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How about Canada And Mexico sign agreements with Europe, Latin America, and the TPP and see how the US manages without being able to exploit anyone?
Canadians don't need the US, they have literally 10x the natural resources per capita. The US is not negotiating from a position of power.
Carney is working on exactly this- a 40 country trade block with 1.5 billion people and 40% of world GDP.
Canada is down in Mexico now expanding trade with a huge trade mission.
All the more reason for Canada to join the EU then
Nobody up here is taking these threats seriously anymore. Manufacturing in the US would immediately crater. So many Americans would lose jobs, and thanks to their bullying isolationism nobody is lining up to replace Canada as a viable trading partner.
Having no free trade with the US would suck but it’s temporary. Being a vassal state or getting annexed is permanent.
Maintain current elbow position.
So in other words it would be an amazing distraction from Epstein for another two weeks, minimum. Got it. I’m sure this is fine
My sister was a drummer in a 3 piece band with a guitarist and a vocalist (Sparse I knoow). The vocalist ended up kicking the drummer and guitarist out of the band and refused to admit that it means she left the band.
Canadians on the whole aren't worried about this. But remember fellow Canadians, it can still hurt. We need to be prepared to make sacrifices individually.
I think we're all clear on the assignment. We've all taken a hit for the sake of "Buy Canadian" and other movements, to help with re-alignment, and we all know we're going to have to support each other as shocks continue to hit. An important factor, however, is the pain needs to be distributed in a reasonable way. The TSE index funds are seeing solid and gaining dividends. We need to see some more movement from the top income brackets in putting those dividends back in to domestic industry to help compensate for inevitable job losses.
A North American trade pact without Canada?
So ... basically just a trade deal with Mexico, eh? Have fun with that.
Leave out Mexico, too. It’ll be painless.
Been listening in on the finance bro economy speak podcasts over the last while and what Americans don't seem to grasp is that this isn't going to go away when they kick Trump out of office. This is permanent damage done.
Canadians will happily take the hit while the government sets up new trade partnerships because we spent the last year doing it. There are now crops coming from local farms that didn't exist two years ago because we were importing before then but the threats and market pressure placed national food security at the top of the priority list. Canadians as a people will made everyday sacrifices to do the thing and start winning back our independence from reliance on American trade. As an ally America has proven it is too volitille to trust even if they elect someone less crazy there's no assurance that the system will honor it's commitments anymore.
It will take a little while before the American economy looks like it is properly done for. Those small businesses are already disappearing along with the manufacturing jobs because raw materials that are tarriffed now will eventually just divert to other markets permanently. People are no longer going to the US for tourism the way they once did and once the tourism infrastructure of kitschy little customer service venues that depends on those dollars is lost those locations are going to start losing some of their charm as destinations. Once these private businesses burn through their credit and are forced to close shop your landscape is going to look very barren. I implore Americans to keep up the fight against this admin and at least try to stem the soft power and economic hemorrhage before it gets worse.
Oh we understand all too well. The damage from the current administration will take years to recover, decades, generations. Some of it never will
For me the anti-intellectual oppression is worse. That brain drain is something we’ll never recover from
Lmao so just… a trade pact with ourselves?
Honestly, I couldn’t come up with dumber ideas if I tried
Edit: I guess the intent would be us and Mexico somehow puppeted/manipulated or whatever. But tbh I think that says more about some latent thoughts he might have about getting some Lebensraum in Mexico.
Mexico should tell the orange pedo rapist to kiss their ass (but in Spanish). Canada and Mexico should do trade deals.
They are.
Hahahahahah 🤡
Bye.
Oh no, a country with ceding world power is making an empty threat. D E S P E R A T E
There's nothing new about that idea whatsoever.
it’s just a weak attempt at the prisoners dilemma but to give up concessions for trade.
It’s not going to happen.
Ban hockey? Wow, that's harsh. Casus belli. I'm not even sure if Canadians would be sorry after genociding Americans for the hockey ban.
He was claiming that China would somehow ban hockey in Canada
That's quite a claim. Rather covfefeish claim.
Goodbye Felicia
Sure, Carney is so popular right now that Conservatives keep crossing the aisle, but he'll definitely cave to the US when nearly every Canadian approves of cutting off the US
I'm not sure it's Carney's popularity any more than PP's derangement.