It's sometimes pretty clear who want as a "friend"

[Rareearth]

Maybe the principles of aid for foreign countries will change?

It used to be countries would provide surplus in their country as aid to foreign countries, now the policy is to send cash to those countries so they can buy closer, and at a lower cost, etc. Let those low cost producers produce.

[RTK]

Why should Trump allow companies to export much needed supplies from the country he leads. Would it not make more sense for our leader to pick up the phone and discuss a solution with the Trump and make a deal... like we will ramp up shipping of required supplies to 3M to get more output if you can help us with mask supplies. Or can you have 3M send an engineer here to help us retool to produce additional masks here... but I struggle with the fact that we can not rapidly produce masks here without outside help.

No 🌚 faces solution is to deal with this issue in a public address... for nothing but political posturing.

I was disappointed with Doug Fords comments but I can give him some slack because he would not have a direct approach option and to me he is operating in the moment not holed up in a cottage...

You offer Trump a viable solution and he will take it... try and corner him or discredit him and all bets are off. America first - nothing wrong with that; never played a sports game where winning wasn’t the goal.

[oneoff]

It's probably best to give up on people who don't grasp what fair trade entails.
And it defies rationality for the US president to now default back to his position of two weeks ago about getting businesses back to normal at this instant.
Delusional of course. Irresponsible to extreme. Where is the rationality.

This won't end well

[FarmJunkie]

Don’t blame Trump for taking care of his own wish our RETARD leader would do the same. Also don’t blame Ford for his disappointment in Trump. Honestly doesn’t surprise me Trump would shit on us just like he has to so many others but wish he would consider our society similar to there’s. This is a true wake up call to all our politicians to start the made in Canada again instead of relying on others for our needs. We as citizens also need to be able to take care of ourselves and not rely so much on government.

[Stampsguy]

I bet dollars to donuts that had Harper or Mulroney or even Cretian been in office now Trump would have taken a different stance. How do you support a prick that back stabs you and makes disparaging remarks about you the moment you turn your back, as was witnessed at G20 conferences etc.

[mustardman]

I don't get the outrage with Trump. How can he send supplies out of country when his own people in desperate need.

Why can't a country of 33 million people that is rich in resources get organized enough to make face masks?

The Material the masks are made From Comes from Harmac Pulp Mill in Nanaimo B.C

Maybe we should threaten to block the Export on the donald

[sumdumguy]

Trudeau thinks he can do whatever he wants and has no regard at all for our neighbour, then he thinks this neighbour is going to put us first, even before his own. Really, get real! You get what you give.we are all paying the price for his flagrant foreign relations with China, India, US.

[6V53]

Seems to me he mentioned having 12 televisions on his plane. Maybe he watches CBC news. Some people just can't get over Hillary loosing.

[oneoff]

Here's what I see. A "shithole" country with a 360M population out of a world population of some 7.7 billion.

290,000 positive cases out of now more than 1.2 M worldwide. You do the percentages to see how badly mismanaged this contagion has been in the USA

In what is claimed to have the best health care system, the strongest economy, the best intelligence system, the most advanced and creative networks and workers, and they get caught pants down with actual grave danger of their health care on verge of collapsing through lack of preparedness, ignoring medical experts warnings and not enough essential medical supplies.

So the US boss steals or commandeers another countries orders and makes unilateral expropriation that wouldn't have even existed except for a country such as Canada who has always relied on that PRIMARY 3M supplier. OUR BAD!!!!
Now I'd stand behind what Doug Ford said today. And for those who think it alright for president trump to steal from little Canada I'd suggest a way to get 1000 more Canadian nurses tomorrow morning and the apologizing to the Chinese for detaining a cell phone person on behalf of the US and shutting off pulp and softwood lumber and lifting up every available right hand middle finger. That would be a small start to show we do have a spine.

We do have to guage the number of collaborators from within etc.

[6V53]

I've got a box of 3M masks that says made in England and CBC gives Trump the finger daily. Canada burnt 56 million dollars worth of slightly out of date masks and and gave 16 tons to China. Liberals probably ordering refurbished Ones as we speak.