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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 102 | Kavanaugh Crisis 2: The Democrats Strike Back | Roaming Millennial: Uncensored

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The groundwork for the USMCA, NAFTA’s replacement, is announced. Then, Kavanaugh is hit with more accusations and an FBI investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tonight the foundations of a new trade agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico are

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announced.

0:11.2

Then why the allegations against Judge Kavna are just not credible

0:14.6

no matter how you slice it. I'm roaming millennial and you're watching uncensored. So in very very very sexy news, it was announced that Canada and the US have come to the

0:37.0

foundations of an agreement for the next iteration of NAFTA or what President

0:41.3

Trump is now calling the United States Mexico Canada Agreement USMCA for short

0:46.2

Here's a quick breakdown of what we can expect from the agreement now Canada has a rather

0:50.7

infamous supply management system for dairy eggs and some poultry

0:54.3

in which the Canadian government and agricultural organizations basically control

0:57.9

how much of what gets produced. The argument for it is that ensures there's no overproduction of some goods and that fair prices are maintained for farmers.

1:05.8

Now obviously that is an extremely protectionist anti-free market stance, but it's not even the worst of it.

1:11.6

Since Canada also imposes a 270% tariff on all

1:15.2

dairy products that would come into the country, you heard me, 270%, you can

1:19.2

imagine how the rest of the world feels about these measures. And if any of you were paying attention during the 2016 election,

1:25.3

this issue will sound familiar.

1:26.9

Since Trump made Dairy a pivotal issue in renegotiating NAFTA,

1:30.2

having just come back from Wisconsin this past weekend, trust me, I understand why, you

1:34.3

guys, you make a lot of dairy and apparently deep-fried cheese curds are a thing that exists in this world.

1:40.0

But after much posturing from the Canadian negotiators to pretty much nobody's surprise,

1:44.8

the Canucks finally folded and make concessions for all of the supply-managed industries.

1:49.4

Now, there's still a lot of progress that needs to be made here but it is something so

1:53.4

score one for free trade. Next up we have car tariffs another riveting subject to

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