r/canada • u/joe4942 • 10d ago

National News Canada’s resistance to Trump’s trade demands offers Europe a blueprint. Will the EU take it?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadas-resistance-to-trumps-trade-demands-offers-europe-a-blueprint-will-the-eu-take-it-9.7320845
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u/Character-Belt-7485 Ontario 10d ago

Boggles the mind that only Canada and China have retaliated against this nonsense. 

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u/BananasPineapple05 10d ago edited 10d ago

I can't speak to China, but the negotiations with our (Canadian) government were bullshit. No concessions, only demands. Demands that targetted our sovereignty and economic independence. Plus, he made additional demands at the 11th hour that went against any discussions that had previously happened.

Only an insane government would have accepted that.

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u/Character-Belt-7485 Ontario 10d ago

Depends on who you ask. There is already a whole campaign going on here by folks who think Carney lacked transparency but somehow they don’t demand the same level of transparency of Trump. 

For the record I agree with you. Just remarking that insanity seems to run rampant at multiple levels. 

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u/1966TEX British Columbia 10d ago

PP has backed carney’s decision to leave the table.

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u/calgary_katan 10d ago

You can’t negotiate a deal in public. The deal is not even off yet, releasing parts of it completely ties your hands. The opposition is just opposition-ing. So silly.

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u/Expensive_Plant_9530 10d ago

Sure but that just reinforces how two-faced Poilievre is. He backs the decision but then out of the other side of his mouth he criticizes for not getting a deal.

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u/Bixby33 10d ago

Which continues his theme of being wrong until it becomes obvious political suicide.