All the well deserved vitriol aside, there’s a really straightforward explanation for this. The Maroun family owns the competing Ambassador bridge, and has been using it to extort cross border traffic for a generation now. This competition is bad for them. And guess what? They’re Trump donors. So this is just standard, run-of-the-mill gangster capitalism again.

the yella man gon’ take yer srup!

I agree with letting air out of the balloon slowly. That’s what rezoning and densification shoots to do. It is slow because development is slow. But limiting available capital (ie: competing for mortgages)? In what world does that make sense? And if primary residence cap gains aren’t exempt, then anybody that had to move for work would get screwed. That’s a corporate friendly policy, not a people friendly policy. The goal here is for people to own houses, and for there to be penalties for owning more than one. But that’s exactly where policy is right now.

The irony is that decreasing the value of homes really is the inevitability. Because rezoning encourages redevelopment, that redevelopment generally includes more dense and theoretically more affordable housing types. But developers still want to make money, so they are built to maximize profit, not affordability. So it suggests that if they sell, other houses have less demand, and demand will fall. But that hasn’t been borne out.

This really hand-waves away how big a deal it was for Canola growers and seafood producers to have the tariffs dropped. It cost us comparatively little. What amounts to less than 1% of domestic new car market, and with the opportunity to have those EVs made in whole or part here in the future.

To be clear, the people and the government are the same thing. It’s the same wallet.

The difference is one of timelines. As you ramp up industry, you can import affordable EVs. It’s not either-or.

You’re not entirely wrong. The US and China are two huge economies. But there are lots of countries with not-dissimilar economies that have domestic auto manufacturing (Japan, UK, France, Germany), which are all 30-100% larger than ours. And then there are domestic manufacturers from countries that have comparatively smaller economies (Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Russia). Now of course some of those are notable for being low wage jurisdictions. But not all. For a country where mass transit is highly regionalized and economically challenging, there’s a lot of incentive to have a domestic auto industry.

I’ve ceased trying to apply logic to their choices.

The gulfstream 700 and 800 only have conditional certification in the US. Why conditional? Because they have fuel systems that are vulnerable to failure in cold weather. Our choice to not certify them isn’t arbitrary.