Juno News - April 26, 2020


It's time to bring back manufacturing jobs to Canada

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Donald Trump
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3 minutes

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595

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In this episode, I talk about the need to bring manufacturing back to Canada and North America, especially in the wake of the devastating Coronavirus pandemic that has swept across the country, and how we need to deal with it.

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00:00:00.000 In the weeks months years ahead here in Canada, we're gonna have to have an open
00:00:09.420 conversation about trade and manufacturing. We're gonna have to talk
00:00:13.680 about it in ways that we're not used to talking about it, in ways that cross
00:00:17.440 political lines. It may initially make people feel uncomfortable, but we have to
00:00:21.300 do it in an earnest and open way about bringing back manufacturing to Canada, to
00:00:26.960 North America, doing it to protect Canadian consumers, doing it to protect
00:00:31.460 Canadian workers, because the coronavirus has exposed just how how delicate and
00:00:37.400 fragile the global trade system is, how globalization, while it serves some
00:00:41.780 people, many people, when things are working well, when you're suddenly faced
00:00:45.380 with a crisis, with a pandemic which could recur, when you face the collapse of the
00:00:50.600 transportation grid, or a collapse of the electricity grid, or heaven forbid a world
00:00:55.020 war, a conflict, even an increasing ratcheting up of a Cold War with a
00:00:59.880 country like China, you suddenly realize how compromised you are by not producing
00:01:05.460 more goods in your own country, and how by not having domestic production of many
00:01:10.560 vital goods, that is in and of itself a national security threat. Now a lot of
00:01:16.380 people aren't going to want to have this conversation, because we've heard various
00:01:19.020 economists, business leaders tell us since back in the 90s, oh no, that's not how it
00:01:23.940 works now, manufacturing is gone from North America, you just have to give all
00:01:27.700 that up, it's all gone to Mexico, it's all gone to China, there's nothing you can do
00:01:31.440 about it. I'm sorry, but that's not going to cut it anymore, we have to have fresh
00:01:35.040 thinking, we're going to have to have a whole bunch of policies that
00:01:38.080 traditionally people were not open to, conservatives have become very free
00:01:41.860 market, are traditionally very free market, I am myself, but we're looking at
00:01:46.320 the status quo of this right now, and what we see around the world, well it's really
00:01:51.260 left us vulnerable. I mean what good is free market principles when that's not
00:01:56.180 the dominant protocol in the world right now, and in some respects when you see
00:02:00.440 China rising as a power, rising in their influence, having more and more influence
00:02:05.240 over various trade deals, hey they're creating entire new institutions like the
00:02:09.420 Asian Investment Infrastructure Bank, you realize, okay we can say we're playing the
00:02:14.080 game of Monopoly here, but China's busy playing Trivial Pursuit, we're just 0.92
00:02:18.320 playing two completely different games with two completely different rules, so
00:02:22.940 ideological purity doesn't get you very far if it's not helping you get the
00:02:27.140 things you need and the results for your own country. So we have to be open to
00:02:32.000 talking about various different approaches. Donald Trump's been saying this
00:02:35.520 for several years, and a lot of people laughed at him, said it can't be done, it's
00:02:38.900 not possible. Here's the thing, the coronavirus has proven to us why these
00:02:43.100 things need to be done, and you can do them as a Trump thing, you can do some of the
00:02:47.660 things that organized labor on the left has been calling for, they've been
00:02:50.660 calling for different measures that will actually play a role in all this. We've
00:02:53.920 all got to put our heads together in this and acknowledge that we've got to do
00:02:57.220 what we can to make more products in Canada and North America to keep the jobs
00:03:02.220 here, and to keep us safe for the next time something like this may tragically happen.