• Glide@lemmy.ca
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    Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called Canada a “socialist regime”

    God, I fucking wish.

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    It’s weird, I could have sworn we negotiated a trade deal with the US back in the nineties, and then renegotiated that same deal about eight years back. Who was the president back then? Oh, right…

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      Note the “renegotiate the trade deal” in PP’s concession speech.

      Conservatives will work with the prime minister and all parties with the common goal of defending Canada’s interests and getting a new trade deal that puts these tariffs behind us while protecting our sovereignty and the Canadian people.

      Full text

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    Newton’s 47th Law: Every economic Trump-outburst has an equal and opposite Lutnick-outburst.

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    In all fairness, a free trade deal is probably not what we, the comrades of the Socialist Regime of Canada, want. I think we’d be better off with something less Lessaiz-Faire.