All of this adds up to jack-squat, diddly-nothing, when measured against the hundreds of billions of dollars of actual trade. And all represent existing pieces carved out at the time FTA and NAFTA were signed when I was like... 14 years old. And I'm old.
And all of them have corresponding restrictions within the US. You think Lockheed Martin isn't protected? That any Canadian company would be allowed to dominate aerospace or defense or telecoms (not that they could)
And what is this nonsense about "ban on foreign ownership of residential property"? Sounds like a good idea, but it does not exist
Where are you from? Because if you're from Canada, you sound woefully uneducated about your own nation.
(Interprovincial trade limitations are mostly on alcohol and are a remnant from prohibition era laws. And yes, they suck. The other area where the provinces have barriers is around professional certifications.)
I am not a Canadian, but I hope that if you are, you learn more about your own nation's trade policy than a foreigner.
Once again, I am not convinced that these protections are bad for Canada, but they absolutely are a huge subsidy for local business, and a very common tool for Canadian government.
Said "ban" is recent and full of loopholes and in response to a housing emergency
I can tell you that buying residential property in the US as a foreigner isn't a cakewalk either, my dude.
Ask yourself -- Why are you playing into this rhetoric about Canada? You seem like one of the people who 6 months ago would barely even acknowledge we exist, yet now you're an expert...
And all of them have corresponding restrictions within the US. You think Lockheed Martin isn't protected? That any Canadian company would be allowed to dominate aerospace or defense or telecoms (not that they could)
And what is this nonsense about "ban on foreign ownership of residential property"? Sounds like a good idea, but it does not exist
Where are you from? Because if you're from Canada, you sound woefully uneducated about your own nation.
(Interprovincial trade limitations are mostly on alcohol and are a remnant from prohibition era laws. And yes, they suck. The other area where the provinces have barriers is around professional certifications.)