Eliott Dumoulin is a journalist who covers Canada for the French newspaper Le Monde. In this article, he tries to explain to readers back home what’s going on.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Ford was caught on hot mic saying he was happy Trump won until tariff threats started.

    “Election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was,” Ford said. “But then the guy pulled out the knife and f–king yanked it into us.”

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-trump-win-comments-tariffs-1.7449512

    In defence of Ford, he’s done a pretty good job vocally standing up to Trump, but I don’t know anyone in their right mind that would be happy Trump won.

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      Yes, but the original post stated, Ford waited for things to look bad for him before he switched sides. Ford was pretty quick to say fuck them.

      Yes he’s conservative but he’s Canadian first

      To be clear I didn’t vote for him but I could have.

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        Yeah I’m as unhappy as I am he’s in charge … he’s at least got Canada as his priority unlike Danielle Smith.

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        Yeah I think as soon as he heard about tariffs again he was immediately aggressive about it.

        He’s an asshole for sure, but he’s our asshole.

        I just don’t know how he forgot about this all when on US election night.

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          Not ‘our’ asshole, just a populist. They see the way the wind in blowing and make a bunch of noise about it and then do what they were always going to do, which is sell off more of the province to Mattamy.