Currently you even clear customs inside of Canada in the import when you enter Canada from outside Canada. An unusual arrangement and effectively a diplomatic zone on Canadian soil.

Fifty plus years ago, after being in the U.S. for less than a year, I realized that we had more freedom in Canada than
Americans did in the U.S., despite all the fuss the U.S. made about freedom. At the time, it made sense to me because of the difference in our population. The bigger the population, the more laws you had to have to maintain order. At least that's the way it seemed to me at the time. Now, I would say it's a lot more about big monied interests wanting to hold on to money and power.

My son spent his junior year of high school in Germany. One of the first things he told me when he came home was that the rest of the world does not think as highly of the United States as we think they do. It was a profoundly life changing experience for him and one I wish all students could experience.

It's just that many Republicans have never seen the value in it. Because they're mean and stingy, the world has to see it that way.

And so now our entire USA must suffer being regarded and treated as A-hole greedy hate-driven bullies. For that is what the GOP has become -- and as a result the USA is tragically weakened.

Bon chance, Canada!

The US is no longer an ally or friend of Canada.

He is essentially giving a Churchillian "We Will Never Surrender" speech about trade and economic relationships. He's asking Canadians to sacrifice in order to disentangle themselves from the US.

Compared to Trump's usual nonsense, this is sober and serious stuff. If he wins the election, they wil go through with this, and our relationship with Canada will be transformed for the foreseeable future and likely forever. This is a watershed day in Canadian history and maybe in American history. If Americans think they won't experience any consequences from Canada essentially divorcing us, they should think again. Massive, world historical moment right here.

I’m actually rooting for Canada because I’m completely against these trumpism activities.

Tariffs, sheesh, I learned that in grade school. Tariffs bad. I guess republicans are just lying to themselves to support this b.s. if the Congress people are afraid to get “ primaried” then they should resign now and save their dignity before that’s gone.

This is nuts.

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Who could possibly blame them? Who could possibly not have seen this coming? I certainly did. I was not at all surprised when I read the title on this post.

The Trump butthurt will be epic of course, but this is. All. His. Fault. (No, he won't see it that way, but we know better.)

Go, Canada!

Relationship will not be repaired, it will take a generation or more. We might get a deal on the tariffs for now but there is no trust for anymore long term deals.

from the campaign.

It would be easy enough given contemporary text analysis methods and certainly the NY Times has done this kind of work before and has the corpus of all Trump's campaign speeches and rally speeches.

So, what all did Trump say about Canada during the campaign?

“We don’t need them to make our cars, and they make a lot of them. We don’t need their lumber because we have our own forests. We don’t need their oil and gas. We have more than anybody.”

What's this WE shit?

Our Canadian friends have been invaluable through the years in helping with our fires. And we have helped them with theirs.

It will take generations to undo his damage, if we ever can

As they are often state to province agreements in times of need.

Bad the relationship damage is. We flip the house and senate in 26. Then in 28 take back the White House. How do we get other countries to fully trust us without sending the Cancer of the Confederacy (AKA MAGA) into deep remission? And how do we cure that cancer? No body will trust us for a very long time

The Canada/US relationship goes beyond, dare I say this, the bonds of a marriage deep as that marriage can seem. So often each of us has worn our hearts on our sleeve, pledged deep and unparalleled allegiance to defend one another to the bone, shared science, arts, our best people from both sides of the border, industry, agriculture and yes even literal marriage between our 2 countries, the same language, sort of 😊and while we are the same, we are both unique.

Recent events have created something I never thought I’d see, yes America always tried to play older brother to us and we Canadians smiled inward knowing that younger brothers often shine brighter. Younger brothers have been known to stand up to the older dominant brother, I think what we’re seeing now is younger brother is no longer acquiescing to older brother. Enough is enough.
My wife and I have travelled in the US countless times and while met with the occasional indifference our take on the average American citizen has left us with many fond memories. Our current beef isn’t with the regular citizen, trust me when I say this. But I will also say with absolute affirmation that the trust between us has been broken to the extent that I think even my young grandsons will be wary of you. This is not to bash “you the people” this is to bash the leaders “you the people” chose to elect. Now Canadians, Americans and the rest of the world have to live with it, and not just the remainder of 4 years but far beyond it.

I guess we no longer need NORAD, nuclear umbrella, etc. Putin should enjoy this.

our RETHUGLICON House, Senate courts. I've never hated our government more than today.

More in the near future. It is the ONLY thing they do well.

Hell, every American will pay the price when they go over seas. (ALL because of a SCUMBAG president)

as long as they don't try to pull any of that Johnny Somali crap or similar nonsense

I hope they don't think we're as completely insane as this Musk/Putin-installed president. If the missiles start flying, I hope they aim only for trump golf courses. I hope another good Dem president can win them back, along with the rest of the world.

Things can't continue like they have the past few months, on the international, or the home front. Somethings gotta give.

won't give us another chance.

I’m horrified at how much wanton casual damage we’ve done. And in the first two MONTHS of this new regime. TWO MONTHS!!!!!?!?!?!

And ALREADY the talk is about how some of this damage may NEVER be fully undone. NEVER. Not EVER!!!

Carney is one of two powerful and ethical leaders in North America who respect people and the rule of law. The other is President Sheinbaum of Mexico.

I'm only 20 minutes from the border. I've been there many times and I can honestly say that it is so true that Canadians are about the nicest people I've ever met.

Happily.

This is something that CAN’T be blamed on…Biden’s age, Hillary’s emails, Obama’s tan suit, etc…

Maybe Witkoff can bring the party favors. What a sad day for both the U.S. and Canada.

