He shot his mouth off, Canada did some stuff (mostly in the fall fiscal update), he looked tough for his base, but relented at the 11th hour.
That last minute save means Trump doesn't have to deal with the sustained economic impact of tariffs. He got to stir the pot and see how much he can get away with.
Coincidentally, Mexico got the exact same deal. We're gonna go through the same song and dance next month.
But it's a good wakeup call for US allies: it's time to start looking for other markets and building trade deals with less volatile partners.
As much as I'd like to believe it's a conspiracy, news organizations make money from clicks. There isn't much for them to monetize between now and February 21, so they're focusing on more immediate stuff.
If they can get good photos and text from the next court date, Luigi will get more coverage.
Edit: there have been like five plane crashes, one US inauguration, and major US wildfires since his last court date.
Solutions don't need to be easy or bite sized, but they do need to be explained in a way that people want to read.
Burying them in dense text is one step away from putting them on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard."
Robert Paulson became a martyr - that's how he achieved a mythic status.
Luigi lived, and his relevance had increased because of that. If he'd died in a hail of bullets, the whole CEO killin and healthcare thing would have disappeared. His court case is (probably) going to keep bringing the injustice of US healthcare into the media.
Burying a call to action in dense text is such a pain in the butt. I'm generally interested, but considering how many of these go nowhere, it doesn't seem worth the effort.
We allow the jailbreakers to distribute their hacks and even sell them.
I understand that. The target market for those jailbreaks is outside Canada, so distribution of our product would be limited by foreign laws. Foreign buyers would be dissuaded by stuff like the DMCA.
It works for Canadians, but it wouldn't really affect anyone outside Canada. Given the size of our market, it would have a minimal effect on the sellers of locked products.
even if it’s just for John Deer farm equipment it’s a huge boon to consumers.
Canadian farmers who aren't part of supply management schemes are in rough shape. As much as it might help them, they aren't a large market, and (if John Deer cares) the sellers will probably use other monopolistic practices to discourage it.
Sure, Apple and Google will try to make this impossible...
Android app builders regularly complain that their apps are heavily pirated by alternate app stores in China. As far as I can tell, that hasn't really changed Google policy. If Google is willing to ignore an app market the size of China, I don't think there will be any real effect from Canada doing the same.
I like the idea behind the proposal, but unless it hurts US corporations, it seems like a small tweak to help Canadian consumers, rather than meaningful retaliation in a trade war.