This is exactly what Trump does.

@Jacanuk: Trump’s issue with all this is trade deficits. That is his complaint. For example he is upset about the US importing more German cars than the Germans buy American cars. China is the main culprit in his eyes since their trade deficit with the US is huge, but so what? The US gets cheap products out of it. That’s how business transactions work - you exchange money for goods and service. I don’t think American citizens want to start paying extra for products that are easily affordable for import. Tariffs just hurt the American consumer and don’t make it cheaper to produce domestically. It increases the cost of raw materials used to create the same products which in turn causes US companies to raise the price of their products to make a profit. No matter how one looks at it the American consumer loses out. There is a reason why no reputable economist agrees with these proposed tariffs.

Lumping Canada and the EU with China and Mexico doesn’t make sense since the former has as strict, if not more so, manufacturing laws and standards as the US. You are right that certain nations compete on different levels because of their regulatory environments and lax labour laws, but I don’t believe that is his problem with the current trade disputes.

@Jacanuk: How does the US get taken advantage of? You’re repeating his rhetoric but I doubt you have any understanding on what trade deficits actually mean.

It’s a wedge issue to fire up his base who just want blacks to sit down and stay in line.

The guy doesn’t even know the lyrics to God Bless America.

@JimB: Prove it. Where are you seeing this info?

@JimB: This is wrong. Less than five Eagles players even wanted to go visit the White House. They rejected him. Trump is the kid crying because no one wants to go to his party.

Canada will be thrust even more directly under the international microscope on Thursday, when a vote in the Senate is expected to ratify Bill C-45, effectively making Canada the first G20 nation to legalize recreational marijuana.

“It’s going to be a bit of a science fiction experience for a while,” said Benedikt Fischer, an expert on substance use at Toronto’s biggest psychiatric hospital. “It’s unique in the world, because it’s happening for the first time in a wealthy country. It’s not like in the US, where there are these state experiments. Most people kind of ignore Uruguay. And so the world is really looking at this.”

Governments, researchers and business leaders around the world all have their own reasons for keeping tabs. Legalization could affect Canada’s crime patterns, health and countless other factors – but exactly how, no one yet knows.

Each Canadian province plans to roll out its newly legalized market in a slightly different way, creating about a dozen mini-laboratories within one massive test case.

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Each country around the world that has debated whether to relax cannabis laws has had its own priority in mind: from generating revenue to discouraging drug cartels. In Canada, the emphasis has been largely on public health. Cannabis will be sold in fairly plain packaging, and usually through government-run boards that already control liquor sales.

More here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/06/all-eyes-on-canada-as-first-g7-nation-prepares-to-make-marijuana-legal

While it’ll be legalized fairly soon, it’ll take a few months until you can just walk in and buy some weed. Pretty cool in any case.

LMAO

America banned kinder eggs lol.

Pretty silly metric to claim Australia is "repressive".