adjustment period.
But as we restructure our economy away from relying on America, we will build new jobs and businesses.
They need our minerals, water, trees, and our energy. We don’t need them for anything. So it will suck in the short term but it will get better. It’s the start of something new, and that’s scary and uncertain but let’s do it.
We have relied on America for one important thing, and that is defense. We allowed them to pressure us to abandon the Avro Arrow, and that essentially shut down any and every chance we had to take care of ourselves.
We've also ceded all choice in military spending to what America wants us to buy.
We have been lazy, and worried more about not offending America than doing what's best for us. If nothing else the current situation has started to wake us up to that fact.
I don’t feel like you were accusing me specifically, but the shoe fits.
Subconsciously I think I thought we were safe in Canada. Too white, too much cultural and shared history. Sure we knew we had to separate ourselves but we could do that tomorrow and we had other problems today.
And like you said it’s been a wake-up. For me certainly.