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Our government did the right thing putting in a reasonable good faith effort. 👍

I do not understand WHY anything else was considered? You cannot forge an honest deal with a bunch of carnival barker conmen. 🍊 will take this and move the goalposts to steal more of our sovereignty. Carney HAD buy in from Canadians - he has blown it. We can see plainly why key Ministers departed

Carney covered all the bases with this approach. For those in the affected industries he had to show a good faith effort, perhaps knowing this would be the result anyway. But this is just getting started. Hoping, maybe futilely, for a global hard reset of trade relations with the USA.

I feel the same way, but it’s also incumbent on the federal government to consider and try and mitigate the damage that Trump’s bullying could do; it’s easier for those of us with little skin in the game to stand on principle, but some Canadians would undoubtedly suffer.

Agreed on this. Not much else to say on the matter...

I’m 100% on side with you. I wish we had just told the US to “F#ck Right Off”. Then again, I also don’t work in a business that is impacted by tariffs (I’m retired). If I did I might feel differently. But I don’t.

From what I’ve gleaned thus far from our PM, I only expect us to appease harder. Would be happy to be proven wrong.

Ok you're right in theory BUT: what if USTR just said "No, we won't honour USMCA. It's 25-50% on everything next month". Which is almost for sure what they said.

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String them along, honour them. It's all good. We knew the americans were never going to agree to anything. It was all a charade.

I'm waiting for Kate Harrison on Power & Politics to complain that Carney wasn't negotiating sooner and that, had he done this, we'd have a deal by now. This is exactly what she'll say because many conservatives, even moderate ones, think this. The team had to put in a good faith effort.

I wish more Canadians felt this way