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Larry Kudlow says milk is what's holding up canada us talk...https://youtu.be/gAYBm8eB2as

Why don't you just buy american, you're 90 percent there....

Wut? We just want free trade man. If Canada want to push it's progressive agenda then become a hegemon and do so. Don't expect the world's most powerful nation on planet earth to bend over backward for a inconsequential trade deal. Might I remind you that we're taking on China and Europe as well. That's how insignificant the rest of the world is to us. Canada is just another minnow in America's pond.

Because America needed the rest of the world when it does something it wants? Last I checked, we did what ever we wanted, been doing that for 70 years. Don't see it changing anytime soon. Never needed Canada's or Europe's permission or anyone else who thinks they're important. Its actually the other way around. If Europe or Canada wanted to do something they often have to ask US. Don't forget who is the real shot caller of the world. Ps you caught me, I am a disgruntled middle aged neo-con white man who sits around waiting for a tinder update.

Oh please! Save me the ethics lesson in a business transaction. Money goes to the best deal regardless of sentiment. China is currying up favor in a bid to access more markets not "friendship". Russia's future depends on its European neighbors and vice versa. They're always seeking closer ties despite US objection. Canada is just the same. They're only as loyal as their wallet can allow. Let America pay for global security, let america give us unfettered access to world's best market, raise Europe and china out of poverty, lets keep taking advantage of America's good will. America is done giving, its time the rest of the world pitch in. Trump woke America up to this none-sense previous leaders avoided.

Free-market will adjust itself to the Canadian pesos. Fact of the matter is this, Canada needs the US.

OR you could just agree to the terms as laid out by Trump and save your self the hassle. Canada has no real trading partner other than the US. There are no major market for Canadian products other than the US. Think about it, if there were markets for Canadian goods elsewhere, those market would have already establish itself. Government intervention be damn.

I think you're letting your trump derangement syndrome get the best of you. Look its freetrade for everything or nothing at all. That's the only way to ensure nobody has any advantage over the other. He offered that during the G7 meeting.

They lost their journalistic integrity when they decided partisanship in journalism was the goal. I remember when CNN and MSNBC maintained a level of impartiality. Similar to CNBC. Now they're just fake news. If they're going to do a story with that much hyperbole then put it as OP-Ed, that's fair game. Don't tell me it's news when you vomit your partisanship all over "news".

"Trump told Bloomberg that eliminating tariffs on U.S. car imports would do little to help the U.S. car industry, as European consumers would still not buy American cars. “Their habits, their consumer habits are to buy their cars, not to buy our cars," he said." So this is the heart of it, even if you do free trade for one product it only benefits the EU. It has to be all or nothing on free trade. If the US give the EU free trade on cars then we loose leverage from them to negotiate other tariff down. Its free trade or back to tariff . Nothing wrong with that. As for Canada, you have nothing to leverage us with so you might as well go full free trade.

Goodluck with your economy then

Fake news not related to Nafta

I'll wear that as a badge of honor

Great now you can elect a new leader or your self to do that in 2019

So why don't you put that remaining 1 percent into the 99 percent and make it 199% free trade?

Not according to current trade progress by the EU and mexico, if anything its indicative of the trade cheat like China and Canada

No, as I have said. The offer was made. It is Canada and the rest of the world who rejected it. If freetrade was nothing but a dream it was not America that crushed it. It was Canada and the rest of the world that destroyed hope.

Zero tariffs would mean Canada gets absorbed into the US economy... Even if congress denied it, would that not shift the ball to the american side and prove Canada's point. why leave that ball in the Canadian side, worse way to conduct negotiation, if you want to prove us wrong then take the offer first!

So the fact that trump offered free-trade defined by zero tariff, zero non tariff barriers, zero subsidies make no never mind to you? If some "drooling imbecile" offered me such a great deal I'd take it. Whose the idiot, the person denying such a great offer or the person offering said offer? Tariff was a way to encourage other countries to take the carrot and not the stick. If Canada want the stick then that's Canada's prerogative.

Hurting other american i er mean canadian interest is un-canadian. So you sir are the "fake canadian".

No what it comes down to is does Canada want to do free trade or continue on with protectionist trade. If protectionist trade is Canada's long term goal then a trade deal with the world's largest freemarket economy will not be possible.

The voice of doom i er mean wilbur ross on trade with Canada. ds

eye surgery is unregulated. so in that particular case it is part of the free market system. My point and yours was the due to in elasticity of demand, free market condition would encourage price gouging. The reality however is we have a mixed healthcare system of free market on certain care and socialized on other such as emergency care.

I find the resentment of America's enormous influence over Canada quite amusing. Why resist ? Does it make you "feel" better that anti-america sentiment is part of Canada's cultural heritage?

What? Last I checked, congress would still need executive power to enact any international treaty. Congress can't negotiate or start treaties only ratify/adopt. Or are you suggesting to wait trump out and let NAFTA along with the Canadian economy collapse. "[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur..."