He’s hoping he’ll hurt us (Canada) enough that suddenly his offer to “save” us by becoming a US territory is appealing. Any sort of fentanyl or national security reasoning is just an excuse.
vastard
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Go hard and target US corporations by invalidating US trade laws and allowing affected Canadian manufacturing to make lower cost tech products without the greed monopoly margins.
Good luck with those gas prices, pals. A bunch of people with unnecessarily large pickup trucks are about to get hosed.
The person who proposed shutting off electricity was Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario who could in fact follow through. It would definitely be the nuclear option but it would disrupt the power grid of several norther states we border.
I don’t think it will come to that. I think the orange idiot just wants some politicians to grovel and pay his tithe at the last minute so he can feel powerful. He’s “warned” of tariffs too many times to make me think he’s serious.
I’d argue that Trudeau’s agreement to increase border spending counts. It should have been enough when JT pointed out that 0.2% of fentanyl enters the US from Canada compared to Mexico.
You don’t blow up the relationship with your largest land border and trade partner over 20kg of drugs, yet here we are.
So after capitulating and agreeing to the initial border security concerns, we see that the tariffs are likely to continue because of other reasons like perceived trade deficits and operating under trade agreements which 46 negotiated when he was 44.
It’s almost as if the reasons don’t make sense and he just wants to force us into becoming a US territory out of economic desperation.
Hopefully the next PM will learn some lessons from this round. You don’t give bullies an inch.
It’s not surprising that people are looking to our leaders for ideas and answers in a crisis. Even if they aren’t all in full agreement, every party is contributing to the discussion.
Except the one party who can’t because their leader muzzles their MPs and won’t get security clearance to get briefed on the full picture.
I’m in a pickle. Got proton and my own domain for email so I would be able to make an easy switch… but now I have masked emails for dozens if not hundreds of account logins.
Twonies feels wrong somehow. Like I want to pronounce it so it rhymes with “ponies”
“We demand greater border security to keep out undesirables!”
“No… not like that!”
Why is anybody taking anything coming out of the White House with any degree of certainty? Tariffs or not there’s no trusting the source. We’ll know if it happens when it happens.
I noticed last season’s Nature of Things has a whole episode dedicated to butts. Tina Belcher approves.