XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.democrats   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-30 12:58, Tal Yessen wrote:   
   > On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:20:40 -0800 Alan  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-01-29 16:16, Tal Yessen wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:08:27 -0800 Alan  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> Show us these deals side by side and you'll have your   
   >>>>>> answer.   
   >>>> All you've shown is that a deal exists...   
   >>> Carney downplays Trump’s threats while ruling out China trade   
   >>> deal The prime minister acknowledged a free-trade agreement with   
   >>> Beijing would jeopardize Canada’s U.S. relationship.   
   >>   
   >> And such a deal was never being contemplated.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canada-faces-the-most-serious-trade-   
   > threat-in-a-generation-and-carneys-to-blame   
   >   
   > Canada faces the most serious trade threat in a generation — and   
   > Carney's to blame The PM should have known that negotiating a trade   
   > deal with China and poking Trump in the eye in Davos would elicit a   
   > response   
   >   
   > Carney rolled the dice on Canada’s economic future, but the table   
   > was rigged against him from the start. By courting Beijing on   
   > electric vehicles and canola, he was testing the structural limits   
   > of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). Anyone who has   
   > read the treaty could have told him how this would end.   
   >   
   > The danger lies in CUSMA Article 32.10 — the agreement’s infamous   
   > “poison pill.” This provision requires Canada to notify the United   
   > States three months before negotiating a “free trade agreement” with   
   > a “non-market country” (read: China).   
      
   But Canada HASN'T negotiated or even begun to negotiate such an   
   agreement, doofus.   
      
   Straw man.   
      
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