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Doug Ford did his usual bull-in-china-shop moves, totally inferior at strategy and tactics in dealing with irrational, unhinged personalities.
You'd think he'd understand the triggering of knee-jerk reactions given his and his families history/behaviour, but inherent in such personalities is an inability to learn from experience nor think more than one step in advance.
He's just blundering and breaking things.
I'd still posit that there are no winning tactics in the zero-sum game of trade deals with thin-skinned authoritarians.
The strategy is to stall and drag our feet on minutiae while developing other markets.
If the world adjusts trade to exclude the US we're all fine. "Oh you have a tariff on our products? Fine - we don't have any capacity to ship to you currently, but if we do someday, go ahead and tax your citizens when they buy it."
Make their tariffs their problem, not ours.
A last point – we've learned that we need not impose counter-tariffs to retaliate. While 'trade deals' may dictate financial rules for US imports, they don't dictate that consumers have to buy those goods.
So sure, maybe US vendors can coerce a right to sell into Canada without tariffs, but if consumers choose to buy something else instead, it's a flat win.
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