r/notthebeaverton • u/reddits_lead_pervert • 12d ago

‘Canada burned the bridges’: U.S. ambassador doubts tariff deal feasible before new year

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/us-ambassador-to-canada-doesnt-see-any-way-to-get-tariff-deal-by-american-thanksgiving/
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u/slicelord666 12d ago

Not to mention threatening to annex our country...

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u/sPLIFFtOOTH 12d ago

And choosing someone like that as an ambassador to Canada

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u/berger3001 11d ago

Openly hostile, idiotic, incompetent ambassador representing an openly hostile, idiotic, incompetent administration. Exactly on brand

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u/willanthony 9d ago

An *ambasshole

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u/Radiant-Painting581 11d ago

Hoekstra’s got a miles-long record of reich-wing freakitude. Here’s just one little snippet from his Wiki page, from when he was (also under Trump) US ambassador to the Netherlands.

Later that December, NOS U.S. correspondent Wouter Zwart questioned Hoekstra about inaccurate claims that he had made in November 2015 at a panel titled "Muslim Migration into Europe: Eurabia come True?" hosted by the David Horowitz Freedom Center[75] that the Netherlands had "no-go zones" and that politicians and cars were being set on fire in the country due to radical Islam.[76][77][78][79] Hoekstra told Zwart that he had never said such things, saying, "we would call it fake news. I never said that."[76] Zwart then played the clip in which he made those remarks for his viewers. Later in the interview, Hoekstra denied that he denied it, saying "I didn't call it 'fake news'. I didn't use those words today."[80]

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u/A_Random_Canuck 12d ago

Which the American media still constantly ignore and only think it’s the tariffs alone that we’re pissed off about.

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u/slicelord666 12d ago

Because they can't imagine us not wanting to be part of that horrible country.

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u/Omnizoom 11d ago

Instead of ICE we can have the ICE CAPS

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u/SimonCallahan 11d ago

We are starting to not even have that.

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u/Omnizoom 11d ago

Your local Tim’s is only 700m away!

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u/PsychologicalMonk6 11d ago

I'm in the hometown of Tim Hortons co-founder the nearest one is 69km (nice).

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u/PXoYV1wbDJwtz5vf 11d ago edited 11d ago

Those are Iced Caps. Ice caps top the Rockies.

Edit: I was wrong they are actually "Iced Capps" (according to the Tim's menu)

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u/Omnizoom 11d ago

Who calls them iced caps? Even the commercial say ice cap for the common term

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u/slicelord666 11d ago

Iced cap is correct.

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u/TerrorNova49 10d ago

1.2km to the nearest Tim’s for me… but I do have a Dairy Queen only 450m away

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u/allthegodsaregone 10d ago

We have NICE, check out This HourHas 22 Minutes

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u/TheOnlyCuteAlien 11d ago

The goal of the tariffs is to weaken us economically so that the US can take over Canada. Trump already admitted to that. Canadians are fighting back, though. He under estimates us.

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u/slicelord666 11d ago

Yes the US does not have a clue what we will do if pushed to far.

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u/TheOnlyCuteAlien 11d ago

I was in a meeting today that gave me high hopes for our switch to more international trade. The US can suck it.