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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jus...iffs-1.7423756
The tariff issue is really the biggest tragedy for Canada in how Trudeau exited. Canada needs leadership that has a mandate to navigate the next few months starting basically yesterday (now is the next best time). You can expect pretty much as a certainty, a 25% tariff on all CAD exports to the US starting in two weeks and lasting at minimum most of the year to allow for a Liberal Leadership contest, parliament to come back to session, a non-confidence vote to occur, at minimum a 30-day election, and finally a new government to form and get started. So at least June before anyone can actually even begin to seriously engage with the US on trade and then however long that takes with whatever new items Trump feels increasingly emboldened to extract.
Regardless of the impact of the eventual deal end result, the massive delay in it's own right will cost the Canadian economy at least tens of billions. That's going to be many lost jobs, many more families struggling for longer than necessary. And for what?
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OK, but to me, there are a couple of considerations here. First, the government can continue to negotiate and deal with the US. Like them or not, they are still the government, and they still have authority. It's not like they all leave for vacation because of this (although if you're a CPC MP in Alberta, you could, and we all know that you'll win your seat anyway!).
But the truth is, it's in the Liberals' best interest to get some kind of agreement or carve-out. This would let them campaign on that, and it would obviously be positive. I realize that this is largely out of their control, just as it would be if the CPC was in power.
This brings me to another point. Despite how they're seen at home, the Trudeau Liberals were regarded as having dealt well with the Trump administration. A couple of weeks ago, the Globe and Mail published a piece about the Canadian negotiators (led by Freeland), and I saw an article this morning on Bloomberg that called them the "American whisperers."