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This new direction of "strategic autonomy", with Donald Trump in the white house just south of the border seems like a difficult hill to occupy.

Unfortunately, this is probably what is necessary at this point.

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Isn't it somewhat laughable when something like 3/4 of Canadian exports are to the US?

I think that Canada has to de-leverage trade with the US is what the take away should be. Not that this trade deal itself is going to change all the balances -- its that there are other players who can start to trade - reducing dependence on the US. The compounding effects are damaging as are switching costs.

What it looks like to me is that Carney the businessman is trying to work for the best terms in an eventual annexation scenario.

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He should negotiate directly with Putin then instead of Trump the middle-man

The laughing party is the person taking the tariffs and living large off them. The American consumer is suffering.

In reality, the vast majority of Canadian exports are energy and potash, neither of which have any kind of tariffs applied.

Because if they did, Trump's supporters would lose their shit completely. Gas prices would go through the roof and farmers would be in big big trouble.

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