It bewilders me that anyone could possibly think that way. Don't they realise the sheer economic and population imbalance between Canada and American? 40 million people to over 300 million. There's more people in the latter than the former by a pratical order or magnitude. California alone is home to just as people as Canada, and commands a far most robust economy too. How could anyone believe that this quaint little service economy, literally bound to the hip to the most powerful nation on Earth, could go one-on-one against them in a tariff war with numbers like that?
I'm from Down Under. And I can guarantee you everybody here knows full well that we tread lightly around China for the same reason. For better or for worst. How can that be common knowledge here. but someone so many Canadians are blissfully ignorant of? Fucking Australia, a country so similar to Canada, that we're functionally just the Great White North if you lived in a scorching desert instead of a frozen tundra. Can fully comprehend this, but the average Canadian urban shitlib cannot? No wonder your elites are walking you towards economic oblivion with shiteating smiles on their faces.
I apologise for my sperging, but it's hard to describe in any less words how little sense your Laurentide overlords reaction to Trump's tarriffs make. Especially from the perspective of an outsider looking in.
as someone pointed out earlier, even
China doesn't want a trade war with the US, and they're arguably the nation with the best shot to go toe to toe with them.
The Laurentians have the audacity to play with the Canadian economy, try to gaslight Canadians (easy) and subject them to economic fallout knowing full well that a trade war, in the long term, will easily favour the US.
Sure, some border towns in Michigan, Montana, etc may have less lumber and oil for several weeks. Sure, you may have less cars being sent in to Detroit from Windsor for a bit- but the US has the reserves of the rest of the nation to draw upon and unironically can rebuild, reactivate, and recalibrate its industry domestically.
Its going to wind up bad for Canadians, and I dont think most will realize that 4 years of 'orange cheeto man bad' from Trudeau when Trump was out of office was a retarded move. Never missing an opportunity to insult the man globally was a brilliant. Even Stephen Harper, in interviews, said that this contributed directly to the worsening relationship between the two nations.
Canadians who think 'oh boy, were going to cut off power to people living in upstate NY' (or so Doug Ford says) are the equivalent of morons who, when someone is pointing a gun at them, think splashing their starbucks coffee at the dude is 'owning' them and will somehow miraculously result in something other than getting shot. Not even saying the US is a bully here. In many ways, American rhetoric and the US position is justified. They do lose a lot in the trade deals between our nations. They were gracious enough to allow it because we were friendly nations- to a point.
Its high time that Canadians learn to stop being so smug, condescending, and bitter when the neighbor to the south literally has the nation by the balls and is doing us a favour in terms of trade deals.
I just hope that it ends soon
