Sounds like they were already shuttering their Canadian operations before this.
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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Soooo, there's a furniture factory for sale and 170 willing staff?
Occupy, resist, produce!
This is a false narrative.
They were already planning to do that regardless of the election of the orange dumpster fire.
Fucking cunts deserve to be in jail.
Yup. Steel/Aluminum plants are likely more related but just like when many places raise prices suddenly the "latest news article" is just a convenient excuse rather than a real reason behind it
Do you have evidence of that?
The North Carolina plant was set up in 2021. Also this came across my Reddit RSS feed two days ago and there were comments in the post from workers.
That doesn't tell us about the intentions of management and the private equity firm, or how they've changed in the past few weeks.
Layoffs don't happen this quickly. It takes more time to identify the right folks to lay off and act on that information.
Absolutely, the private equity assholes were already going to do this. Just a convenient excuse for them
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.
This all feels very bizarre and scary. What if we do cut them off? You wrote it yourself:
they need our minerals, water, trees, and our energy. We don’t need them for anything.
What will happen when they are choked? After all, they are a superpower with a military that can run us over. I know there's talk about NATO and article 5. But, are we sure our allies want to go toe to toe with a superpower? Is Canada worth it for them?
There is great uneasiness in me about all of this because it just seems like negotiations are there to just string us along until they decide enough is enough.
The time to wonder how they’d respond has passed. They already have responded; they are working to destroy us.
I don’t know what they’ll do. They’ve lost every time they’ve tried to occupy a country and they will have the same experience here. But that hasn’t stopped them from repeatedly trying.
It would bring ruination upon both countries but we cannot control them. I hope they realize that before they try.
And at the risk of being a jerk — you should feel scared. I’m scared. It’s scary stuff! But I can find some comfort in standing up what’s right for our people.
And at the risk of being a jerk — you should feel scared.
No, no jerk alert there. I agree and have been scared of what might/is come/coming. If it ever does happen, there will be no winners in it, really. Just a lot of bloodshed for no reason but a few people deciding it should be.
I guess I hold out some hope that the people and military to our south will in some way stop it. Though, hope is fading.
A few days back somebody posted a list of all the different things that can be done to help prepare and train ourselves and others.
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.
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.
Fuck TorQuest.
Fuck private equity firms.
Fuck vulture capitalism.
And fuck power levels!
But yeah, if the big bidness boys pwaying big bidness games are going to take their ball and go home, we should start taking things back in return. IP rights. Trademarks.
Tax breaks.
If they want to be 'Murican, let them go be 'Murican. We don't need 'em 'round these parts.
New rule (hopefully Carney enacts) ... no private equity firm is allowed to have a controlling interest in a Canadian company. Period.
I'm not sure that fits with his central banker background, so I won't find my breath. I'd love to be wrong though.