Posted on 07/15/2025 1:20:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Most Canadians want the government to take a “hard approach” in negotiations for a trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump as he threatens to slap a 35-per-cent tariff on products by Aug. 1, a new survey suggests.
“For Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Canadian negotiating team, the approach appears to centre on keeping their head down rather than their elbows up,” according to the Angus Reid Institute in a report about the survey released Tuesday. “Canadians appear to want more push back.”
Three-in-five respondents said Canada should take a “hard approach,” at 63 per cent, rather than a “soft one,” at 37 per cent. The data was taken before and after Trump’s announcement of the new 35-per-cent tariff.
A “hard” approach means refusing difficult concessions even if it worsens trade relations with the U.S., according to the Angus Reid Institute. Meanwhile, a “soft” approach is defined as making tough concessions to keep a good relationship with Canada’s biggest trading partner.
At the same time, nearly half of Canadians surveyed said they support the federal government’s decision to kill the digital services tax on American tech companies in order to continue negotiations with the Trump administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctvnews.ca ...
Who cares what Canadians think. Americans are suckers, and give more than they take.
Taking a hard line against Trump will result in a depression in Canada.
They’re listening to their media, which is even more compliant with existing left-wing lies than our media is. Sad.
More on the so-called survey...
https://angusreid.org/canada-united-states-trade-carney-trump-tariff-supply-management/
Check out what passes for the methodology, but you’ll have to scroll all the way to the end...
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In related news, most Canadians are evidently idiots and want their economy to tank.
Their media is Government controlled
You know what’s really sad?
People who believe everything they read.
Who cares, they don’t have the cards.
Which Canadians?
They will believe that until they lose their jobs. Canadians displayed their colors during the Truckers strike during Covid. They should remember Americans were sending them money for support.
Permanent brain freeze.
I guess they should have thought that through before voting for elbows up Carney.
Having lived and worked in Canada, I can say there is no damn reason why Canada can not stand on their own two feet with out the US. They have so many natural resources, hydro and ports, it’s ridiculous.
We are their national defence. Our paying their obscene tariffs and doing mercy purchases of their goods in order to prop up many of their industries essentially subsidizes them as to become a socialized, government run soft hands economy.
Enough with your hands out from Uncle, my Canadian friends. Time to be a big boy.
Clearly they like handouts.
Go for it, Canada. Act tough with a weak hand...
At least that gives them an excuse for being inadequate - our ‘press’ doesn’t even have that excuse.
And most Canadians do not know squad about business finance or economics
Just look at their voting habits
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