Posted on 10/30/2016 2:43:50 PM PDT by jerod
International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland couldn't contain herself any longer.
"We did it!" she said, hugging colleagues after posing behind the massive, foot-high legal document Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European Union leaders had just signed.
Canada's trade agreement with the 28 member states of the European Union can now proceed for ratification.
Sunday's signing brings to a conclusion two weeks of high drama, after the southern, French-speaking Belgian region of Wallonia refused to approve signing the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, also known as CETA, at a Canada-Europe summit originally planned for last Thursday.
After a deal was reached to bring the Walloons on board last week, things were supposed to be clear sailing through to Sunday's rescheduled signing.
CETA had one final surprise in store for Trudeau — a mechanical failure onboard his government plane Saturday night, forcing it to return to Ottawa and delay Sunday's agenda by several hours.
What's a few more hours for a deal that's been in the works since 2009?
"What patience," exclaimed European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as he embraced the arriving Trudeau at EU headquarters in Brussels...
...At a news conference after the signing, a Belgian journalist asked Trudeau what he would say to Wallonia.
"The fact that throughout, people were asking tough questions of a deal that will have a significant impact on our economies, and giving us the opportunity to demonstrate that that impact will be positive, is a good thing," Trudeau replied.
"And for me, whether I be here today or three days ago is not going to make a difference on the real impact it's going to have," he said.
"Hard things are hard," he told reporters as the event concluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Stupid idiots. Life is about to get a whole lot harder in Canada.
Oh... BTW - I seriously thought the Walloons were characters in that Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory movie. Not and actual sovereign state within Belgium.
[Stupid idiots. Life is about to get a whole lot harder in Canada.]
No problem, the corporate elites are happy. That’s all that matters.
The EU about to witness a rash of Exit votes from copycat countries, and plunge into obscurity....and Justa Trudeau wants to sign an agreement with the EU? What a moron.
That sounds like something a Barbie Doll would be keyed to say when you pull it’s string.
A very mean variety of Oompah-Loompahs.
“Hard things are hard”. This guy is a freakin’ genius.
Hard things are hard.
Wow. And I doubted his intelligence. Not only is he dreamy, he’s frickin’ brilliant.
I am in awe of the brainpower of this LIB idiot!!!
Right? You guys must be so envious.
Actually, the biggest fear you should have for President Trump is that he’ll die laughing when he meets the buffoon to the north.
An antiBrit Canadian like Obama, no doubt. They want to avoid the British Commonwealth and join the EU... This puts things in perspective, ie. That the EU is some sort of Napoleonic hegemony seeking to hypocritically replace British colonization in Syria what not.
Didn’t Anthony Weiner say that?
5.56mm
Or the Anthony Weiner doll.
“It’s actually not very hard at all,
What’s hard is making it feel hard”
THE WHO, Eminence Front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HTVMh7fur4
Europeans created the EU to protect themselves and the rest of the world can get stuffed ,so what did Trudeau give up
The deal was negotiated over 7 years.
All Turdeau did was sign it and take all the credit.
He`s the obama of canada
If anyone thinks “hard things are hard,” is any indication of the intelligence, intellect or clarity of our , as an acquaintance called him yesterday , pastry-chef leader , think about this quote .
“If you kill your enemies, they win.” - P.M. Justin Trudeau
Apparently that’s the reason Trudeau Sr. spent most of World War II traveling the world... In 1943 (4 years after the war began for Canada) he was conscripted into the Canadian Army as part of the National Resources Mobilization Act. When conscripted, he decided to join the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps, and he then served with the other conscripts in Canada, since they were not assigned to overseas military service until after the Conscription Crisis of 1944 after the Invasion of Normandy that June. Before this, all Canadians serving overseas were volunteers, and not conscripts.
Trudeau said he was willing to fight during World War II, but he believed that to do so would be to turn his back on the population of Quebec that he believed had been betrayed by the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Trudeau reflected on his opposition to conscription and his doubts about the war in his Memoirs (1993): “So there was a war? Tough ... if you were a French Canadian in Montreal in the early 1940s, you did not automatically believe that this was a just war ... we tended to think of this war as a settling of scores among the superpowers.”
Smug snotty nosed intellectual twat.... The only thing his wimpy son managed to inherit was the snotty nosed twat part... Justin is about as intellectual as a doorpost.
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