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If you can't compete, just cripple the opposition I guess.
by grecy 2y ago
If you can't compete, just cripple the opposition I guess.
- mytailorisrich 2y agoCanada has a significant automotive sector but it's basically all foreign automakers. So this is about protecting local jobs and 'encouraging' Chinese manufacturers to, one day, follow their Japanese and American counterparts and open plants in Canada.
- grecy 2y agoRight, and "protecting jobs" is more important than allowing companies and products to compete on their own merits. As a consumer, I am now punished because the foreign owned companies that choose to assemble vehicles in Canada can't do it as well as Chinese companies. Make it make sense.
- mytailorisrich 2y agoWell, you want companies and products to compete on their own merits (are subsidies their "own merit", though?) but you also want your industry not to be obliterated... So, as always, it is a balancing act.
- grecy 2y ago> your industry These are clearly not Canadian companies being protected.
- mytailorisrich 2y agoThe factories and jobs are local, which makes it "your industry".
- grecy 2y agoI fundamentally disagree
- rasz 2y agoBy cutting off rare earth metal supply? https://www.newsweek.com/china-rare-earth-metals-export-control-restrictions-1842152 https://www.newsweek.com/china-rare-earth-metals-export-cont...