shockedcanadian
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He knows he will obtain a far better deal by negotiating separately with Canada and Mexico than if it was a trilateral deal. Anywhere from perhaps 25-50% bigger benefit to the U.S.
I do not understand why we would make deals with China over the last 25 years, including RCMP and local police agencies in Ontario. Now a EV deal which a Dem politician has put forth a Bill to ban from entering America?
The experts in Canada and the Security Industrial Complex should have listened to us simple men who understand the relationship and know first hand what abuses we are engaging in. America has to defend their Constitutional Republic more than ever as China is trying to take them down from multiple angles and sources. Instead, our domestic agencies just dig in and hurt our own citizens MORE, while exposing how much we despise America.
If he is going to withdraw from the deal he would need to give the six month notice soon or he will lose the leverage in bi-lateral negotiations as six months notice is required.
For many years I advised Canadian politicians that eventually we would get exposed. We are now not liked by the administration, investors, exporters, and perhaps worse, the workers and average Americans who now see us for what we are.
We should have embraced liberty and capitalism. If the U.S walks away from this, there is risk of losing Alberta and even Quebec as the Confederation will not be seen as anything more than an unaccountable police state that offers little to generations of Canadian born citizens.
U.S. President Donald Trump is once again dangling the threat of withdrawing from his country's free trade deal with Canada and Mexico, even though his trade officials are in talks on renewing it.
Speaking in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said he is "not looking to renew" the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) when it comes up for a review on July 1, six years after it took effect.
While the agreement doesn't actually expire until 2036, any country can withdraw from it by giving six months' notice.
Trump signed the deal — known as USMCA south of the border — during his first term as president.
"USMCA did one thing that I loved. After six years, it comes up for renewal. I don't know that I'm going to renew it," he said Wednesday, and went on to repeat his long-held complaints that the U.S. doesn't need anything from Canada or Mexico.
"It was a great deal for one reason. It gave the right to terminate," he said. "It was very important that we be able to do that. So we're talking to them. We'll see if we do something."
CUSMA is crucial to the Canadian economy because it covers some $1.3 trillion in cross-border trade with the U.S. and shields roughly 90 per cent of Canada's exports from Trump's tariffs.
When Trump signed the deal in 2018, he boasted of it as "the most modern, up-to-date, and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country."
I do not understand why we would make deals with China over the last 25 years, including RCMP and local police agencies in Ontario. Now a EV deal which a Dem politician has put forth a Bill to ban from entering America?
The experts in Canada and the Security Industrial Complex should have listened to us simple men who understand the relationship and know first hand what abuses we are engaging in. America has to defend their Constitutional Republic more than ever as China is trying to take them down from multiple angles and sources. Instead, our domestic agencies just dig in and hurt our own citizens MORE, while exposing how much we despise America.
If he is going to withdraw from the deal he would need to give the six month notice soon or he will lose the leverage in bi-lateral negotiations as six months notice is required.
For many years I advised Canadian politicians that eventually we would get exposed. We are now not liked by the administration, investors, exporters, and perhaps worse, the workers and average Americans who now see us for what we are.
We should have embraced liberty and capitalism. If the U.S walks away from this, there is risk of losing Alberta and even Quebec as the Confederation will not be seen as anything more than an unaccountable police state that offers little to generations of Canadian born citizens.
U.S. President Donald Trump is once again dangling the threat of withdrawing from his country's free trade deal with Canada and Mexico, even though his trade officials are in talks on renewing it.
Speaking in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said he is "not looking to renew" the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) when it comes up for a review on July 1, six years after it took effect.
While the agreement doesn't actually expire until 2036, any country can withdraw from it by giving six months' notice.
Trump signed the deal — known as USMCA south of the border — during his first term as president.
"USMCA did one thing that I loved. After six years, it comes up for renewal. I don't know that I'm going to renew it," he said Wednesday, and went on to repeat his long-held complaints that the U.S. doesn't need anything from Canada or Mexico.
"It was a great deal for one reason. It gave the right to terminate," he said. "It was very important that we be able to do that. So we're talking to them. We'll see if we do something."
CUSMA is crucial to the Canadian economy because it covers some $1.3 trillion in cross-border trade with the U.S. and shields roughly 90 per cent of Canada's exports from Trump's tariffs.
When Trump signed the deal in 2018, he boasted of it as "the most modern, up-to-date, and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country."
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