I am familiar with Canada West. They’re made in my city.

But what I was referring more to was mass market footwear, and the majority of those (regardless of where the HQ is) are made overseas, as is most clothing in general.

As for those electronics manufacturers, with very few exceptions, the components they assemble into their finished product are sourced outside of North America.

Replacing USA with multiple countries is the safer option.

Neither of those things are made in the USA either.

Threats to the bottom line is the thing that motivates companies faster than anything else.

Until this abomination of a law

The “patriot” act would like to have a word with you…

yawn, this again?

Didn’t Canada win every single trade tribunal challenge on this exact same baseless complaint in the past?

Disappointingly common in the politics of the time.

Microsoft exec admits it ‘cannot guarantee’ data sovereignty

Then you don’t get to touch my data (to the extent that I can control who already has my data without my permission…)

Or by a vindictive ex.

They need to get their heads on straight.

Having them slanted to the right is a big part of the problem.

Really high latency in Australia,

From what I commonly hear, that is pretty typical of internet use in Australia in general.

There is literally no point in negotiating anything.

While Trump is involved, part of the point of continued “negotiating” is to try and prevent him from doing anything massively damaging while “negotiations are still in progress”.

Now maybe there’s more going on behind the scenes,

It would be naive to think there isn’t.

So maybe you believed that he was going to annex Canada

I didn’t believe he could succeed at it, but I also can’t discount that he might make an attempt at it.

Just because he is incompetent doesn’t mean he isn’t also a bull in a China shop.

Even in his incompetence he can cause a lot of damage.

Compared to the predicted devastating loss that had been predicted for the Liberals just a couple of months earlier?

Yes the conservatives failed miserably. The only reason they did as well as they did was the animosity that had been built around Trudeau.

Their success (such as it was) isn’t a ringing endorsement of PP or his party, but rather a retreating from who they were running against.

Trying to think of the best supernatural death,

A good old fashioned smiting from the heavens (AKA lighting strike on the golf course)

He needs to shut the hell up about things he doesn’t understand.

just because the old brand says “but we’ve chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanged!”

It will take a long time for the American brand to be trusted again.

They’ll have to demonstrate that they are willing to act in a trustworthy manner, and that they will continue to do so for more than a few years before reverting to fascist enshittification.

I find that the the same authoritarian, isolationist, and anti-intellectual mind-viruses that permeate through society in the United States (especially in rural communities) have a beachhead here in Western Europe

America’s worst export.

Nobody else appointed the US as “world police”.

It’s a role that they gleefully took on so they could go around telling others what to do.