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Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada (thebeaverton.com)

submitted 6 months ago by GrymEdm@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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The Canadian government has insisted that information on domestic goods is readily available to all trading partners, even including nations that recently elected a felony-convicted game show host to be their head of state. Instead, the United States has decided to employ a rarely-chosen trade tactic that international economists refer to as the “fuck around and find out” model.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago

Of course not all. But the US electorate as a body produced this decision. When your congress passes a law or your supreme court makes a decision do you not say that "the congress" passed a law or "the supreme court" made a judgement? I doubt you constantly say "a bit more than half the congress passed a law #notallcongresspeople".

Or, when, say France has an election, do you not say "the french elected Macron"? Or do you always nuance it by "this or that percentage of the french elected him"?