NAFTA; Did Mexico throw Canada under the bus ?

Twin_Moose

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Mexico got a better deal off of Trump than they had before.

We should get the same.

Because really only Trump is peeing his pants to get it done. He's the one caused the whole unnecessary drama.

How do you figure this, the agreement just made America competitive in manufacturing again
 

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Going Into The NAFTA Negotiations, Canada Has Trouble

http://www.forbes.com/sites/miltone...negotiations-canada-has-trouble/#1b4599c82958

Going into the NAFTA negotiations, Canada faces all sorts of troubles. The Mexico-U.S. deal puts its representatives at a distinct disadvantage. Perhaps even worse for Ottawa, the country's economy faces fundamental economic problems. The government's admirable goals of offering citizens prosperity in a green and compassionate environment have failed to account for essential economic tradeoffs that now threaten growth potentials, making a deal with the United States more important than ever.


Yowza! The Liberal Government sure put the Canadian citizens at a huge disadvantage.
 

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From just needing a tweak or two to get 'er dun and be the blue print for all other deals, now we are going to get royally phucked with no chance at review for Six or Sixteen years.
 

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From just needing a tweak or two to get 'er dun and be the blue print for all other deals, now we are going to get royally phucked with no chance at review for Six or Sixteen years.


Don't despair, NAFTA was riddled with events wherein the US and Canada screwed each other and sent the complaint to the WTO which took years to rule on.

This will continue regardless of Trump's involvement or not
 

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The deal is only as good as the intentions of those signing it.


As an example, Trump made a deal with NK and it only took a few days for it to be crushed by the boy-leader of that nation.


That's gotta hurt Trump's ego immeasurably
 

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U.S. to move ahead with Mexico trade pact, keep talking to Canada

The Canadian dollar weakened to C$1.3081 to the U.S. dollar after the Wall Street Journal first reported that the talks had ended on Friday with no agreement. Canadian stocks remained 0.5 percent lower.

Lighthizer has refused to budge despite repeated efforts by Freeland to offer some dairy concessions to maintain the Chapter 19 independent trade dispute resolution mechanism in NAFTA, The Globe and Mail reported on Friday.
However, a spokeswoman for USTR said Canada had made no concessions on agriculture, which includes dairy, but added that negotiations continued.
The United States wants to eliminate Chapter 19, the mechanism that has hindered it from pursuing anti-dumping and anti-subsidy cases. Lighthizer said on Monday Mexico had agreed to cut the mechanism. For Ottawa, Chapter 19 is a red line.
 

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Canada's Freeland says 'win-win-win' trade deal with U.S. within reach

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday expressed confidence that Canada could reach agreement with the United States on a renegotiated NAFTA trade pact if there was "good will and flexibility on all sides."
"We continue to work very hard and we are making progress. We're not there yet," Freeland told reporters after days-long talks wrapped up without a deal.
"We know that a win-win-win agreement is within reach," she added. "With goodwill and flexibility on all sides, I know we can get there." (Reporting by Julie Gordon and Makini Brice; Writing by Tim Ahmann; editing by Jonathan Oatis)

Did Mexico throw Canada under the NAFTA bus?

Evan Dyer 6 hrs ago

OP is this you?
 

spilledthebeer

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The USA had lots of friends until you came along, Donald. Now, the list grows shorter every day. You ain't going to MAGA that way.

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Poor foolish LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LIE-berals dance around the national security issue that has caused the ENTIRE trade war - as if they were Mice pretending not to see the Rattlesnake picking them off one by one!!!!!!!!

ALL LIE-beral policy is FAILING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The $10.5 million dollar payout to bomb maker Omar Khadr was a public relations disaster!!!!!!!!!!

The $37 million dollar payout to 3 other suspected jihadists simply confirmed that Our idiot Boy Justin and his LIE-beral losers are collectively mentally ILL!!!!

The LIE-beral insistence in talking about gender issues and native rights in the NAFTA talks- while IGNORING repeated Trump remarks about NATO SLACKERS demonstrates that LIE-berals rwally are mostly disconnected from real life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a nice comment that sums up the LIE-beral philosophy in a nutshell:

"The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices -- paid by others."
-- economist and thinker Thomas Sowell.

Sowell is a very clever fellow and I would not dare to say he was wrong but I think he ought to tighten up his sentiment just a little.

Conservative policy follows the line that what is best for the majority will be best fOr all as a rising tide lifts all boats so to speak!

By comparison- LIE-berals assume that what is best FOR THEM- is simply best- end of story!! It is LIE-berals who Sowell is condemning!

Consider so called green energy- which is actually making the air more dirty than it was! Green power in Ontari-owe is so unreliable that LIE-berals must keep natural gas fired plants up at full power- but producing nothing- ready at a moments notice to step in and take over from the unreliable green energy that selfish LIE-berals have given preference to on our power grid.

The mouldy green energy is given priority even as water powered generators-the CHEAPEST AND CLEANEST form of generation- are SHUT OFF to make room for green crap! Green energy is owned by friends of LIE-beral Party and they ARE ENTITLED so LIE-berals rig our power grid as if there was no price- for THEM!

