[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[HVC]

Do private planes lose half their value when you fly them off the lot?

Helps the money laundering when you sell it to a friend.

[viper37]

Not that it matters. The CAQ seems like a spent force, with zero projected seats in the next election. Lots of things can change in 5 months, but still. Seems we're back to the old dichotomy, PQ vs PLQ.

When fall comes, Premier Charles will swear fealty to King Charles.  All he has to do his keep his mouth shut and he'll win this election.

[viper37]

To what degree are services covered by CUSMA?

Wasn't this CC field of expertise, btw?  I thought he'd jump at the chance to show off

That's outside my area of expertise as it became a lot more complex over the years since CETA and other trade agreements became a thing.  

There are rules of preference, or rather, non preference.  A country can not favor a supplier for its country over another one from a CUSMA country, and with CETA I seem to remember that if we offer a specific arrangement to a supplier from a CETA country, we have to extend the same favors to a supplier from a CUSMA country.

There are rules for professionnals like accountants (and many others) who can get work permits directly at the border.  A CPA from Toronto could easily work in Detroit and vice-versa, if they have the proper qualifications to work in a US/Canada business (a matter of having the right accounting and fiscality specialization, after graduation, which happens to everyone when they begin working).

There's also rules about providing services to one country or another without needing a local office.

Many sectorial rules too, way too complex for me to remember just like that.

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, that's essentially it.  Viper I knew you'd be there for us 

When our trade agreement is not renewed, it's going to be a lot of disruption on both sides of the border for services, companies, professionals, and consultants.

The border has been invisible for those purposes for a couple of decades.