What truly baffles me is Canadians who don't seem to grasp the vast majority of our prosperity comes by way of our relationship with the United States. No one else. America.
Our economic and cultural ties are so intertwined, it would be like trying to cut their veins in the body if we wanted to extricate ourselves of our dependence on the America.
Not that we could even if we wanted to.
The notion of we can just expand trade deals with Europe is faulty and naive.
Europe can't give us what the Americans can both practically and not. They're too far in case you haven't noticed and militarily we're forever committed and tied to their protection.
We made that bed and we need to lie in it.
So it's perplexing our negotiators would even attempt to play a dicey game with the mightiest economy in world history. The odds are so stacked against us it's laughable. Not even David had worse odds against Goliath.
We simply have no leverage.
Canadians need to drop the faux-nationalistic act, put on their pragmatist pants, and get a damn deal done.
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