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possible he said A=$1T instead.
$1T is still extraordinary submission. ~9% of GDP/year. Bankrupting golden dome cooperation likely. Makes sure Canada is a necessary nuclear target too.
There's a point where treasonous oppression makes Canada a shithole country worth leaving.
To clarify, they are talking about foreign direct investment, like Canadian billionaires buying stocks in US companies, which the fed does not directly control, but can incentivize through trade agreements. The US can change their taxes on foreign investment on their side. From the other side, FDI is a reflection of how many shares of US companies are being bought up by non-US investors. The Canadian government does not own foreign stock afaik.
Part of the mind boggling numbers is due to massive inflation of certain US stock valuations in the last few years and related reinvestment of capital gains. For example, if I had $1000 invested in Intel last year after it crashed, it would be worth $2000 now. If I sold that and bought $2000 worth of Nvidia stock, that would count as $1000 net increase in my foreign direct investment, even though I haven't moved any "new" money into the US. Did Intel suddenly double in its assets or revenue? Hell no, it's a lot of speculation. People are gambling in the US market or seeking to influence US companies for economic advantage.
I wan't an explanation for how he can promise to triple existing FDI in US in 5 years. He'd definitely be including US weapons purchases, and more government investment in US owned auto sector. Maybe an OpenAI scam.
Something horribly wrong for him to open his traitorous fuckface without wink wink nudge that he's just lying to Orange Mussolini.
It's a complete failure just to have this meeting and promise so much. Instead of making better friends in the world. You're being too charitable in assuring that this means nothing.
He can't promise anything about the FDI, it's not up to him, it's private investment. Like I said, both sides can make a deal that incentivized FDI. "half a trillion in the past 5 years, probably a trillion in over the next 5" is not exactly the language of a promise.
I don't necessarily agree with the policy or trade deals in their entirety and I'm actually more worried if we're opening up Canada for more US foreign investment in the same deal.
And we are making better friends in the rest of the world. We've been strengthening partnership with the EU including a new defense partnership. We're also finalizing new free trade agreements with the south East Asian bloc (ASEAN). And there's preliminary work ongoing on expanding free trade with the UK.