The Canadian government has insisted that information on domestic goods is readily available to all trading partners, even including nations that recently elected a felony-convicted game show host to be their head of state. Instead, the United States has decided to employ a rarely-chosen trade tactic that international economists refer to as the “fuck around and find out” model.
I’m thinking its clear to most people that a blanket statement like “americans choose this” didn’t mean every individual american. It didn’t need to be said. So saying it of course attracts arguments about the exact semantics.