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Ford threatens to cut off electricity and critical minerals to U.S. as trade woes worsen (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have my criticisms of Mark Carney and his Liberal government, but you can’t really “both sides” the tensions between the USA and Canada right now.

I can when we're talking about Doug fucking Ford. This isn't a Canada v US thing, it's a Doug Ford Reactionary Populism versus Donald Trump Reactionary Populism pissing contest. They've got functionally identical politics, the same basket of empty promises, even the same damned photo-op strategy. Canada's Fords are carbon copies of America's Trumps.

Canada has been thrown into the position of constantly having to defend itself from unprovoked attacks by the USA.

Literally the Trump line about the US and Mexico. Almost word for fucking word.