You're in America! Speak English!

What Washington demanded from Canada.

AT THE TABLE
▪ Abandonment of discoverability policies for French-language works;
▪ Modification of cultural subsidies;
▪ Relaxation of French labeling rules;
▪ Withdrawal of all Canadian counter-tariffs;
▪ Return of American alcohol to provincial liquor stores;
▪ End of Canadian procurement policies (Ontario, Quebec, and B.C. specifically targeted);
▪ American interpretation of dairy quota allocations;
▪ Steel: quota of 4M tons, 25% internal, 50% beyond, counter-tariffs withdrawn;
▪ Auto: limited relief to passenger cars, vans and heavy trucks excluded;
▪ Restriction of Canada's ability to conclude other trade agreements.

IN THE USTR REPORT (March 31, 2026)
▪ Quebec's Bill 109, on the promotion of francophone content;
▪ Bill 96, in effect since 2025;
▪ Online Streaming Act, Online News Act;
▪ Supply management, cheese composition, Class 7 milk;
▪ Seeds Act, zero plastic waste strategy.

REPORTED BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL (August 14)
▪ Right of first refusal on critical minerals;
▪ Full purchase of the 88 F-35s, i.e., 88B$;
▪ American radar planes and membership in the Golden Dome;
▪ Guarantee on oil and gas exports.

WHAT OTTAWA HAD ALREADY CONCEDED, WITHOUT RECIPROCATION
▪ Digital services tax, abandoned in June 2025;
▪ Counter-tariffs, largely withdrawn on September 1, 2025;
▪ Netflix tax: contribution raised from 5% to 15%, then canceled. 2B$ in Canadian content funding evaporated, replaced by 600M$ from taxpayers.

It merely rhymes

 Welly wrote:

Buying lottery tickets... We're retired so we won't fill any job openings. Lower Ontario near Michigan would be ideal; just a few hours from Chicagoland.

Any Americans planning to immigrate to Canada? 
If you work in health care & related fields  the doors have been flung wide for you, and a grassroots movement (we're really good at these) to help you find a job and a place to settle is now live across our country
https://engageq.notion.site/in...

Woodchipper (despite having a Dutch name)

Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence

"If he wants compensation for the wildfire smoke, he should go after the oil and gas giants responsible."

 SeriousLee wrote:

definitely part of the process, but I've been hearing (over the past 20 years) it has been exasperated in (at least in the US) because over the past 100 years we did too good of a job managing forest fires, and the amount of fuel from dead timber as a result of beetle damage. Policy on the former has shifted to preventive thinning of forests, at least in proximity to property/homes/businesses. 

Perhaps you could also argue climate change has resulted in more drought and heavier winds...I don't know. 

(FB link)

Some forests need fires to regenerate? Interesting.

 SeriousLee wrote:

+1

 GeneP59 wrote:

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Just remember we do try to find jobs for the mentally handicapped. Unfortunately we placed him in an overqualified position 

 SeriousLee wrote:

Yeah, he's a complete national embarassment.

 SeriousLee wrote:

Just about sums it up. Add hiding US Embassy staff from the fucking Iranians and smuggling them out. The bloody Iranians who he is now fighting.

 SeriousLee wrote:

My apologies. As strange as this sounds, he does not speak for most Americans. Unfortunately, he has power, is intoxicated by it, and is morally bankrupt.

 R_P wrote:

Indeed