• IndridCold@lemmy.caOP
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    The Canadian leadership is interested in more diverse and resilient supply chains via Mexico, while the Mexican government wants to increase bilateral trade through direct access to Canadian ports, making the country less dependent on existing US maritime channels.

    LOL. Love this.

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    Excellent! Let’s also import more Mexican groceries! Fresh fruit and veg and pantry staples (spices, canned stuff, etc).

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      Careful: a lot of “Product of Mexico” fruit and veggies are actually still American companies that control much of the supply chain and possibly even the farmland.

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    Let’s see how long it takes orange fuck-face to start claiming Mexican ships coming to Canada are “cartel boats”…

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    BOOM YEAH! Both Mexico and Canada are extremely close to my heart, I’m very excited to hear this

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    Great news. I hope they’re prepared to fend off the yanks who will want screw this up

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    It’s all fun until the U.S. navy starts an unofficial blockade of Cargo ships bypassing American ports…maybe forcing them to dock for ‘inspections’

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        Yeah, kinda making my point for me. They’re literally murdering people in international waters, you think they can’t harass shipping that attempts to bypass them?

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    Canada was Mexico’s fifth largest trade partner and Mexico was Canada’s third largest as of the end of last year.

    Wow, so Canada needs mexico more than Mexico needs Canada. That’s counter intuitive

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      That doesn’t make any sense. Trade doesn’t have to be perfectly equal. You want good agreements and free trade without bloated orange meat bags hijacking and stopping trade.

      As long as these agreements don’t include the US, that’s a good step in the right direction.

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      Mexico is right next to Central America and South America, that’s a crazy amount of neighbors, but Canada only has one close neighbor. It isn’t need as much as geography.

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    What’s the skinny on how this helps poverty of Mexican workers? NAFTA benefited corporations and harmed workers