NDP Leader Singh Open to Bilateral Trade Deal With Trump
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ndp-leader-singh-open-to-bilateral-trade...
"Asked specifically, if he would be ok if Trump ripped up NAFTA and turned to Canada to work out something between the two countries, Singh said 'absolutely.'
I think this is stupid.
First appeasement does not work with Trump.
Second Trump cannot be beaten or matched by Canada.
He can be beaten by significant and united global pressure by multiple countries on the US political divisions that already exist.
I think Singh might be in over his head. Most people understand that the only way to hold back this bully is to stand as close together as possible for now. Canada should save its concerns about Mexico for a later process of the negotiating table. Back stabbing one trade partner in order to appease a former trade partner who cannot be appeased does not sound like a good plan.
Canada needs as many non-US trade partners as possible to deal with the gap created by a potential trade war with the US. It should not let itself be isolated from the other countries that are also trying to deal with this. Canada also has the shitty optics of being seen like a US appendage by much of the world. There is nothing but loss that can come of seperating this country from the other countries presently being screwed over by the US.