Not a bad starting point but given Alberta has entertained the possibility specifically on becoming a state I think it is a bit strong to state no one in Canada wants to be a state.
An even simpler solution would be for Canuckistan to show that they are taking measures to reduce the flow of fentanyl into this country.
“Americans would be similarly upset and displeased if a foreign power leaned heavily on the U.S.A.”
Perhaps Canada should cooperate and drop their high tarriffs.
I suggest you also include an immediate 50% increase in Canadian defense spending, to the level Canada committed to upon joining NATO.
Or they can pay the U.S. a tribute on all goods exported that amounts to 50% of the current defense shortfall. That won’t begin to cover the tens of billions of spending on freeloading socialist crap Canada has flushed down the toilet, but it would be a pretty good place to start.
I was born in Canada, and am outraged at how pussified it has become.
“The 90-day pause should not be viewed as problematic on either side. “
How many terrorists would come across during that 90 days?
What about Canadian tariffs on American imports? That’s also an issue.
How about zero tariffs.
Canadians buy ir stuff if they want and us theirs if we want.
Otherwise we’ll cut off your Kraft Dinner supply. Take That! LOL
He hasn’t stated it outright, but I think Trump sees Canada as not a fully sovereign nation - it is under the control of EU (particularly London) WEF-style globalist/socialists, ie) globohomo.
Given the destruction Trudeau has caused, and his anointed successor is pure Davos-man, Mark Carney, one could argue that Canada has been “globohomo” testing ground for large-scale multi-culti leftist social engineering. This can not be left on our Northern border, or in Greenland. Many of Canada’s policies, from climate change to Ukraine simply ape policy stated by Brussels/London.
I wonder if Trump’s issues with Canada go beyond merely fentanyl traffic and duties on dairy products....
> A third suggestion is that we consider a renewed economic union based on the lowest set of tariffs, if not a total elimination of all of them, similar to the European Union, but without the political apparatus of the EU. <
Dangerous business. Because the EU started as a simple trade union, too. But it is the nature of any bureaucracy to grow, and gather more power to itself.
And so we have the EU of today.
I can hear Trump laughing at this now.
This guy has no vision. He should have proposed going back to the “norm” and waiting until the next US election.
;)
Canada would have to put tariffs on imports (for example from china) equivalent to US tariffs, otherwise Canada will continue to be a country whose principal industry is the final assembly of Chinese imports to skirt US tariffs.
Drop all tariffs and Canadians clean their own house. We’re cleaning up ours so feel free to take the initiative. I think the whole 51st bs was to awaken an internal Canadian nationalist movement.
Parity in tariffs, don’t be a middle man for China, pay your NATO bill and watch your border. Those are the terms.
We can throw switches to overcome the canidiots cutting power..
Perhaps they just realized 87% of their toilet paper comes from the U.S.
Can’t flip a switch and manufacture toilet paper
That’s a great analysis. A simpler solution is to have Canada and Mexico end tariffs on the US and the US will do the same. No tariffs.
This is the likely reason for Canada's unwillingness to act strongly against China's massive and lethal fentanyl trade into the US. With key Canadian institutions and political figures deeply compromised, it is hard for Canada to accommodate ending the drug trade, which is a major purpose of Trump's tariffs against Canada.
A 25% tariff on aluminum will add $.03 per can on beer. That may put Bud Light out of business