And LIE-berals are desperate to `grow` our economy since the more people paying into the tax pool, the easier it is for LIE-berals to pay for their selfish vote buying programs that are essential if LIE-berals are to cling to power- at any cost- to US!

LIE-berals engage in their mantra of growth being essential, because that philosophy is good for them. That so much of their `growth` is in areas that are not good for us is irrelevant to them. LIE-beral growth is an illusion fueled by bad math and careless accounting. The LIE-beral sees the drug addiction counselor as being just as socially useful as a plumber or auto mechanic. For selfish reasons LIE-berals do not distinguish between those who contribute to society and those who cannot survive without social support and they persist in this view even as people such as left wing loonie Linda McQuaig insist that govt does NOT have a spending problem- rather, she says- there are not enough people contributing to the tax pool!

Loons like McQuaig are quick to advocate govt intervention in the economy to magically create jobs by some clerical alchemy. McQuaig advocates that govt BORROW money to build the financial equivalent of a perpetual motion machine. McQuiag is blind to the reality that various forms of fiscal friction will kill her marvelous money making machine long before it can spin any straw into gold! AS former Ontari-owe NDP doorknob premier Bob (BOOB!) Rae proved when he tried to `spend` us rich and ended up doubling the provincial debt and sending civil service Hogs home for unpaid days off as a way to control govt costs!

McQuaig is a typical socialist who simply does not understand human nature. She follows the Soviet dogma that any and all failings of the Socialist order are the fault of enemies sabotaging the system from the outside. She apparently has bought into the Bob (Boob!) Rae line that the reason the Ndp could not spend Ontari-owe rich is because selfish bankers would not loan enough money to make Ontari-owe wealthy enough to enable NDP airheads to build their perpetual motion money machine! Boob Rae and his notorious Rae days went into the history books as the worst ever Ontari-owe premier- an infamous knucklehead who doubled Ontari-owe debt in 4 short years- and McQuaig will have us believe it is all the fault of bankers! But then McQuaig has made herself rich and famous by pandering to the selfish impulses of our most grossly entitled politicians! There is No cost to McQuaig if people believe and act on her insane money market musings- but she IS making NICE living selling her line of `pie in the sky` books to the gullible and foolish! The dream of every socialist is wealth without responsibility!
 

spilledthebeer

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Poor foolish LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals dance around the national security issue that has caused the ENTIRE trade war - as if they were Mice pretending not to see the Rattlesnake picking them off one by one!!!!!!!!
ALL LIE-beral policy is FAILING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The $10.5 million dollar payout to bomb maker Omar Khadr was a public relations disaster!!!!!!!!!!
The $37 million dollar payout to 3 other suspected jihadists simply confirmed that Our idiot Boy Justin and his LIE-beral losers are collectively mentally ILL!!!!
The LIE-beral insistence in talking about gender issues and native rights in the NAFTA talks- while IGNORING repeated Trump remarks about NATO SLACKERS demonstrates that LIE-berals rwally are mostly disconnected from real life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is a nice comment that sums up the LIE-beral philosophy in a nutshell:
"The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices -- paid by others."
-- economist and thinker Thomas Sowell.
Sowell is a very clever fellow and I would not dare to say he was wrong but I think he ought to tighten up his sentiment just a little.
Conservative policy follows the line that what is best for the majority will be best fOr all as a rising tide lifts all boats so to speak!
By comparison- LIE-berals assume that what is best FOR THEM- is simply best- end of story!! It is LIE-berals who Sowell is condemning!
Consider so called green energy- which is actually making the air more dirty than it was! Green power in Ontari-owe is so unreliable that LIE-berals must keep natural gas fired plants up at full power- but producing nothing- ready at a moments notice to step in and take over from the unreliable green energy that selfish LIE-berals have given preference to on our power grid.
The mouldy green energy is given priority even as water powered generators-the CHEAPEST AND CLEANEST form of generation- are SHUT OFF to make room for green crap! Green energy is owned by friends of LIE-beral Party and they ARE ENTITLED so LIE-berals rig our power grid as if there was no price- for THEM!
And LIE-berals are desperate to `grow` our economy since the more people paying into the tax pool, the easier it is for LIE-berals to pay for their selfish vote buying programs that are essential if LIE-berals are to cling to power- at any cost- to US!
LIE-berals engage in their mantra of growth being essential, because that philosophy is good for them. That so much of their `growth` is in areas that are not good for us is irrelevant to them. LIE-beral growth is an illusion fueled by bad math and careless accounting. The LIE-beral sees the drug addiction counselor as being just as socially useful as a plumber or auto mechanic. For selfish reasons LIE-berals do not distinguish between those who contribute to society and those who cannot survive without social support and they persist in this view even as people such as left wing loonie Linda McQuaig insist that govt does NOT have a spending problem- rather, she says- there are not enough people contributing to the tax pool!
Loons like McQuaig are quick to advocate govt intervention in the economy to magically create jobs by some clerical alchemy. McQuaig advocates that govt BORROW money to build the financial equivalent of a perpetual motion machine. McQuiag is blind to the reality that various forms of fiscal friction will kill her marvelous money making machine long before it can spin any straw into gold! AS former Ontari-owe NDP doorknob premier Bob (BOOB!) Rae proved when he tried to `spend` us rich and ended up doubling the provincial debt and sending civil service Hogs home for unpaid days off as a way to control govt costs!
McQuaig is a typical socialist who simply does not understand human nature. She follows the Soviet dogma that any and all failings of the Socialist order are the fault of enemies sabotaging the system from the outside. She apparently has bought into the Bob (Boob!) Rae line that the reason the Ndp could not spend Ontari-owe rich is because selfish bankers would not loan enough money to make Ontari-owe wealthy enough to enable NDP airheads to build their perpetual motion money machine! Boob Rae and his notorious Rae days went into the history books as the worst ever Ontari-owe premier- an infamous knucklehead who doubled Ontari-owe debt in 4 short years- and McQuaig will have us believe it is all the fault of bankers! But then McQuaig has made herself rich and famous by pandering to the selfish impulses of our most grossly entitled politicians! There is No cost to McQuaig if people believe and act on her insane money market musings- but she IS making NICE living selling her line of `pie in the sky` books to the gullible and foolish! The dream of every socialist is wealth without responsibility!

