I think the Beaverton has it right, his elbows are in a quantum state.
Just because Carney’s elbows may be weak doesn’t mean you can’t keep your own elbows up and reach for Canadian products at the supermarket.
I do
Canada Can What Carney Can’t
It seems too many of us forget that WE pay the tariff that Carney imposes on products imported from the US.
I understand being pissed that Carney has reneged on his promise, but I fail to get why we should be upset about our tariffs being dropped.
As has been said here already, we simply fight back by not purchasing anything that comes from Trumpland.
Agreed. And until we are fully decoupled from the USA (if ever) we have to play the game of “negotiating” even with that moron. The best deal for Canadian is what we need. Carney’s job is to keep the economy going here as best as he can while making deals with other countries. Pivoting away as much as we can is key. So far so good. While I don’t like everything Carney is doing I am seriously impressed by the speed and effort he is making to get deals with our allies while keeping the jerk’s focus off us.
The rest is on us. If we aren’t buying, we aren’t buying. Neither Trump nor Carney can stop us and that’s golden. We have a job to do.
So, in other words…he completely caved to Trump.
Yes but you’re not meant to notice
Or he understands the implications of tariffs
The problem is that NAFTA / USCMA prevents us from legally having tariffs.
If we kept them, it would be easy wins for the orange idiot and we’d owe them money.
CUSMA doesn’t cover everything.
Yeah, they prevent Trump from imposing tariffs too, but oh well!
Yes and no.
The auto part, steel, aluminium and processed softwood tariffs are all blatantly illegal under USCMA, but that hasnt stopped him, Dubya or Obama.
More aggression of some kind towards USA is needed to resolve trade deal. That tariffs hurt Canadian businesses and consumers can mean other means. Certainly US/allies investment in auto sector can be instigated by actual China trade closeness or at least more eager meetings. If F35 deal officially cancelled yet? Have we demanded refund for existing crappy planes?
Simply, some path other than total sycophancy to US/CIA/NORAD even NATO/Council of Americas is necessary if counter tariffs are not used. Simply not behaving as though words of “Rupture/irreparable breech of trust” has occurred.
