You are ignorant of the context. Read about the last-minute changes to the US position: they contained several requests that, for internal reasons, Canada can't grant without weakening our federation. Specifically, abandoning French language protections.
Remember, we're a fissiparous country already; this US proposal was bait for Carney to alienate half his constituency.
Carney was placed in a constructed temptation and successfully passed the marshmallow test.
Big NORAD exercises starting tomorrow. Going to be interesting to see what Trump makes of that. “Why are Canadians commanding US soldiers? Why is the US paying to defend Canada? Against Russia, our good friends?”
I’m good with US keeping their soldiers to themselves. Along with their goods. Many of us Canadians are ready to finalize a divorce to the US. This isn’t a Trump issue either. Someone got him into office.
The world community is small enough that even after the divorce, we will still have to interact with each other constantly; it behooves us to not be spiteful, as much as it may cathartic.
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 35.0 ms ] threadLet’s be honest, everyone who tried appeasement is in a much worse position with the man child.
That is not Canada's current situation, let alone its desired situation.
And diplomacy has many options between appeasement and provocation.
Remember, we're a fissiparous country already; this US proposal was bait for Carney to alienate half his constituency.
Carney was placed in a constructed temptation and successfully passed the marshmallow test.
Americans, eff off, eh?
Hmm