I heard a nice line on CBC Power & Politics today - that what we're feeling right now is the powerlessness Latin American countries have been feling for a long time while being in the US'es crosshair.

Typical neolib capitulation- ahem I mean tolerance. That's worked great for the Americans, I'm sure it'll work for the Canadians /s

I disagree with this assessment.

I think that Carney was there for trade talks and refused to be side tracked from that and engage in discussions that were unrelated to the goal of improving trade relations between the USA and Canada.

He just sat there, and let Donny boy run his fat mouth, and when they got back on topic he suddenly had something to say.

Honestly, when I'm trying to have a productive conversation about something with someone and they veer off into insanity mid conversation, I usually just let them talk themselves out, then redirect them to the topic when they seem like they're done, so we can have productive discussions on the matter at hand.

Bluntly, there's no point arguing with the senile about their insane positions on anything, even if you get them to agree or change their viewpoint, in 15 minutes they'll forget and go back to their original bullshit.

I'm disappointed in Carney but admittedly don't have enough info to fully justify feeling that yet. There's a lot of nuance at that level and it does seem like Carney is shifting our interests to other markets.

My hope is he's stringing the US along while he makes changes, basically like setting up a place to live and work before ending an abusive relationship. I understand that cutting ties completely would cripple our economy so that's not an option, just gonna wait for the end of his first year before I really make my opinion.

I was shown this link in another post that clearly shows the trade changes Carney has been working on. It's well put together: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2025/canada-international-trade/

Tolerating Nazis has historically never worked.