For decades, Canadians have assumed that, as a mid‑sized, high‑wage economy, we are simply too small and too expensive to make much of anything ourselves. It is best to instead focus on our inherent comparative advantage. We ship out natural resources and buy back electronics and most of the manufactured goods we consume from lower‑cost countries. That belief in outsourcing manufacturing has shaped our trade deals, our industrial policy and even our economic self‑image.
Now, as free trade comes under attack and the world order fractures, it is time to shed the assumption that we cannot make things ourselves. In fact, we can do so with the aid of a new wave of “physical AI” and by advanced manufacturing technologies.
“Free Trade” was a lie.
The people that shipped Canadian jobs overseas are the same ones importing cheap 3rd World labour to steal what’s left from you.
Policy for profit has impoverished Canadians but made our business and political class wealthy.
