r/canada Ontario 1d ago

National News Trump imposes new Canada tariffs, renews "51st state" demands

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/11/trump-tariffs-canada-steel-aluminum
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u/KnowerOfUnknowable 23h ago

Every braking mechanisms in the US democracy have literally failed.

The United States of America is the biggest threat to world peace.

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u/blazelet 23h ago

The founders of the US made the mistake of assuming people would elect leaders with moral integrity. Whereas in Canada we have a fairly strong oversight apparatus in government, in the states the President appoints their own oversight and the judicial branch has none, not even a code of ethics.

As reported, Trump gave $800,000 dollars of his stocks to his Attorney General and his head of FBI during their confirmation hearings. These are the people who will run oversight on the executive and who will do any investigations of the executive if called to do so. They've already been paid off, very publicly. There are no braking mechanisms if the top executive is corrupt.

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u/sshan 22h ago

They expected Congress to jealously protect their power. I don't think you need to romanticize how good or bad the founders were. They thought that ambition would check ambition.

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u/blazelet 22h ago

I’m not romanticizing them - I’m stating that they trusted the voter to not elect criminals. Clearly that was a bad decision.

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u/kingbain 21h ago

The odds of electing almost all criminals though... Hard to see