CAN-USA Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

[lenaitch]

He can control the provinces though. You think they will keep the bans going if the feds threatened to cut provincial transfers?

Potentially they could, but it is much harder to explain to your constituents why you need to substantially raise taxes to pay for the province than it is to drop the ban.

Federal transfers to the provinces are governed by legislation (Canada Health Act, Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, etc.) as well as formal agreements between the parties. Unless the federal government wants to break it own laws and agreements, or recall Parliament to try and amend the laws, then inevitably defend their action in court, I doubt that would happen.

It's not like the king doling out coins to the subject out of his largess.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Latest from Team Blue: don't cave!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2086459081712189899

MSM version:

Poilievre tells Carney in letter to not concede to U.S. demands in tariff talks

A new round of 50 per cent U.S. tariffs on a range of Canadian goods is set to take effect in about 10 days.

edmonton.citynews.ca

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

I love the tag ending:

"Take our plan. Take the credit, Just deliver."

Pretty much what the Liberals have been doing fro the last 50 years every time the Conservatives came up with a good idea.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Latest from Team Blue: don't cave!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2086459081712189899

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MSM version:

Poilievre tells Carney in letter to not concede to U.S. demands in tariff talks

A new round of 50 per cent U.S. tariffs on a range of Canadian goods is set to take effect in about 10 days.

edmonton.citynews.ca

Kind of hard to get zero tariffs of the other side says ‘no thanks’.
In the end it’s just grandstanding by the Opposition. I have no doubt that if the parties were flipped the exact same thing would be said.

Again using the example of Australia which had a trade deficit with the US before Trump came along and not has a flat 10% tariff against them, expecting anything else is delusional.

 

[Good2Golf]

Pretty much what the Liberals have been doing fro the last 50 years every time the Conservatives came up with a good idea.

…and didn’t implement it themselves when they were the Government…

 

[Brad Sallows]

Kind of hard to get zero tariffs of the other side says ‘no thanks’.
In the end it’s just grandstanding by the Opposition. I have no doubt that if the parties were flipped the exact same thing would be said.

Again using the example of Australia which had a trade deficit with the US before Trump came along and not has a flat 10% tariff against them, expecting anything else is delusional.

If Australia had a trade deficit, it would be in a position of advantage, provided also that it were possible to treat bilateral trade deficits as meaningful in a trading world (it is not really possible).

One way or another, goods and services have to move bidirectionally in order to satisfy the conditions which some people (particularly Trump) insist on looking at from only one point. John Cochrane ("Grump Economist") on Trade Basics.

 

[Czech_pivo]

If Australia had a trade deficit, it would be in a position of advantage, provided also that it were possible to treat bilateral trade deficits as meaningful in a trading world (it is not really possible).

One way or another, goods and services have to move bidirectionally in order to satisfy the conditions which some people (particularly Trump) insist on looking at from only one point. John Cochrane ("Grump Economist") on Trade Basics.

They did have a deficit with the US, not ‘if’ and it still got them a 10% tariff against them.