The government is.

I know some mandarin in Ottawa is saying "The US will use this as an excuse to target us." Like they didn't just make up Fentanyl at the border. Bullies need no excuses.

Trudeau would never address that the trucker "protest" was US led sedition, coordinated with Poilievre. For fuck sakes, the head of the PC party last year was an American citizen. Canadian media just ignores this.

It's kind of odd, until you realise how dependent most western nations are on US Services. The trade disputes currently going on between Canada and the States, are always framed based on "goods" trade -- and exempt "services" trade from consideration. That's because, in part, if services were included, the trade imbalance would be massively in the USA's favour, which doesn't fit Trump's gongshow narrative about Canada taking advantage of the USA.

I bring up the services trade, because almost every Canadian government agency runs on Microsoft. A huge number of government agencies are even in Microsoft or other US Cloud providers - including things like our banking regulators, and banks themselves. Even our ATMs run on Windows, as per Payments Canada's decree. Canada's privacy law is archaic, still focusing on "data residency", not on data sovereignty -- meaning that to comply with our privacy laws, all the US cloud giants need to do is store a copy of the data in Canada. They can look at, analyse, extract, misuse, copy/exfiltrate, that data all they want, and still be fine, generally, by Canada's laws. They can store that data in a way that you can't use it without them/their proprietary tools. Even better, almost all service agreements say they'll settle any disputes in AMERICAN courts, based on where the service provider is head quartered.

So what happens if they cut/blockade those services suddenly, on a tweet from Trump? There's an old saying "Don't bite the hand that feeds you" -- which is typically used to describe showing appropriate gratitude for assistance. But in this instance, the hand that feeds you has made it so that there are no other sources of food, and it's started beating you in between feedings. So you gotta try to relearn how to feed yourself, while putting up with shit for a while. If you bite the hand immediately after the first beating, you'd starve since your old self-sustaining skills have atrophied.

Funny, all that world analysis by seasoned veterans of politics disagreeing with you…

The government is bullshit and their whole stand up to America is BS. sure don't say 51 st state but we well gladly selling the country piece by piece. Then the whole calling palentier a Canadian company.

So in essence they are saying. Please continue. Also here is some free publicity but we cant have the orange guy think we are working to defend against him or he‘ll throw another fit even earlier.