Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Brantford most vulnerable to tariffs

[bravado]

Didn't know that you were so sensitive to facts, I'll add links next time

Your hatred blinds you I'm afraid - what do you think creates a strong quality of life and what is the means of achieving it?

Let's check back in a year and see where everything stands

A strong quality of life: Trade, industry, resources, the rule of law, the welfare state. All things that Canada had the day before Trump was elected.

You seem to think the only reason why we don't make more things in Canada is because the liberals hate industry. We don't make things here because it's cheaper to get it elsewhere. Just say you're in favour of raising prices instead of beating around the bush. If you want to lower costs of manufacturing here, let us know which serf class you are planning on importing to do all that work for cheap. Let us know which other developed economy has solved the miracle of high wages, high costs, and high exports. Those don't occur naturally in the world without heavy subsidy.

You've got the same zero-sum view of the world as Trump - it must be miserable up in that castle thinking everyone is out to steal from you. We won't end up with iPhones Made in America™ at the end of all this, we'll just end up with no iPhones. Rinse, repeat. Through trade, cooperation, and the defeat of protectionism, we can have more than we can have just doing things on our own. That's the story of the last 300 years which you somehow missed. Trump thinks that every time an American buys a Rav4 made in Canada, he's being personally stolen from. That's childish and a deeply cynical view of the world.

It's really notable how much growing up in in the post-war period has broken so many brains. Too many Americans, and Canadians included, are convinced that the "good old days" of insane growth in the 50s was because we were just innately better. It turns out that the rest of the world was destroyed by war. Now that the rest of the world has caught up, all that innate greatness seems to have disappeared and competition is pretty fierce. So much for exceptionalism...

The United States has what it has because the world is (was?) ok with supporting them on top. When they have no friends, a great deal of their public finances become totally unsustainable. Again, that will hurt the people on the bottom most when it starts to crack.