Summary
Canada is preparing to retaliate against Donald Trump’s proposed 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, which could trigger the largest trade war between the nations in decades.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised counter-tariffs worth $37 billion, with potential for further measures, depending on Trump’s final order.
Canadian officials warn the tariffs could harm both economies, disrupting key sectors like automotive, energy, and agriculture.
Labor leaders expressed concerns over job losses and urged collaboration. Canada hopes to avoid tariffs by highlighting their mutual economic impact to U.S. lawmakers.
Last time we had a tariff war like this was the great depression
Canada/Mexico Tarriffs are reportedly, -not- coming “right away”…
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billionaires would kill trump before they let him take a dollar from them
where were you when the billionares were lining up to kiss the ring of the man who was given clemency and immunity from literally murdering all of them with government spook squads?
Trump’s whole job is to create scapegoats while they plunder the public sector. The idea that billionaires are working for trump and not the other way around is laughable.
Please Canada listen to your best and brightest
It’s a good thought but much less practical than retaliatory tariffs. I don’t think there is precedent (in recent times) of Western nations overtly violating each other’s intellectual property rights.
Well now seems like a very good time to set a precedent
This is pure genius. Hit them where it hurts the most while simultaneously benefiting consumers.
I don’t understand why this isn’t the first option when a treaty is violated? Whybwould Canada continue to enforce their side of a now nullified agreement? How does Canada benefit from this?
As an American, I want the world to punish us for our bullshit.
As an American, I really want to get the fuck out of here.
As a non-american, you’re doing about okay as everyone else.
as an american - yall need some laws against tech bullshit if you want to stop this
For real. There is no escape unless you got a passport to a Scandinavian country. And then, it’s temporary. American nonsense is pervasive, it comes for everyone!
I’d say it’s time to leave the planet but I’m not a billionaire so… fuck me I guess.
As another American, most of us want you to leave.
Take it all please, leave the rest of us able to fix what needs fixing.
Spank us, daddy! We’ve been so naughty…
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That was my reaction exactly. “Good. Fuck us.”
Same
Trump doesn’t understand that tarrifs go both ways.
It’s kind of amazing that his first priorty upon entering office is taking revenge and starting wars. What an incredible person and even more than that, an incredible leader. Amazing.
He doesn’t care if Americans get hurt or suffer his batshit policies. His moronic base will support him even if they’re suffering; they’ll blame it on the brown people.
Make smuggling contraband across the great lakes great again.
god imagine how much worse the gang violence will get when the canuck mafia starts mowing down border patrol agents.
Canadian Mafioso: “sorry” machine gun noises, screams
Do it. Isolate this evil shithole until it collapses. Please do it.
The US needs to be broken up the way the USSR was.
Didn’t that also give us Putin?
Nice try but US used blind misplaced faith in your own superiority. It was super effective.
US against all will not work. Course the orange buttboy has his gay lover putin but russia has nothing but vodka and fetal alcohol syndrome.
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Not homophobia. Just a observation that people who are extremely vocal and violent against the gay are usually in the closet. See j edgar hoover.
And like every hardcore anti gay religious leader too
So you’re profiling and somehow that’s better?
We both know you are full of shit with that response. Just stop. You know you are wrong.
I’m not but you are. I’m tired of having to worry about the feelings of everyone around me when Its clear the right and left are both hell bent on getting offended about something. Don’t tell me what I meant because it triggers you. Goodbye.
Oh wow a triggered dig. You gonna call me a snowflake too?
What else would you call a relationship where 2 men love each other so much they share a bed?
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That would be idiotic and I imagine it’s just posturing.
Canada would lose that battle…hard.
There is no winning for Canada here. Most Canadians are well aware of that. The goal is to make it hurt enough for Americans for the mutual hurt be as short-lived as possible.
As an elected official, Trump has to answer to the American people. If his policies worsen the affordability crisis (and retaliatory tariffs from Canada will achieve so that for a notable subset of Americans) then he may be compelled to reverse course.
Apart from oil, what other significant import does Canada provide that will “hurt” the Americans soooo much?
As an elected official, Trump has to answer to the American people.
Ha!
Canada has a much bigger GDP than you’d guess from their population.
Size of gdp gives no indication how reliant they are on trade with another country, though
Would it? It depends if all the other US trade partners also raise tariffs against the US (but not each other).
Tommorrow, “America” will become “AmeriKa.” Canada will survive and make progress, while the US will regress and fall apart.
A lot of the issues in Canada are the same as the issues in America except dialed up to 11. It is way more likely that Canada falls apart before America does.
Good, Do it. Every country should do it. Make it fucking hurt.
I can’t wait to not be able to afford diapers since racist rednecks elected a clown. It’s like being held hostage on a train that’s headed for a brick wall. Trying to raise a family through this is so hard.
“Trump is more respected by other nations the Biden” part deux dipshit boogaloo
Watching the US dollar
Grabs popcorn
I’m going to love watching that smug tone vanish when you come to the realization that the US Dollar is a world currency and without it, it will cause widespread economic depressions across the world.
