<div dir="auto">There is a model solution already established. The Canadians need to learn to love and respect their dominant neighbors like the Irish love and respect the British!</div><div dir="auto">Be independent and trade with the rest of the world, who really do admire Canadians, starting with all Europeans.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">MARTO.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 15:26 Rob Anderson via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
<div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Gentlemen,</div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>At last Saturday’s discussion, we spent much time probing the decline of investigative reporting and the drift of journalism and media away from the local and to feeding from the hands of giant conglomerates that have hollowed out, marginalized or even silenced our former more trustworthy sources.</div><div><br></div><div>We might add that Canadians are now increasingly relying on Amazon deliveries, Netflix movies, Google searches, Apple newsfeeds, Facebook social networking, not to mention CNN, the NYT and the Washington Post.</div><div><br></div><div>Our Canadian history and unique experience is being supplanted by a “borderless” history that is actually becoming more American in its story than Canadian. Issue by issue, those who use social media are being influenced by online sources that are more likely reflective of American issues, thought and political response than Canadian such that the history and culture of the two nations are being conflated much to Canada’s disadvantage.</div><div><br></div><div>Now we don’t often talk about financial investment in our worthy discussions, yet we all have pension plans, TFSA accounts and RSP accounts. </div><div><br></div><div>Crucial to the strength of our economy is that we have a productive economy and not re-enter the “branch plant economy” much criticized by Canadian progressives in the 60’s and 70’s and the earlier “hewers of wood and drawers of water” critiquing image that in the 1930’s Harold Innes borrowed from the Bible to summarize Canada’s economic history.</div><div><br></div><div>With significant monies needed for Canada’s expanding social justice agenda that features increased immigration, racial equity, enlightened environmental policies, resolution of native grievances, the need for adequate and affordable housing, initiatives to address the ever growing wealth disparity not to mention the massive bill accrued from the pandemic lockdowns and healthcare costs etc, it might be time to discuss yet another feature of this American hegemony and Canadian “drain” which never draws much attention.</div><div><br></div><div>Check out below the report by the National Bank of Canada to note where Canadian investment money is going.</div><div><br></div><div>Bottom line, to “coin” a term, our current Canadian approach to news, sports, entertainment, current events, politics and, last but not least, investment wealth is heading straight to the USA. </div><div><br></div><div>Can the centre hold? Or more dramatically perhaps, can the culture of Canada hold such that we can chart a course does not feed us directly into the belly of that increasingly infamous rough beast?</div><div><br></div><div>Bob</div><div><br></div><div>The National Bank report:<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;list-style:none;padding:10px 0px 0px;line-height:19px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Canadians are shunning their domestic market and investing record amounts abroad, according to National Bank of Canada Financial Markets.</p><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;list-style:none;padding:19px 0px 0px;line-height:19px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Net purchases of overseas securities by locals soared to $144.4 billion (US$799 million) in the first 11 months of 2021 -- shattering a previous record of $73.3 billion set in 2006, the bank said, citing Statistics Canada. Canadians spent an all-time high of $81.8 billion on U.S. securities.</p><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;list-style:none;padding:19px 0px 0px;line-height:19px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">“This is a big-time capital outflow, with Canadian investors taking exposure to foreign markets like never before,” National Bank chief rates and public sector strategist Warren Lovely wrote in a note Monday.</p><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;list-style:none;padding:19px 0px 0px;line-height:19px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">“The apparent abandonment of Canada by domestic investors is part of an overall capital bleed that needs redressing.”</p><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;list-style:none;padding:19px 0px 0px;line-height:19px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The bank points to U.S. information technology companies as being net beneficiaries of Canadian investment outflows.</span></p><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;list-style:none;padding:19px 0px 0px;line-height:19px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;list-style:none;padding:19px 0px 0px;line-height:19px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></p><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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