I really dislike that framing that a lot of people are pushing, which is (imo) very disingenuous. The framing is that we're "trading" one big trade partner for another, and I've seen it everywhere from lefty Lemmy users to Pierre voters.

You're 100% correct that we're simply adding another trade partner and diversifying our options as we've done with many middle powers over the recent months. The goal is that no single trade partner should be 70% of our exports like the US has been historically and it irks me when I see people argue that we're just changing our the US for China as though we're only allowed one trade partner at a time.

His framing isn't quite what the headline may imply - he's just saying the US should probably stop waging trade wars.

Given the alternative at the time, he can hardly be blamed for not intentionally sinking the economy at the time.

I'm fairly certain the current success in recruiting trade partners and signing agreements with them that Carney is enjoying are a direct result of being forced into that position earlier and the Trudeau government using this wake-up call to start working on a backup strategy.