• matlag@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    I agree with you on what we’ll hear, but I second the other comment: besides the speeches, Carney will move Canada further away from the US.
    He started doing so without saying it too loudly. Only an idiot would not see it. The good thing is only one idiot needs to be fooled.

    To escalate, he has multiple levers at his disposal: the everlasting hesitation between F35 and Gripen purchase, the tariffs on Chinese EV (if they were repelled, US car makers could be driven out of Canada’s market within just a few years). And of course dumping US bonds, but that would hurt Canada too.

    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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      3 hours ago

      How can Canada move away from the US? Our economies are heavily integrated we’re eachother’s biggest trading partners.

      Canada makes parts for US cars, thats the justification used to follow US tariffs on chinese EVs, what hurts our big 4 hurts your factories.

      Militarily its even worse. Unless you imagine Canada throwing out all the weapons systems which depend on US manufacturing and buying European(where they exist), Chinese, and Russian(the US would probably start pirating your cargo ships) systems instead, Canada’s options are be a part if America’s military force or not have modern weapons.