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
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A “Deal” is simply not possible. The US don’t honor agreements and have neither courts nor the rule of law, nor congress. They have both abdicated their responsibilities.
“Agreement” or not, Canada’s job is to decouple from the US asap. We can start with stopping the sale of Moneris and using the parliamentary majority to shore up legislated sovereignty by not selling important sectors.
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.
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.
