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Title: NDP wants 'Buy Canadian' plan
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: SigPig
Date: 2009-09-17 10:22:54
Canadian

[SigPig]

Ya, sounds like a great plan....just as we are trying to convince the US to relax their protectionist policies because it is bad for trade, they come up with this.

What a bunch of tards.

[Akhenaten]

Laytons had more stupid ideas than hot meals. We have an 'export' economy. We sell (mostly) natural resources and energy to people who don't have it or as much as they need. Insular economies don't work. For example, you sell lumber to someone who doesn't have any. Try selling a tree to someone in B.C., or a barrel of oil to someone in Albera or a cod to someone in Newfoundland. You will not get any money worth your effort.

What Layton is proposing is instant economical suicide. We dont have neough people with enough consumer confidence to 'buy Canadian' and survive.

[ridenrain]

I'm not really seeing the problem here.
Sure, we need to level the playingfield so cross nation trade can take happen but I don't think that a 10% difference in cost is going to be a big issue. That's more likely the difference in the cost of shipping or exchange rate than anything else.

$1:

The bill defines a Canadian product as one having more than 50 per cent of its value manufactured in Canada and doesn't exceed the comparable cost of another product by 10 per cent

This should be normal purchacing for Canada, but I'd ratchet up that 50% part.

[martin14]

Akhenaten Akhenaten:

Laytons had more stupid ideas than hot meals. We have an 'export' economy. We sell (mostly) natural resources and energy to people who don't have it or as much as they need. Insular economies don't work. For example, you sell lumber to someone who doesn't have any. Try selling a tree to someone in B.C., or a barrel of oil to someone in Albera or a cod to someone in Newfoundland. You will not get any money worth your effort.

What Layton is proposing is instant economical suicide. We dont have neough people with enough consumer confidence to 'buy Canadian' and survive.

[poquas]

Damn right. Let's start a trade war.

[/sarcasm]

Layton really has people that vote for him and his party?

[Mukluk]

Seems to me like we should working very hard towards less protectionism, and more importantly - less reliance on the US.

Obama is tackling some giant problems in a country that really thinks it is too big to fail. I think he'll get one term unfortunately, then people will swing so hard the other direction they will vote in Palin. Palin will really send things into a protectionist and desperate dive and I fear that we will truly testing whether they are too big to fail.

Buy Canadian? Sure, if that's your slogan overseas - but not in the protectionist sense that Layton is using it...

/m

[leewgrant]

$1:

Besides that, the bill calls on Ottawa to purchase goods and services from countries and companies that adhere to the International Labour Organization's core labour standards relating to the rights of workers.

Which doesn't include Canada. There are dozens of ILO conventions Canada has not ratified (because of divided labor jurisdiction ratification requires the unanimous consent of the provinces) including health and safety and freedom of association.

[MAC1767]

great idea!!! there is not enough going on, lets get in a pissing match also. we should be that we cant sell stuff to the americans? its their country and if they think thats going to help?maybe? time will tell.

[herbie]

Yeah JAck. Let's keep buying GWagons, German ferries, Mercedes trucks instead of Freoghtliners for the Post Office, look at French nuclear reactors.
We can't build shit here anyway.
Like that pallet of toilet paper from Oregon we watched the courier deliver to the gov't office next door.
Save us money.

[OldChum]

It would be hard to say buy Canadian if we tell the US not to put up Barriers , but if they do then we should develop a Canadian price for oil in our country . Subsidised by American greenbacks.

[herbie]

There's enough people in my tiny town who'll "Buy Canadian" that I've survived for 12 years.
Even though every part inside is Chinese, we can build you a better system than any foreign brand name and more Canadians than just Purolator get jobs out of the deal.

[Proculation]

herbie herbie:

There's enough people in my tiny town who'll "Buy Canadian" that I've survived for 12 years.
Even though every part inside is Chinese, we can build you a better system than any foreign brand name and more Canadians than just Purolator get jobs out of the deal.

That's exactly the point. You can make and deliver a better product and service.
There's nothing wrong about buying 'Canadian' or local. But you can't force someone to do so. The last thing we want now is a trade war like in the Great Depression.