Trump’s been happy to take credit for things that happened before his inauguration. Let’s not pretend for a second that he and his inner circle haven’t been in play since at least the election.
CAN-USA 2025 Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)
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Only under a Conservative majority. PP has most of these in his policy.
None of these things will happen under the liberals. Ever.
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Floating ideas, claiming responsibility, laying groundwork. These are not negotiations. The only prelude to negotiations has been Daniel Smith and Joly in her riding outfit. Trudeau hasn't even tried to talk to him. Instead he's ramping up the rhetoric and making things worse.
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Trump threatens trade war with EU
President hits China, Canada and Mexico with tariffs – and says Europe will be next
www.telegraph.co.uk
One way the temperature of these discussions could be lowered is by removing the word "war" from the vocabulary. Along with "existential" and "devastating".
We are not looking at a short, sharp shock here. We are looking at a change of course.
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I watched her just a few minutes ago.
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Meanwhile - civilized negotiation between comrades
www.telegraph.co.uk
Give us youth movement and fishing rights or we will block defence deal, EU to tell Starmer
Brussels will insist on ‘parallelism’, where nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, in PM’s reset talks
www.telegraph.co.uk
Actually, I find them repugnant as well. My comment was intended more to point out the differences between those who are anti-Trudeau and make it known to all compared to those who are anti-Trump and are more restrained. I would, however, like to see large peaceful demonstrations in all major cities showing solidarity with our government’s efforts to deal with his tactics.
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And she's absolutely right.
Unless it's trudeau's intent to create a national emergency. He's proven time and again over 10 years, he could care less about the poverty, strife and hardships he places on Canadians. Canadians are simple cannon fodder to his goals.
Leavitt considers Trudeau’s “forceful” and “immediate” retaliation comments to be “outlandish” despite what Trump has said and done?
On top of that, Trump is now talking about tariffs on the EU as well. I wonder how long it’s going to take for the senators and congressmen who are currently supporting Trump to finally realize that he has serious mental problems.
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Oh everybody knows that. They are too scared to do anything about it.
Imagine being the family of the BlackHawk pilot right now. Nobody reaching out, the US Army too scared to ask him to back off for a bit.
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And so it begins. Never let a crisis go to waste.
Carney says he'll dump consumer carbon tax, charge 'carbon border adjustment' tariffs on imports
Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney added his name to the list of Liberals promising to scrap the Trudeau government’s consumer carbon tax.nationalpost.com
The return of the tariff economy - carbonmail.
To be honest I actually prefer that solution over the carbon sales tax. But that's just me.
It's still a carbon tax. Basic economics says if the manufacturer and supplier are paying the tax, so will you. Those people are not prepared, nor should they be, to carry your burden. Carney must think we're stupid peasants.
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If your getting upset at bumper stickers you need to rethink your focus. You may not like it, but there is SFA you can do about it. It's someone's opinion and they are entitled to it just like you are yours.
Just like it's just an opinion about Trumps mental acuity.
Just like it's just an opinion about Trumps mental acuity.
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Maybe our neighbour should get that memo about using more temperate language, too, then?Trump threatens trade war with EU
President hits China, Canada and Mexico with tariffs – and says Europe will be next
One way the temperature of these discussions could be lowered is by removing the word "war" from the vocabulary. Along with "existential" and "devastating".
So, bets on quick (US starts collecting its new tax Saturday?) or slow (declare an emergency & go through some process before the sweet revenues start pouring into US coffers)? Some guesses from CNN:
DEVELOPING: Trump gives details on tomorrow’s tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday nothing can be done by Canada, Mexico and China to forestall tariffs and vowed to tariff items such as chips, oil and gas.www.ctvnews.ca
Oh look, Trump himself says there is nothing that can be done to stop tariffs.
It makes no difference what we do. We are not dealing with a stable ally.
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Yeah, no kidding, imagine still getting through the shock of having your family killed, and having POTUS coming on tv blaming them while they are still fishing people out of the water and barely started any kind of investigation. What a POS.
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If I had one wish, it would be that Trump put this on the back burner until after the election. The liberals can't be trusted to bargain Canada's position from a position of what’s good for the country.
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I'd really like to see a creative and nuanced approah to our response on this.
There's been a lot of ink spilled about the reality that while Trump's tariffs will be damaging to our economy, the actual financial cost will be paid by American consumers. Hopefully we don't jump right in after him and cut off our consumers and manufacturers nose to spite our face with dollar for dollar broadbased tariffs
Targetted tariffs on goods that are at the end of the supply chain, and either extremely elastic in their demand (non-essential) or substitutable for goods made elsewhere- Canada is ideal, but EU, Korea, Japan good to. Ex. Farm machinery, vehicle models that compete against those assembled in Ontario, Ford's liquor idea. We can't win trading economic broadsides- but targetted measures should be able to punch back while funnell8ng domestic demand into domestic products
There's been a lot of ink spilled about the reality that while Trump's tariffs will be damaging to our economy, the actual financial cost will be paid by American consumers. Hopefully we don't jump right in after him and cut off our consumers and manufacturers nose to spite our face with dollar for dollar broadbased tariffs
Targetted tariffs on goods that are at the end of the supply chain, and either extremely elastic in their demand (non-essential) or substitutable for goods made elsewhere- Canada is ideal, but EU, Korea, Japan good to. Ex. Farm machinery, vehicle models that compete against those assembled in Ontario, Ford's liquor idea. We can't win trading economic broadsides- but targetted measures should be able to punch back while funnell8ng domestic demand into domestic products
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Some of our politicians are playing the same game as Trump - pointing abroad to distract from problems at home, with plenty of unhelpful heated rhetoric. I suppose along with "trade war against Americans" and "war rooms" we'll soon be forming small sub-groups of cabinet MPs and MLAs and calling them "war cabinets". Bellicose language is easy. Substantive policy to offset recessionary effects is hard.
I haven't heard of even the simplest inter-provincial trade barrier being dropped by anyone, yet.
I haven't heard of even the simplest inter-provincial trade barrier being dropped by anyone, yet.
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I think you’re right.
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