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The thing is, companies from thr larger provinces have so many more market protections than those from small ones. They have distribution networks already. Thry have a larger local customer base. They’re in positions to just expand and take over.

You’re more likely to see companies from Ontario or BC kill products from PEI or Nova Scotia than you are to see them on your shelves. Centralization is just cheaper.

Cool story. Guess you imagine yourself as being unaffected by things. Maybe you can fuck yourself with your privileged perch, then.

Slowly, auto makers are moving back towards having actual buttons on things. Screens aren’t likely to go anywhere, but the age of “everything’s just a touch panel” is slowly coming to an end.

Let Canadian companies to fight each other and leave territorial guards out of it.

Yeah, I don’t know. Gutting various industries in small provinces for the sake of companies in the big ones doesn’t sound very neighbourly. Getting fucked over by Ontario, BC, or Alberta actually an upgrade in any real practical terms.

Well, the trade barriers aren’t imposed by the federal government, so he can’t just whip out his dick and make them disappear. Most trade barriers are really mismatched provincial regulations that make it difficult for businesses to establish standardized products or services from coast to coast, a patchwork network of provincial professional organizations, and a provincially enacted trade restrictions.

So, the federal government can only work as a mediator to make things happen.

Since he won the Liberal leadership, though, an interprovincial pact between Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia has been negotiated, with Manitoba signalling interest in signing on, and Nova Scotia and PEI have rolled out legislation to harmonize some of their regulations and standards. And I’m sure other deals have been struck, as well.

Yeah, but Albertans hear Quebec mentioned in the news once every six months and think they’re totally alone and ignored while everyone else is getting constant attention. Meanwhile, their internal map of Canada is Alberta (“the west”) and Ontario (“the east”), and if they speak of anywhere else in the country, it’s with total and complete revulsion and spite.

But they do go on.

As the indigenous peoples of the prairies have already pointed out, by treaty, the provinces don’t own the lands they’re governing. The people can leave.

They don’t get to take anything with them.

Unfortunately, you weren’t the conduit through which he reached all of his fans. And that relationship is damaging society.

I used to work with someone who loved his podcast. She tried to explain the appeal: “He can go from making dick and fart jokes to discussing astrophysics.” This person did not know I had degrees in astrophysics. All I could say was, if his dick and fart jokes are as bad as his astrophysics, then he’s got absolutely nothing.

Cool.

Anyone want to blow a hole in the side of it?