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Originally Posted by Locke
Nobody, and I mean nobody, should want to 'Eliminate Global Trade.'
Not only is it a pipe dream, its counter-productive. Global Trade is amazing.
I'm simply saying we shouldnt be critically dependent upon it.
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I am guilty of making you a straw man.
All the same. Canada has never not since the first European not been 100% reliant on global trade. From the 1880s into 1920s they had large tariffs in hopes of protecting (eastern) Canadian industry, But the reality was that it hammered western Canadian consumers and producers, and entirely failed to create any sort of manufacturing outside of the Maritimes and great lakes.
My point still stands, Canada exists as a product of the global market. It is very difficult to undo 400 years. If change is going to happen it has to happen at a consumer level.