Good. We need to motivation.

We need to completely divest ourselves of the US. The more pressure he applies, the faster it will happen.

Whether he does it or doesn’t do it almost doesn’t matter at this point. The US federal government is now an ally of no Western democracy. The tarrifs are a below-the-fold detail, the whole West needs to be dealing with the big picture. And I think we are doing that.

Short term pain for long term gain, I hope. The more he makes life miserable and expensive for highly skilled workers the more likely we’ll achieve a reverse brain drain.

They’re going after women’s autonomy and trying to roll back gay marriage. Imagine if even 5% of those doctors moved to our side of the border.

That’s where I’m kinda at at the moment too. Just fucking do it or don’t already. If you don’t want to buy our shit just don’t and we will find new markets to sell to. There is an endless queue of people in line to buy Canadian goods, raw resource or manufactured. It’s just that the US always made the most geographic and geopolitical sense.

If this is actually an attempt to bring manufacturing jobs back to America (a fruitless and losing battle for most industries but still), then all they had to do was give Canadian industries a heads up “hey, we are gonna slowly wean off of you guys, nothing personal. Hope you find new markets.” Simple as. They are not obligated to buy our shit and we aren’t obligated to sell it to them either. They’re the assholes who pressured us into these free trade agreements and now they’re upset that the “invisible hand” of capitalism isn’t giving them a handy or has a inherent pro-American bias.

Just a bunch of children that are upset that the rest of the world has finally caught up and/or recovered from the destruction of WW2 and can genuinely compete with the US in just about every regard, especially education and industry. American exceptionalism is only real in the sense that America was the exception to the mass destruction and loss of life in both world wars by being fucking pussies that joined both world wars late and after the enemy was already thoroughly exhausted and bled dry by the Allies. There is nothing particularly remarkable about America in the modern world excluding its vast natural resources and severely over-funded military. They love capitalism but not competition.

I concur… I’m getting sick & tired of waiting for the other shoe to drop, just drop it already and let’s get on with it.

No, no. Let him pace this out. The more it’s drip fed, the worse PP’s chances are.

I mean, keep mentioning it without doing it gets it into people’s heads and decisions when they see made in Canada signs.

He can only make a big deal out of something, sometimes that makes people more aware.

Go fuck a bottle of maple syrup!