Canada will keep in place its retaliatory tariffs against US-made products as long as President Donald Trump persists with a trade war, said Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister-designate.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 day ago

    There’s a general governing philosophy that presidents tend to maintain agreements, policies, etc. agreed to by previous administrations. You want an international policy that is reasonably stable otherwise it makes it difficult for foreign nations to deal with the US.

    Then we elected chucklefuck…

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        31 day ago

        I’m just reinforcing that it’s generally a “good thing” and done for a reason rather. Partisans tend to think it’s a bad thing, but it’s not.