Tuesday, November 03, 2020

The American Election

Tonight people will see if Bobby Orr's trust in Donald Trump was spot-on.

 

That's right, Justin. Shut up

Eddie Goldenberg was a senior advisor to then prime minister Jean Chrétien at the time. He said they knew instinctively to stay out of the fray down south and he suspects Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will do the same.

“It’s for the Americans to decide who has won, that’s not for another country to decide who has won. I’m sure the prime minister would be very careful on that,” he said. “There’s not a lot that any other country can do. We sit and watch.”

 

No one cares what self-conscious, sanctimonious Canadians think about American politics that they don't understand anyway. All they have to do is reap what is sown:

The direct reason is that changes in U.S. tax rates and regulations alter the impact of Canadian tax rates and regulations. If the U.S. moves its corporate or personal taxes up or down, that affects policy choices made here. The indirect reason is that the U.S. university and think-tank world is at least 10 times the size of ours. And we get free access to it.

 

Lower corporate tax rates in the US will ensure a wealthy and stable American economy that gets pipelines built and a poor and tattered Canadian one that will ensure brain-drain.

 

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