Seems it was a waste of our time and money. If anything, Canada should be asking the USA to increase their own border security as guns and drugs come into Canada at a much larger scale. And why even have a fentanyl czar etc if none of our actions will stop the tariffs? This was never about the border or drugs but Trump said jump and Canada asked How high?

  • bluebadoo@lemmy.world
    341·
    18 hours ago

    Actually, the money we allocated to border control occurred in December 2024, at least a month before Trump threatened tariffs. Trudeau then gave it a fun name (Fentanyl Czar) and Trump accepted that as yielding to his demands. We didn’t budge an inch, but we bought ourselves a month.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      20·
      17 hours ago

      And we also bought ourselves the perception of being the “reasonable ones”, with the US being even more blatantly painted as flagrant deal-breakers.

      That will be useful as we build new alliances with the rest of the world.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      17 hours ago

      We allocated $1.3b in early December as a response to Trump’s initial tariff threat.

      Monday’s 270-page budget document outlined key new expenditures including C$1.3 billion for border agencies over six years, an attempt to avert Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs unless the flow of migrants and fentanyl over the crossing is halted.

      We budged.

      I don’t think it was the wrong choice, but I don’t think it had the desired effect.

      • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        17 hours ago

        I see the other side of that where we’re upping border control in case Trump decides he wants to invade. That’s not a bad thing.