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[–] 59 points 1 week ago (1 child)

I'm happy the PM has decided to put up a fight. I'll back him on that as long as it holds.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    These scumbags try to fuck us over last minute and then blame us for backing out

    What assholes

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Very on brand for republicans/conservatives

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  • [+] -11 points 1 week ago

    Republicans are not Conservative. Conservative, like liberal, has a fairly well defined set of beliefs, values, etc. Republicans are just a political party and a very bad one.

    You should make distinction between these things, because chances are you have some beliefs or values that are in fact, Conservative.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 week ago

    I'm so glad we don't have the spineless pp right now.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I may not like everything he does but still feel like Carney's one of the best prime ministers we've had.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Agreed, if it wasn't for his fossil fuel thirst, he'd be a near perfect Prime Minister.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I don’t mind if he supports the oil and gas status quo, but only on the condition that he uses it as leverage to build a stronger renewables and EV sector.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    If you actually believe that you are very naive. What EV sector. We make one shitty muscle car EV no one is buying.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    We don't have to build EVs here to work in the EV sector, but we have reserves for many of the chemicals required to make batteries, and could also have plants to build batteries, which the world needs a lot of right now, and is actually a resource we could sell without setting the world on fire.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    If there's a long game that we might like here, one thing for certain is that we will see zero sign of it until after the treason referendum has happened, and failed. So expect no joy from this PM until November at the earliest.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Carney also supported America's and Israel's war on Iran, so he's not exactly a genius.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Enough of this zero sum bullshit. He has never materially supported the war.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 week ago*

    Right, right. He's just providing political cover for bombing hundreds of schools and some of the world's greenest steel plants, for a fascist pedophile that is constantly attacking Canada and calling him "Governor".

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.

    The Art of Scuppering the Deal

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago*

    I dealt with somebody like that before. I had an old Honda in amazing shape, but occasionally it refused to start and bringing it to the dealer found nothing and they would start it finem. But I had a family and another car so it was time to get rid of it. I put it up for sale as is and $200. Some guy gave me $50 deposit, then later wanted to only pay $150 total. I took both front seats out and told him he could come get it for $150 or have his deposit back. He came and towed it. $200 was a steal of a deal and he tried to be a dick.

    I donated the seats to the local auto-wrecker, so the guy searching around would find them and them probably pay $50 per seat.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago

    I only regret that I have no more US products and services left to divest from.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    Time to buy some more Bombardier I see.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    It's a good thing I'm not the one negotiating. I'd have an uncontrollable urge to scream about how Trump needs to be arrested

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    [–] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Great, so now both USians and Canadians will pay more. I'm striving to not buy anything this this stupid shit is over. Guess I'll go live in a barrel.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago

    Only for goods traded with the USA. As noted by the PM's brief you'll see Canada is accelerating trade with other international partners, as it should. Yes, this will affect Canadians, but not as much as Americans.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    As a Canadian I'm not happy it went down this way. I realize this will hurt and prices will rise, cost of living will rise. I'm not one for a knee jerk emotional reaction and be one to turn sudden blame on our leaders, I know the architects in america have designed these trade negotiations to divide and conquer.

    What isn't for sale is our identity, pride and self respect. This will be our lives going forward and that feels bad sure, makes me angry. I trust our current government, party be damned, have our interests being put forth first.

    This is our life now folks. We're just going to have to deal. What you gonna do? "Vote for the other guy"? doing so doesn't remove the oligarchs down south.

    'scuse me while I go the LC to try another Canadian booz 🀣 numb the ill feeling towards turnip turd. 🍻

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    This is going to go swell for us down here.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago

    This is probably the best outcome we could've hoped for as Canadians. It's far from an ideal situation, but at least we kept a shred of dignity in the end. I'm personally extremely disappointed in Carney for taking these negotiations as seriously as he has been, when it's obvious to everyone else the US is simply not interested in a mutually beneficial relationship. They only seek to exploit us and our resources for the sake of their own egos, like some kinda colonial playground bully.

    The only worthwhile response is to give them nothing, and point and laugh as they hurt themselves trying to do something about it.

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