{"id":1783,"date":"2018-09-05T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:17:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T14:17:05","slug":"u-s-canada-nafta-2-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"U.S. \/ Canada NAFTA 2 cont&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <em>NPR<\/em> piece today noted that Canada is our biggest trading partner. \u00a0There is, for instance, a tremendously significant export\/import dynamic around automotive vehicles and parts. Trump is threatening tariffs on imports of these (and other products), to play hard ball in getting a NAFTA 2 deal made with Canada. \u00a0However there&#8217;s push back from Canada, which, the <em>NPR<\/em> piece noted, is creating some friction between two countries that have had a strong alliance, across the board, for years. \u00a0I was just reading in the book <strong><em>Canadian Society (A Macro-Analysis)<\/em><\/strong> that there are, really, only subtle differences between the two societies. \u00a0And things like free trade &#8220;&#8230;contribute to better integration of the two societies.&#8221; \u00a0Our administration policies would reflect a paradigm that spins around increasing yet more of the camaraderie between the two countries. \u00a0<strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/economy\">our administration&#8217;s economic policy<\/a> would focus more on &#8220;Buy American,&#8221; conversely we would promote more joint cultural exchanges, joint environmental projects, joint tourism initiatives, Peace Corps outreach&#8230; to increase camaraderie with Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An NPR piece today noted that Canada is our biggest trading partner. \u00a0There is, for instance, a tremendously significant export\/import dynamic around automotive vehicles and parts. Trump is threatening tariffs on imports of these (and other products), to play hard <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1783\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}