In the House of Commons, Prime Minister Mark Carney defended a sequence of concessions — the elimination of a digital services tax and streaming content contribution requirements — that were offered to open trade talks with the United States, talks that ultimately collapsed without agreement. Pressed by Bloc Québécois Leader Blanchet to reconsider, Carney held firm, framing the breakdown not as failure but as a refusal to surrender something more fundamental: Canada's ability to protect its own cultural identity online. The episode raises an enduring question about the cost of negotiation — wh