Canada has suspended trade negotiations with the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said, after last-minute changes to Washington’s proposed terms were deemed “unfair” and “uneconomic”, a day after US President Donald Trump had said that US "should be able to have a deal with Canada."
This trade deal thing was always kind of a wishy-washy. On one hand we don’t want people to lose their jobs and face economic hardship. On the other hand we don’t want to give in to the US. Americans think it’s about Trump, but we know that while some of his tariffs would be dropped by another President, not all of them will be. This is how it’s always been with trading with the US. Trump is more extreme than most Presidents, but Americans in general don’t deal with us honestly.
This is going to be rough. People lose their jobs on both sides of the border. But at least now there’s clarity. No more maybe we should make a deal maybe we shouldn’t. Now there’s only: Let’s fucking go!