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.
On what goods though? Our phones come mostly from South Korea, Japan and China. So do our cars, our televisions, our clothes, our home appliances are increasingly from companies located there. You know I’m sure that a lot of those things are assembled here and in the states, but cutting the states out of the equation isn’t unthinkable.
The right response to this is to align more closely with the EU and with those 3 major manufacturing nations in East Asia. America needs our natural resources far more than we need anything they have. Desktop processor costs will probably increase a lot in Canadian markets. Since those are mostly made in the US. But they’re not the only ones doing it. Food production in Canada would likely have to increase to compensate for lower supply of beef. But Canada is already very arable, and we have large food production chains already.
This financial crisis is negligible. If he does truly commit to the tariffs it’s going to hurt the American economy far more than anyone else. Maybe he’s banking on Canada turning elsewhere so he can use that as a pretext of foreign interference in Canadian politics (there’s already more than enough actual interference) and to actually invade the country. It’s lunatic I know, but we’ve also got Fox news hosts spewing to half the nation about how great annexing Canada would be.
About 277 Billion worth of goods annually.
You can look it up if you just type the question into a search engine, instead of making up facts.
https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/imports/united-states
With about a $70bn trade deficit in Canada’s favour mostly due to oil and energy exports. Which are very likely to get very expensive should we enter a trading war.
Most likely serving to make that deficit worse for America.
Add a 5% levy on that and it’s nearly 12 billion in tax revenue extracted from Canadian business and consumers under the guise of sticking it to Trump.
Didn’t mean to represent my statements as factual, just personal observation.
I’d still argue that it’s not impossible for us to navigate around that. But I don’t have any statistical basis for thinking that. If our dependence is that large then maybe America will annex us. Lord knows I wouldn’t survive such a thing. So maybe I’m delusionally trying to be hopeful about having a future at all.
The US cannot “annex” or “invade” Canada.
Both are key members of NATO. That means that all other members must defend any fellow country if it’s invaded. Almost the entire western world - INCLUDING AMERICA - would have to defend Canada.
It’s just Trump spreading lies and misinformation to distract from him stealing American’s money. Same as always.
I’d love to tell you that that’s comforting. But you’re saying this under the assumption that the American military wouldn’t be able to handle that. How many of those other nations even have standing militaries? Laws and treaties are just words. He will have nearly absolute power starting tomorrow. He can basically decide for himself what the rules are.
Last I checked, all of them except Iceland. However, your point stands - the U.S. accounts for well over half of total NATO defence expenditure.