Andrew Coyne
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first heard Apr 2026
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Well, it's odd how the positions have uh turned around.
It w used to be the Americans were expressing frustration 'cause we were dragging our heels.
Uh and we were trying to play for time, uh, you know, just to watch Trump grow weaker, to wait until after the midterms or what have you.
Um, why this sudden turnaround where now we want to get a deal by August the nineteenth?
I mean, I understand the exact point about the tariffs.
Um, but it the the the overarching question
you know, surrounding all of these talks is what is the point of a deal with Donald Trump?
This is a lesson that every country has been learning.
uh to its cost.
One of the things that had distinguished the Canadian approach until now is that we didn't rush into a deal.
We've watched other countries that did uh and got nothing for it.
They they signed a deal on extortionary terms, and then even those extortionary terms were ignored.
Uh so the Europeans, for example, you know, made all kinds of concessions in return for a tariff of merely twenty-five percent, uh, only to see Trump impose new tariffs on them after that, after the deal had been struck.
So uh I know it's an obvious point, but it's nevertheless a compelling and and and point that has not gone away is
What is the point of making concessions?
What is the point of signing a deal?
with this president when every experience tells us nothing of it will be binding, he will not live up to the terms on his side, uh he will not make any serious concessions to begin with, uh but he will graciously accept our concessions and then turn around and and and hit us again anyway.
Um so on top of which we're now seeing reports that the Canadian government, which had previously been vowing elbows up, no concessions, etcetera, is prepared to make quite a string of concessions.
Now
I have to be careful here.
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