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Originally posted by sjwalter+Oct 26 2004, 07:55 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (sjwalter @ Oct 26 2004, 07:55 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Five-hole@Oct 24 2004, 10:58 PM
Well, the extremist answer is that Kerry is better for Canada because he has the brains to avert global catastrophe.
Seriously, though, Kerry seems to strongly advocate a slightly more isolationist economic policy. He's stated he wants to give tax breaks to businesses that create jobs for Americans rather than foreigners, and enforce various tariffs and trade laws that would keep more American business in America.
Since something like 70% of our exports go to the US, that would hurt us. However, I like the policy in principle because I'm squarely in opposition to the trend of outsourcing labour to countries with very low labour costs.
One thing I'm very fond of in Kerry's campaign is his goal to give tax breaks for fuel efficient vehicles and so on. That is so dramatically unlike Bush it's as close to diametrically opposed as you can get. (Bush would rather give the tax breaks to the oil corporations.) I'm a major, major fan of this and I hope this kind of thinking becomes more of a trend. Having it come from the President of the wealthiest nation on Earth would certainly help get the ball rolling.
So, no major point to stress here, just some thoughts.
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You're a very big fan of anything that Kerry says right?
If Bush said the same thing you would ridicule it. [/b][/quote]
But Bush wouldn't say the same thing. That's the difference.
Relations with the US would improve with Kerry, I think in the same way that Democrats seem to forge good working realtionships with their Canadian Liberal Party neighbours (Chretien-Clinton were golf buddies, Carter-Trudeau). Conservative PM's always hit it off with the Republican guy (Mulroney and Reagan) so I think the answer to this question is Kerry for that reason.