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Poor stupid and increasingly DESPERATE LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mexico has a "deal" that is nothing but some feel good propaganda!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anybody who thinks any of those $16 dollar per hour car assembly jobs are going to Mexico are DREAMING IN TECHNICOLOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All those $16.00 per hour jobs will end up in some place like Georgia!

Moreover- the Yankee govt has NOT ratified the so called deal with Mexico and NOBODY can say what will happen after the November Yankee elections!

But take heart foolish LIE-berals- Our idiot Boy Justin still has a year in which to either completely destroy our economy..........OR he can come to his senses and admit ALL LIE-BERAL POLICY IS FAILING- and try to find some way to moderate the ugly political record he is piling up!!!!!!!!

As things now stand- Our idiot Boy now holds the Cdn record for being the most ignorant, destructive, irresponsible leader in Cdn history!!!!!

No other prime minister has managed to piss off so many of our former friends and allies!!!!!!

Our idiot Boy has managed to piss off our various Asia Pacific friends and allies with his handling of the Pacific trade deal that has now gone into effect WITHOUT CANADA!!!

Our idiot Boy has pissed off our Yankee allies with his total disinterest in national security issues!

He has pissed off the Yankees with his virtue signalling garbage over gender issues in NAFTA talks! And then he has added insult by whining about native issues! In an effort to distract us from, how badly LIE-berals are handling NAFTA- Our idiot Boy tried to chat up the Chinese Communists AND GOT SLAPPED DOWN FOR THAT- with the Chinese premier telling the idiot Boy that gender issues have NO PLACE in a trade agreement!!!!!!!


The idiot Boy then moved on to India- impressing his hosts most royally by inviting a convicted Sikh terrorist to a state event!!!!!

After being stung by the Kokanee Grope Our idiot Boy chose to seek out more positive interactions by attacking Saudi Arabia- and simply triggered yet ANOTHER trade war- while FAILING MISERABLY to convince anybody that he really is a true feminist- instead he simply showed his duplicity and hypocrisy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If Stephen Harper had ever performed so badly- hypocrite LIE-berals would be trying top LYNCH HIM!!!!!!!

But LIE-beral hypocrisy is cemented into bedrock LIE-beral GREED so the fall back position for frantic LIE-berals is to scream RACIST at anybody who displeases them- which means we are going to be hearing a LOT about systemic racism and Islamophobia from LIE-berals in the months ahead as they seek some way to change the national discussion AWAY from the glaring FAILURE OF ALL LIE-beral policy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Hoid

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They make lots of money on their "free military protection".

More lies from the liar.
 

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Freeland will go back to to the NAFTA table with the Americans and to be fair she will have to make concessions the same as the TPP just because America is our largest trading partner and ally but in any negotiation it's give and take and it's getting close to US midterms so Canada has to decide make a deal first or let it drag on to see if Trump loses control of the house. Former prime minister Brian Mulroney said you have to be prepare to roll the dice, we are in the final stretch of the race and this time she has to reach and get that brass ring or else it will be tariffs and bilateral agreements like we had before.
 

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Freeland will go back to to the NAFTA table with the Americans and to be fair she will have to make concessions the same as the TPP just because America is our largest trading partner and ally but in any negotiation it's give and take and it's getting close to US midterms so Canada has to decide make a deal first or let it drag on to see if Trump loses control of the house. Former prime minister Brian Mulroney said you have to be prepare to roll the dice, we are in the final stretch of the race and this time she has to reach and get that brass ring or else it will be tariffs and bilateral agreements like we had before.
Time is on our side. If Trump drops the bomb and slaps tarifs on "Canadian" autos, the North American auto production system goes haywire. GM, Chrysler, Ford stocks take a dive and Hyundai, Toyota and Honda get even bigger. None of this will help Trump with his mid-terms one iota (it may show the American people that he's not such a shithot negotiator after all ... maybe). Tough it out and it might just help a bit to bring the tyrant down.