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Canadians stood up to the bully and the bully turned tail and ran home crying to mommy.
I feel like Trump is grandstanding.
He shot his mouth off, Canada did some stuff (mostly in the fall fiscal update), he looked tough for his base, but relented at the 11th hour.
That last minute save means Trump doesn't have to deal with the sustained economic impact of tariffs. He got to stir the pot and see how much he can get away with.
Coincidentally, Mexico got the exact same deal. We're gonna go through the same song and dance next month.
But it's a good wakeup call for US allies: it's time to start looking for other markets and building trade deals with less volatile partners.
Yea, we don't know what happened in the phone call. I don't think Trump was expecting us to fight back, he would have taken any deal to safe face and say he won. The important part is that all of us don't forget what happened. Regardless of what happens next month, America threatened us, we can't go back to the way things were. I am going to continue to choose Canada first, fuck the States.
True, but it's weird that Mexico got the exact same deal.
You're totally right. We need to remove barriers to interprovincial trade and start looking for other trading partners. I hear the EU doesn't buy much of our aluminum. Maybe it's time for the feds to encourage that kind of export.
No, we gave the bully exactly what he demanded. They didn't give in. We did. And all it bought us was a 30 day delay.
These are lip service concessions to Trump that technically meet what he was asking for while denying him significant economic leverage. From Canada, into the US, a total of 43 lbs of fentanyl entered - compare that to the 21,148 lbs entering through Mexico.
Trump used the fentanyl bullshit as a pretext to enforce tariffs while not violating the letter of the law of the trade agreement he negotiated. He literally doesn't give a shit about fentanyl and instead wanted economic leverage.
Trudeau has paid lip service to the dumbass fake reason everyone knows doesn't mean shit and said "You still wanna go bro" to which Trump declined to elevate it to a tariff exchange in violation of the treaty.
This was a huge loss to Trump but nobody tell him that to his face or his whiney little bitchass will be embarrassed and start lashing out even more to look like a strongboi.
To all his sycophants, he won. And he will be back in exactly 30 days to make more ridiculous claims. We did not win. At best, we delayed his next demand.
Agreed.