Posted on 01/17/2022 10:06:03 PM PST by george76
The cross border vaccine mandate for truckers in/out of Canada is now in effect. The U.S. vaccine mandate takes effect on January 22nd.
It will take a few days to see the consequences, but there will be consequences.
Keep in mind, any impact is taking place in a supply chain system that is already tenuous and unstable at best. A small disruption that may have been minimally significant against a fully operational supply chain, is more likely to be a much bigger disruption in a supply chain that is already under a severe amount of demand side stress. Somewhere in the range of 16,000 to 38,000 daily loads are likely to be impacted.
When questioned about this, Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc says the trucking industry “has had adequate time to prepare for this.” Keep in mind, the mandate was announced 45 days ago (November 30th). According to the Canadian government, changing the structural rules for all the logistics and commerce in cross border shipping, 45 days is enough notice.
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CANADA – […] “I think you probably won’t see that movement … that the government’s looking for,” retail expert Bruce Winder told CTV News Channel on Saturday when asked if the effort will encourage truckers to get vaccinated.
[…] The mandate throws a “major wrench” in the Canadian and North American supply chains, he added, with grocers, food producers, the auto parts industry and building materials among the sectors expected to be most affected.
“I really hope that we’re not at the stage where you see food insecurity, where you’re actually going to grocery stores and there’s nothing on the shelf,” Winder said. “That could be the worst-case scenario.”
Mike Millian, president of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada, told CTV News Channel on Saturday that there were as many 23,000 vacancies at the end of the third quarter of 2021, with his group’s own studies showing that roughly 20 per cent of Canadian truck drivers operating across the border are unvaccinated.
[…] “If we remove a fifth of that workforce, we’re going to see shortages on shelves and we’re going to see inflation of prices, because the cost to bring this stuff here is going to go up.” (read more)
The truth is no one knows how bad the disruption will be. What we do know is that there will be disruption, and there is no infrastructure for a level of rig-switching at the border crossing region that could accommodate changing rigs, drop-offs and/or pick-ups or driver transfers on the scale that is being discussed. The logistics here are a total mess.
Keep your fingers crossed, but prepare for FUBAR.
The voice heard over the loudspeaker in many grocery stores across Canada: “Bare shelves on aisle 5, bare shelves on aisle 5!”
Dr. Peter McCullough: Official COVID ‘narrative has crumbled’: Cites study from Denmark and data from the U.K.’s health agency showing that the vaccines have almost no effectiveness against Omicron.
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These idiots are really trying to crash the worlds economies.
The shelves will be so bare that even the bears won’t be interested.
If truckers would stop delivering to DC they could get their lives back. The regulations are designex to drive the industry to having an 80,000 pound bill gates pc drive near your wives and daughters. Even if its apple, they lost their way the minute they lost Steve Jobs.
Ping
Alas, Campari tomatoes, the little beefsteaks from Canada.
Hopefully, the trains will keep shipping south from Canada.
Mmmmmm. Campari. San Marzano. Roma. God’s gift to tomato lovers everywhere.
I worked a year in Ottawa and was blown away by the neighborhood grocery. The produce section was amazing. My understanding is that Canada has extensive hot house growing for veggies since the natural growing season is so short. I especially was blown away by what were probably the best in the world international veggies and fruits. Mmm those cuties oranges from Israel were amazing.
The grocery down the street was roughly in the category of a Kroger or Publix’s in the USA but was on par if not better than a Whole Foods. Canada, at least in my urbanized corner of the country, was superior in fresh foods but less than the USA wrt to prepared and canned foods.
Fresh foods on both sides of our border are going to be hammered by any disruption in trucking. My opinion…
Well, should you be so unfortunate as to find yourself in San Francisco, I know where to find some very expensive ice cream. It’s guarded by an evil old witch, though.
It’s about control and the NWO setting the stage for the Tribulation with a capital T. This world is not our home. . .we should all have our eyes set on eternity . . .where?? based on who we choose to follow. . .satan or The Lord Jesus Christ.
So they side with China against the US.
O Canada...
Canada like Australia have gone completely full Nazi. If there is ever a need for an uprising it is here
They want a more severe emergency so they can seize more emergency power.
Hard to say what the reaction to bare shelves will be here but there will be pushback at a minimum. Turdough will feel some pressure.
It is more than that. A lot more than that. You would think it is maple syrup and their hot house stuff... but it is so much more. The United States and Canada traded goods and services worth $615 billion in 2020.
You think lumber prices are high now...wait’ll 20% of CanFor’s lumber, originally slated for the USA, is stuck at the Canadian border.
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