26 Replies to “Canada-U.S. Trade Agreement Tentatively Reached”

  1. Whata relief. I thought for awhile I was going to have to pay less for dairy products. Now the pressure is off and we Canadians can continue paying the highest price for dairy in the free world.
    Praise be to Allah

    1. I read somewhere that we were also going to be allowed to bring back $100 worth of goods from the USA duty free on a day trip, up from the current,and world’s lowest, $20, but there was no mention of that in the article.
      Isn’t it odd how Canadian governments seem to not consider what’s good for ordinary Canadians in any negotiations.

      And I wonder what kind of payout we’re going to have to give the dairy farmers to make up for their barely scratched monopoly.

      1. While I’m not completely sure, I read that Canadians will be able to import duty free up to $100 worth of goods from online shopping (but not on cross border trips).

      2. There should be no duty limits on personal purchases for Canadians and PRs during travel to and from the USA. None. It’s always confounded me on cross-border travel that this is so.

    2. If your against wanting a Trudeau second Term may I suggest some pay back karma to the socialist left.

      Don’t stop complaining it’s a shitty deal for the dairy cartel, steel and aluminum manufacturers.

  2. Freeland and Trudeau have opted for a “Made in Mexico” trade deal while claiming to promote Canadian culture.

    We likely won’t get details until polls close in Quebec.

    The Canadian Dairy industry will continue its death by a hundred cuts. It will continue to resist modernization and miss export opportunities but it will also continue to grow rich at the expense of Canadian consumers.

    1. According to the article, the dairy concessions were all for value-added stuff, not raw or pasteurised milk (skim notwithstanding–that’s just water pretending to be milk) or cheese. For the dairy farmers to boo-hoo about that shows…elitist entitlement? Something, anyway. I read that part and said “so what?” Complaining about the effect of that on 220k people in Quebec making it a bad deal for Canada just comes across as whining that the children didn’t get their own way.

  3. This had to happen. The Libs could not head into 2019 with serious tariffs killing the auto industry in Ontario. Given the steel and aluminum sectors are still at risk for serious tariffs, would like to know where their manufactories (I don’t call them “smelters”, most of them aren’t) are situated.

  4. I am really surprised. I guess Trudeau has decided to fight the next election as a Trump stooge now? I thought they were all in with the “I am the anti-Trump” strategy.

    I do not know what sane heads prevailed, but I hate them. They may have just given Canada another term of Trudeau.

    1. “They may have just given another term of Trudeau”… The Molester is going to get another term no matter what he does or doesn’t do… Trudopians love the sociopathic dipshit… Trudopians see themselves reflected in the moronic posturing of the trust fund substitute drama teacher… bottom feeders all… The Media narrative that the Molester is an untouchable infallible hero despite any and all evidence to the contrary will continue and Trudopians will eat that shit up and ask for more, no matter what the imbecile and his radical foreign handlers do or don’t do. That is the stark and sad reality.

    2. “I do not know what sane heads prevailed, but I hate them.”

      I read that the “sane heads” were Gerald Butts and Jared Kushner who did a backroom deal and then promoted it to the “official” negotiators.

      There are plenty of reasons to loath Zoolander apart from any trade deal with the U.S.
      He may not do well in the next election for many other reasons.

  5. So NAFTA will be abolished by calling it something else. Chairman Xi must be laughing himself sick.

    So must Xi’s proxy in Rideau Cottage.

    Justin is betting that Max will split the farm vote, leaving the Liberals free to throw the dairy farmers to the wolves. What I don’t get was why Lighthizer blinked on Chapter 19.

  6. Jerry Diaz and the corrupt Media cartel must have maintained their mafia style stranglehold on telecommunications… party on UNIFOR.

  7. Hey, I can’t find the Feminist and Environment chapters. Chrystia??? Anybody????

    1. That was the exact thought I had. What good is a deal without those? Didn’t the PM tell us that no deal is better than a bad deal for Canada?

  8. The Canadian media cartel will hail the new agreement as a “victory” for the Trudeau Liberals. I am interested to see the results of the Quebec election, given this.

  9. My guess is there is something in this deal that will be a hard swallow for some in the liberal caucus. I’m not going by any “detail” released, I’m gauging my presumption on how the Sockmonkey reacted to the crowd of reporters when he left his office which was to brush by them and not engage with them.
    When was the last time you’ve seen him run away from reporters as if they where all from Sun News?

  10. In the global competition for investment capital NAFTA or its successor becomes far less important than the Trump reduction in corporate tax rates. How does Canada compete with 26% higher rates? It cannot. Trump knows that over the long term the USA will attract dollars that would have been invested in Canada.

    The vast majority of Canadians are unaware of this threat to their standard of living. They will not be educated through ‘investigative journalism’ and unfortunately not be the CPC who does not seem to be much smarter than the Liebels. The idea that you do not pile on national debt spending on social welfare and political payoffs goes unchallenged. The idea that debt is actually a national security issue both in the USA and particularly in Canada goes unchallenged.

  11. Unless supply management is gutted, I couldn’t care less about a NAFTA deal. I care about auto tariffs as much as a Quebec or Ontario politician cares about pipelines.

  12. Prediction:

    The leader of the Conservatives (the party of free market principles), Andrew 2 percent Scheer, will accuse turdo la doo of abandoning our closed market/price fixed dairy industry.

    1. These days, I’m actually wondering if Steer is a plant (you know, one of those Power Corp ones from their lobby).

    2. Nope, but he avoids the curse of having sold them out. Now he can say “It’s a fait accompli by Justin, I can’t go back on it”. And he can say that Justin didn’t get enough for the concession; no protection for lumber, cars, or aluminium. It’s good to campaign on this.

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