Threats to the bottom line is the thing that motivates companies faster than anything else.

Until this abomination of a law

The “patriot” act would like to have a word with you…

yawn, this again?

Didn’t Canada win every single trade tribunal challenge on this exact same baseless complaint in the past?

Microsoft exec admits it ‘cannot guarantee’ data sovereignty

Then you don’t get to touch my data (to the extent that I can control who already has my data without my permission…)

Or by a vindictive ex.

They need to get their heads on straight.

Having them slanted to the right is a big part of the problem.

There is literally no point in negotiating anything.

While Trump is involved, part of the point of continued “negotiating” is to try and prevent him from doing anything massively damaging while “negotiations are still in progress”.

Now maybe there’s more going on behind the scenes,

It would be naive to think there isn’t.

So maybe you believed that he was going to annex Canada

I didn’t believe he could succeed at it, but I also can’t discount that he might make an attempt at it.

Just because he is incompetent doesn’t mean he isn’t also a bull in a China shop.

Even in his incompetence he can cause a lot of damage.

Compared to the predicted devastating loss that had been predicted for the Liberals just a couple of months earlier?

Yes the conservatives failed miserably. The only reason they did as well as they did was the animosity that had been built around Trudeau.

Their success (such as it was) isn’t a ringing endorsement of PP or his party, but rather a retreating from who they were running against.

Trying to think of the best supernatural death,

A good old fashioned smiting from the heavens (AKA lighting strike on the golf course)

He needs to shut the hell up about things he doesn’t understand.

It’s almost impressive that someone can be so incompetent as to fail selling football to Americans, and can bankrupt casinos.

Those are both licenses to print money and the guy fucks up even that.

We are protesting frequently,

Not enough to force any changes, though.

He already killed one football league by trying to force his will on it.

Canada post doesn’t have a lot of their own locations any more. The majority are contracted locations within other stores.

And in the past months, I’ve found some Canadian produce at Giant Tiger when nobody else in the area had it. Specifically carrots.

We have co-op in Manitoba as well, and their prices seem close-ish to Sobeys and Safeway. Or at least close enough that it’s not worth travelling further to get to those other stores. (Couldn’t tell you about superstore or Walmart, I refuse to give money to those assholes).

We do a Costco haul every 4-6 weeks, and also go to the co-op at least once a week. Mostly for perishables, and whatever deals they have in their weekly flyer. And for their very good selection of local/Canadian items.

Canada is actually the 5th largest food exporter globally, but we still import tons of produce especially during winter months.

Exactly.

We export what we are able to grow at a large scale, and we import what we can’t grow (or what we can only grow seasonally and doesn’t store well).

They may see it, but the more important question is: will they be able to learn from it?