Shipping by rail is generally quicker, at a relatively low price point, and with far less ecological impact.

Shipping things like produce via sea to/from Mexico would likely result in a lot of spoiled food. Larger non-perishables it ‘might’ work, but you wouldn’t bother if you have a cheap, less damaging and quicker option available.

Canada’s economy has never been about using our resources, it’s been about trying to find ways to sell resources to others, so that they can make products and sell those products back to us.

And us applying tariffs on China is almost entirely about US interests, not Canadian. Just look at EVs, and how we block Chinese EVs to protect US auto makers, under the guise of a “Canadian industry” that doesn’t exist. Doug managed to screw the entire country out of cheap, high quality EVs by trotting out an “Arrow” vapourware car that was only ever intended to be used to prove to US/international auto makers that Canada can make the various components that go in to an EV – ie. a fancy brochure / proof of concept to try and suck up to US car makers.

There are agreements in place to facilitate the transit of goods via rail/truck through the USA, without onerous tariffs involved. Just like there are agreements in place to allow for transit of goods through Canada up to Alaska.

Could the fascists in the USA impact those trade routes? Sure. But they haven’t yet, and there’s been no explicit talk of it as far as I’ve seen at least. The most ‘noise’ on this front was caused, briefly, by the premier of BC saying they were going to tax trucks going to Alaska – a threat they backed down from almost immediately, as they realised what it’d likely open the doors for in terms of Canada / Mexico trade routes.

Well, with all those scientists putting documents in clouds like google / aws, and with those companies happily using that data to train their models, it’s totally plausible that they’ll announce potential breakthroughs before the scientists officially do… without crediting the source… making it seem like the LLM did a science.