Canada

The real question is: why should Canada keep such heavily protected markets in sectors like dairy and telecommunications while expecting full access to the U.S. market?

Dairy in Canada absolutely has 0 expectation of full access to US market. They produce enough for Canada and that's it, and they lobby to keep it that way. Telecommunications, I'm not sure what you mean. Certainly Nortel/RIM don't exist much anymore. Our cell phone and cable companies do not have access to US market either.

European cheeses at a fraction of the cost or finally having real telecom competition.

US dairy policy is to produce liquid cancer, but I get that if it were cheap enough, I/some could go for that. We could subsidize Canadian dairy the same way, and dairy lobbyists could be ok with it. Telecom would be better enhanced by China instead of a Canadian enemy. Even cheaper. Hysteria over foreign influence, means only US and our currently extortive oligarchs are allowed political influence, so good luck with that. There's no other way to make Canadian oligarchy rich than current system. Ukrainian hatred voting block also does not count in foreign influence hysteria.

The problem isn’t trade itself—it’s unfair trade. If the U.S. wants access to our markets, we should be getting equivalent access to theirs. That’s the real fight here.

That is what current for of democratic dysfunction in Canada will produce. US tells us trade is unfair, and you repeat it. But the Canadian/US oligarchs in control of us tell us to love the US always, and hate its enemies, and you should never consider any other message.

That’s the real fight here. Instead of seeing this as a U.S. plot to crush Canada, we should be focused on securing a deal that works both ways—whether that means better market access, fairer tariffs, or even things like freer movement of citizens across borders.

It 100% is a plan to crush Canada, where your trade fairness euphemism is used to recommend even higher submission in what was always a submissive relationship. It's only fair if we give up everything in how Canada is structured, and support more wars, and perhaps migration internment camps.