Professor says Canada should block U.S. ambassador while Trump talks annexation
Professor says Canada should block U.S. ambassador while Trump talks annexation
Ottawa should block Donald Trump’s chosen ambassador to Canada until the U.S. president stops questioning Canada’s sovereignty, says one expert.
Ottawa should block Donald Trump’s chosen ambassador to Canada until the U.S. president stops questioning Canada’s sovereignty, says one expert.
“We could potentially use (this) as a way of signalling the seriousness with which the Government of Canada is viewing this unwelcome talk,” said University of Victoria international relations professor Will Greaves.
“It is an overt, aggressive policy that (Trump) seems to be shifting his administration to endorse. And if we are remotely serious as a country, we should regard that as a hostile action and embrace a wider array of tools in our response towards it.”
I had always understood that any talks of annexing a sovereign country was a HUGE no-no... akin to spanking your boss' wife after being introduced... yet here we are and absolutely nobody seems to be doing anything about it
Considering Trump said he would begin the attack by hurting us economically and then enacted tariffs, paused for only a month, and then added more tariffs that ARE in effect, we should be considering this as already started.
It’s literally happening right now and people need to stop acting like it’s not.
Delaying tariffs is worse than having them.
Canadians can’t price orders to US companies or price any cross border deliveries.
Tariffs are functionally in effect as long as the axe swings over our head like this.
Decrease potash exports by 5% every week tariffs are in place. We’d have them where we want them within 6 weeks.
I would say enacting immediate 100% cut offs to the food supply make us out to be the bad guys. But with a consistent measured response we would get results without making an enemy of most everyday American people.
What Canuck ever listens to the Russian Amabassador? ( do we even have one?). And now we have two!!
Cut the US off from our electricity grid? I know we’d lose money, which would suck.
This issue is that Trump is an unhinged lunatic now in charge of arguably the most powerful military in the world. We would need to be careful how we push back so he doesn't have an excuse to start an actual war. I once thought that no US President would be dumb enough to pull that trigger, but I am starting to have my doubts.
We would need to be careful how we push back so he doesn’t have an excuse to start an actual war.
I don't think a single unhinged lunatic in all of human history ever suddenly became reasonable because their victims began walking on eggshells. In fact, the opposite happens. Just ask his buddy, Putin.
Trump will do what he wants, no matter what our response is. So, we can tell the world that we will not cave to this madman, and hope that our allies back us up.
Either way, we lose hard by not doing anything or being too light in our response.
And yes, a war is possible - no matter what we do - that's the unfortunate reality of having a lunatic in charge. We have the support of NATO if it comes to that. Trump will need to decide whether he wants to be dragged around town like Mussolini, or not.
There's gonna be pain no matter what we do. We're better off just gritting our teeth and ripping the bandage off instead of waiting for him to do it for us.
Going on the offensive has far better chances than sticking with this defensive pattern we're in now.