'Unhinged' for Canada to call dispute with U.S. a trade war: Jamieson Greer | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-unhinged-us-trade-jamieson-greer-9.7337101

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radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 14d

It's unhinged to call Canada the 51st state.

kbal@fedia.io · 23 pts · 14d

Actually, it's a "trade special operation."

ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 19 pts · 14d (1 reply)

Yes! How dare you stand up to the bully? You should take the wedgies and say thank you!

radish6367@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 14d

Canadians definitely haven’t been showing enough gratitude since these tariffs on their products came into effect!

radish6367@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 14d (4 replies)

“"Prime Minister Carney used the term 'war.' It’s not a word we use, right? We don’t talk about it that way. For us, it’s business, it’s economics," Greer told the FT News Briefing podcast.”

I guess we could just do some “business” and “economics” and stop sending electricity and oil to the US…

grey_maniac@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 14d

It might be because people in Geneva get nervous when Canadians get into a war.

owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 14d (1 reply)

"It's not a word we use, right? For us, it's special operations, it's tactical engagements."

k0e3@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 10d

It's only a war when it's against a concept that can't actually fight back, like terror or drugs. And they still lose.

Toto@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 14d

He’s worried about losing another “war” that Americans started with no exit plan

tangeli@piefed.social · 14 pts · 13d (3 replies)

'We don’t talk about it that way. For us, it’s business, it’s economics,' Greer told the FT News Briefing podcast.

Who is this 'we' he is talking about?

Trump tweets: 'Trade wars are good, and easy to win'

Trump says Americans could feel 'pain' in trade war with Mexico, Canada, China

Trump Just Restarted the Trade War With Canada. Should Stock Investors Be Worried?

‘We Don’t Need Canada’: Trump Escalates Trade War With Threat of 50% Auto Tariffs

It must be something not part of the US government and not represented by US media.

Kyrias@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 13d (1 reply)

They know.

They don't care.

tangeli@piefed.social · 4 pts · 13d

No, but, Truth Social is all about the truth, isn't it? It's the one source I was sure I could rely on. I mean, it's right there in the name...

vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 11d

Pretty fucking annoying CBC not posting these quotes in the article themselves.

ryper@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 13d

What would you expect from the government that thinks what's going in Iran isn't a war?

masterspace@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 13d

Their demands included us being a vasal nation.

That is a declaration of war.

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 13d

Most of these quips from US trade officials have been so weird and out there I can't even get mad.

BreadOven@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 13d

No, no, no, no, no. It's just enhanced interrogation techniques. It's not torture at all.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 13d

The entire world is unhinged! The Untied States ripped the door off its hinges so hard, the hinges disintegrated!