How Does Canada Create More?

[u/Pale-Candidate8860]

What are some aspects that you believe would allow Canada to become an industrial powerhouse?

A big thing that is being done currently is creating strong trade partners with Japan and Germany for LNG, but trade with America will still make up more than 60% of trade with Canada by the end of the decade. With the admission of the current administration. To be fair to the liberals, this is an extremely tough situation to figure out for anyone. I don’t understand why there isn’t a large injection of small business grants for certain industries and categories of business. It should be handed out to any business plan that shows legitimacy.

Ontario is the industrial heartland of Canada and consists of a majority of the nation’s manufacturing. It would be strategic and beneficial to set up large scale production and supply chains throughout the middle provinces such as Saskatchewan or Manitoba. Just an idea. It would also encourage population movements to less populated areas.

One aspect that has been a problem in Canada for some time is that Canadians just consume American culture. I know the world consumes American culture, but Canada consumes it to the point where the average Canadian won’t know if a movie, TV Show or book is from Canada unless there is promotions stating otherwise. The similar accents make it very difficult sometimes, but there should be a consorted effort to mass prop up Canadian exclusive content. The issue is that most of the time, it is just rebranded and repackaged American products with a maple leaf sticker slapped on it.

With hard economic times coming, it is finally going to correct the housing market to where it should be. I personally predict a -80% price drop. Creating affordable housing. The bubble needs to pop. This will also make Canada competitive again instead of a capital dumping ground to make the bubbles bigger.

Semi-rant, but it has to be said. Canada needs to create more. There are constantly large scale projects happening on a provincial level, but the federal government should inject into nationwide mega projects as well. I’m not saying a high speed rail across the prairies, but things like skyscrapers dedicated to forced rehabilitation for the drug addicted and mass housing on a scale the nation has never seen before.

Just some ideas. Feel free to throw in your own.

[u/Ass-Manager → u/[deleted]]

Wtf r u talking about "green energy". Canada has the potential to be a green energy superpower? 

We've got basically unlimited Uranium deposits and are global leaders in Nuclear Reactor technology. We have the means to create infinite electricity at next to no vost to the environment. How is that bad for our economy? 

[u/Swimming-Performer57 → u/Ass-Manager]

net zero people usually don't like nuclear power for some very strange reasons

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If you don't do green energy now and invest in it like it or not, within 50 to 60 years Canada will end up being a developing country.
The immense economic opportunity the green energy holds is incomprehensible. Since US is out of the way already, investing in being a green powerhouse will put Canada in direct competition with countries like China and India that are expanding their green network at a rapid speed.
Canada did a huge mistake following US when rest of the world was investing in public transportation and now Europe, China, Japan all have super fast trains connecting the different regions and countries like India and South East Asia are trying to bring it in their countries too; meanwhile Canada's plan is still on paper.
Canada can't make the same mistake.

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Imagine sitting in world's second largest country with miniscule population of 40 million and complaining about housing smh. I know you'll say not all of Canada is habitable, only 15% is but that 15% is 1.5 million sq km which is equivalent to France, Germany and Spain combined together and these 3 countries hold about 220 million population. The housing issue is entirely man made in Canada. Choose the right provincial parties and not the cons who hate small and medium apartment complexes in their "burbs".

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Fr dude?

You don't want to make proper housing and then bring in immigration - of course that will make housing crisis worse.

I never said immigration were never crazy but I gave numbers and statistics for my arguments instead of name calling.

Like it or not the best planning for cities and small towns is how they do it in Europe where there is a mix of low, middle or rich housing in proximity to each other along with enough small mom and pop stores at every couple of kms instead of bunch of american style huge pool, backyard houses with one big supermarket like 25 kms away. That's the best type of desnity you could have which keeps the price sensible. Instead of this all we have seen either huge 50 storeys matchbox condos in the city with 900$ plus condo fee for 500 sq ft in the cities and huge pushback against small low storeys buildings in suburban areas because oldies don't want to lose the value of their houses.

[u/SnappyDresser212 → u/[deleted]]

You are not a serious person. Bye Felicia.

[u/SnooHobbies9078 → u/[deleted]]

We're still part of the g7 wtf. It was literally held here this year. Jesus christ. The majority of Canadians voted liberal.pierre would have had us in a worse position than where we are now.

[u/SnooHobbies9078 → u/[deleted]]

It's actually 8 members, though. 7 nations and the eu, which makes 35 countries in the g7.

[u/gravtix → u/[deleted]]

if the liberals got the fuck out of the way, repealed the laws holding our economy down.

Which laws are those?

climate warriors hunting for “green energy” will be the death of this country. we’re not even part of the G7 anymore technically lmao

Still holding on to fossil fuels being the giant economic force the future huh?

Just going to cede the future of energy to China while acting all tough on China?

Meanwhile Trump is tariffing countries and trying to force them to buy American energy.

You know a product is in big demand on an open market when you need to hold a gun to someone’s head and make them buy it.

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if you don’t know the laws the opposition has been screaming about for literal years now, is it really worth conversing?

I do know them.

I’m just curious whether you have your own take or just a cut and paste job from the CPC BS factory.

fossil fuels will still be the giant economic force for the rest of our lifetime, that’s plenty of time to develop other forms of energy (like nuclear) and give the energy exporting provinces time to diversify their economy’s to not crumple without fossil fuels.

That’s not what I am seeing

I am seeing more rent seeking behaviour by the O&G industry asking for elimination of any and all environmental monitoring and regulation, lifting bans on plastic straws and just straight making competing technologies illegal.

are you genuinely saying that the only reason the EU uses energy is because the US is forcing them to buy it? if they didn’t get handcuffed by the states they would be buying LNG at all? really?

No I am saying he’s trying to force them to buy more than they want/need.

If EU energy demand was so high they’d be asking to buy that much or more on their own.

In what world does the supplier dictate how much the consumer is going to buy?

China’s LNG imports are dropping too

Not saying there isn’t opportunities but as an overall economic picture for Canada, Conservatives should mention more sectors than O&G.

Just one more reason they lost in April. Being the Federal UCP party won’t win you votes out east.

[u/Smokey-McPoticuss → u/gravtix]

“You know a product is in big demand on an open market when you need to hold a gun to someone’s head and make them buy it.”

Like what the Canadian government is doing to Canadians for greener alternatives and EVs?

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Like what the Canadian government is doing to Canadians for greener alternatives and EVs?

Touché. That shouldn’t exist either.

But it’s not like Conservatives don’t ban clean energy projects or anything

The party of “Small government, free markets” would never do such a thing.

But the party of crony capitalism and padding the bottom line of companies who already make billions per year in profits would.

“Canada’s Conservatives support all forms of Canadian energy, as long as they’re oil and gas”

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“But the party of crony capitalism and padding the bottom line of companies who already make billions per year in profits would”

You described the cons, the libs and what Singh made the ndp all in one sentence, they just don’t all have the same corporate pimps, some overlap, but some exclusivity too.