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Originally Posted by Hylton
Why do you agree with this plan completely? Strange that this point of view would come from a Canadian. 
Tearing up NAFTA will do nothing for either country. We are losing the jobs to China and India, not each other. |
I agree that projects designed to create jobs should be done with material that also creates/keeps jobs. That is the principal. In practice, yeah it might hurt Hamilton a bit but I doubt that it will be as bad as some expect. If there is a spike in steel demand in the US, their mills won't be able to match so prices will go up, thus both requirements will be met. Then they'll likely come to us to make up the shortfall. Chinese and Indian steel is still garbage. No quality control. One batch might be good but the next isn't, but this rarely gets checked. This is important because the quality of the steel is also mentioned. And again, we have plenty of other resources that they are dependent upon.
As NAFTA vs China/India for job losses, well I won't go into an off topic discussion.