{"id":245,"date":"2012-02-14T23:39:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T04:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sdaconseil.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2012-02-14T23:39:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T04:39:15","slug":"harper-in-china-jean-qui-rit-jean-qui-pleure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Harper in China.  Jean qui rit, Jean qui pleure."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdaconseil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oil-drop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-246\" title=\"oil-drop\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sdaconseil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oil-drop-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oil-drop-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oil-drop.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montr\u00e9al, 15 f\u00e9vrier 2012<\/p>\n<p>Post WW2, Canada was allowed to join the G7 alliance as a country with strategic reserves that should be kept out of the orbit of communist influence, and kept in as a close ally.\u00a0\u00a0 In a single stroke, Harper in China has just rewritten this equation.\u00a0 Interestingly, there was little murmur in the international press.\u00a0 The lack of response is a clear indication that the main theater of actions, actions deemed desirable or undesirable, is shifting to Asia.\u00a0 This is where we will expect rumbles and grumbles about trade, military tension and political collisions to happen.\u00a0 Surely, Obama will bear regrets about his energy strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Western provinces have thus confirmed China as a buyer of their oil and mineral riches.\u00a0 Economic, demographic and political fortunes keep rising in western Canada, while they shrink in the Eastern part.\u00a0 This mirrors the joys and miseries of the winners and losers in this new economic world order: \u00a0Higher prices for ores, lower prices for wares.<\/p>\n<p>To quite an extent, but without the unfolding drama, Ontario and Quebec are facing a similar stretch as in Europe:\u00a0 A worrisome pile of debt and diminishing growth prospect.\u00a0\u00a0 This points to some trouble ahead:\u00a0 The consumer has stretched to the point where governments might now find it easier to cut and squeeze than grow and create jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The real political acts in Canada will therefore not play out at the federal level for a while.\u00a0 The conservatives have energy on their side.\u00a0\u00a0 It is at the provincial level that the critical political debates will roll on:\u00a0 Roll up the sleeves, or roll back the state.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Du Sault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montr\u00e9al, 15 f\u00e9vrier 2012 Post WW2, Canada was allowed to join the G7 alliance as a country with strategic reserves that should be kept out of the orbit of communist influence, and kept in as a close ally.\u00a0\u00a0 In a single stroke, Harper in China has just rewritten this equation.\u00a0 Interestingly, there was little murmur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdaconseil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}