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Canada will keep in place its retaliatory tariffs against US-made products as long as President Donald Trump persists with a trade war, said Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister-designate.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 67 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It seems selling Tariffs to his constituency as something that only affects other countries was his biggest grift after all.

Ah, who am I kidding. It's all grift. A gigantic hairball of grift.

I wish I knew enough about Canadian politics to have a deeper opinion, but afaics: Good

Oh and as a Eu citizen I feel very good about Canada maybe hopefully joining some sort of alliance with us. I didn't have it on my radar before 2025.

[–] CaptainThor@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Canada has always seemed more European than not politically, so I hope we join the EU eventually

[–] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

As a Canadian, we've had the attitude for awhile "at least we're not as bad as the USA" but we've definitely drifted from the EU way of doing things. I've always felt like a hybrid between the two (with leanings more to eu).

I wish as Canadians, instead of looking over the fence and patting ourselves on the back for not being the USA, we'd look over the fence and try to see what we can do to improve more (because why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to).

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

I was so annoyed in 2012 when we were protesting the tuition fee hike in Québec that people were pointing to other provinces or the US for their higher tuition fees, instead of, like, North European countries, and many others, where it's free.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know Canada is a NATO founding member, don't you?

Also we have a free trade agreement with Canada.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You know Canada is a NATO founding member, don’t you?

You know, you're right. The alliance is already there.

But the USA is also in it... could NATO even defend Europe against Russia, against the US' will?

[–] WildPalmTree@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They can't even take one country, let alone "Europe". Would it be better with the US in our corner? For sure. But to think the current Russia could take anything except for small parts here and there is laughable. And this only because mother Russia doesn't give a shit about her children.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think you misunderstand. This:

could NATO even defend Europe against Russia, against the US’ will?

was a question about how NATO internals work, decision making and bureaucracy, not raw firepower.

[–] WildPalmTree@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

As I understand it, each country decided. But I'm not a NATO scholar. I'd be happy for someone more knowledgeable to chime in.