The lobbyist on the other end of the phone laughed.
I’d just asked a question about Canada’s so-called de minimis threshold, a subject which, even in wonky Ottawa, provokes glances at heaven and condescending grins.
As in: “Oh, that again. When will you understand that no one understands it and nobody cares?”
Well, that might be true. Canadian media dislike complex trade issues, and Canadian consumers are largely a supine, uninformed, apathetic bunch, inclined to do whatever they’re told and behave like the milk cows they’re treated as, by government and industry.
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