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We negotiated a trade agreement with not just the US but the prior Trump administration specifically. The US is now in violation of that agreement based on justifications that are - charitably - idiotic misunderstandings (conflating a trade deficit with subsidization), blatant nonsense (the idea that "Canadian fentanyl" constitutes a national emergency), or constitute simple outright attacks on our sovereignty.

Canada, through the (actually fairly limited!) existing free trade exceptions in NAFTA/USMCA - which, again, Trump agreed to in the past and, in his usually banal hyperlative word salad, described as "beautiful" and "wonderful" and "perfect" and "the best ever" - did not violate an established agreement. And, more importantly, Canada certainly hasn't gone on for months about how the US isn't a real country, shouldn't be entitled to self-governance, and how we're going to leverage our power to annex it. It's hardly "returning the favour".



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