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Originally Posted by percy
Just wait until we have no more raw materials to export. Then those Nikes made in China will be double what they were before since we effectively sold off our bargaining and buying power.
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This won't happen any time soon. We keep finding large deposits of things that were previously thought to be maxed out globally. (Think uranium and nickel.) Comparatively speaking, Canada is a ridiculously large place. Natural resources will be a viable source of income for a very long time.
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