It's Just An Economy

We are winning, right?:

The key decision maker behind the mass layoffs at a century-old steel mill in Hamilton says “no amount of money” from the federal government would have convinced Stelco to continue manufacturing product with low demand in Canada.

On Monday, Stelco, which is owned by U.S.-based steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs, announced it would lay off roughly 350 employees and offer them positions at a nearby steel mill instead, as the company pauses production of galvanized steel.

The move was met with a sharp rebuke from Prime Minister Mark Carney, who said the company “betrayed” Canadian workers and insisted “there’s money on the table” to keep employees on the job.

There will be no pipeline and no affordable fuel in a country that produces the stuff:

👁️‍🗨️ Instead of the government of Canada giving $30 billion to Ukraine for war they could have built a brand new state of the art refinery that processes 1 million barrels of heavy oil. Our cost of fuel would be cut in half. But these greedy liberal politicians rather tax us to death, spend all our money in other countries and get rich with shady donations and projects that never get started! Ukraine first, Canada Last? Can you imagine another country with its government putting people from another country first before their own? ??????????????

— Great Canadian Moose (@Great_Cdn_Moose) October 3, 2026

Perhaps the Europhiles can explain how we overcome the logistics of trading across the Atlantic as opposed to over the border:

Lumber and steel lobbyists yesterday cautioned senators there is no global substitute for the American market. Canadian automakers have similarly warned production will disappear if the tariff war continues: “Are you saying this is not going to compensate for what we are losing?”

The real reason is to keep costs and wages low.

We outsourced slavery:

High rates of foreign hiring at select Tim Hortons restaurants are not typical of all franchisees nationwide, corporate managers said yesterday. The operator of an Eastern Ontario chain of six restaurants wrote in a bankruptcy court filing that migrant workers accounted for up to 83 percent of staff at some outlets: “Figures at these restaurants in question do not reflect the hiring reality.”

Carney has no intention of stopping this. 

Do note where this will be built: 

Building a single high speed railway tunnel to the Island of Montréal will cost taxpayers more than $2.5 billion, the Budget Office said yesterday. The calculation was included among figures showing cabinet underestimated the cost of its regional electrified rail project by billions: ‘Tunnels are major construction cost drivers.’