Canada has huge reserves of oil, natural gas, minerals, timber. Americans need that.

Canada doesn’t need anything americans sell

Adobe Photoshop 👉 Use GIMP or Affinity.

Adobe Illustrator 👉 Use Inkscape or Affinity.

Word and Excel 👉 LibreOffice is better. No AI shit and it won’t spy on you.

Microsoft Windows 👉 Use Linux. It’s more secure anyway.

General Motors, Ford, Dodge, Chrysler, Tesla 👉 We don’t need shitty american cars. Buy Hyundai, Toyotas, Honda, Volkswagen.

Apple iPhone 👉 Buy a Samsung

Starbucks Coffee 👉 Just drink local coffee.

McDonalds 👉 Buy from A&W or Harveys

Hyatt Hotels, Marriott Hotels, Four Seasons 👉 Go to Canadian hotels

Amazon 👉 Fuck Jeff Bezos. Buy from your local stores.

Maxwell House Coffee 👉 Balzac’s Coffee Roasters is Canadian

Tourism 👉 Visit Quebec, Banff National Park, Niagara Falls, Vancouver Island, Johnstone Strait, Yoho National Park. Go north to watch beautiful Arctic landscapes. At least you won’t be shot and killed.

Boeing 👉 Buy Airbus. At least they won’t crash.

What do americans sell that Canadians actually need? Nothing. They just sell convenience. Their products are often substandard

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    110·
    3 days ago

    Unfortunately, your currency is tied to the USD. Urge your government to join BRICS, and it may matter.

    • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
      5·
      3 days ago

      The CAD is correlated to the USD for macroeconomic reasons mostly, and BRICS isn’t an economic trade agreement that has a “join” process. It’s just a popular term for the largest non-US/EU centered economies. (But sure, let’s continue expanding the partnerships with Asia and Mercosul)

        • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
          2·
          2 days ago

          I stand corrected, the thing did evolve indeed into an organization that has a formal membership process, and it now consists of 10 countries. TIL, and thank you for the link.

          But then again, it is really not an economic trade agreement, and I don’t know if there’d be much benefit for Canada joining it, as we are enticing enough as a market for investments without getting BRICS funding for infrastructure projects.

          • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe
            1·
            2 days ago

            It’s more a geo-political organisation than an economic one, closer parallels to G7 than NAFTA or ASEAN, but there are certainly economic agreements between its members.

            The point however is that you’re basically correct that is not at all the organisation that the original comment implies it is.

            Edit. There is no “BRICS funding” it’s not the EU. It’s a loose collective of countries who claim some alignment, although it’s really just more like Bender from Futurama saying “fine, you won’t let me join your club, then I’ll make my own with Blackjack and hookers”

            • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
              1·
              2 days ago

              This thread has shown that my understanding of BRICS is very outdated but, as far as I remember, one of the main things that come out of BRICS is direction on who’s getting infrastructure funding, like China, Brazil and India making investments on port building and logistics, which helps streamlining trade between them. That’s what I mean with funding, I don’t suppose there’s a “BRICS bank” but it’s the forum where you can convince China that the next port expansion project they pay for is yours.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        11·
        2 days ago

        I’m telling you the entire Western Bloc currencies are tied to the USD. These states can dump bonds, but other nations selling theirs has already decreased bond worth and USD worth. USD is fiat, backed by debt. Now I’m not an economist, so you’d have to ask someone like Jeffrey Sachs or another seasoned economist what, exactly, that may look like, if there’s a bond run.

        • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe
          2·
          2 days ago

          My first degree was economics & finance, I know how it works. Yes the dollarisation of international trade and economics is something China has been trying to break for decades. They’ll succeed in a decade ir so too I expect, but it won’t look at all like you seem to think from these comments, and you certainly can’t flip the underpinnings of an economy like flipping a coin.

          In really simple terms your key export markets determine the construct, Canada has a massive percent in trade with the US and EU (vast majority of exports). This dictates a lot of things.

          The only BRICS member a sane person would consider aligning themselves economically with is China, and that is happening organically as a function of trade balances and their economic rise. Eventually the yuan will eclipse the dollar but Canada (and Europe) are not there yet.