When Canada walked away from the negotiating table with USA on the trade deals, I was a little surprised. When Pierre Poilievre and Doug Ford - 2 people who never agree with Mark Carney on ANYTHING - came out and vocally backed Carney on this, it got my attention. How bad could the deal be to where THOSE TWO would vocally back Carney? I'm about to tell you. If you ever see a midwit talking about how Canada should have taken the trade "deal" ( @DavidPollackUSA, someone nobody has ever accused of being intelligent, seems to be especially on this kick of late), here are some of the details of the terms of what the US demanded - which essentially amounted to making Canada a subservient nation-state instead of an independent country. And no, this isn't a joke - these were real demands. -Canada would have to abandon speaking French in Quebec -They would have had to follow the US in ANY TRADE WARS Trump started with any other nation -They would have to open their borders to allow US tech companies to start putting datacenters all over their country -They would have given the US VETO AUTHORITY over any other trade deal Canada wanted with any other country -They would have required Canada to voluntarily bankrupt all of its dairy farmers by allowing US dairty to proliferate into Canada unfiltered -They would have had to agree to standardize their fertilizer and pesticide standards to what the US does (Canada's regulations are more stringent, so they would have had to accept our pesticides that cause cancer) -They would have had to surrender their sovereignty with regards to their minerals And these are just a few of the highlights. Trump's "deal" was essentially to strip Canada of its sovereignty. No wonder they walked away.