Carney Promised Defiance. All We’re Getting Is Deference (The Walrus)

... Carney’s problem isn’t so much that his government is trying to manage a conscious but limited decoupling from the US as much as that, in the process, they’ve refused to grapple with the White House’s depravity and have abandoned anything resembling an assertion of domestic sovereignty or self-respect. 

In a latest test, the US ambassador to Canada has said that the government’s purchase of the full complement of American-made F-35 fighter jets must be part and parcel of restarting trade talks. In other words, he’s extorting us ...

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