i will reiterate that it is entirely plausible that trump wanted the charade and there is an agreed upon predetermined outcome that will be very bad for canada and very bad for a lot of american workers.
i may support a non-confidence vote if the response is frightening. it seems less likely the more i hear him talk. more likely is that i am going to end up critiquing a response abstractly, and stepping away from it, as it doesn't affect me directly.
but, regardless, i think doug ford deserves the bulk of the blame for this and should be the one to take the fall politically. this is mostly his fault, and he's continuing to talk about blocking energy instead of taxing it.
the economic consequences to canada in terms of lost revenue would be extremely substantive should canada block oil or electricity. that would be massively stupid, but ford is a retard. can somebody do the math on the difference in revenue between blocking american alcohol in ontario and taxing it at 100%? ontario has likely walked away from millions of dollars in revenue, while biting at the elephant's heels like an annoying chihuahua in a show of intended defiance, for sport. that is stupid! conversely, we could take advantage of this by hiking prices and profiting from it, which would be a smart response. we could do this with export taxes.
i think that western canada should be seeking to abolish what is called the western select discount. alberta oil should be more expensive than texas oil, after this.