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Mark Laventure retweeted
If he keeps saying things like that, it will become impossible for Canadians to pay for their own drinks in any bar in the democratic world.
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. ambassador warns Canada could shoulder blame if midterms go against Trump ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tari…
Mark Laventure retweeted
I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.
I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.
And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.
Mark Laventure retweeted
The craze for Canada at the moment is outmatching the Beatles mania of the 60s. Amazing 🇨🇦
Hellen Miren, in French at TIFF
Mark Laventure retweeted
JUST LIKE THAT!!
A cross-border completion from @FitzMagic_14 ➡️ @StevieJohnson13
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Something you don’t see every day.
“O Canada” gets a standing ovation from a packed stadium in Buffalo.
Thousands of Americans on their feet for the Canadian anthem.
🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸
Sometimes the relationship between Canadians and Americans looks a lot different on the ground than it does online.
Mark Laventure retweeted
Former Canada Prime Minister Jean Chrétien: "I have message for American friends...never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness...We bow to no one."
Mark Laventure retweeted
Let us set this straight “Canada is Missouri's largest international export market, accounting for $5.8 billion in goods shipped annually (about 31% of the state's total goods exports)” so seems you’ve been enjoying the fruits of our trade relationship for a long time.
So let me get this straight. Canada’s been actively discriminating against American producers for years, and rather than working with @POTUS to establish fair and free trade between Canada and the United States, their solution is to further discriminate against American workers and businesses?
Canada should come to the table, negotiate with the United States, and strike a deal that treats Americans fairly rather than joining China in retaliating against the U.S.
President Trump is right to use all available tools to pressure Canada to end its discrimination against U.S. products.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
USMCA (negotiated by Trump) provides duty-free treatment for most qualifying US-Canada trade. Canada's recent tariffs respond to US 50% tariffs on Canadian goods after bilateral talks collapsed; disputes involve dairy, alcohol and autos under ongoing USMCA review.
congress.gov/crs-product/IF…
canada.ca/en/department-…
Mark Laventure retweeted
Jean Chrétien: "It looks like they don't know what to do. When your big thing is to change the name of a lake, it's because you're running out of arguments. It is a very weak gesture, to be cheap and nasty. Lake Ontario is not suffering. It's a lake."
Mark Laventure retweeted
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
Mark Laventure retweeted
He is the laughing stock of the world. Sad…
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Wab Kinew reacts to Donald Trump renaming Lake Ontario: "You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago? I think that's the part of Donald Trump's presidency we're at now."
Mark Laventure retweeted
The Canada goose in the image the White House just posted actually ended up beating the eagle pictured—which makes me sad, because I like to see eagles occasionally get wins—so here, in the interest of hot-blooded American patriotism, is an eagle effortlessly defeating a chicken
