The US government doesn’t give a shit about anything except excuses for their catastrophic tariff plan. They want to highlight issues that will never be negotiable so they can justify them to Faux News and their Trumper cult. It is a classic divide an conquer technique on Canada. Further, I am sure Russia is running troll farms with misinformation on us now.
Dairy industry, VS oil and gas, VS Québécois.
Who is next?
Concede nothing to the US.
Totally agree. “Make an outrageous demand” is one of the few tools in trumps repitoire.
Even if we did somehow ascede to it, he’d just come up with something new. The point is to have something to hang over us, not to actually get the thing.
I have a lot of issues with the French legislation, but I understand why it exists. It’s not about me, and it’s not about American businesses either!
Manges de la merde, gros sans-dessein orange.
They want maximum trade barriers going in and minimal trade barriers going out.
It’s just straight up bullying. Always has been.
This is what happens when people who, at a primal level, think the world is a zero sum game. Who never learned how cooperation results in bigger rewards.
He wants to isolate is, but we can’t isolate him! I guess if you get your head far enough up your own arse it makes sense?
Nothing says “American values” like whining about how foreigners insist on speaking their native languages in their own countries (while threatening to invade them and demanding they do you special favours).
God, why do they feel entitled to our marketplace? Jesus Christ can they just fuck off?
People are finally realizing to whom the free market is.
It’s their “god given right”, didn’t you know?
Amazing how the US government thinks US businesses have any standing in our country, after it wiped its ass with that trade treaty that wildly favoured them.
It is fucking wild. One might say it sounds like entitlement. But surely a “self-made man” like Donald Trump knows nothing of entitlement… /s
We should all speak more French out of patriotism to show that we aren’t Americans?
Oui oui! Je suis an ananas!!
Honhonhon j’aime manger les ananas, jaime tous les fruits
Bravo ! Allons regarder ensemble Psych en français (^_^)
Oui oui, tu es un ananas!
No joke but I’m actually starting to learn it after half a decade of saying maybe next year
Moi aussi! Je suis a 245 jours jusqu’a present.
Lâche pas, ça vaut la peine!
Were these idiots dropped on their heads as a baby? In what world can one country dictate the laws of another country without there being a war?
They’re trying it on here in Australia too. The USA pharmaceutical industry is lobbying the USA administration by claiming that our PBS, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which allows us to have affordable medication and a safety net, is harming their bottom line because they’re required to negotiate with the Australian Government in order to supply their medication at a negotiated price. Must be tough to have to negotiate with adults.
How does Australia’s pharmaceutical industry compare to Canada’s? We have a lot of generics here in Canada… I’m curious whether Australia would benefit from a similar stance that favours more white label production, or if Australia is more invested in the development side and feels like it needs to maintain more strict/homogenized w/ US laws to keep them as a seller and recoup on its investments.
I had no idea, so I looked … I still have no idea. The dollar numbers tossed around contradict each other and vary wildly, to the point of being absurd.
I don’t know what the policy on generics is, but as I understand it, the PBS negotiates on our behalf to subsidize medication that would otherwise be completely unaffordable.
When I get to a computer with a screen that’s bigger than my hand, I’ll have a squiz at the Australian Bureau of Statistics to see if I can learn more.
Buddy, they’ve been doing this for ages. Certainly ever since the end of WWII. Sometimes diplomatically, other times via interference, and when that fails, militarily. We’re just kinda waking up to it now because we haven’t seen as much of the second and third methods used against us before. But yeah, this isn’t about stupidity, this has been their policy for a long time.
In what world can one country dictate the laws of another country without there being a war?
We are talking about a country that demands regulatory concessions in foreign countries, beyond those of which are afforded to said countries’ domestic businesses.
I was curious about that whole “Canada doesn’t want US banks” thing that started in the beginning of our deranged trade war, and it’s really stupid. Opening a bank there is oh so hard for our poor widdle conglomerate banks because… stricter regulations and an unwillingness to make 35% of their Canadian subsidiary publicly owned.
That’s it. Their banks have to follow the same rules, and Trump thinks that’s unfair for us.
How arrogant of you to suggest that your entire country’s medical needs are somehow more important than the financial well-being of some shareholders
Easy fix.
Hire better negotiators.
In what world can one country dictate the laws of another country
Welcome to American exceptionalism.
Oh ho ho… you’ve pissed off Quebec now. Gods help you now USA. :p
Americans never change, huh? It’s 1774 all over again (in which Americans got so salty about people speaking French that it contributed to them choosing revolution) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Act
In a recent article published in The Atlantic magazine, (American military historian Eliot) Cohen used a tongue-in-cheek approach to warn Americans against invading Canada, pointing out that previous attempts led to dismal results.
His review of American military failures starts in 1775, when U.S. troops invaded Quebec, where they distributed pamphlets — translated into French — awkwardly declaring: “You have been conquered into liberty.” The campaign ended in disastrous defeat for the American Continental Army in December 1775.
If the US wants to Conquer us into Liberty. Then I will fight for Freedom from Liberty.
Je ne peux pas parler Francais avec un peu de compétence, mais la langue des Québécois n’est pas une barrière pour les gens avec un peu de respect!
Pff. All that high school French and that’s the best I can do. Anyways, shut up, US.
C’est déjà bien! Faut pas se décourager :)
You know, I only learned the basics of English at school. I became bilingual through exposition to the language, which admittedly is far easier for English than French in my opinion, but still.
I don’t know a lot about Canada but isn’t that how you piss off quebec?
It takes even less. I think they’re all but chewing their shields and loading the cow into the catapult now.
It’s already done.
I haven’t seen anywhere near this much Canadian patriotism in Québec in my lifetime.
My dad who’s 80 mentioned the same without me bringing up the subject.
I don’t know how to explain this other than with an imperfect analogy:
Even though we disagree or squabble at times, my fellow Canadians are brothers and sisters and no one picks on my siblings but me.“My brother and I are enemies until my cousin comes. Then my brother and I are allies against my cousin until my neighbour arrives.”
Écoute mon gros gros pédophile et ses amis, tu pourrais me battre au sang que tu ne m’empêchera pas de parler ma langue. Gader vos estie de cochonneries amazon et vos films de super-héros pour idiots heureuz et enfoncez-vous les bien profondément dans le cul.
As a French French, I have the feeling Don picked the wrong fight…
I don’t speak French, but I assure you I would kill and if necessary die to ensure Quebec always can. We stand together.
That moment when Louisiana (in the U.S.) looks around and says wait, our laws are based on Napoleonic laws, we French based too right?
I mean, the Cajuns, the best part of Louisiana, are basically Quebecois.
Some would argue the Cajun are the Quebecois who were unwilling to submit to British rule.
No argument there. They stayed French much longer that way.
It’s the old “I don’t necessarily agree with what you are saying, but I would defend to the death your right to say it” ideal, and I’m 100% down for it.
