Thread by @fascinatorfun

Canadian view. God. They heard him.

"Like some slumbering giant, we're going to rise and ping off the guy-ropes of doubt and negativity," Boris Johnson vowed as he took the reins of the British Conservative Party Tuesday and prepared to meet the Queen.” cbc.ca/news/politics/…

“It's not that Canada's team of veteran trade negotiators didn't do their job. In fact, they thought they had a bilateral deal ready to go last year —......

3/ “despite bargaining with overburdened and inexperienced British negotiators who lacked a realistic sense of what various bilateral trade measures were worth, both politically and economically.....

4/ A senior Canadian government source with knowledge of the talks told CBC News that a finalized proposal to continue most of the terms of (CETA) and apply them to a newly-independent Britain was put in front of Trudeau’s cabinet in 2018

5/. No WA.

“Panic set in over the prospect of a no-deal Brexit. In an emergency move to protect British consumers and businesses from sudden price shocks, the U.K. published a "temporary" list offering any country — not just those with pre-existing trade deals —....

6/ “....tariff-free access for 87 per cent of what the U.K. imports, without a requirement for any reciprocal tariff cuts for British exports.

Canadian officials found out about it from the media, the source said.

7/ “Lowering these tariffs undercut the value of the preferential trade deal Canada thought it had negotiated with the U.K. Canada was grateful it hadn't finalized its commitment too soon, the government source said.

8/. “"Why would Canada make any concessions in a CETA equivalent [deal] when we know that we'll have pretty much 95 per cent duty-free access into that market?" said Brian Kingston, vice-president of the Business Council of Canada.

9/ “"Yes, the U.K. is an important and large market, but any negotiator sitting down with them would recognize that there's a different level of desperation with the Brits."