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[–] 53 points 11 months ago (20 children)

No problem, boot them out of the country and nationalize their factories. About time Canada took charge of car production and reduced its reliance on the USA and crappy multi-national car makers.

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  • [+] 11 points 11 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    I know, I know it would not be simple or necessarily beneficial in the short-term or maybe even the long-term. However, I'm tired of corporations being given all the rights of people, but never being treated like people in the legal system.

    A person skips a mandatory court appearance, or fails to comply with a court order? Contempt charges, and jail until they comply. We need to do the equivalent to corporations.

    Corporate equivalent? I dunno -- freeze their assets immediately and embargo all sales activity until they comply.

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    Well that hardly helps Canada.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Right, whereas kowtowing to American car companies is turning out to be great for Canada.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Totally. Your sarcasm was better than mine.

    But, in all fairness, we made deals before America speed-ran the fall of its own empire. We are still coming to terms with the idea that it's not going back to the way it was, like the stages of grief.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Nationalize their factories?

    What product would we build in these nationalized factory?

    Where would the parts come from?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Trains. Let's build trains and reduce our reliance on cars.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Wo were are just nationalizing the building? You can't use an automotive factory to build trains.

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