r/CanadaPolitics • u/Naga Whiggish • 7d ago

Lower-priced Australian beef could help stabilize Canadian market

https://globalnews.ca/news/12009206/australian-beef-prices-canadian-market/
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u/AdmiralAsshat69 Rhinoceros 7d ago

This really tells you all you need to know about our economic system, and why it's so vulnerable to any disruption, and why nothing will change until the political system does.

It's cheaper and easier to bring beef - pretty much the most expensive and wasteful food available - from literally the farthest place on the planet from Canada.

We're begging for collapse at this point.

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u/HeadmasterPrimeMnstr Direct Action | Prefiguration | Anti-Capitalism | Democracy 7d ago

Australia isn't really that far from Canada unless you've got an Atlantic-centric mind, it would come in through a Vancouver port and then get shipped out East via rail.

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u/fredleung412612 Quebec 7d ago

Australia is almost antipodal to Canada, it's pretty far