• sbv@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    This seems really premature. I dislike Carney’s policies for a bunch of reasons, but it’s premature to shit on him for this. We don’t know what the final trade agreement will be.

    The last time Trump threw one of these tantrums, NAFTA morphed into USMCA without much of a hit to our economy (afaiu). If our government can repeat that success while we’re diversifying our economy away from the US then that’s a win.

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      8 hours ago

      We don’t know what the final trade agreement will be.

      It doesn’t matter since Trump can reneg on it at any moment as he did with the previous one

      What Carney did here is signal trump that he will chicken out even faster than trump does at any tartrum he throws

    • hexonxonx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 hours ago

      You just said why it’s a stupid, stupid thing to do: Trump would have caved anyway. All Carney had to do is wait.

      That he would cave so quickly shows how little he values Canadian interests over American profits.

      • CircaV@lemmy.caOP
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        11 hours ago

        And to that I would just add - people are PISSED. People will literally self-deputize in a second if America rolls in with tanks or drones or whatever (they are already setting the stage for that with their relentless internal and external rhetoric about how “dangerous” Canada is with migrants and terrorists supposedly flooding in to their stupid country from the northern border). This is a very sketchy time. America can 🖕🖕🖕🇨🇦hates you