Amidst the talk of annexing Canada, the premiers marched to Washington to meet with White House officials. Afterwards,. James Blair, Trump's deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs, had this to say:
Blair posted on social media that his meeting with the premiers was "pleasant" but also said he "never agreed that Canada would not be the 51st state."
"We only agreed to share Premier Eby's comments," Blair wrote.
How about either or both of these as an answer to Mr. Trump and his acolytes?
H/t Moudakis
Or, put another way:
Is that a big Turkey at the front?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely the biggest ever, Rural. To borrow the Orange Ogre's phrasing, "No one's ever seen anything like it!"
DeletePer person every Canadian man,woman and child buys 7 1/2 times as much "American" as every American man, woman and child buys 'Canadian". About $15,000 to $2000 per year. Please tell President El(T)on rump.
ReplyDeleteSadly, lungta, they seem beyond the world of facts these days.
DeleteShocking statistics, lungta. I never thought of it like that. There's more to it. Most Canadians frequently think they are buying Japanese or Mexican or German, etc. when they are actually buying through a US distributor and paying extra for the privilege. Also, there are the "branch plant" multinationals, foreign companies with a Canadian subsidiary.
DeleteAs we navigate the grocery aisles, Toby, we are finding that buying Canadian is not as cut and dried as one might like. On the other hand, at least we can shun as much as possible things that are unequivocally American in origin.
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