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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Last week his Ministers were out in full force saying that they weren't backing down with this tax and that it was badly needed. Trump and his team played their obvious strength card and Carney ran away with his tail between his legs. Carney previously claimed that "Trump is trying to break us" and that under his leadership Canada won't back down. This move clearly shows he will back down very easily.
Trump proved himself to be correct:
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That's one way to look at it. The other is that they could have planned to sacrifice this all along, and were stringing Trump along with it until he did his predictable toddler reaction. It's not like the DST is some key to our trade success. It's an easy gimme, and now Trump feels like he won, we can get our wins in the places that matter.
I tend to think it's more likely we played Trump than he played us, because Trump sure sounded pissed off and rolled right back into his sad little 51st state bit. We'll see where it goes next. Right now it comes down to who you think is smarter and better at this. Sounds like you think Trump is the real genius, which is...a take I guess.