So last evening, I instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa. We cannot accept what they’ve offered, and we will not give what they’ve asked. Over the past year, the US has imposed a series of tariffs that violate its commitment under our agreement with them in Mexico, so-called CUSMA. The United States has continually changed the rationale for these actions, from fentanyl to taxes on US tech giants, to certification of US aircraft, to the sharing of tolls of a bridge that Canada built and paid for, to our dairy policy, to provincial decisions not to sell American alcohol during the trade war, to a television advertisement that quoted Ronald Reagan, to smoke from wildfires while they threatened our communities.

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    Why not suspend all energy trade? Stick it to the US even more when they act in bad faith. Plus it would help to get rid of the fascists in November. And why not call it what it is- another Epstein distraction.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      You may be surprised to know Canada has been a net importer of US electricity since 2023, and the gasoline we burn here in the East is from the US.