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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-30 13:25, Tal Yessen wrote:   
   > On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:23:38 -0800 Alan  wrote:   
   >   
   >> But Canada HASN'T negotiated or even begun to negotiate   
   >   
   >   
   > 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).   
   >   
   > Article content Article 32.10’s power lies in what it doesn’t say:   
   > CUSMA nowhere defines a “free trade agreement,” and under the Vienna   
   > Convention, undefined terms are interpreted by their ordinary   
   > meaning and effect — not by what the parties choose to call them. An   
   > arrangement exchanging preferential tariff reductions for market   
   > access fits any functional definition of trade liberalization, and   
   > the absence of a definitional safe harbour means the interpretive   
   > ambiguity favours the broader reading Washington is entitled to   
   > assert.   
   >   
   > If Washington dislikes the resulting deal, it has the unilateral   
   > right to terminate CUSMA and replace it with a bilateral U.S.-Mexico   
   > agreement. Canada would be entirely out of the North American   
   > trading bloc.   
   >   
   > Laugh, laugh, laugh , laugh!   
   Still a straw man...   
      
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