Dear editor:
For decades, Canada had the opportunity and procrastinated over the urgency to reconfigure and broaden our supply chain options. This is another one of those opportunities.
It’s a doomed long-term business model where any business is dependent on a single supplier. Canada has been in this position for decades with the U.S. and for another time the chickens have come home to roost.
Our various media outlets should be screaming for change. Canadians are fed up with being taken as pawns. We deserve more from our elected officials.
Mr. Turner, as a former politician, will Canada ever see a leader with the intestinal fortitude to address our supply chain exposure, from dictators and bullies like U.S. President Donald Trump?
Or are we destined to be followers, not leaders, with our natural resources on the world stage?
If not, why not become the 51st state? The U.S. is calling the shots.
In conclusion, it’s a pathetic state of affairs. A schoolyard tit-for-tat short-lived response is not sufficient and will come back to haunt us, in greater force, years ahead.
The time for big-picture, long-term planning is now. Other markets are screaming out for our resources.
On another note, the first round of price gouging was defended by the retailers’ war cry: COVID, COVID, COVID. We have a new pretext for round two: Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs.
Samuel Young
NOTL
