Trump administration 2024-2028

[Humphrey Bogart]

A good example of bad economic policies driving business out of Canada, which will make us even more vulnerable to any tariff action by the US.

This review is likely too little, too late, and focused on the wrong issues e.g., the high cost of doing business in a socialist and actively anti-private sector culture

Province launches review of BC Timber Sales

New forests minister Ravi Parmar puts together panel of forest experts to conduct review

Province launches review of BC Timber Sales

The people in Industry are scared right now. I know because I talk to them on the regular. The Government & Politicians will puff their chests out but the reality is far different.

The Donald and Co have the measure of us IMO

 

[Kirkhill]

The Guardian and Fox - Takes on The Donald

Trump foreign policy: 6 issues he got right and the experts were wrong

When Trump ventured a comment about foreign policy, people scoffed. What did he know! But he was right on every major issue. It was the elites who got things wrong!

www.foxnews.com

At Davos, Trump will face a less friendly brand of billionaire – but their dominance is waning | Larry Elliott

These high priests of globalisation are facing the fact that Trump’s tariffs are part of a global shift to protectionism, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

www.theguardian.com

Noteworthy Guardian comments

What’s more, few countries have ever industrialised successfully without protectionism. Britain certainly didn’t and nor did the US. Trump can trace US government support for domestic manufacturers all the way back to Alexander Hamilton, the first US treasury secretary, who came up with the idea of supporting “infant industries” in the 1790s. Hamilton rejected Adam Smith’s notion that the US should concentrate on agriculture and leave manufacturing to Britain. Nor is Trump the first occupant of the White House to be a staunch protectionist: Abraham Lincoln held similar views.

None of the “tiger economies” of that region would have developed so rapidly had they allowed their fledgling companies to feel the full blast of competition from more advanced industrial countries. Only when they felt their manufacturers were able to stand on their own feet did Japan, South Korea and Taiwan start to reduce state support. They judged that free trade was not the best way to grow their economies and their experience shows that, in the right hands and in the right circumstances, protectionism is an effective tool.

 

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The people in Industry are scared right now. I know because I talk to them on the regular. The Government & Politicians will puff their chests out but the reality is far different.

The Donald and Co have the measure of us IMO

Our government boxed us in.