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Canada will keep in place its retaliatory tariffs against US-made products as long as President Donald Trump persists with a trade war, said Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister-designate.
It seems selling Tariffs to his constituency as something that only affects other countries was his biggest grift after all.
Ah, who am I kidding. It’s all grift. A gigantic hairball of grift.
I wish I knew enough about Canadian politics to have a deeper opinion, but afaics: Good
Oh and as a Eu citizen I feel very good about Canada maybe hopefully joining some sort of alliance with us. I didn’t have it on my radar before 2025.
Canada has always seemed more European than not politically, so I hope we join the EU eventually
As a Canadian, we’ve had the attitude for awhile “at least we’re not as bad as the USA” but we’ve definitely drifted from the EU way of doing things. I’ve always felt like a hybrid between the two (with leanings more to eu).
I wish as Canadians, instead of looking over the fence and patting ourselves on the back for not being the USA, we’d look over the fence and try to see what we can do to improve more (because why reinvent the wheel if you don’t have to).
I was so annoyed in 2012 when we were protesting the tuition fee hike in Québec that people were pointing to other provinces or the US for their higher tuition fees, instead of, like, North European countries, and many others, where it’s free.
You know Canada is a NATO founding member, don’t you?
Also we have a free trade agreement with Canada.
You know, you’re right. The alliance is already there.
But the USA is also in it… could NATO even defend Europe against Russia, against the US’ will?
They can’t even take one country, let alone “Europe”. Would it be better with the US in our corner? For sure. But to think the current Russia could take anything except for small parts here and there is laughable. And this only because mother Russia doesn’t give a shit about her children.
I think you misunderstand. This:
was a question about how NATO internals work, decision making and bureaucracy, not raw firepower.
As I understand it, each country decided. But I’m not a NATO scholar. I’d be happy for someone more knowledgeable to chime in.