We already have a pretty good trade deal with the EU. There’s just this pesky pond in the way.
Trump seems to believe that he is now divinely inspired. Certainly he has always had a deep faith in himself. I can’t really picture him sitting in church for even an hour to hear them talk about how great someone else is. The problem seems to be that no one in his circle is willing to dispute his vision.
However, he does inspire patriotism around the world. I might also have been wrong about the moribund federal liberals too, though I think they are still further behind than some polls suggest.
Except in his own country. I’m personally no longer “buying American” when I have a choice.
No. Vance can’t be trusted because he’s a Republican, and treaties with the US are worthless in light of how the US elects leaders who choose not to adhere to them on a whim. A whim!
I’ve just read that Trump wants to impose a 250% tariff on Canadian dairy.
Nobody here goes to Canada to buy milk. In actuality, I can count the number of times I’ve seen Canadian shoppers buying 10, 12, 20 gallons of milk in Bellingham.
That he can go ahead and do. Our dairy exports are microscopic, due to the dairy supply management system making our dairy products significantly more expensive than foreign competition. Which is why you see Canadian shoppers in Bellingham buying milk.
Being in plastic bags doesn’t help either.
I may have been in favor of that growing up in Western NY. For several years our school gave us milk in bags, which, although Canada is superior in some ways, there’s no manner in which bagged milk is superior. It only adds unnecessary fussiness with opening the bag and a risk of sudden explosion. I guess it was possible that western NY was just copying Canada, but even so, if they blame the GQP for inspiring the “trucker” protests, I .can blame Canada for inspiring horrible container choices.
Errata: CAN’T count the number of times.
I completely agree with that. My mother in law used bagged milk and it was just a collosal pain.
I almost never buy milk – just cream for coffee and making mashed potatoes – so I have no dog in this fight, but ISTM that if someone buys a lot of milk, unopened milk bags are easier to store than other container types because they can lie flat with no risk of leakage. Once opened, they just sit in the handy pitcher bag holder taking up about the same space as a one-liter carton.
That said, although I don’t shop for milk, I don’t recall seeing milk in bag form in a while. It may have been mostly phased out. And when I did see it, it was used for volume sales – like three one-liter bags together in one package.
Bags of milk are the best if you want to spray someone with milk, like for a fetish or cable access comedy show.
Most Canadian milk is not in bags - that is just some places out east. When I travelled out there myself I found I usually had options in how to buy it (i.e. bags or other containers).
But Canadian milk differs from American milk because it is often ultra-pasteurized, and it never has artificial hormones that have been shown to cause health issues in cows.
The current Doge and US Administration is actively trying to dismantle Federal Departments in the USA who provide oversight for food safety.
As a Canadian - I do not want to see American milk on the shelves - USA food is becoming unsafe. And Canadian milk, being more expensive - is not a popular in America. They can tariff it to hell and it won’t make any real difference to anyone.
This is getting beyond ridiculous. It’s like that demented uncle that everyone has to try to tolerate on Thanksgiving but can mercifully ignore the rest of the year, the one that you can only hope will die before dementia completely possesses him, and that uncle is suddenly president of the USA.
My elementary school switched from the little cartons to bags, and I can confirm there’s one way they’re superior: pre-made water balloons.
Which is why they switched back a few weeks later.
Waste. Bagged milk has the lowest amount of packaging waste of any of the ways of selling milk.
Channeling my inner conservative anti-regulation
Plus, plastic bags are far superior to plastic jugs or cardboard cartons if only for their reusability as children’s toys!
“The cruelty is the point.” Unsafe food will sicken millions of people; and that’s what they want. They are the grown-up version of the giggling kid who fries ants with a magnifying glass, except they are using people instead of ants.
Evey random bit of suffering and death they cause is a victory for them. Not an accident, not a side effect, not a ploy; it’s the point of the exercise.
Yep. The Bellingham Costco built a larger dairy cooler because of the massive amount of milk flowing northward. I doubt there is much dairy flowing the other direction, but I could be wrong.
Is it a matter of not having a trans-Canada pipeline? Of where refineries are located?
Why can’t it be both?