Trudeau’s response to Trump’s pointless lunacy is pretty damn good. He starts with a history of Canada and US working on the same side in wars and crises. He actually understated Canada’s WW2 contribution, since Canada started fighting a year earlier.
Then he talks about the shared economy, missing the earlier period when Canada was defending its own suppliers while working with US companies.
His initial action is a 25% tariff on most US exports. Many of the listed items (furniture, appliances, clothing) are really Chinese products rebranded and resold by US companies. Canada could respond to this by buying directly from China instead of letting US middlemen take their cut, which would be less costly to Canadian consumers.
At the end he suggests buying Canadian whenever possible, which is a healthy return to the OLD pre-NAFTA Canadian attitude.
My only real quibble is the fentanyl problem, where he implies that Canada has been trying to solve it for a long time. In fact both countries and all states and provinces and cities and corporations are equally culpable. If both countries had been controlling their borders properly all along, none of this shit would have occurred.
Grade: Excellent in an absolute sense, not just conditionally excellent compared to Trudeau’s normal WEF behavior.
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