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Canada and EU tightening their relation, pretty sure there are a lot agreements in the making. Will be great for both and appreciated by the people living in EU

by bulbar 2mo ago

Canada and EU tightening their relation, pretty sure there are a lot agreements in the making. Will be great for both and appreciated by the people living in EU (and surely Canada as well).

seydor 2mo ago
The EU is definitely dragging its feet believing that Trump will go away and "normality" will return.
- chadgpt3 2mo ago
  The EU can't understand anything except normality, we see it on all kinds of issues.
- bulbar 2mo ago
  EU is already adopting. They are slow (that's a given anyway because of its size), but they are not stupid. It also opens up a lot of opportunities, everybody's right now loosening their bonds with the US.
llm_nerd 2mo ago
A lot of it has been half-hearted. Basically "wait out this loser and everything will go back to the way it was". A lot of Americans are leaning on this as well. Like over the last year we (Canada) should have utterly obliterated the US from any element of the Canadian supply chain. Instead everyone just keeps expecting things to return to normal so no one makes the necessary investments to stop it at the border. Americans voted for Trump, a child-rapist stunningly stupid criminal, twice. It should never return to the way it was.
- andsoitis 2mo ago
  > Trump, a child-rapist In 2016, an anonymous woman filed a federal lawsuit alleging that he raped her in 1994 when she was 13 years old. The lawsuit was voluntarily withdrawn that same year, before the allegations were adjudicated. No court found that he committed the alleged assault.
  - morkalork 2mo ago
    I guess just ignore some certain files not fully being released, his name being purged for them and all that drama. But hey, let's keep this discussion on topic, this guy is the commerce secretary and was directly involved in tanking the trade talks: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/howard-lutnick-commerce-epstein-00908865 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/howard-lutnick-comm... I wonder if he tanked those discussions on purpose, his sons now at his former company, profited wildly from the last round of tariffs: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-quiet-winners-supreme-court-104500283.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-quiet-winners-supreme-co...
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- tensor 2mo ago
  > A lot of it has been half-hearted. Basically "wait out this loser and everything will go back to the way it was". A lot of Americans are leaning on this as well. Absolutely not what's been happening. At the speed that Canada is signing new trade deals in a decade the entire balance of trade power will look different. And unlike the unreliable US deals, these deals are much more likely to endure and expand. The only reason Carney felt comfortable taking this position on Friday is because he feels confident that in the long run our diversification efforts can solve our issues. I suspect he figures that we can weather the pain until the new trade deals come to bear fruit.

by bulbar 2mo ago

Canada and EU tightening their relation, pretty sure there are a lot agreements in the making. Will be great for both and appreciated by the people living in EU (and surely Canada as well).

seydor 2mo ago

The EU is definitely dragging its feet believing that Trump will go away and "normality" will return.

chadgpt3 2mo ago
The EU can't understand anything except normality, we see it on all kinds of issues.
bulbar 2mo ago
EU is already adopting. They are slow (that's a given anyway because of its size), but they are not stupid. It also opens up a lot of opportunities, everybody's right now loosening their bonds with the US.

llm_nerd 2mo ago

A lot of it has been half-hearted. Basically "wait out this loser and everything will go back to the way it was". A lot of Americans are leaning on this as well. Like over the last year we (Canada) should have utterly obliterated the US from any element of the Canadian supply chain. Instead everyone just keeps expecting things to return to normal so no one makes the necessary investments to stop it at the border. Americans voted for Trump, a child-rapist stunningly stupid criminal, twice. It should never return to the way it was.

andsoitis 2mo ago
> Trump, a child-rapist In 2016, an anonymous woman filed a federal lawsuit alleging that he raped her in 1994 when she was 13 years old. The lawsuit was voluntarily withdrawn that same year, before the allegations were adjudicated. No court found that he committed the alleged assault.
- morkalork 2mo ago
  I guess just ignore some certain files not fully being released, his name being purged for them and all that drama. But hey, let's keep this discussion on topic, this guy is the commerce secretary and was directly involved in tanking the trade talks: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/howard-lutnick-commerce-epstein-00908865 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/howard-lutnick-comm... I wonder if he tanked those discussions on purpose, his sons now at his former company, profited wildly from the last round of tariffs: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-quiet-winners-supreme-court-104500283.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-quiet-winners-supreme-co...
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tensor 2mo ago
> A lot of it has been half-hearted. Basically "wait out this loser and everything will go back to the way it was". A lot of Americans are leaning on this as well. Absolutely not what's been happening. At the speed that Canada is signing new trade deals in a decade the entire balance of trade power will look different. And unlike the unreliable US deals, these deals are much more likely to endure and expand. The only reason Carney felt comfortable taking this position on Friday is because he feels confident that in the long run our diversification efforts can solve our issues. I suspect he figures that we can weather the pain until the new trade deals come to bear fruit.