Canada

"I need to call a snap election so I have a clear mandate to fight back hard against American aggression."

and then, after the election:

"It's not aggression, really. They hit us because they love us. We shouldn't make them do that."

What matters is reaction after April 2, and so this posturing now may not matter, as long as a mission to win the trade war is adopted after "harsh US tariffs on April 2"

Winning the trade war is saving the Canadian auto industry, including ensuring Canadian auto production during the trade war. This can be done by making US energy and materials more expensive through export tariffs, and using export tariff revenue to subsidize materials and energy to Canadian/Ontario manufacturing. Pausing all military cooperation, and election interference/foreign policy propaganda, with US.

If resistance is just gaslighting, and Ford/Canada is willing to sacrifice auto industry, pivoting to China for better value cars, including FDI by China for charging infrastructure, or even better factories, must be a threat to US/auto industry to never sell another vehicle in Canada if they don't do the right thing.

Inflicting maximum pain on US economy, while helping Canadians, is only path to make trade war short, or affecting US midterms, if US depression is ignored.

I always hated Ford UNTIL he wanted to fight back. Now he's shown he's a big a pussy as Trump is.

Fuck Ford.

Lol, that was short lived. Just a reminder that PP will do the same, he will talk big before the election and then cave first chance he gets.

There's the Ford we know 🙄

This is the sort of thing that should be blasted on every Ontarian news channel. This is the guy that rural Ontarians voted for and said was doing a "good enough job".

People should know what the person they voted for is doing and how he's spending their tax money, because this entire trip was also paid for on our dime.

What the hell happened at that meeting where he’s gone from threatening to shut off electricity to “it’s a compliment” they want to annex us?

Fuck off, we already tried giving them what they want, they changed it.

DoFo proving once again that he doesn't give one rat's ass about Ontarians, only about enriching the already wealthy and sucking Republican dick.

From a spineless coward to a traitor huh?

Not really a surprise, but still quite disappointing. We should be strengthening our stance, not folding like a wet towel. The fact that he's adding fabric softener and ironing in the meantime is is just plain pathetic.

A tiger can't change its stripes. Too bad Ontarians forgot that during their last election.

Face-eating leopards and tigers are running rampant there now and I have little sympathy left for ON.

And all the courage is gone. I liked him much better as a fighter.

Nutlick. It’s pronounced nutlick and that’s exactly what Fords doing.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal

"No one else was in the room where it happens."

American here.

You have my consent to fight my government.