i don't have any particular attachment to the digital services tax, but i do support the broader premise of taxing income/profits as preferable to taxing consumption, and i'm extremely put off by canada's decision to cave to that kind of tactic. you don't negotiate with a carnivorous animal, and it's stupid and naive to think you can. carney has continuously broadcast the flawed premise that the americans are a rational actor. they aren't.

all we've done is tell trump that he can push us around and get what he wants. he'll do it again, because it worked.

we should have, instead, told them that we will not return to negotiations until they lift duties on softwood lumber.