Sensibly: Encourage inter-provincial trade, remove hurdles to opening to other markets, negotiate new trade deals with Europe, Asia, and South America.
Morally: Drop the federal assistance to purchase Teslas EVs as a bare minimum. No one wants to buy those anymore anyway. Consider putting a hefty tariff on every single product made by one of Musk's companies.
That's the thing: It's all bluff. The main goal is to scare away investments in the Canadian part of the industry by creating unpredictability. He's trying to sabotage our economy. Even if he doesn't actually follow through with it or doesn't keep them on for very long the effect will be very real. What a fucking ally he is...
I just hope that industries catch on to this and start ignoring him.
He is clearly doing this to put pressure on the American automakers who absorbed the Canadian industry to make the huge expenses of rearranging their supply chains to no longer involve the Canadian part. No one will win from this.
Canadians already have a chip on their shoulder about most of their industries having been gradually absorbed by their bigger US counterparts over the decades, leaving them now with only few industries of their own. After having absorbed and exploited it, he wants to destroy it.
Claiming that they "stole" the industry is adding insult to injury. If Trump ever visits Canada he will be met by an angry lynch mob.
It's a lot worse than just next to the warp core too. It's pointed directly at it and there is absolutely no backstop to that tiny target save for the core itself.
My grandfather was in Alsace-Lorraine during the German occupation in WWII. Thanks to a warning from a neighboring village he barely escaped being drafted into the Nazi army and had to go into hiding, surviving in the forest on his own until the end of the war. He never admitted whether he ever had to kill someone or not. But my mother remembers hearing him scream every night from the nightmares.
Now I'm in Canada and I'm wondering if this kind of thing is going to become a family tradition.
Looking back at my life having seen my salary slowly increase over my career, you always end up taking for granted what you once worked hard to get and comparing yourself with people who make more, making you want more. But nobody should make so little that they have to worry.
Back when I was still on Reddit, I made a comment on a chess sub saying that in chess you are not allowed to make your king "commit suicide" to explain how a stalemate works. One day later I got a message about suicide prevention because someone flagged me for promoting suicide.
Any healthy company board would remove him from Tesla as it is the no brainer way to save the company. The problem is that he placed people who are loyal to him on it. That's how he took control over the company that he didn't found to begin with.
And it seems to be how he's trying to take control of the US government as well.
Flat earthers: "We only believe what we can see for ourselves!"
Also flat earthers: "And then there is a great ice wall around it and then there are other earths just like ours in other pockets like that"