The Canadian government would have us believe that international trade provides the bulk of Canadian jobs. Food for thought that may open the eyes of many Canadians is that there is not enough Canadians in Canada to produce all the products Canadians consume. So therefore, why isn’t there a job for every Canadian, especially if international trade creates so many more jobs? The answer to this question is simply that international trade causes for the loss of far more jobs than are created.
First of all, I would like to say that there isn’t anything necessarily wrong with international trade. In fact, I would be the first person to say that there is a need for international trade. Think of all the things we need in Canada such as some fruit and vegetables etc. that Canada doesn’t have the climate or resources for. As you can see, imports into Canada are necessary to fill a void of something we are not able to source from within the country. Like Canada there are other countries that need resources and products that are scarce or non-existent in their own countries that Canada has an abundance of.
If, first of all, there aren’t enough Canadians in Canada to produce all the products that Canadians consume that could be made in the country and second, Canada has an abundance of resources other countries need and third, Canada is open to importing the things we need, then why isn’t there a job for every Canadian? The answer to this riddle can be found in asking oneself, “Who benefits?” It takes very little thought, once a person is able to see through the many illusions governments are so proficient at creating to see that the beneficiaries of Canadians being out of work are Canada’s executive welfare.
International trade, as conducted in Canada, doesn’t create jobs for average Canadians; it does create make work projects, a venue so that the executive welfare can feel important and it provides a diet for the power hungry individuals who make up Canada’s executive welfare. The only average Canadian jobs created by international trade are, at best, unstable jobs. I call these jobs unstable because these jobs can be brought to a standstill any day of the week. These jobs can be classified as artificial jobs because they have been created only through politics and most often at the cost of losing other, more stable jobs.
Stable jobs provide economic stability and artificial jobs subject to the whims of another country can only create instability. International trade agreements coral a nation’s workforce into producing products wanted by other countries. Should the importing country have some disagreement, the jobs cease to exist. Now, we have the people who were employed in exports out of work and we continue importing products that we could produce ourselves.
A global economy, the most vicious beast there is apart from the executive welfare, will only create potential for economic failure and collapse of stability. The proof of this can be found in the recent collapse of the banking institutions in the U.S. Even with Canadians losing jobs we continued importing goods from other countries that we are capable of producing here in Canada. If Canada imported the products that we needed and exported the products we had in abundance, then Canada would not have lost any jobs.
Canada’s international trade brainstorm is to export products to countries that have the means to produce themselves and then to import the products that we have the means to produce ourselves. This is not environmentally friendly nor does it provide national security. Shipping products down into the U.S. or across the ocean when it is unnecessary is a poor use of non-renewable resources and adds to the crises of climate change. Given the treat of terrorism and the increasing potential for terrorists to obtain nuclear devices, do we really need to be straining our ability to be able to thoroughly inspect all imports?
The financial cost of international trade to the Canadian taxpayer far outweighs any financial gain. International trade not only produces an unstable economy, it does nothing to combat climate change, it threatens national security and international trade limits our nation’s ability to voice our concerns for international events. Canada’s ability to stand up and be counted on global issues is limited because we have lost our independence and can be pressured into doing or saying something against our beliefs. It is important to be independent because dependence is enslavement and this brings us to the very nature of international trade.
