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U.S. trade officials are signalling that Canada will need to make policy changes if it wants long-term certainty under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), as the trade deal comes up for mandatory review next year.

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 23 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

Canada lists demands to US:

  1. Fuck Off.
  2. Eat shit.
  3. Die

There is no trade to negotiate. No concessions to give. Bad faith negotiators, no court, no congress, no honour or integrity. No trust. There is nothing to discuss. No "deal" will be honored. No concession will ever be enough. Each "give" will only further our dependence on those who want to annex us, and will only be met with more and more demmands for concessions.

Fuck CUSMA. I don't want to buy from or sell to fascists. Let's do our own thing and trade with real partners.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

Out of curiosity, are Canadians not on Lemmy generally about that hostile to the US these days?

It’s a bit confusing looking from the outside in. It seems like there’s a lot of grassroots resentment, but on the other hand, there are some weird (conservative?) groups that seem pretty Trumpy.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's a spectrum like everywhere on any topic. We have our maple maga to contend with and our conservatives in general are trying to privatize Canadian healthcare to support annexation.

I'm guessing the hostile types are 30% of Canadians. 10% Maple Maga, and the balance something milder and milquetoast.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I'm not saying you're wrong, but the people who have enough money to travel to the States, but not so much money that they wouldn't travel elsewhere are doing a lot less traveling to the States. That segment of the population has been very vocal with their travel dollars that they don't approve of the political stance or America right now. No, they probably aren't a majority, but they aren't insignificant, either, and they are making their opinions heard in a very clear manner. Likewise store purchases. I don't buy Tostitos/Lays anymore. I barely buy Pringles. My go-to for chips is Old Dutch (which has an American parent company but is produced in Canada with at least partly Canadian ingredients) or other Canadian brands. Enough people are doing it that it's impacting display decisions at grocers (some of which is to basically lie to us and make us think things are more Canadian than they really are). Both of those are signs that it's more than just some angry minority being vocal, there is a quiet segment of the population that simply puts in varying amounts of effort to not send money to America.

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