Canada has huge reserves of oil, natural gas, minerals, timber. Americans need that.
Canada doesn’t need anything americans sell
Adobe Photoshop 👉 Use GIMP or Affinity.
Adobe Illustrator 👉 Use Inkscape or Affinity.
Word and Excel 👉 LibreOffice is better. No AI shit and it won’t spy on you.
Microsoft Windows 👉 Use Linux. It’s more secure anyway.
General Motors, Ford, Dodge, Chrysler, Tesla 👉 We don’t need shitty american cars. Buy Hyundai, Toyotas, Honda, Volkswagen.
Apple iPhone 👉 Buy a Samsung
Starbucks Coffee 👉 Just drink local coffee.
McDonalds 👉 Buy from A&W or Harveys
Hyatt Hotels, Marriott Hotels, Four Seasons 👉 Go to Canadian hotels
Amazon 👉 Fuck Jeff Bezos. Buy from your local stores.
Maxwell House Coffee 👉 Balzac’s Coffee Roasters is Canadian
Tourism 👉 Visit Quebec, Banff National Park, Niagara Falls, Vancouver Island, Johnstone Strait, Yoho National Park. Go north to watch beautiful Arctic landscapes. At least you won’t be shot and killed.
Boeing 👉 Buy Airbus. At least they won’t crash.
What do americans sell that Canadians actually need? Nothing. They just sell convenience. Their products are often substandard
My first degree was economics & finance, I know how it works. Yes the dollarisation of international trade and economics is something China has been trying to break for decades. They’ll succeed in a decade ir so too I expect, but it won’t look at all like you seem to think from these comments, and you certainly can’t flip the underpinnings of an economy like flipping a coin.
In really simple terms your key export markets determine the construct, Canada has a massive percent in trade with the US and EU (vast majority of exports). This dictates a lot of things.
The only BRICS member a sane person would consider aligning themselves economically with is China, and that is happening organically as a function of trade balances and their economic rise. Eventually the yuan will eclipse the dollar but Canada (and Europe) are not there yet.
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