Re: last minute sabatoge of trade talkes

On Aug 22, 2026 at 1:29:07 PM EDT, "Tara" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 22, 2026 at 1:20:08 PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 22/08/2026 17:46, Tara wrote:
>>> On Aug 22, 2026 at 12:30:16 PM EDT, "dart200"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 8/22/26 7:51 AM, Julian wrote:
>>>>> On 22/08/2026 14:39, Tara wrote:
>>>>>> Tara <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For any Americans here who may be interested, we pretty well had a trade
>>>>>>> DEAL until just before the deadline last night when the Americans
>>>>>>> came in
>>>>>>> with more demands - unrealistic demands that Canada could not accept.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We are retaliating - dollar for dollar.
>>>>>>> 50% tariffs now. Both ways.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> To all the Americans who voted for this President and his
>>>>>> administration  -
>>>>>> and continue to support him - i hope there is a hell and you rot in it.
>>>>> Chill, he's nearly done and hoping for something better is
>>>>> thinking most wishful. After a few years of your neighbour
>>>>> being run by the DSA you'll probably miss the loon
>>>> what exactly would the DSA do that might impact canada even???
>>> 
>>>    good point. Good question.
>> 
>> If the DSA manages to destroy the US economy it'll have a huge
>> effect on Canada with massive markets lost, floods of economic
>> migrants and political asylum seekers. Time to build a wall. :)
> 
> Excellent answer!   I want a Wall!

 We have stricter immigration laws now. And we are drastically reducing our
relience on the U.S. in trade and everything else. We, as a rule don't or try
not to buy American any more. We don't vacation there much either - any more.
When and if American booze goes back on the shelf, not many of us will buy it.
 (Even our Premiers and are encouraging us not to as well as to buy Canadian).
We're reaching out to other countries to trade and ally with. And we're
bringing manufacturing back to Made in Canada. We are pretty much cohesive in
what we want. Trump has done us a favour in a way. We just need to get through
this current hurdle with the U.S. and the next and the next one and the next
which will happen as long as Trump is in power - and most likely with whomever
takes his place.  As we now know and our Premiers and academics tell us - our
relationship with America has changed now and perhaps forever. And we are not
going back.

But it is a War because even if they say they don't want wars, they can't help
themselves. 

I wanted to say all this (thanks for the space, Julian but you had no choice
right), and even though there are only a few Americans here, at least you few
will know what's going on between Canada and your country, And even though you
don't give a shit, you have lost your closest friend and ally. American border
states are aware of this but I doubt the rest of you are. Do you know that in
our grocery stores, there are little signs in front of Canadian goods so we
can easily (without have to read where it's from) know to buy it instead of
anything from the U.S. We also choose other countries to buy from if we can't
get it produced or grown in Canada, for example Oranges from South Africa etc.
 We all pretty much do this by habit now.

Anyway, As I said before, I'm done talking to Americans now. Takes me a while,
eh. And it took Canadians a long time to get to this point as well. Unlike
volitile Americans, we are patient and take a lot of shit until we don't and
when we've had it, we really have.