Well, the good news is that Canadians don’t have to go back to drinking American pißwasser
Unlike the previous tariffs, the new U.S. measures affect a more varied array of business sectors, although they disproportionately target building materials like plywood as well as tissue used for toilet paper, which are significant exports for the forestry industry.
Jokes on us, I guess, since you don’t need TP if you’re in diapers.
Please no, if there’s anyone on the planet I don’t want to face in a war it’s the Canadians
We are nice…….until we aren’t.
Urges Canadians to resist?
That’s what we elected you for! Do the fucking resisting, Mark!
I’m sure the article was more nuanced than that but the paywall hit me after the first paragraph.
I think conscientious Canadians need to realize that it’s their fight too. If you’re not boycotting everything American, then you are playing into the hands of the bully.
Resist the urge to fly to Vegas and spend all your money there. Resist any people wearing red hats and manic looks.
The resisting he’s doing is taking the form of 1. not making a bad deal and 2. imposing retaliatory tariffs. If you want him to declare literal war on the USA you might need to write him a letter and tell us how that goes.
I wish the EU would be inspired by Carney.
EU and Canada have been making deals to take the sting out of this trade war. They knew it was inevitable. Trump always comes back to demand more.
The bar isn’t high… while he isn’t PiPi PooPoi (Polievre) he’s been a typical politician snake. Particularly on climate policy, doubling down on pipelines through Indigenous land, and whatever the fuck a Minister of AI is.
A minister of AI makes sense, you can’t just ignore it.
A stable economic environment allows for us to make investments today that pay off in the future, but in a war like environment you need to mobilize the infrastructure you have and build support around it. Whether we like it or not we have a number of valuable resources in the ground and we need to start moving those resources elsewhere so we can invest in a renewable future.
There’s a lot of stuff I disagree with Carney on, but what I appreciate about him is that he is a pragmatist. He understands that at times you have to put your personal values aside and take the action that makes the most sense.
Winston Churchill was a racist, but he had the balls to take on Germany and not bend. Lincoln hindered post war reconstruction and his authoritarian overreach was unprecedented but he was the only person willing to tear a nation apart to rebuild it.
Leaders need to be able to put themselves aside to make decisions that produce the most utility for those they lead. This means occasionally getting pie on your face or going against your own heart. A snake acts dishonestly with malice, that’s not what’s going on here. Our current circumstances demand pragmatism we can’t crucify the only person in the room willing to act like one in the face of that.
