Canada vows to match Trump's 50% tariffs after trade deal talks fail(www.theguardian.com)

11 pointsby JSR_FDED5 hours ago1 comment

JSR_FDED5 hours ago
Canada: Canadian officials had worked hard in good faith but “last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic and called into question the reliability of any deal”
USA: “Tonight, Canada declined to finalise the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week”
How are we meant to resolve these different accounts?
- kstenerud4 hours ago
  Look at the past behaviors of the parties involved. History doesn't occur in a vacuum.
- ggm4 hours ago
  Change one word s/agreed/proposed/ and there's no problem. So, since we were all here last week, and recall a 3 day pause to finalise, did the 3 day pause mean agreeing or did it mean wanting to believe an agreement might emerge?
- Terr_4 hours ago
  What's the difficulty? This US Republican administration has screwed-up and reneged/lied about negotiations again, the same way it's been misbehaving for the past two years with multiple other countries.
  It's not credible at this point to argue that everybody else—including countries that were traditionally our closest allies—all simultaneously became the problem.
- Pxtl4 hours ago
  Which government is run by a pathological liar?