shockedcanadian
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- Aug 6, 2012
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Time to send Cuomo and his team an email. The RCMP, CSIS and the OPP actively enter American corporations on Canadian soil, and Ontario at $315B debt with 14 million is going to collapse under it's own weight soon. No way New York should alter it's "Buy American" policy to appease some fools wearing white gloves and a red uniform.
Americans need work and local taxpayers should be supporting local businesses. Time for Ontario and Canada to prove themselves useful and innovate, otherwise, let the socialists collapse under their own failures.
Ontario to push for Canadian exemption to New York state 'Buy American' policy
Two Ontario cabinet ministers were in New York state to urge legislators to exempt Canada from a Buy American policy it plans to introduce, warning that it could lead to trouble on both sides of the border.
Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid and International Trade Minister Michael Chan met with officials in Albany, N.Y., on Tuesday. Before the meeting, they said they would focus not on the potential impacts to Canada’s economy, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, but on New York’s “self interest.”
“The message we’ll be bringing to our friends to the south will be: there are a lot of American jobs dependent on an unfettered trading relationship and open procurement between New York state and Ontario that will be at risk if there is not an exemption in place for Canada,” Duguid said in an interview.
Ontario trading accounts for about 80 per cent of the goods New York state exports to Canada, or about $10-billion, with $12-billion flowing the other way. With the Ontario Liberal government planning to spend $160-billion on infrastructure over 12 years, Ontario is a market that New York will want to preserve access to, Duguid said — access he suggested may be jeopardized if Ontario and Canada are shut out with a Buy American policy.
The policy is set to pass March 31, and if Duguid is not successful, he said, Ontario would look at a bilateral deal that could have the effect of getting around the Buy American clause, or “other options.”
“Obviously we would look at all of our options with regard to access,” Duguid said. “If a jurisdiction is going to discriminate against Ontario companies we need to look at our options in terms of the alternative.”
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan would require all state entities to give preference to American-made goods and products in any new
Americans need work and local taxpayers should be supporting local businesses. Time for Ontario and Canada to prove themselves useful and innovate, otherwise, let the socialists collapse under their own failures.
Ontario to push for Canadian exemption to New York state 'Buy American' policy
Two Ontario cabinet ministers were in New York state to urge legislators to exempt Canada from a Buy American policy it plans to introduce, warning that it could lead to trouble on both sides of the border.
Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid and International Trade Minister Michael Chan met with officials in Albany, N.Y., on Tuesday. Before the meeting, they said they would focus not on the potential impacts to Canada’s economy, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, but on New York’s “self interest.”
“The message we’ll be bringing to our friends to the south will be: there are a lot of American jobs dependent on an unfettered trading relationship and open procurement between New York state and Ontario that will be at risk if there is not an exemption in place for Canada,” Duguid said in an interview.
Ontario trading accounts for about 80 per cent of the goods New York state exports to Canada, or about $10-billion, with $12-billion flowing the other way. With the Ontario Liberal government planning to spend $160-billion on infrastructure over 12 years, Ontario is a market that New York will want to preserve access to, Duguid said — access he suggested may be jeopardized if Ontario and Canada are shut out with a Buy American policy.
The policy is set to pass March 31, and if Duguid is not successful, he said, Ontario would look at a bilateral deal that could have the effect of getting around the Buy American clause, or “other options.”
“Obviously we would look at all of our options with regard to access,” Duguid said. “If a jurisdiction is going to discriminate against Ontario companies we need to look at our options in terms of the alternative.”
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan would require all state entities to give preference to American-made goods and products in any new
