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Originally Posted by direwolf
Yup. Carney obviously being the adult in the room by extending an olive branch to the U.S., and apparently the trade talks have now resumed with the goal of hopefully reaching some kind of deal by July 21st. I’ll believe it when I see it.
In the meantime Canada just needs to continue strengthening ties with our other allies around the world just like we’ve been doing since all of this bulls*** started. It’ll be a difficult road, but the sooner we can wean ourselves off the U.S., the better.
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If you show me a Canada that doesn't have it's most material trade relationship being their adjacent neighbor of which over 90% of the population lives a 2-3 hour drive from, I'll show you a very poor almost impoverished economy.
There's no 'weaning off' when it comes to the US for Canada, there's only building more credible economic deterrents and mitigation contingencies that make it harder for the US to push Canada around as much in trade and militarily. So incremental redundant infrastructure designed to export resources that currently are sold to the US to non-US countries is good, additional trade agreements and ties with countries that more share our values, yes, change of procurement to non-US/ Domestic sources, of course. A defense plan that is more self-sufficient, and procured away from the US, yes of course. But even after all that the US is still going to be Canada's largest customer by a majority margin.