It's fundamentally insane that the conclusion you come to is blaming Doug Ford and not the toddler who would sabotage his own country's international negotiations over a benign advertisement.
The US is going to feel significantly more pain from its completely irrational approach to global economics than Canada is. Canada has historically had a close economic relationship with the US because of shared values, but they do not strictly need a close economic relationship with the US to thrive. There is an entire world out there happy to trade with Canada. Meanwhile the US is alienating itself from every single one of its allies simultaneously.
It's hard to say what the effects are so soon. Americans are starting to wake up to the impact of tariffs, R pols are starting to talk negatively about them, Dear Leader changes his mind quite often, and the tariffs issue is slated to be before SCOTUS (they have often been in the King's corner, but not always)
Trump is a narcissistic bully who will change his mind in a heartbeat and who wants mafia like payments to stay in his good graces (look who is paying for the Whitehouse remodel)
If you pander to the bully you will always be on the hook. Every country will be better off just not dealing with them at all. Sure there is some short term pain there, but that’s better than coughing up lunch money forever.
I mean, Canada has had a tepid response to the implosion of their neighbour and relations - I think they have done little outside some retaliatory tariffs and “committing” to a 10 year plan to double trade with non American partners.
Is that really such a bold set of accomplishments that Ford should be shutting his mouth and falling in line behind? Trump could change his mind because Putin or Miller or Vought tell him to, no need to act like precarious progress is precious from my perspective
Premier of Ontario. The Governor General and Lieutenant Governors in Canada are the King's representatives, their non-executive heads of state/provinces.
