A telling excerpt from the PMO statement:
“They [Canada’s negotiators] have worked hard, in good faith, to defend the interests of Canadians throughout these negotiations up until the very last minute. However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”
I sense that Team Donnie Dementia can’t keep themselves from renegotiating their own deal before it’s even made.
It was always going to be that. You can’t negotiate or trust who continuously bargains in bad faith and readjusts goalposts. We’re not a fucking vassal state!
They thought we’d be so desperate to sign a deal to avoid tariffs that we’d just sign whatever the asked at the 11th hour.
sooooo US alcoholic off shelves again?
I hope so.
Personally, I don’t buy the stuff. Never really did. But I love how the Americans get bent out of shape over us not selling it.
I love it. A lot of hard to find bourbons are now easily available at, or near, MSRP instead of the usual 3-5x markup.
I mean, that’s not the reason you should keep it up, or the reason I like that you’re standing up to this nonsense, but it is a nice little extra.
Kinew said its not going back on the shelf in the foreseeable future.
Cool, so what we already knew was going to happen, happened.
Colour me shocked. Glad to know we wasted so much time trying to negotiate with what may as well be a bunch of shit-flinging apes when we could have been putting more focus in more deals with the EU, establishing CANZUK, and literally any other endeavour that doesn’t include the U.S…
It’s not a waste of time. We need to do what we diplomatically can (while making other plans).
You can’t really do anything diplomatic when the other side continually showcases they lack any respect for diplomacy whatsoever.
The moment the man in charge literally called himself an idiot when asking who’d ever sign a deal like CUSMA, it was an admission that they don’t care. We got hit with tariffs for reasons that weren’t based on facts. We got rid of the digital services tax as a concession already. We already had the CRTC roll back a decision to triple financial contributions to Canadian content from online streaming services. Then came the Gordie Howe Bridge dispute where we made concessions for tolls on a bridge we paid for. We were going to concede even more with the removal of alcohol bans.
Yet, it’s just now that Carney and the Liberals realise that this isn’t worth it? Any progressive in this country could have told you this from the get go.
You can’t really do anything diplomatic when the other side continually showcases they lack any respect for diplomacy whatsoever.
The Americans aren’t the only ones to consider.
Everyone other country who Canada (and the USA) has a deal with, or is negotiating with is also watching.
They can see who is being reasonable and diplomatic, and they can see who is being a shit flinging monkey that can’t be trusted.
Not wrong, but it’s hard to ignore the shit flinging apes that have been our most natural trading partner since we share the largest land border on earth.
It is unfortunate to have to spend as much energy as it requires to maintain even a semblance of care for it though
They think we’re fucking idiots. The whole US government is corrupt with chronies making billions off chaos, whether it’s the middle east or Canada. So every Monday the US has a deal with Iran and by Wednesday they are bombing the straight. We watch gas prices bounce up and down 20 cents a litre daily.
Trump does not want a stable deal with Canada. He didn’t want it in his first term, he doesn’t want it now.
when we could have been putting more focus in more deals with the EU
That has already been happening since Trudeau was PM.
The government can do more than one thing at the same time, y’know.
They could do some pretty asymmetric stuff. Order tne entire government off Xitter and Facebook for instance.
Or sue Facebook and Xitter out the wazoo like other countries are doing.
Every Canadian institution should be off X.
By bringing non-starters at the negotiations, it’s maga themselves that suspended trade talks. They never wanted to negotiate and just wanted to waste everyone’s time.
