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That's just it... honestly, the likely best strategy at the moment, is to simply delay and stretch time until the November midterms in the USA.
IF those turn out to take the power out of the Republitards, Canada can negotiate with the Democrats which, as bad as they also are, at least don't have dementia embedded in their every move
At the end of the day though, Canada just needs to keep moving away from the USA as hard as possible since the USA is indeed circling the drain as it is
That's probably the reason Trump threatened Canada with new tariffs: he's getting nervous about the midterms and he wants a win, and the only way he knows to get a win is bullying. There he is: threatening again.
Carney will try to suck him dry in exchange of an appearance of victory. But we all know it will only last days, then Fox will air how terrible the new deal is and Trump will be back at it with threats and tantrums and "Canada bad".
The problem is, trump makes an order and departments snap to obey no matter if he is legally able to make the order or not. By the time congress/courts have their say the damage is done.
The only thing that could happen to stop the (immediate) shitshow is if dems win a supermajority in both house and senate and remove both trump and vance so that whoever the dems appoint as speaker then becomes president..... which has about a 0% chance of happening.
They would also have to impeach a couple supreme court judges. Secretary this and that.
They'd be busy busy busy. Nothing would get done
Nothing getting done will be a huge improvement.