Whats funny is how Americans think that getting rid of regulations makes concrete cure faster, structural steel gets erected faster, machinery and equipment arrive on site and be installed faster etc.

Dont get me wrong, you can definitely find a welder/company who will take short cuts to pump out a product faster if they are allowed to ignore things required by law like say having critical welds tested by a 3rd party inspector. They can save a good bit of time only making that weld half the size of what an engineer calculation says it needs to be in order to be safe if they know no one going to look.

Canada obviously would prefer not to cut ties with the US as far as trade goes. But if your administration is going to make ridiculous claims about fentanyl, and the US "subsidizing" canada while actively trying to harm our country and economy. We dont have to bend over and say thank you for the privilege.

Just as you can build lumber mills and potash mines. We can also build larger ports and pipelines to export our goods. Both of our economies will suffer while the infrastructure is built. But ultimately, both countries will survive. The difference is that the more countries the US attacks economically, the less those countries are going to be likely to want to trade with the US going forward. Sure, you have a market of 400 million people. But theres 8 BILLION people in the world. So trumps actions are simply going to push a wider global trade initiative.

As an example, trumps increased tariffs on china have lead them to decide ban US beef, pork and poultry imports. China is instead going to source from canada and brazil. So canada loses access to 400 million consumers, but gains access to 1.4 BILLION consumers. So i suppose in that case, thanks Donald.