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'The Red States, We're Going to Hit Hard': Canadian Politicians Vow to Make MAGA Pay for Trump's Trade War
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The US offers access to the US banking system, and protection of your maritime trade. It also does not like countries developing their own banking systems or overland trade routes (the hostility towards the Brazilian payment system is a recent example). This is something you'll need to deal with (as in, build and defend an alternative, or join an existing system) if you want to become more independent.
Maybe I misunderstand, but can you explain what you mean about the banking system? Is it more for international transactions?
Canada has a banking system and our own payment system for consumer transactions called Interac. Canadian debit cards work differently than US ones, (or at least they used to). I worked at a tourist spot one summer and remember the US customers getting annoyed their cards didn't work here. The transactions on the Canadian cards were real-time so overdraft wasn't as much of a concern if you were using your card in a store. It would just get declined. Pre-authorized transactions and cheques are different, of course.
It works on multiple levels:
Each of these is a little tax or subsidy you pay to the US. They also expose you to US sanctions. So the more of these you can do locally, the better. In practice, you want to completely avoid 2 and 3, and minimise 1, 4 and 5.
Good. You need to make sure everyone uses it. Make it easy to set up, remove any usage fees (at least temporarily), and make it the default option offered by banks. You can also add features like payment apps and integration with public transport / ride-sharing services.
Thanks for the response but I wonder if maybe there is a misunderstanding.
Canadians generally don't have American bank accounts. Businesses who do business in the states have them and I'm sure some individuals do but it's often about how hard it is to do financial transactions in the US with via a Canadian bank. I was involved in an org that made one large payment to the US each year and they set up an account to do it because it wasn't worth the hassle otherwise. The US has way more restrictions than one might expect lol.
When I was asking about international transactions I meant more like country to country or something, not individual consumers or businesses.
This also makes me wonder if we are talking about different things. Interac isn't optional. It's the only way to use your bank account to pay for things via a card. It is run by the banks and has been around since the 80s.
As far as I understand the Canadian banking infrastructure is independent of the US or any other country. A lot of the software is custom or even developed in house. (I know a few people who worked or work for banks as developers.)
Yeah, this all exists and has for a very long time. Canada was ahead of the states in terms of some of that stuff because we have way fewer banks and tighter regulations so it was easier. I remember visiting family in the 2000s and being shocked people wrote cheques. I don't think I had seen someone pay with a cheque in a store before. 1
Ah then you're in a better place than I thought. You've already solved issues 2 and 3. Some Canadian people / businesses have US bank accounts (#1) for ease of doing business, but that's fine. Now your main concern would be international transactions (#4) and dollar dependency (#5). China and the EU have international payments systems that you might be able to use. You can also use Euro / Yuan for those transactions, and gradually replace / supplement the dollar with these currencies for your foreign reserve.
Yeah which is why I REALLY hope the Carney government is planning to put a stopper on the proposed sale of Moneris to US private equity. That idea was a disaster for Canadians BEFORE this current bullshit.
Before any of that, canada needs to build a proper oil pipe from Alberta to ontario that does not cross into the US. Thats a choke point for it right now.
Alberta does not have the refining capacity for that.