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And then it was going to be “free-shoring” — trading mainly or maybe even only with democracies. Wikipedia says there are 24 “full democracies” , 48 “flawed democracies” and 36 “hybrid regimes” , while only 59 countries, with 36.9 per cent of the world’s population, have “authoritarian regimes.” If we took an expansive view of democracy, that would leave almost two-thirds of the world’s population to trade with.supply chains.
I’m not sure everyone in Ottawa caught the full detail of how the president thinks about continentalism. At the joint press conference following his speech he extemporized on the two countries’ very specialized roles in the new continental division of labour: “e greatly need Canada, in terms of the minerals that are needed. Well, you guys — we don’t have the minerals to mine. You can mine them..
“Hewers of wood. Drawers of water. Miners of strategic ores.” If he’d said that in his address, he might well have been heckled. The NDP are always insisting we should add value to our natural resources before exporting them — by legislating to make that happen if that’s what it takes. Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne would tell them not to worry, it’s all taken care of, we’ve worked out a deal with Volkswagen to build its North American battery plant in Ontario.
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