RE:RE:RE:RE:US/Canada Union - similar to EUHey Chris
The examples are far too many in what the sacrifices were to our Industrial base. Then the outsourcing for the sake of cheaper goods that followed for dacades after. Yes we got short term cheap retail prices at that time. But even there, they killed our retail industry too.
The
COST of taking our Tarrifs down, far
outweight the benefits. We're just starting to feel the cost of sleeping with an Elephant.
ChrisM5527 wrote: 859, Just a few memories of "back then". When I was a teen, I worked a summer in Orillia at a office furnature manufacturer. GM had a work van plant in Scarborough. American Motors/Chrysler had 2 assembly plants in Brampton. All pre-Free Trade Agreement.
I get that globalization has given us $50 DVD players, but at what cost? We now have a minimalistic manufacturing capability and a service industry (Tim's) in comparison.
And it didn't stop there (with the exportation of factory jobs), the automotive company that I worked for the longest over the years now outsources engineering to China and India. After Canadians taught them the basics. Really pathetic.
And lastly, not even the Americans have been spared - there is no way Boeing would be in the mess they are in if it wasn't for offshoring engineering.
Another 2 cents...