Description: As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to propose absorbing Canada, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe disregards the threat — but says Canada needs to prioritize energy and food security to avoid putting itself in a ‘vulnerable position,’ and criticizes a ‘lack of leadership’ from the federal Liberal government.
I’m sorry, but Canada is one of the most food and energy secure countries in the world. We’re a net exporter of both, and by massive margins. We basically export so much energy, that that one ticket is enough to make our massive trade deficit into a massive trade surplus, the very thing Trump complains about. It’s like a third of our entire export by value to the US.
And we single-handedly fed the Soviets during the cold war as well, being the only country with enough surplus in food to feed them during their massive self-inflicted famines, and preventing them from going to war out of sheer desperation.
It’s people like this that is destroying Canadian sovereignty, not trying to secure it. We need to be united more than ever as we shift gears, diversity our trade, and improve relations with other countries for the sake of our sovereignty, not attack each other in petty attempts at power grabs.
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I’m sorry, but Canada is one of the most food and energy secure countries in the world. We’re a net exporter of both, and by massive margins. We basically export so much energy, that that one ticket is enough to make our massive trade deficit into a massive trade surplus, the very thing Trump complains about. It’s like a third of our entire export by value to the US.
And we single-handedly fed the Soviets during the cold war as well, being the only country with enough surplus in food to feed them during their massive self-inflicted famines, and preventing them from going to war out of sheer desperation.
It’s people like this that is destroying Canadian sovereignty, not trying to secure it. We need to be united more than ever as we shift gears, diversity our trade, and improve relations with other countries for the sake of our sovereignty, not attack each other in petty attempts at power grabs.