Yeah, absolutely not talking about luxuries.Cornuck wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:30 pmNot sure Mëds was talking about iPhones - but rather more critical, essential products.5thhorseman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:25 pm You'd be paying about double for your iPhone if we made them in Canada.
I'll put this out there though.....
Imagine if the petroleum we have in Canada, was refined in Canada, and sold in Canada, and exported with a focus on a sovereign wealth fund (and include other resources in that) similar to Norway's but maybe not to the same "socialistic" extent.
Then imagine if our farming and agricultural sectors were properly supported and not regulated into oblivion, but rather providing more than enough for the nation and actually booming to the point of having export that results in trade benefits.
If our lumber industry was properly regulated and managed to support our needs and then export as well.
Same for mining and minerals
This should realistically result in much lower gas prices.
That results in lower domestic distribution costs.
Which combines with the ag and softwood lumber (and other resources) sectors to greatly reduce food and housing costs.
All of those things would also trickle down to reducing overhead costs in other sectors, like healthcare and education for example.
A focus like this generates domestic profits, and while perhaps some of those numbers are reduced from now, the export market more than makes up for it. In theory this mean that the average median household income actually goes up. Your dollar value climbs. Your citizen's spending power increases.
So an iPhone costs double because it's made here? Ok. So you spend $2K on a phone, but your spend $4K less on other things throughout the year.
My post is rudimentary in it's delivery, but you get what I'm saying.
