Deeply integrating our economy with the United States is what made Canada so vulnerable to Trump’s bullying in the first place.

[rick_d_card@mastodon.social]

@avilewis Please speak loudly and often about this to Canadians.

[stonykark@mstdn.ca]

@avilewis Death to america and all the americans who allow trump to continue breathing. We should be deporting the yankees we already have, not trying to entice more of them.

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@avilewis
This is sort of the direct opposite of what Canadians voted for. He was to protect us and our economy from Trump, not hand us over lightly battered with ketchup.

[gypsyvegan@sfba.social]

@avilewis This is incredibly odd to read just as I'm finishing Louise Penny's two most recent Gamache books... Hyper prescient.

[dckim@mstdn.ca]

@avilewis I just wonder whether he was making the speech in french or in english. His french is terrible, so I wonder if maybe they misquoted him as somehow completely reversed from previous statements.

Best wishes becoming an official party again some day.

[not2b@sfba.social]

@avilewis Might want to read down in the article, where he talks about doubling trade with non US partners, while only saying he "remains open" to deeper integration, while at the same time making deals to reduce US dependence. So, maybe. But headlines are ragebait.

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@avilewis don't do it Canada!! xo from and American

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@avilewis What exactly was the point of all those trade talks in Asia and Europe if he's just going to turn around and lick America's boots? For awhile, I tampered my disdain for what he's done by wondering if this is a ploy to the media to inflate the US President's ego, but it's only gotten worse, only made Canada look weaker in the face of someone who is a textbook example of a bully. Blink twice if you're scared of him, Carney!

This is why the Torries are hammering him on this. Because while, I can't believe I'm saying this, Pierre is right about Carney not exactly being as great dealing with the US as what got him voted in, they think we're stupid enough to forget when the Torries were being good little lapdogs for the Republicans.

No offence intended at you personally, but I desperately hope the NDP can start getting their heads out of their asses, because I'm scared all this dicking around is going to kill this country.

[elcelio@mastodon.uno]

@avilewis

I bet some Canadian provinces are more integrated with the US economy than with the Canadian one. This is the first problem Canada has to solve imo: to find a new compromise between local and national interests.

[anniebuddy@thecanadian.social]

@avilewis

This is absolutely not what I voted for.

I was alive before the FTA, NAFTA, the Harper government sellout of our personal freedoms to the US. I know what kind of country we had before and I can tell you that it wasn’t that bad. We were wealthy enough to provide CPP, OAS, public healthcare AND a baby bonus.

Since our Americanization, we have allowed corporations to control our government, to privatize our national assets and to bleed us dry. This is a decades long war. /2

[anniebuddy@thecanadian.social]

@avilewis

I think Carney is a banker before he is a Canadian. He sees this as a corporate takeover battle, not really what the future of our country looks like.

He doesn’t really care about the scars of environmental degradation or the disruption to peoples lives because he’s so urgently looking to profit off the chaos.

I don’t mind profit but it’s not the only metric.

[johncormier@cosocial.ca]

@AnnieBuddy @avilewis yup and bankers have a word they use for things they don’t really want to think about: externalities

[anniebuddy@thecanadian.social]

@johncormier @avilewis

Collateral Damage in military speak

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@johncormier @hamishb @AnnieBuddy @avilewis "externalities" = the word that captures (waving away objections).

[housepanther@social.goblackcat.com]

@avilewis I’m half Canadian as my grandparents were born in Canada. Canadians want their economic independence from the United States. For that matter, they want complete independence from the US. They don’t want to be inside of any sphere of influence or iron curtain.

[brad@1040ste.net]

@avilewis Too many Canadians voted for a Tory bastard, all Canadians got a Tory bastard. The key thing about a Tory is they will sell you down the river the first chance they get, like the bastards they are.

[ronago@mastodon.social]

@avilewis Interesting how unexpected it is to so many that a man with a resume like Carney's wouldn't do stuff like this.

[nelsonstreetlad@mstdn.ca]

@avilewis Funny how a dipper is preaching a Canadian version of Brexit for Canada vs US. We are one of the world's biggest producers of raw materials like lumber, minerals, oil. Does Lewis really not want one of the world's biggest consumers of those materials to buy them from us? International trade is give and take. Read the rest of the article, Lewis to learn what our govt is really saying and stop preaching your lying half-truths.