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The lousy ones eventually disappear as the economics of farming force larger and larger operations . . . . and the land remains under tillage regardless. The land doesn't miss the lousy farmer at all.
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Interesting opinion, given your views on the NHL business situation (which has lost no teams, I might add). Protection for billionaire owners and throw farmers to the wolves!!
As for the trade aspect of your thoughts, it definitely reads straight out of a macroeconomic policy manual in a free trade world. However, IMO, I don't see this being a sustainable relationship with the US b/c I think their borders will grow much stickier over the next 25 years, both for economic reasons as well as geo-political ones, i.e. terrorism. As such, I think we will need to show a willingness to engage in the same type of trade tactics as the US - should we initiate a trade war today? Of course not. However, I do think the Canadian government needs to start putting incentives in place to reduce our dependance on raw good exports to the US, or else the US will put those same incentives in place all at once at some point down the road, only they won't be incentives so much as trade barriers. It's still going to hurt when it happens, but contigency planning is much easier before the event actually happens. Unfortunately, I see none of this happening.