That’s pretty awesome. “Tree to bottle”? That is, are you doing the whole process from managing trees, through to tapping, and concentrating? My grandfather was in the rubber industry, so, I find this stuff incredibly interesting.

Yes. Not only that but I build the machines and automation to bring the sap in from the trees, store it, run in through the RO, and store it again for boiling. I also welded the evaporator that I use to do the boiling.

No food? Just coffee?

Nice! I love waffles and I’m an artisan maple syrup maker. My favorites are big, fluffy Belgian waffles with berries, whipped cream, and maple syrup or chocolate chip pecan waffles with maple syrup.

The breakfast of champions.

You were right. The US never rejoined.

Trump ordered the US to withdraw from the TPP because the partners refused to agree to one sided, anti-competitive, anti-consumer protections for US industry and a one sided, US centric dispute resolution process which the US would ignore when it lost.

The patnership is up and running and functioning as intended and US farmers continue to moan about the fact that they lost access to the TPP market. The Brookings Institute wrote an interesting article about it.

Sounds awesome.

What did everyone have for breakfast this morning? My wife made biscuits and I ate one with butter and fresh strawberry jam. It was delicious.

Canadian here. I expect the supply of products that would otherwise have gone to the US to go up and the price here to go down. I’ll just wait for the US tariff discounts to hit.

Renewable energy is cheaper that fossil fuel energy but it doesn’t make wealthy political donors in the west rich. China realizes that the largest part of the cost in everything we buy is the cost of energy. Cheaper energy means cheaper products.

DO IT!

Just look at the TPP. The US tried to write the rules and the rest of the partners said, “No.” The US said, “Screw you guys, we’re going home!” and stormed off in a snit assuming the deal would fall apart without them but it didn’t and it ended up being better without the US imperialist bullshit. Then, US farmers realized that they were getting fucked because the US wasn’t part of the deal and the US came back demanding to be left in and the US imperialist bullshit restored to the agreement. Once again the partnerd said, “No” and the US was allowed to join under the negotiated terms. As a result the deal is much more balanced and fairer to the other partners.

Let’s let the US leave whatever they want to leave, renegotiate everything without them, then only let them return under the new terms. The world will be a much better place in the end.

I’m not sure what you’re asking. If you’re referring to softwood lumber the profits of Canadian lumber companies were at record levels because the US needs Canadian softwood lumber with or without tarrifs. The tarrifs didn’t affect sales at all so with the increased demand despite the tarrifs Canadian companies didn’t suffer at all. US consumers spent more and the money went to the US government which presumably gave some of the money to uncompetitive US softwood lumber companies to subsides their unprofitable operations. It’s a tax on US consumers.

Canadian softwood lumber companies pay a stumpage fee to sustainably harvest softwood on public land. US softwood lumber companies pay much higher prices to harvest lumber mostly on private land. It’s all about extracting the highest profit for the most wealthy people. Canada has a better system and the US is salty about it. The US has lost at the WTO every time but refuses to accept the result so it ignores its treaty obligations and just forges ahead with the illegal tarrifs which hurt US consumers.

Everyone needs a lesson in how tarrifs work. Tarrifs are a tax on thing that US companies buy. They are intended to make foreign products more expensive to protect domestic producers. So, the American company pays the tariff. They then pass that tariff on to their customer, either another company or an American consumer. Then, the country that the tariff had been applied to applies offsetting tarrifs on American goods.

When the product that the tariff is applied to can’t be produced in the US, think advanced microchips or Canadian softwood lumber, Americans pay more but still have to buy the foreign product. With the softwood lumber tarrifs the cost of building a home with Canadian softwood lumber went up by tens of thousands of dollars and Canadian companies laughed all the way to the bank. American consumers paid more and Canadian companies made record profits because the US can’t produce enough softwood lumber to meet its needs.

So, the price to American companies and consumers goes up and the cost of American goods overseas goes up. Americans pay the tarrifs and American companies sell less goods overseas.

America loses.

DNC Announces Plans to Learn Nothing from This

More that 70 million of you a solid majority of the popular vote, just elected a useful idiot fascist dictator wannabe laying the groundwork for a christofascist dictatorship.

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Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Islands, be Rideau Lakes Conservative MPP Steve Clarke’s chief of staff. Remember that. Clarke was either complicit in the 8 billion dollars of graft because he knew what his chief of staff was doing under his nose or incompetent because he didn’t. There is no, “I was completely on top of what was going on in my office and what my chief of staff was doing but had no idea this was going on.” The Ford government has committed billions of dollars of graft and glad handing to its wealthy donors and friends while handing you crumbs. Now they’re going to give you back $200 of your tax dollars to try to buy your vote instead of putting the money into healthcare or education where it is desperately needed. I’m going to sign my cheque directly over to my local hospital to help them to try to buy a CT machine that the government should be funding in the first place. I encourage everyone in Ontario who gets one of these cynical political stunt cheques to do the same.

Right wing virtue signalling.

I had a traveling farm hand from France who had never been trick or treating. She was 34. She was super excited to go so we took her when we took our kids out. At each house I said, “She’s 34 and from France and has never need trick or treating.” She got a bunch of candy and was very pleased.

You still have to mask. It’s how we get along with normies.

It’s too fucking early in the morning. I meant MCGA but wording not good.