About every country forced to hoard USD for business purposes subsidises the US.

That’s correct. I want an immediate end to Canada selling discounted oil, gas and hydroelectricity to the US.

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Because Trump is a troll. He doesn't give a shit if what he says or does is correct. Trying to make sense of the schmuck gives me a headache.

He is incapable of understanding mutual trade and cooperation. To him every human interaction must have a winner and a loser. So if Canada is benefiting from trade with the US in his mind it must be at America's expense. It's a disturbingly simple view of trade and cooperation, and one that makes actual good faith discourse with the US near impossible.

He doesn't understand what "trade deficit" means.

He keeps referring to the disproportionate US export income to import costs. Something like 2 trillion in exports to 3 trillion in imports. 1 trillion lost from the US every year, and ~30% to Canada that's his math

Yes, indeed. If you check out Poilievre's platform, he almost entirely mimics Trump's, right down to promoting Canada's own version of DOGE. That's why there was such a huge turnout at the voting booths. The writing was on the wall with that guy and becoming American was not what the majority of us wanted.

Well Poilievre, who's party lost tonight, has been extremely limp-wristed in his opposition to Trump's threats, but he hasn't outright said he'd surrender, just implied it with his weak rhetoric. More likely to me is that Trump in his dementia ridden mind was literally calling for people to vote for him. Like somehow enough Canadians would write Trump on their ballots that it would "win" the election for him, which demonstrates such a fundamental lack of understanding about our electoral system that I don't even know where to begin.