If people feel a need to cave and sign a deal with the US, I think it’s important to have a feel for the relative strengths and weaknesses of the Canadian US economies. I’ve dug up a lot of information that would suggest we are doing much better than America. https://billhulet.substack.com/p/my-hot-take-on-the-current-trade

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Canada’s priorities the next 4 years are Brookfield priorities.

    You can’t just decouple from an economy coevolved for 150 years. Geography matters in trade.

    Watch what happens if there is a shitty trade deal: Doug Ford will return to his MAGA roots and sell out Ontario in his last days in office.

    • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      150 years? Not really. Most free trade and integration was since the 1994 NAFTA agreement, and before that the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement. Before those, we had a lot more sovereignty economically.

      We don’t need to end trade. We just need to end partnerships with a hostile country gone mad, and treat them like the psychos they are.