Could someone explain to me what the fuck an economist who served 3 years in the Peace Corps knows about combat or why Canada was Afghanistan?
This is just another case of bashing Canada for the US's gain and goes to show that being intelligent doesn't necessarily mean you're a decent person. At best Mr. Navarro is Trumps Albert Speer at worst he's just another in a long line of US economists who are continually trying to screw Canada while claiming the moral high ground.
But for anyone who's interested, here's the transcript of the discussion where he questioned Canada's role in Afghanistan. And like everything else in today's world there's an ulterior motive to his tirade. So it would appear that he wanted to keep our dairy out of the US while opening up Canada to their exports and he was so dense he tried to do it by disparaging our military and our country.
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Read a transcript of the exchange between Navarro and Sciutto below
“To get USMCA, president had to get tough,” Navarro says. “He got tough. We got USMCA. So why should we give away our dairy industry and auto industry to Canada under a flawed agreement? That makes no sense. Just because you're across the border and had served together with us and conflicts. I mean, every time that a Canadian shows up in a uniform, it's doing us a favour or, I mean, how's that work?”
Sciutto replies: “A lot of them died in Afghanistan.”
"Yeah,” Navarro says. “But yeah, but was it, were they doing us a favour or were they bought into the idea that they needed to do that as part of the global effort against terrorists? I mean if they were just doing us a favour, maybe their government should have been thrown out of office. Right?”
Sciutto then points out that Canada was not doing the U.S. "a favour" by sending in troops, but that the deployment was part of a historic move by NATO. Following the Sept. 11 attacks, NATO invoked the Article 5 “collective defence” clause for the first time ever, which prompted Canada and other nations to join forces with the U.S. from day one.
“My point here, Jim, is that, is that Jefferson said, ‘Men aren't angels.’ Countries aren't angels, but Mexico—”
Sciutto interjects: “But some are better than others, aren't they? I mean, aren't they? Is Canada Russia?”
“On a continuum certainly,” Navarro replies, “but we can't tolerate Mexico facilitating illegal mass migration from the iron triangle. We can't tolerate Canada for our dairy farms. I mean as a general proposition.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/transcrip ... -1.5081035
CKA Super Elite 
