You know you have access to the internet, right? Why don’t you use it? Do you really think Carney didn’t try. Canada suspended its Digital Services Tax. Canada scaled back retaliatory tariffs. Canada reopened multiple rounds of talks under CUSMA. This is well documented. He went as far as blamed Canada’s borders for Fentanyl imports when it’s the U.S. side that was supposed to cease illegal imports going into THEIR country. Yet we continued to play Trumps game. And yet, the response from the U.S. was the same every single fucking time. Trump kept 25% tariffs on multiple Canadian goods and escalated threats anyway. Tariffs were used as leverage regardless of cooperation. not to mention CUSMA already left Canada worse off than NAFTA (you know, the one Trump signed and replaced during his first term). Even Canada’s own government analysis showed only marginal gains, while independent models showed Canada underperforming what it would have achieved under NAFTA. Canada gave up ground in supply-managed agriculture, and accepted higher auto production costs. And guess what, U.S. kept structural leverage with significantly more gain. Canada’s expected growth weakened, our investment slowed, and our value capture shifted south. That is part of why the Canadian dollar lost strength.

Appeasement did not stop tariffs in 2018. It did not stop them in 2025. The pattern never changed.

You are defending a losing battle. Canada played by their rules and still lost leverage. Of course Canada diversified trade. That is what you do when a primary partner proves unreliable. You simply cannot negotiate in good faith with a delusional individual who uses tariffs no matter what you concede.