Conservative Stone The Liberal government has repeatedly accused the economic dependence on Canada with the United States.
But political scientists say that reality is more complex, noting a broad trend towards the continental integration of national economies that started almost 40 years ago.
On the federal electoral track, Hairy denounced a “lost liberal decade” of economic stagnation. He blamed the government of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau not to advance resource projects, allowing Canadian energy to go to the United States at a reduced price and to lose billions of dollars in investment to American companies.
It is “silly” to blame Trudeau for the economic dependence of Canada towards the United States, because it is a “bipartite project” since the late 1980s, said Blayne Haggart, professor of political science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.
A desire for safer access to the US markets has prompted Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to continue a free trade agreement with the United States.
This agreement and its implications for Canadian industry, society and culture have become the objective of the 1988 general elections which led to the re -election of Mulroney.
The Canadian-American free trade agreement would soon extend to include Mexico, forming the trade base between the three countries through liberal and conservatives successive to date.
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Greg Anderson, professor of political science at the University of Alberta, said that Hairyvre had valid criticism of the trembling of the liberal government on the promotion of economic growth, in particular compared to the United States.
“It really seemed that for a while, you know, Canada could not build anything,” said Anderson.
The US President Donald Trump’s price dam on Canadian products and his presentation on annexation have rekindled the interest of investing in a local Canadian economy and ensuring the effectiveness of East-West energy.
The Conservatives and the Liberals have made electoral promises to stimulate the creation of an empowering infrastructure to trade to help transport resources across the country and market abroad.
“I find it a little interesting now that the public feeling around everything that has changed quickly, and people are interested in building these things,” said Anderson, adding “there is a little perspective in all of this”.
Haggart said the Trudeau government could be blamed for not having seen the arrival of the first Trump administration – which exerted trade -related pressures on Canada after taking power in 2016 – as a sign that the dependence on the United States became more risky.
“Trudeau did nothing, really, on this subject. But I certainly did not hear a voice of the Conservatives at the time … saying that we must really reduce our dependence on the American market,” said Haggart.
“In the past four years, almost everyone was sleeping behind the wheel.”
The diversification of Canada’s trade and weaning out of the American market has proven to be difficult, said Anderson.
The products and products from different regions of the country, whether wood, agricultural products, potash, energy or cars, are heading south in the United States, he noted. “The severity of this gigantic consumer market has really been a bit of a challenge,” he said.
It was also difficult to eliminate interprotrovincial commercial barriers, Anderson said.
“They have been working there for decades, and that never happens,” he said. “These are really difficult to eliminate.”
Haggart said it “would be very expensive” to do what must be done to strengthen the economy as the Allacement closest to Canada is becoming more and more unpredictable.
While Haggart said there seems to be an appetite among Canadians to do great things now, there is what kind of “difficult choice” that Canadians may have to make.
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