I am am an older person, dentally-challenged; but for the young and the fearless, here
it is...Sourdough pizza:
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Leaks about the Trade Deal are not encouraging. Seems to me making a distinction between
auto parts being American, Canadian or Mexican is getting silly. Time to let the private sector
make its own decisions on where and how to build. It's about the vehicles, not this or that
between negotiators! Tax the type of vehicle, or not at all...
I will grant there is something unpleasant about US tariffs. That government is taxing our
resources and work to their advantage. Pocketing the money. Bully behaviour. Of course we
retain the right to do the same. Se faire justice: not a pretty practice but we have deficits of our
own... The US may defend the free world, but we open our doors to immigration. A chacun...
On the liquor issue, there is likely to be push-back from Quebec restaurant owners. Quebecers
are wine and beer drinkers and might not appreciate the finer qualities of bourbon. Even if
there is permission to have American products on the shelves, it is no great sacrifice to
Quebecers to leave them there. And, largely thanks to this opening of shelf space, the few home
products we did have got a boost. So it goes!
To be fair, free trade is the golden standard. The US is being tough and mean - to force greater
openness from us - we'll see. But the present configuration does not bode well. Keeping
US/Canada/Mexico alive as a free trade area requires work, not bravado. It needs to come out of
an overall vision of North America's place in world, something all parties seem to be struggling
with, at the moment...
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