Canada: Canadian officials had worked hard in good faith but “last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic and called into question the reliability of any deal”
USA: “Tonight, Canada declined to finalise the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week”
How are we meant to resolve these different accounts?
Change one word s/agreed/proposed/ and there's no problem. So, since we were all here last week, and recall a 3 day pause to finalise, did the 3 day pause mean agreeing or did it mean wanting to believe an agreement might emerge?
What's the difficulty? This US Republican administration has screwed-up and reneged/lied about negotiations again, the same way it's been misbehaving for the past two years with multiple other countries.
It's not credible at this point to argue that everybody else—including countries that were traditionally our closest allies—all simultaneously became the problem.
Canada: Canadian officials had worked hard in good faith but “last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic and called into question the reliability of any deal”
USA: “Tonight, Canada declined to finalise the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week”
How are we meant to resolve these different accounts?
Look at the past behaviors of the parties involved. History doesn't occur in a vacuum.
Change one word s/agreed/proposed/ and there's no problem. So, since we were all here last week, and recall a 3 day pause to finalise, did the 3 day pause mean agreeing or did it mean wanting to believe an agreement might emerge?
What's the difficulty? This US Republican administration has screwed-up and reneged/lied about negotiations again, the same way it's been misbehaving for the past two years with multiple other countries.
It's not credible at this point to argue that everybody else—including countries that were traditionally our closest allies—all simultaneously became the problem.
Which government is run by a pathological liar?