Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau Threatens to Leave NAFTA: “We Won’t Be Pushed Around”…

by sundance
Oh dear, Prime Minister Rainbow Sparkle-Socks is issuing threats now.

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“We aren’t going to take any old deal,” Trudeau said Friday at a town hall in Nanaimo, British Columbia. “Canada is willing to walk away from Nafta if the United States proposes a bad deal.
We won’t be pushed around.” (link)

The backdrop is important context here.  Prime Minister Twinkles has been watching Trump, Ross, Mnuchin and Lighthizer closely.  Two months ago Twinkles attempted to launch economic leverage by entering direct trade discussions with China; but there’s a problem – Twinkles actually believes Beijing is ‘playful panda’.  PM Rainbow-brite doesn’t grasp that Playful Panda is a mask.  [Wrong place for leverage.]
Trudeau is willing to open his door to Chairman Xi without realizing once inside Beijing will hold open the door for arriving goods, and shuttle out the Canadian manufacturers. Attachment to China is a one-way proposition; and China only indulged Canada from the context of using the Canadian NAFTA door, as a tariff workaround to gain entry to the U.S. market.
If Trump shuts the NAFTA door, the entire dynamic changes for China and Prince Rainbow Sparkles will discover he’s in bed with the dragon.  As Wilbur Ross would say: “how’s that trade leverage working out for you?”
Think about it.
Take your time.
Now,…. simultaneous to this really bad panda trade-planning strategy, Canada has committed to the new and improved “Comprehensive and Progressive TPP” (CPTPP) without realizing that Japanese PM Shizo Abe has played the same hand as Chairman Xi Jinping; it was too easy.
The same reason China let Trudeau talk trade is the same reason ASEAN players were willing to make concessions to get Canada in TPP. The Asian manufacturing markets are all looking for doors to the U.S. market; they don’t particularly care about Canadian “Comprehensive and Progressive” politically correct market share.
Canada jumped into deals with China and ASEAN economies as protection from U.S. NAFTA withdrawal.  However, the benefits to trade relations with Canada (for China and ASEAN economies) only exists so long as NAFTA is in place.
Without NAFTA China will shift terms to Canada; and the “Comprehensive and Progressive” TPP concessions (CPTPP) will evaporate.
So who needs NAFTA more as a result: Canada or the U.S.?
Wait, huh… wha?…
Yep.  Canada went toward China and TPP as leverage in NAFTA negotiations.  The problem is that move ultimately made Canada’s position weaker in NAFTA negotiations with Team U.S.A. because Beijing/ASEAN primarily entertain Canada as a NAFTA access route.

(Bloomberg) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made some of his most aggressive comments to date on dealing with U.S. demands to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement, adding he still thinks he can get the right deal for his country.
“We aren’t going to take any old deal,” Trudeau said Friday at a town hall in Nanaimo, British Columbia. “Canada is willing to walk away from Nafta if the United States proposes a bad deal. We won’t be pushed around.”
His comments come days after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to get tough on trade, though he didn’t single out Nafta, in his State of the Union address. The latest round of Nafta talks wrapped up in Montreal on Monday, with all sides saying there had been progress, while acknowledging significant gaps remain on some issues.
Trudeau said the 24-year-old pact has been good for both Canada and the U.S. and a reworked deal could still be reached. “Canceling it would be extremely harmful and disruptive to people in the United States,” Trudeau said.
“We are going to keep negotiating in good faith,” he added. “We are confident we are going to be able to get to the right deal for Canada, not just any deal.” (read more)

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4 thoughts on “Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau Threatens to Leave NAFTA: “We Won’t Be Pushed Around”…”

  1. My personal view is that the NAFTA deal was bad deal for Canada as clearly the very fabric of the deal challenged the sovereignty of Canada and did in fact among other things starting with Article 605 of the trade deal effectively relinquished control over our energy resources to Washington.The Canadian government currently continues to hide the above issues using the smokescreen of softwood lumber and dairy marketing so that most Canadian don’t know what the criminal lawyer Mulroney did to Canadian sovereignty when his government signed the trade deal.

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  2. “Oh dear, Prime Minister Rainbow Sparkle-Socks”….LOVE IT!!!! This is the same prime minister who recently lectured a town hall meeting in B.C. that we should be using the vanilla term “peoplekind” instead of the proper term “Mankind”. This from a man who is apparently unconcerned that “mankind” refers to human kind, the human race – what a dolt!!! He thinks he’s got one over our neighbours to the south?….what a nini!!!

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  3. He is his father’s child a globalist not interested in the well being of his people who elected him but rather more interested in placating the ISIS returning fighters well being. He stated that he is a feminist a queer pride parade marcher and agrees with sharia law in genital mutilation of women. Yes this is our leader… that fkn kunt couldn’t lead me across the street. Sick and fkn tired of being told what to say and what to feel, how I should say it and not to hurt others feelings.

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