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    If he excludes oil from the tarrifs, we should increase the price of oil exports ourselves.

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    I hope we throw in somethingn into the retaliatory package like vehicles entering the Canadian boarder need to be zero emissions, those trying to enter with non compliant vehicles will have them seized at the boarder.

    That alone should keep most riff raff out of Canada.

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      As funny as this is, in practice we want them coming up here to spend money.

      What we’ll do, like last time, is tariff in a very targeted way, hitting specific products where consumers have easy access to alternatives. Like slapping tariffs on bourbon, for example.

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    Surely putting tariffs on about 60% of American oil imports will do wonders for their gas prices.

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      I’d rather not give up currency sovereignty. Closer economic and military ties, sure, but not full membership. There’s also the reality that some of the most powerful economies in the EU in Germany and France are flirting with their own neo-fascist movements.

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        Can you please explain why you think currency sovereignty is such a big hangup? I see lots of potential issues with joining the EU, but having to use the Euro doesn’t even register for me as a problem.

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          Because national control over the Canadian dollar gives us a lot of flexibility that adopting the Euro would take away. Particularly in a country that is about to have to attract new trading partners to buy our exports, the ability to devalue our dollar to make those exports more attractive is going to be important.

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      I’m stocking up on rice and beans and survival foods as the next great depression is about to drop. If it doesn’t? I got a decade of camp food.

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        There are lots of cooking methods that can help save money

        You can take a lot of your food wastes and freeze it and then make broth. I save my pan drippings for roux, gravy, and sauces.

        I think this spring I’m going to try planting vegetables, my brother is very into his vegetable garden and has good tips.

        Also things like a bag of steel cut oats are more nutritious and filling than instant oatmeal.

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          I both love and hate comments like this (and say that having made more than a few of them myself). It’s great to see people sharing advice on how to cook better, do more for yourself, do more at home, etc. I really enjoy making my own pickles, baking bread, making home made stock from scraps.

          On the other hand, it disgusts me that comments like this are necessary. It’s the twenty first century, humanity has built flying machines, travelled into space and harnessed the power of the atom, and we’re out here sharing basic survival advice with each in the hopes of making it through one more day. Shouldn’t our basic standard of living be better than that of hunter-gatherers by now?

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            Absolutely agree with you there.

            My mom learned this cooking from her mom growing up in the depression. She would not throw out anything and always kept a stacked cellar of very old canned foods she had collected over the years.

            I cook this way to connect back to my roots and it makes me happy, it’s what I ate as a kid. That we are in a place where food banks are at all time high demand and this advice is needed is sad.