Canada should demand that US allow free market prices for Canadian products with no preferential treatment.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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Said it ages ago they fucked the status quo
So if Canada wants to invalidate DMCA reduce copright laws to 5 years. It's Canada's prerogative. There a wind of change blowing and its not looking smart to stayed tied to the anchor that's the USA
For all the US bitches about piracy costing the industry and jobs, they sure do a fucking terrible job about policing stuff like counterfeits that can be tied to real numbers of economic harm (because people that buy those were actually willing to spend money). eBay is rife with counterfeit media sales and Amazon ain't great either. I've never tried third party sellers from others but I'd bet that Walmart, Bestbuy, and others have a share as well given the ones I see selling "new" items that haven't actually been produced in a decade.
I was under the impression that creative works were one of the areas Canada punches above its weight with the US. Music in particular.
Canada lists demands to US:
- Fuck Off.
- Eat shit.
- Die
There is no trade to negotiate. No concessions to give. Bad faith negotiators, no court, no congress, no honour or integrity. No trust. There is nothing to discuss. No "deal" will be honored. No concession will ever be enough. Each "give" will only further our dependence on those who want to annex us, and will only be met with more and more demmands for concessions.
Fuck CUSMA. I don't want to buy from or sell to fascists. Let's do our own thing and trade with real partners.
Out of curiosity, are Canadians not on Lemmy generally about that hostile to the US these days?
It’s a bit confusing looking from the outside in. It seems like there’s a lot of grassroots resentment, but on the other hand, there are some weird (conservative?) groups that seem pretty Trumpy.
It's a spectrum like everywhere on any topic. We have our maple maga to contend with and our conservatives in general are trying to privatize Canadian healthcare to support annexation.
I'm guessing the hostile types are 30% of Canadians. 10% Maple Maga, and the balance something milder and milquetoast.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but the people who have enough money to travel to the States, but not so much money that they wouldn't travel elsewhere are doing a lot less traveling to the States. That segment of the population has been very vocal with their travel dollars that they don't approve of the political stance or America right now. No, they probably aren't a majority, but they aren't insignificant, either, and they are making their opinions heard in a very clear manner. Likewise store purchases. I don't buy Tostitos/Lays anymore. I barely buy Pringles. My go-to for chips is Old Dutch (which has an American parent company but is produced in Canada with at least partly Canadian ingredients) or other Canadian brands. Enough people are doing it that it's impacting display decisions at grocers (some of which is to basically lie to us and make us think things are more Canadian than they really are). Both of those are signs that it's more than just some angry minority being vocal, there is a quiet segment of the population that simply puts in varying amounts of effort to not send money to America.
Nobody likes fascists bro
Nope. Kill the deal. Shut off the lights.
That boycott just got 10 decades longer...
Lifetime for me.
Reason 2432 why I’m not a politician:
My response would be “No! Fuck off!” And that’s it.
I'd vote for you
Honestly, the world needs more of that
In this situation that would be the correct response.
TLDR Dairy, tech regulation, media ownership control regulation, electricity and alcohol regulation.
As your American neighbor, elbows up Canada.
How about just CMA? It'll take the US decades to recover from the damage done in less than a year.
So, essentially, Canada must compliantly be a US-state-without-state-rights, systematically erasing our cultural & economic sovereignty, in order to be acceptable to the US's Trump-regime..
Carney's the financial intelligence we need, but he's been too compliant with the US, from what the world's remnant-of-journalism has been saying..
Is Oscar the Grouch .. has he got any older & tougher relatives, whom we could hire, to be the "bad cop" half of a Carney+him duo?
Canada needs a grouch.
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No. Fuck off.
For the most part it's a list of 'why do you pick yours over ours'.. same reason any country does...