Trump wants to make a trade deal with Canada

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Pretty sure Canada's view is that there's no point in "making a deal" with an unreliable and capricious pathological liar.

I don’t think Canada has an opinion. It’s a country, not a person.

And the many and varied opinions of the Canadian people don’t seem to matter very much either, since the Canadian provincial governments impose tarrifs on imports from the other Canadian provinces all the time. Sauce for the goose and all that.

Good lord. When you see a headline that reads, e.g., "White House Announces New Policy," do you think "Harrumph. The White House can't 'announce' anything. It's a building, not a person"?

Yes. Newspaper writers are frequently stupid.

Any other longstanding, well known, and widely used figures of speech that irk you?

Several. If you cannot say what you mean, you can never really mean what you say.

Re: inter-province tariffs -

1. Are those provinces' trade policies very chaotic?

2. Do those provinces threaten to invade/take-over the other province?

3. Do any of the tariffs reach 50%, the figure the Republican admin mentioned this week? [1]

4. After signing trade agreements and calling them "the most important ever", do they then say they are dropping that "most important ever" agreement? (Such as the USMCA signed by Trump.)

5. Do they denigrate previous trade deals as "perhaps the worst trade deal ever made", then sign something that is ~equivalent calling it "the most important ever"? [2] (As happened with NAFTA/USMCA under Republicans.)

If not then it seems like the comparison to the current U.S. Republicans’ actions isn’t very comparable.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-trump-canada-usmca-trade-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E...

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