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[–] CrustyBeaver52 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I remember back around '90 to '92, Canada used to run a branch plant economy - American manufacturing companies operating in Canada to avoid the tariffs. Canada went free trade with USA, and 9 out of 10 manufacturers pack their bags and left the country. The city I lived in lost 40,000 unionized jobs in two years, which was almost 1/3rd of the total workforce. Those jobs never came back.

Free trade was a very bad deal for Canada, and it is still a bad deal today. The cities have never recovered. From there, things have only gone from bad to worse.

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[–] redtoe_skipper 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

And became good places to dump en masse immigrants from a certain background.

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[–] CrustyBeaver52 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yeah, that's part of the worse.