Congratulations to CBSA for halting the killer cocaine ($52M was the value) shipping to Canada from Michigan. CBSA are doing a great job of halting shipments of illegal and murderous drugs.
I continue to agree with the Prime Minister that the process he has set in place (along with his cabinet, the First Nations and the Premiers of the Provinces/Territories) is best for Canada. It is a while since we have had such a good working relationship all across the country as we pull together to recreate our industries lost to free trade over the last fourty plus years. We will do it and do it well and set ourselves on a path that will protect this country well into the future. We have lots to sell both inside the country and outside of the country and rapidly we are diversifying our trade around the world. Up until the beginning of tariffs by the United States we were the largest purchasers of goods from the United States and Ontario was the third largest purchaser of goods from the United States. But now we buy from all the different provinces/territories instead of buying south to north (the Canadian dollar is worth even less and it saves us a lot of money to buy Canadian) but we do have to increase our supply routes east to west to really be efficient (both highways and energy pipelines). The natural process always tended to be from south to north and north to south from the earliest known days in North America when the First Nations had their trade routes on the same paths. But life changes, tariffs were added to the mix and so to protect our economy and grow our economy more effectively we have moved to an east to west pattern in our purchasing. The stores here have been very obliging by marking products as Canadian - very helpful for sure.
Yesterday shopping for groceries everything we bought was Canadian except for the oranges and a few other items from Europe. Since the President of the United States said they did not need our products we have found many customers around the world - no sense in paying tariffs if we do not have to. Plus we have lots of new customers for Ontario all across Canada and the same for all the other provinces. The main highway across Northern Ontario is finally going to be four lane after all these years and that will also make a huge difference trucking goods from east to west across Canada. The natural flow was always from southwestern Ontario into the United States and across the northern States and back into Canada once again but now we are going to do a purely Canadian route.
Vacation time in Canada used to see millions of Canadians head south to the lovely beaches and vacation spots in the United States but that too has changed as we explore all of Canada. We simply can not afford to do all that American vacationing because our dollar is even less against the American dollar making such trips prohibitive for most Canadians whereas we can travel here at nearly half the cost. The tariffs are eating into our livelihoods and so we must buy only Canadian to boost our economy.
The tariffs were so painful to us here in Canada that the need to eliminate that pain caused us to stop buying American and it shows as our purchases of American products is less than a year ago. I feel sad for my American cousins who are struggling and it could be that worse times are ahead as the tariffs have now come on for all around the world on products going into the United States. One would think that with all that money Americans will have a much better life with the money from the tariffs going to help to care for them and pay for all the damages from storms. God bless the world and help us to heal Climate Change.
Prayers for the children of Gaza and the children of Israel - they both deserve peace. Hamas is responsible for all the deaths and all the destruction resulting in the war that they started. Hamas are evil satanists who only care about themselves, use the Palestinians as cannon fodder and are trying to destroy a people (the Israelis) who have every right to live and be happy in this world. Release the Israeli hostages and get out of Gaza Satanists Hamas - the video of the hostages shows just how satanic, criminal and ignorant you are.
Up early and will have an early breakfast and then a nap.
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