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Originally Posted by OldDutch
Just stating facts, she has never advocated caving to the US. She has advocated to give Trump a win. From what I recall its offering to expedite NATO funding in exchange for tariff pause.
Then Trump can get on stage a crow bout how he finally got Canada to ante up like they always wanted.
she seems afraid that a trade war with the US will crush us. I frankly agree with her. We need more of this type of diplomacy and less Trudeau and Ford asking us to finger Trump with them.
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Right, she’s advocating appeasement as opposed to meeting him head on. And make no mistake, I think everyone knows that a 25% tariff on Canadian products is devastating to the economy. Smith knows that, and she’s fighting for one industry (oil and gas) while seemingly conceding that agriculture, among others, will just get smashed.
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Originally Posted by BoLevi
Many of this active posters here are pretty leftist. That's why they assume that a Trump "win" equates to a Canada "loss". That's the zero-sum way of thinking that is the (erroneous) basis of leftist economic thinking.
Smith understands that if Trump wins Canada can also win - and win bigly.
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This has nothing to do with being “leftist”, which I don’t think I am. Trump is openly talking about using economic force to have us annexed. A Trump win, is a Canada loss in that context, by definition. Some posters here are cool with that and fall into that roughy 13% of Canadians who would love to be part of the US.