Appeasement would be things like worrying about the US's reaction and increasing reliance on them. Or doing stupid things like assisting Trump with his little Middle East hissyfit when he keeps asking.

Instead we're making deals with China, America's biggest enemy, and we're deeply increasing ties with the EU, to the point that EU leaders are joking about membership.

Unfortunately, we do have deep ties to the US, that we've built over centuries, deliberately suiciding that relationship would be economically catastrophic, and I have to say I'm really happy with how quickly we're working to build external relationships.

Our reliance on the US is rapidly decreasing, and we're building relationships for our key industries, such as large defence contracts with the EU, where we can now sell weapons there on similar terms as member states.

That said, I'm as unhappy as anyone with stuff like the Palantir deal, and I don't know that we need F-35s either, but these things move really slowly, and I'm sympathetic that there's good reasons not to rock the boat with the US more than necessary. We're fighting plenty on the really important things, we can't die on every hill without directly hurting the quality of life of Canadians.

[–] patatas@sh.itjust.works 0 points 17 hours ago

Our reliance on the US is rapidly decreasing

based on what metric? Carney is pushing for increased oil extraction by US companies, and LNG terminals owned by Trump allies. Just in the last day or two Canada cancelled the streaming tax. Then there's the combo of Bill C-22 and the CLOUD act, which would essentially share ALL our data with the US surveillance state. Canada is routinely turning over refugees to ICE. The federal government continues to sign contracts with companies like Garda and Roshel who are contracting with ICE. We have failed to do anything to help Cuba - yet Mexico is doing so and is suffering no horrifying consequences. And when Carney invokes MAGA we think he's just playing games? What would it take to change your mind?