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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/trumpkennedycenter-org-website-taken-comedian-174317463.html Not all heroes wear capes.

And Carney has already come out and said dairy is not on the table. Good.

100 percent. We need to keep the quota and the food standards. We can adjust the quota certainly, but the food regulations needs to be a hard no.

I would be surprised if the administration in Washington knew that Quebec has a dairy industry, has an election next year, and is part of Canada to begin with.

Add to this, next year we have the Quebec provincial election. The CAQ is about to be decimated, currently projecting to win zero seats, the PLQ is in self immolation mode, and the PQ is probably going to win a huge majority, and have promised a referendum. A large chunk of the dairy industry...

We have a long and storied history of not doing that, allowing American businesses to swoop in and buy up Canadian businesses and make us into their branch plant, only to them kill our industry wholesale when it suits them, and then because we have no domestic industry left, impose their...

Can we kill the quotas? The current quotas are probably not enough to entice a US manufacturer to meet the higher standards to go toe to toe with Canadian producers. But full access to a market of 40+ million? Someone would do it. And if they felt Canadian producers are weak and they have...

Edit: misunderstood your comment.

CUSMA/USMCA/T-MEC have been passed by the legislatures of all 3 countries. USMCA is an act of Congress. The US president cannot leave USMCA without passing a bill through Congress to make it no longer the law of the land. I believe that requires 60 senators. And while CUSMA/USMCA/T-Mec is up...

Considering that the USA already does not use their full allotment of dairy exports allowed under CUSMA, Canadian food regulations are going to be the target of any negotiation.

The maximum levels of pus in milk in the USA is 750,000 cells/mL. The maximum in Canada, the EU, Australia, New Zealand, is 400,000 cells/mL, which is still high when you consider how little pus there was in non factory farmed milk. Still, being nearly double the Canadian and European...

Sure. Except the USA already doesn't use its full allotment of dairy exports. Why? Canadian regulations. If the USA is talking about further access to the Canadian dairy market while already not using their full allotment, what barrier do you think they want struck down to achieve that? Food...

US milk is full of hormones and antibodies from infections, pus pretty much. Gross. No. For the rest, depends on the concessions Canada gets. Otherwise, politely say no, and wait him out. He will be in the grave before 2036.

Yes. Also taking into consideration the 27 percent of boats the coast guard searches yield no drugs, which, if we apply those statistics to the strikes the USA is commiting is a hell of a lot of innocent collateral damage.

Canadians spend 53b on international tourism. Picking up extra pieces of that pie is in no way small potatoes to many countries. I know when I was in Mexico, the staff were commenting on how they are seeing more Canadian visitors, and how periods of lull are now actually busy. While anecdotal...