Ancestors

Written by Sherri W (SyntaxSeed) on 2025-02-01 at 06:30

I have to speak honestly as a Canadian today. It feels insulting & hurtful to be facing tariffs from our biggest neighbour, trading partner & cultural sibling.

I keep remembering the many times I've donated to relief efforts for things like 9/11, hurricanes, etc in the USA. Despite having 0 actual friends or family in America. Vacations & scores of day-trips. And this is what we get from half the voting population down there??

What a slap in the face. 💔🇨🇦

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Toot

Written by Sherri W (SyntaxSeed) on 2025-02-01 at 06:38

I grew up seeing the lights of the bridge to the US from my parents' window (until the trees grew too tall). Most of my life I've made flippant comments about how similar our countries are & how performative the border always seemed to me. How naive I was.

I live in an automotive city that relies on Just In Time cross-border trade. We're going to grind to a halt quickly over here if automakers slow or halt production. It'll be bloody painful.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-tariff-north-america-analysis-1.7447878

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Descendants

Written by Doubtful Duck 🦆 on 2025-02-01 at 15:41

@syntaxseed the faster and harder we snap out of the "we're very similar" the better chance we have to steer the street car into the other track. Right now we're going down the same track that has led the US to where it's at. We're just moving slower and we're further back the line. Culture alone won't save us. The autos in your home town would gladly move to a lower cost location if it were easy and profitable.

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