besides oil and oil derivatives, which together make up something like 40% of our export gdp to the united states, our biggest exports to the united states are marijuana and hockey players.

and they tax our lumber. illegally. and won't stop.

canada used to have a top 5 global economy. today, we keep going to these g7 meetings, but we barely qualify for the g20 and we're probably going to fall out of it in the next 5-10 years.

canada has become an attractive destination for foreign capital and wealthy foreigners, like a mediterranean resort city-state, but we are the largest country in the world, geographically, and our actual real economy has completely collapsed. we're on the brink of becoming a failed state.

we're going to have to walk into these trade negotiations with a reduced sense of pride and a newfound respect for the facts, which are not in our favour.

the elder trudeau warned us that nafta would hollow the country out, and standing here 40 years later, it's clear he was right. we have no industry of any sort, except raw exports. even our cultural industry, which did well into the mid 00s, has entirely disappeared.

economically speaking, we've retreated back to becoming a colony of europe and the united states, while we're increasingly being colonized by the middle east.