If they do make a deal, it should be pretty cheap now. The news sites will see their traffic drop off a cliff and probably feel pretty ready to start negotiating.

Negotiations don't happen in one step.

Canada is a lot closer to home, too. May happen in the other Americas too. I'm sure much more experienced and insightful folks on this might be able to comment, with or without a throwaway account.

It's been interesting seeing the reactions from my friends. It's a split down the middle between f the government and f the Americans. Seem like people are increasingly unable to be sensible re conversations like this these days, crazy how polarized things have become.

These street interviews the cbc conducted gave me some hope however: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WltKtLi65fE

Yeah, both are trying to get the people to do their bidding.

And maybe that's when they'll realize that might not play out as anticipated.

That's a great link, thanks for sharing.

Big companies using the guise of safety, or fairness to extract advantage at the expense of an informed populace feels just swell.

It's fun to look up how many of the "Canadian" major media groups are owned by the US, and to what degree, how much.