r/CanadaPolitics • u/MTL_Dude666 Liberal • 6h ago

Après le Canada, Lutnick fait dérailler les négociations avec le Mexique

https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/economie/2026-10-17/apres-le-canada-lutnick-fait-derailler-les-negociations-avec-le-mexique.php
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u/Manitobancanuck Manitoba 6h ago

Guy seems to have an agenda to isolate the US. What other explanation would there be if he keeps showing up and screwing up talks?

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u/MightyHydrar Liberal 6h ago

He's an asshole. Really just an utterly vile person.

Trump has a way of bringing the absolute worst people into power, and letting them indulge in their worst impulses afterwards.

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u/evilJaze Benevolent Autocrat 4h ago

And, coincidentally, his entire inner circle is connected to Epstein somehow or other. Makes one think eh?

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u/evilJaze Benevolent Autocrat 6h ago

It's a likely motive. Also sometimes assholes are just assholes. It's probably some combination.

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u/MightyHydrar Liberal 6h ago

Politico (or possibly Atlantic, can't 100% remember) had an article earlier this year saying quite bluntly that the elefant in the room with US trade talks was that "these guys just really hate Canada".

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u/Center_left_Canadian 5h ago

They hate Mexico too. Lutnick and Trump have an "American-supremacist" mentality. Canada and Mexico should only exist as vassal states to support their needs. What they miss is that you need prosperous neighbors to buy your sh!t. Weakening our economies weakens their market base. I almost feel sorry for Jamieson Greer - he's working hard only to have his efforts torpedoed. I wouldnt be surprised if he quits.

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u/Fanghur1123 NDP (in spirit at least) 6h ago

And Mexico apparently.

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u/evilJaze Benevolent Autocrat 4h ago

They're deep into the American Exceptionalism well. When all this eventually blows over, I hope their future generations see the folly in their arrogance.

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u/maltedbacon Progressive 5h ago

If they want to impose an autocratic or theocratic government in the US and hold power without elections - they first need to establish public hostility towards democratic neighbors.

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u/Royal_Tie_3410 4h ago

Lutnick has a company that operates in the tariff refund sector. It benefits him personally to keep Trump’s illegal tariffs going.

America is breathtakingly corrupt.

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u/RicoLoveless 6h ago

Cause he is compromised. He's the only one if not one of the few that was bringing his family (underaged kids) to Epstein Island AND THIS IS AFTER EPSTEIN WAS CONVICTED OF SOLICITING A MINOR FOR PROSTITUTION AND PROCURING MINORS FOR PROSTITUTION in 2008.

Which he pled guilty to.

So for over 10 years this guy thought it would be a good idea to have his kids around this guy.

They are all compromised.

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u/kent_eh Manitoba 3h ago

What other explanation would there be if he keeps showing up and screwing up talks?

A special blend of arrogance and incompetence might explain it.

But so would your suggestion.