Canada could face sweeping tariffs of 25 per cent on goods and 10 per cent on energy exports, but President Donald Trump has postponed the tariffs before.
Remember when everybody said “Oh, Trump didn’t get anything. Canada was just promising things it already promised to shut him up.”?
This is why that’s a bad idea. Trying to appease this man just makes him believe that whatever he wanted in the first place is now his by divine birthright, and he interprets your appeasement as an acknowledgement that you know he’s right and you’re willing to cave.
You cannot give this man even what you believe are “symbolic” wins.
Quite frankly I doubt they’ll actually go into effect. The first time was do or not do, and In my view, they want the base support of it without the actual damages.
Though I’m not especially confident they aren’t stupid enough not to nuke it either way
Remember when everybody said “Oh, Trump didn’t get anything. Canada was just promising things it already promised to shut him up.”?
This is why that’s a bad idea. Trying to appease this man just makes him believe that whatever he wanted in the first place is now his by divine birthright, and he interprets your appeasement as an acknowledgement that you know he’s right and you’re willing to cave.
You cannot give this man even what you believe are “symbolic” wins.
Quite frankly I doubt they’ll actually go into effect. The first time was do or not do, and In my view, they want the base support of it without the actual damages.
Though I’m not especially confident they aren’t stupid enough not to nuke it either way
That was a big worry, he even said it was just going to be delayed
In politics, if you can’t win, delaying your lost is just as good.
I do remember getting a lot of flak for suggesting otherwise. But maybe they were right and Trump will keep giving one month reprieves indefinitely.