I think Trump is temporary and the US will return to normal soon, so Canada and the US can repair things.
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I think Trump is temporary and the US will return to normal soon, so Canada and the US can repair things.
Shiftless2
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While Trump is temporary the damage he's done will take years (decades actually) to correct itself.
And on the international front Trump has shown the world that America's word is only good till the next election (if that long). It's going to take a very long time for the rest of the world to decide that America can be trusted.
I was w/ you until the last term in the sentence "correct itself".
We may call it repairable. But it won't happen by itself. It'll take skill, talent, international cooperation, and time. BUT !
The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the naïve forgive and forget;
the wise forgive but do not forget.
psychiatrist Thomas Szasz
Sadly, the United States cannot be trusted. The past few centuries of history are strewn with example of why it cannot.
Your #502 has inspired me to formulate the following realizations:
Regarding individuals Schopenhauer observed: "Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost." Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
It's not quite the same for nations.
No nation can be trusted beyond the limitations of its ability to maintain its own principles. The U.S. has already failed that abysmally. Conclusively.
Jefferson penned "all men are created equal" in 1776.
Bob Lee didn't surrender @Appomattox until 1865.
MLK was murdered in 1968.
And that hasn't settled the matter.
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Much as I dislike Ford he's right on this one
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Ask yourself how many tourism jobs have disappeared because Canadians are no longer visiting the US.
‘This can come to a quick end’: Doug Ford says U.S. economy is losing out as Canadians boycott country
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says that the U.S. economy is losing out on “tens of billions of dollars” as Canadians continue to boycott the country amid a trade war.
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Ask yourself how many tourism jobs have disappeared because Canadians are no longer visiting the US.
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Canada shifts trade routes after Ambassador Bridge issues .....
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20K views · 186 reactions | 1MIN AGO: Canada Shifts Trade Routes After Ambassador Bridge Issues. #usa #canada #uk #germany #mexico | Breaking Trump | Facebook
1MIN AGO: Canada Shifts Trade Routes After Ambassador Bridge Issues. #usa #canada #uk #germany #mexico
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Canada isn't the only sensible trade partner in this solar system.
Bottom line, President Trump's America First policies are incrementally making America last. Deservedly so.
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Trump made Canada great again
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Based on 2025 data, Canadian tourism is experiencing record-breaking growth, driven by a surge in domestic travelers using the Canada Strong Pass to explore nationally. Highlights include over 50,000 more train rides, a 13% increase in national park
Based on 2025 data, Canadian tourism is experiencing record-breaking growth, driven by a surge in domestic travelers using the Canada Strong Pass to explore nationally. Highlights include over 50,000...
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This headline says a lot more than it looks like at first glance. “Trump blames Canada. And tears our closest international relationship apart.” That’s not hyperbole. That’s the reality Canada is now planning around. As the piece puts it, this isn
This headline says a lot more than it looks like at first glance. “Trump blames Canada. And tears our closest international relationship apart.” That’s not hyperbole. That’s the reality Canada is...
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This headline says a lot more than it looks like at first glance.
“Trump blames Canada. And tears our closest international relationship apart.”
That’s not hyperbole. That’s the reality Canada is now planning around.
As the piece puts it, this isn’t just about Trump as an individual. It’s about what the United States has shown it is willing to tolerate. After January 6, after everything, he was still returned to power. That changes how allies calculate risk.
Aaron Rupar summed it up perfectly“It isn’t just Trump that Canada can’t trust. It’s us, Americans.”
From a Canadian perspective, that line lands hard.
This is why Canada is diversifying trade. This is why Ottawa is hedging diplomatically. This is why the old assumption that things will simply snap back to normal no longer holds.
“No one can have faith things will revert to normal.”
This is not anti American sentiment. It’s strategic realism in a very unstable moment.
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If nothing else Trump has proven that America's word is only good until the next election (if that long). And it's going to take years for the world to forget that (assuming they ever do).
"... a very unstable moment" catalyzed by if not caused by the "extremely stable genius" *?
That's a calculation complicated by the context of our rapidly evolving globalization.
Even if international trade ratios were restored to pre-Trump levels, the complexities / advancements of the global economy,
and the interval of time between the begining of the Trump divergence, and the completion of the post-Trump re-convergence
would likely render the end result unrecognized.
* "I'm an extremely stable genius." President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump 19/05/23