Retired Cdn Dip/Trade Negotiator. Director @CanCaribInst Member @CICOttawa & @AMBCANADA1 politics; foreign policy; trade/dev policy. See also @Robert1Ready

Ottawa, Ontario
Joined January 2016
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Well, if anything is gonna make our neighbor to the north beg for forgiveness for the shit they haven’t done, changing what WE call a lake will. 🤦🏼‍♀️
Trump on Canada: "Lake Ontario is now Lake America. They're gonna come in and they're gonna say, 'Sir, we are sorry.'"
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Let’s dispense w/ this patronizing “best deal in the world” nonsense. US,CDA&MX entered into a legally binding trade agreement in 2020(driven & praised by Pres Trump). He then blew up that agreement early in his 2nd term) - an agreement which all 3 parties had respected until then. the tariffs introduced against CDA were illegal - and remain so. Consistent with provisions in USMCA-CUSMCA, CDA retaliated, legally. US threatened more tariffs. CDA was prepared to accept that some of the USA’s illegal tariffs would endure, but at a reduced rate. Then the US got greedy, wanting to kill truck assembly in CDA (as a precursor to killing the whole CDN auto sector). The US made other offensive demands, including signalling that CDA should refrain from pursuing alternatives to this abusive relationship we now find ourselves in. The US reserves the right, on any overnight Presidential whim, to breach any new agreement w/ CDA - and CDA is supposed to suck it up and forswear any retaliation in the event.. The other countries, that got worse agreements from the US didn’t have legally binding trade agreements in place w/ the US in the first place. CDA does (did?). It wasn’t CDA that chose to blow up CUSMA-USMCA (described by Pres Trump at the time as the best trade agreement in history). It was the US - which, in the 2nd Trump Admin, has decided the US isn’t bound by its own (Congressionally ratified) laws. The US has decided it no longer wishes to be bound by any trade laws it has previously negotiated (including by Pres Trump), and has the gall to lecture CDA for having insisted on a win/win ‘Deal’ that would respect CDN sovereignty and that the US would commit to honouring. What kind of fools do you take us for?
.@USTradeRep sets the record straight on trade discussions with Canada: "It wasn't good enough [for Canada] to have the best deal in the world; they wanted it to be even better... Things we couldn't accommodate."
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University of Waterloo partners with Grenada-based school to address the doctor shortage in Canada flip.it/J.MS9v
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Talkative US ambassador to Canada risks losing his credibility after just a few weeks in his post. Credibility matters a lot in that job—not least because Canadian officials can communicate directly with their counterparts in DC, bypassing the embassy. cbc.ca/news/world/hoekstra-c…
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Abject surrender. Big, powerful America. Land of the frail, home of the bully.
- No NATO membership for Ukraine - 1991 borders "unrealistic" - Security guarantees should come from the EU, not the US - The US receives rare earth minerals worth 500B USD from Ukraine - The US can't "help EU's security anymore" - Trump threatens to take Greenland, Canada - Trump has regular phone calls with Putin Does is look like Trump is standing with NATO allies and Ukraine?
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It's been fun...but this platform has become a cesspool of misinformation, bot accounts and rage...encouraged by the owner and his policical agenda. I'm done. You can find me on BlueSky @rready.bsky.social. I will check in here to find the information I require, but won't post.
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A cartoon from Germany is very accurate…..
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If Pro Wrestling and Religion are Fake, Explain THIS?!…
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The facts are hard to deny:   Last year, 0.6% of illegal crossings and 0.2% of fentanyl seizures by U.S. authorities were at the northern border. 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸 are strategic partners in continental and economic security. We’ll continue to work together to ensure a secure border.
Canadian ambassador on possible response to Trump tariffs Watch the full video here: tinyurl.com/4hk69pzu
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According to the Deputy Prime Minister, Canadians who are struggling are experiencing a "vibecession," while the Mayor of Montreal, says that the riots in her city where cars were torched, chants against Jews were heard and effigies of the Prime Minister of Israel were burned weren’t antisemitic and it was all also just in your head. What is it with progressive politicians gaslighting Canadians?
Montreal mayor says weekend pro-Palestinian protests were not antisemitic, @3rikamorris reports. montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal… Find out more at Nationalnewswatch.com
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💥 Au revoir! Remember that woman chanting "The Final Solution is coming", at Concordia the other day? Well, turns out she operated a coffee shop at the Jewish General Hospital (!!) in #Montreal, but they have now terminated her franchise agreement! Bravo to @SecondCupCanada for showing zero tolerance for hate speech! That's how it's done!
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