Ok, bump the cost of 20% of your oil supply by 100%, double the cost of 80% of the potash into your country. Decimate the US automotive supply chain and shut down plants in the US. Go for it! I kept thinking about Carney’s speech, was it a bit over the top (ie, is this really a rupture or just a 4 year blip), but it proves without a doubt that Carney was 100% correct. The response to this is not to cowtow down to Washington trying to find a way to talk them out of this. It’s to stand firm, prepare retaliation and support for industries/unemployed, and prep to make this transition for our economy once and for all. This needs to end now, we may as well pull the bandaid. It will be ugly but necessary.
(ie, is this really a rupture or just a 4 year blip)
It’s a rupture. The Canada/US relationship has been shaky this entire millennium. Many people here are probably too young to remember, but the US got mad when Canada joined the US in Afghanistan, but refused to join the next adventure in Iraq. They might have heard of Freedom Fries, but forget how the US was encouraging Americans to boycott Canadian goods because “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrists!”
After Bush, Obama made things somewhat normal again, but after Obama, the US elected Trump, then it was Biden, then it was Trump again. If every second president the US elects is going to try to wreck Canada’s economy for not simply falling in line, the relationship is done for. Besides, any deal with the US would now be a suicide pact. The US is intent on destroying itself. You don’t want to tightly integrate your economy to that of a country that is poised to collapse.
Can’t remember where I first saw this, but America isn’t the way it is because it Trump is president. Trump is president because of how America is. This isn’t a blip. If he had lost resoundingly I’d be willing to call it a blip.
Ok, bump the cost of 20% of your oil supply by 100%, double the cost of 80% of the potash into your country. Decimate the US automotive supply chain and shut down plants in the US. Go for it! I kept thinking about Carney’s speech, was it a bit over the top (ie, is this really a rupture or just a 4 year blip), but it proves without a doubt that Carney was 100% correct. The response to this is not to cowtow down to Washington trying to find a way to talk them out of this. It’s to stand firm, prepare retaliation and support for industries/unemployed, and prep to make this transition for our economy once and for all. This needs to end now, we may as well pull the bandaid. It will be ugly but necessary.
Its not a blip. How can you trust America ever again. They could vote someone else in and do the same.
Assuming there’s ever going to be another free and fair election in the US.
It’s not a 4yr blip, because this isn’t about Trump.
It’s about the American System not being able to prevent a Trump.
For all the talk of the constitution/branches/check and balances,
It’s obvious, none of it worked.
ALL of this. ☝️
It’s a rupture. The Canada/US relationship has been shaky this entire millennium. Many people here are probably too young to remember, but the US got mad when Canada joined the US in Afghanistan, but refused to join the next adventure in Iraq. They might have heard of Freedom Fries, but forget how the US was encouraging Americans to boycott Canadian goods because “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrists!”
After Bush, Obama made things somewhat normal again, but after Obama, the US elected Trump, then it was Biden, then it was Trump again. If every second president the US elects is going to try to wreck Canada’s economy for not simply falling in line, the relationship is done for. Besides, any deal with the US would now be a suicide pact. The US is intent on destroying itself. You don’t want to tightly integrate your economy to that of a country that is poised to collapse.
Can’t remember where I first saw this, but America isn’t the way it is because it Trump is president. Trump is president because of how America is. This isn’t a blip. If he had lost resoundingly I’d be willing to call it a blip.
FYI kowtow is the correct spelling, not cowtow.