That still doesn’t mean that what Trump is doing isn’t a dumb mistake
not disputing that.
The Orange Numbnuts, that you voted for, will turn the USD into the worthless Ruble.
excuse you, chucklefuck. I didn’t vote for the big orange turd.
My bad, I did not read your “edit” and I changed my response. All is good, carry on.
*was a world currency
no…it’s still a global reserve currency.
Well yea, the clowns aren’t in charge yet. It won’t survive defaulting on our debt and systematically alienating all our allies.
you realize that’s exactly my point…
I swear you couldn’t pull your head out of your ass if the instructions were tattooed on you colon.
Have you traveled much?
Gold, local currency, you dont need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out.
you’re thinking too locally. countries have a reserve of USD on hand to use as trade and an easy way to pay debts. this is why USD is called a “global reserve currency”
Countries hold reserves for a number of reasons, including to weather economic shocks, pay for imports, service debts, and moderate the value of their own currencies.
what do you think happens to those other countries that hold USD reserves when it drops in value?
it’s an economic depression! hope you’re ready for your grocery bill to quadruple. do you think your power company will accept payments made in gold? silver? pleasures of the flesh?
doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what’s going to happen once the USD halves in value. complete economic meltdown.
the question you should be asking yourself is, who benefits from this?
Comical.
groceries
Maybe for Americans where groceries are highly highly processed let alone majority imported.
Grabs locally grown whole foods including popcorn and gets healthier
can’t be edgy while you starve.
you’ll think back to this moment when you’re hungry.
Better start prepping then so you don’t starve
You’ll think back at this moment when you’ve got a full stomach.
you’re right, I will. but not for the reasons you’re implying.
…it’s an economic depression! hope you’re ready for your grocery bill to quadruple.
complete economic meltdown.
Aw man I seem to vaguely remember a short time when this wasn’t happening ever since I’ve been of working age, but it already feels so distant now…
I think you’re taking it too lightly.
you should read up on the fall of the Soviet Union and what life was like after.
- waiting in lines for hours for the possibility of buying a pound of beef
- not having access to consumables like toilet paper for months
- medication becoming nonexistent
- cheap government subsidized vodka
- further corruption of local administration and public police
really, go read up on it. I’m sure it’ll blow your mind.
I think you’re taking it too lightly.
Sorry, there was no way I could find to phrase that without it reading sarcastically but sincerely, I wasn’t trying to downplay your insights!
I was being mildly sarcastic, but also totally serious, in that the birthright of Millenials and onward has been on the “and find out” end of eroding social safety nets and a generally declining civilization.
The idea of living in peace without constantly playing the “weather the next socioeconomic crisis” roguelike dice game is basically a foreign concept at this point. (To anybody who must work for a living.)
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“Oh wow, what a major recession! The worldwide economy sucks! There’s no jobs! Groceries are expensive! Bosses are kings! Wages are frozen!” (Which year, amirite?)
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“Wow these natural disasters are crazy! Look, the water catches fire! Woah, everyone’s full of plastic!”
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Hey that thing there was a steady supply of? Everybody’s freaking out and ready to fight over it.(Jobs, toilet paper, gasoline, twinkies, silicon, whatever.)
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“Hey everything was alright for a while! Workers are winning raises and sick days! But corpos complain and fire everybody to make line go up. Unemployment at record highs again. Here’s 42 ways to suck up to your boss and beg to keep your income.”
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“Haha wow we were SURE that plague was extinct.”
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"Rents skyrocketing. Nobody’s having children. People who want them are increasingly infertile. People who don’t, make it an entire political identity.
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(Insert the entirety of 2020-onward here)
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Everything is hyper competitive and a requires luck. The lucky want to tell you it’s all about Just Working Harder and “everything is actually better than it’s ever been!”
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Hey remember when the whole world went to war against fascists? Ha they’re seen as legitimate again because they’ve got memes now.
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I agree with you, it’s like watching the fall of the Soviet Union, except instead of The Party chanting “everything is fine keep working”, it’s mainly private interests. And nobody’s learned anything.
I’m trying to keep my head up lol…
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LOL, gold… What year is it? If someone tried to give me gold for food in a global meltdown situation, I would tell them to fuck off.
Cool story, we are talking international currencies, Read the thread before looking like a fool
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you’re not very pragmatic are you?
gold only holds value so long as it’s accepted as an exchangeable currency. if nobody accepts it, then its value is zero…
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can you eat it? can you drink it? can it heal you when you’ve been stabbed or shot?
gold is worthless if you have no use for it.
It’s not a hard concept to grasp. if I don’t want what you’re willing to trade with, you have nothing and I have everything.
are you purposely being so ignorant on how currency works and why having a government backed currency is better than physical gold or have all the crypto/gold bro videos melted your brain?
I hope I live long enough to see the petrodollar die.
Watching the already shit Canadian dollar…
looks up best noose rope
rope prices too high
Just in case…
Nah it’s joke.
