U.S. lists demands Canada must meet to extend CUSMA

Submission Statement:

Why is this relevant? It deals with CUSMA (or USMCA or T-MEC), highlighting the issues America has with the current trading relationship

What do I think people should discuss? The main points of contention which are:

1) amount of dairy allowed in: this falls under supply management, and there is no political will in Canada for opening this can of worms up, especially as the states is considering yet another round of subsidies for farmers. There are strong opinions on supply management on this sub which I understand, but food security is important for any nation, and when your neighbour is America and they subsidize their farmers and food producers to the degree they do, there has to be something put in place to secure a nations supply of food. I understand this is a controversial take.

2) the Online Streaming Act: ""Canada insists on maintaining its Online Streaming Act, a law that discriminates against U.S. tech and media firms, as well as a number of other measures that restrict digital services trade,” Greer said." The ELI5 version is that media needs a certain amount of Canadian content in it. The Online News Act is also brought up which says companies like Google and Facebook that host news articles have to pay the creators of the news for hosting their content on their platform. In June Canada repealed their digital service tax, but it seems as America wants more access to the Canadian tech and media market. These regulations are protectionist and make these products more expensive for Canadians, which is inefficient and bad. There are people who can think the tradeoff of not only having American news and media is worth it though.

3) Provincial bans on American alcohol: Some provinces ban American alcohol from being sold. In Canada, provinces act as distributors for alcohol, so if the province decides not to buy it, restaurants and liquor stores can't buy it from the government and aren't generally allowed to source it from other places. I find if funny that foreign federal governments are trying to manipulate the provinces via the fed. It would be like if Carney said any trade deal was contingent on Trump getting Newsom to stop requiring those "may contain cancer stickers" that are on everything in California.

4) Alberta's power imports from Montana: I actually agree with this one quite a bit, as Alberta has been screwing over all it's neighbours a bit (BC and Saskatchewan included) but refusing to upgrade interties and placing limits on how much electricity is allowed to be imported on the current interties. This has been an issue since the early oughts for every neighbouring province state. The recent MOU signed by Carney actually includes a segment about Alberta needing to upgrade their interties with BC as part of the pipeline deal, so this to me seems quite reasonable.