“I was — I think it’s fair to say — probably the most pro-American prime minister in Canadian history,” Harper said of his tenure from 2006 to 2015.

If the current government asked him a year ago for advice on U.S. President Donald Trump being re-elected and wanting to renegotiate trade, he says he would have thought it was a real opportunity for Canada to deepen its economic and security partnership with the United States.

“However, when this government did actually ask me a few weeks ago … my advice was the opposite,” he told the Midwestern Legislative Conference, an annual non-partisan event being held in Saskatoon this year under the shadow of the ongoing U.S.-Canada trade war.

Harper called the trade war unfortunate, but said Canada has become “grossly” overly reliant on the U.S. — “independent of the current disputes” — and there is no reason for that.

“Just because we have that geographical proximity does not justify the degree of dependence that we have on a single market,” he said.

Most Pro American PM, our location still doesn’t justify our trade, we’re over dependant on the US. Unless you asked him a year ago, where his best advice would have been to get even closer.

Fuck you Stephen

Oh, now he wants distance from them?

“He who eats babies” may shut the fuck up, and go back to chairing the International Society of Aspiring Fascist Dictatorships.

he in fact does not. he runs the IDF whose main goal is to get far right elected.

America is hell bent on shooting themselves in the foot and causing generational damage. Canada doesn’t want to be part of that.

Good, because the citizens certainly are.

Went to the grocery store the other day; the ice-cream isle had new ‘made in canada’ labels on Canadian brands. Most of them were 5-10% more expensive than others.

It was ALL sold out. The rest of the brands were just sitting on the shelves.

He isn’t entirely without self awareness:

I was — I think it’s fair to say — probably the most pro-American prime minister in Canadian history," Harper said of his tenure from 2006 to 2015.

I’m surprised too.

Why would a country willing prop up their enemy’s economy? It doesn’t make sense to partner with them

Doesn’t make sense to hand our private data over to them either, but that’s what they’re going to do.

Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance

The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance bill with multiple privacy-invasive provisions. But the thrust...

Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)

I mean when presented with new information, changing your stance is a smart thing. We thought the USA was like us and a worthy partner, their admin and a large percent of their population has shown they aren’t like Canadians