I've always liked Canada, and they have the absolute right to protect themselves!

Dunderhead Donnie throws
yet something else good onto the trashheap!!!

and unfortunately that is what they are expecting Canadians to do. We value ourselves more than that.

I was thinking of the close relationship we've had for ages with Canada. It's now dead.

In my mind, unless something drastic changes soon, the US as we once new it is dead. We've got a sitting Dem Senator from Mass, during photos at the end of a Framingham MA town hall reportedly making an offhand comment that secession might warrant further discussion. Never thought I'd live to see the day.

Five Eyes any longer.

n/t

I would like for Canada to annex us.

Robert
New Mexico

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rid us of trump already???????? ENOUGH!!!!!!

he will not have Vance in the room with them and not have press there at least for the first encounter. He is a very strategic thinker. Carney will know how to set up so Trump does not have the advantage like he did with Zelensky.

Sadly, Carney will have to come here. Orange fuckstick felon isn't allowed in Canada.

Take Lil' Marco, Pistol Pete and Mikey Waltz with you. And stay.

wing of the GOP will figure out a way to dump Trump.

I'd like that.

I know this is serious. It's the only thing sane countries can do.

It is a bombshell.

Because most of the rest of the world is going to do the same. - and that's something to really worry about.

The Canadians just ran out of fucks to give

how fucking bad do you have to be, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Sideways with knobs!

Weird, huh?

Nous nous battrons sur les Grands Lacs, nous nous battrons dans les érablières à sucre, nous nous battrons dans les stades de hockey et sur le monorail, nous nous battrons dans les sables bitumineux de l’Athabasca; nous ne nous rendrons jamais.


Oh wait (attendez)

We shall fight on the Great Lakes, we shall fight in the Sugar Maple Groves, we shall fight in the hockey stadiums and on the monorail, we shall fight in the Athabasca oil sands; we shall never surrender.

You and the uneducated white voters did this. So wear it proudly! You screwed the rest of the country and the world over.

FFS!!!

Canada was the best neighbor in the world. There is no justification for attacking a good neighbor.

Everything Trump touches dies.

The loss is completely to the US. The US is quickly becoming an international pariah.

every thing ,,, touches , it dies at the cost of one of our best friends

Canada should make the Alcan Highway a very, expensive toll road for foreigners like the US and for both their trucks and cars.

I love Canada.

I was tired of those nasty Canadians anyway. Let them eat moose, I always say.



Obviously I'm kidding........

Or is declaring war a formality so they can use their version of Alien Enemies Act?

désolée!

I do believe you will retake control of your country, but by then, Canada/U.S. relations will have permanently changed. We will have rearranged things inside our country, between provinces, and we will have developed markets in other areas of the world because we have no choice. And having made these changes, we won't/can't abandon them when the U.S. returns to normal. That wouldn't be fair to those countries with whom we establish those markets. Plus, our entangled relationship with the U.S., what used to be a combined strength for both countries, has been shown to be a vulnerability that Canada can never allow to exist again.

Trump is doing damage to the U.S. that will never be undone, and I feel so sorry for Americans who despise him even more deeply than we do ourselves.

We need all the help we can get in dealing with this schoolyard bully on steroids.

(not a gender thing, but in tRump 1.0 women expressed resistance as "persistence" and rightly so)

This has been a master stroke. What a bunch of dumbasses we have doing this in our name. God help us and I’m not religious.

What is it going to take to wake the GOP the f up.

And we’ve still face almost four full years of this. (Minus two months, that is.)

Boycott the hell out of this fucking place.

It seems we have no power to stop these evil theocratic fascists.

The entire government and military is infested with these sick fucks.

Folks, time to take a machete to your discretionary spending. Cut monthly expenses where u can.

We have to make this fucker the reincarnation of Herbert Hoover.

But nope, we had to give the fucking asshole another term he absolutely did nothing to deserve. Fuck.

Why should any country trust or rely on America? We have no coherent policy. Every 4 to 8 years everything can change now. This country is now dysfunctional, thanks to the Republican Party. We look more like the 4th Reich every day now.

Sure, the US is the 800 pound gorilla, but if all 30 100# gorillas in the G30 cave to Trump, it is game over and everyone loses.

Once we do, there will be a tremendous desire to find an even stronger basis to restore what was lost. Or that's what I hear from Canadians.

One that one guy, getting a minority of the vote, imposed by a foreign power, can't ruin.

Adding more words to the Constitution won't matter much if the words that are there can just be thrown away.

This is not a legal government. The 14th Amendment is explicit. These are insurrectionists, and they have no right to be in power.

Which means they are literally just a gang of criminals with no authority putting guns in people's faces, and doing it largely on behalf of a foreign power which has been fucking with us for generations.

It has been revealed that the so called "democracy" is not so much. An entire party has rolled over to an Oligarch and so far nobody had done anything to stop it. The republicans could have prevented this asshole from even running again and they chose not to. Their choices and the voters that support them have brought down the American experiment. Until that is changed and roadblocks put in place for it not to happen again, then there will be no trust. The world has now experienced what can happen and nobody wants to go through this again. Get a proper democracy that reflects the will of the people meaning change the system instead of allowing a minority rule which is what you have right now.

I believe we'll get things back and running without too huge a hassle eventually, regardless of all this shit, but it's obscene that it happened at all.

I'm skeptical that the Presidency is an office worth preserving, giving how much damage it has done in the last 60 years. It's also pretty clear we need a larger legislative and judicial base. One person representing hundreds of thousands is not democracy.