I’ve been hearing about the imminent collapse of the Chinese economy for years now, though. For some reason it seems like American newspapers aren’t great at forecasting what’s going on over there.

I live in northern BC and there are a lot of those types around here.

Sounds good to me. Our strategic goals relating to trade should involve as many trade partners as possible and avoiding over-reliance on any one export market. We’ve recently been taught a lesson on the folly of that, let’s learn it.

Food insecurity is currently decreasing in China (source) while it’s increasing in Canada (source). So maybe there is a lesson on central planning and land distribution for us to learn.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/reports-publications/health-promotion-chronic-disease-prevention-canada-research-policy-practice/vol-44-no-11-12-2024/distribution-hunger-canadian-youth.html

Overall, one in six (16.6%) survey participants reported experiencing hunger.

But they didn’t literally die from it so we’re in the best system. Please.

Wealth inequality is at the highest level it’s ever been in Canada. Our system is currently failing.

What’s not to understand? Please, justify to me why an orphan and the child of a billionaire who will receive a land inheritance being made to compete for resources is the best system that we shouldn’t try to get away from? As for what life “gives” us, who cares? We aren’t bound by that, else we should throw away all our tools and return to monkey. We have brains and we can design better, fairer systems than, “Well that’s just the way it is.”

Uh, nowhere? That’s why private, inheritable land ownership is unjustifiable. There is no way to make such a system fair when tomorrow you will have a child who is born who will be orphaned and another who will be the beneficiary of land inheritance, neither child being responsible for the conditions they were born into. Yet both are expected to compete for the same resources. We can do much better.

But according to the article the emergency program is kicking the legs out from another local industry that has been devastated by crop loss in recent years. Surely Canadian vintners could find uses for the merlot and cabernet franc grapes mentioned by name in the original piece.

That was two years ago and apparently the most recent season produced a good crop that grape farmers are having trouble selling thanks to the program which seemingly isn’t needed at all anymore and should have been ended. Particularly in the context of our more recent political situation with the US. This is also pretty tangential to the point I was making with my previous comment.

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Judge me by my enemies.

The federal government still has the final say on international trade. Not to let the provincial government off the hook, though.

[Edit] Do my downvoters disagree that the federal government could veto this if they wanted to? My point is not that the federal government is the only one responsible or even primarily responsible. Only that this is within their purview if they cared to act on it.

100% agree. Private, inheritable land ownership in the context of a population that doesn’t all enter the game at the same time with the same resources available to them is inherently unjustifiable.

[Big Foreign Oil] maintains and asserts much of its power through control over the apex oil and gas lobby group, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). Through partially successful PR campaigns, CAPP has wrapped itself in the maple leaf and claimed to speak for Canada’s national interest.

But as this report reveals, the Canadian-ness of Calgary’s oil patch is an inch deep:

• Of the 48 corporations on CAPP’s board, 30 were confirmed to be fully or majority foreign-owned, while seven more are very likely majority foreign-owned. Combined, that makes up 77 per cent of CAPP’s board.

• The overwhelming majority – about 97 per cent – of the oil produced by corporations on CAPP’s board in 2018 came from fully or majority foreign-owned corporations. Majority Canadian-owned corporations were responsible for less than three per cent of all oil production by corporations on CAPP’s board.

• Most of CAPP’s revenue comes from foreign-owned corporations because CAPP corporate membership fees are based on each member’s oil production. The greater the production, the higher the fees. Since 97 per cent of the oil produced by CAPP’s corporate board members comes from fully or majority foreign-owned corporations, their fees must account for about 97 per cent of CAPP’s revenue.

Posing as Canadian - Gordon Laxer

The current makeup of the “Canadian” oil industry in general is a huge national security issue.

Once again proving what a trade deal with this person is worth. We should definitely be making sacrifices to secure a deal with this calm, level headed, emotional rock. It would surely not be casting pearls before swine.

Yes, please, continue to tear yourselves apart, BC cons.

I got home about 20 minutes ago. I left the house about 4 hours ago.

That’s some serious scab-like behavior, Balzac. Not overcoming a name like that with this shit.

I could definitely beat up Galen Weston Jr, thank you very much.

Yeah, kneecapping our canola industry to support the USA’s foreign policy, on the other hand, is a great deal for us.