Die USA betrachten Kanadas Cloud-Computing-Schritt als handelsschädigend

Next up: „U.S. identifies Canada’s existence as a trade irritant.“

Anything they find an irritant is a sign that we we are doing in working and should push it further.

The idea that there’s still some mythical deal to be made is so hilarious. It’s just going to be this, over and over.

Republicans aren’t a rational actor here.

Fuck these assholes.

They want all that private info to go to their companies where they have backdoors to it all.

If you have stuff on US services like Dropbox, Google one or whatever it’s called etc. consider backing up and/or deleting it.

Jimmy crack corn, and I don’t care

Canada targets Authoritarian Pedophiles as an irritant.

The US doesn’t want to trade on friendly terms. They want to trade with the condition that they are set up to win.

Canada was doing perfectly fine as a country before it signed the free trade agreement in the 80s. It will be fine again if it dares to build up its own industries. It will not be fine, however, if it is set up to „pay rent“ to American companies for everyday things like storing data online (Drive, Dropbox, etc), taking taxi (Uber, Lift), watching videos online (Netflix, YouTube, etc), making a purchase (Visa, Mastercard), etc.

Canada can’t do everything on its own, but many of these things are within the reach of our abilities.

So, let’s see. Booze is *supposed* to be an irritant.

Other stuff like the data centres and „Buy Canadian“ – sure, but let’s get rid of American data sovereignty and Buy American laws at the same time, make it bilateral and maybe we have a deal. Oh, wait, you don’t want to do that? I wonder why that might be.

It sounds like they think we shoudl be honoured to be screwed over by them. Canada is only to be a dumping ground of American product,s and will not be permitted any competitive advantages of its own. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Yes, they seem to be currently irritated by the fact we’re not visiting them and spending money in their country as well. They don’t need anything from us, but they want us to sell them everything that they do need from us at a discount. They’re also irritated that we’re not buying more of their crap, it’s OK for them to tariff Canadian goods but we better keep buying US made goods.

Yeah yeah.

More tariffs.
More threats of annexation.

Heard it before and I’m sure we’ll continue hearing it while the whinest bitch baby who ever existed continues to lead the USA into a bottomless pit of despair.

They want our data without restrictions

I’m surprised they haven’t threatened access to US software and cloud services for leverage yet (at least publicly). Better to get ahead of it like France.