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- world@quokk.au
Canada will keep in place its retaliatory tariffs against US-made products as long as President Donald Trump persists with a trade war, said Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister-designate.
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Donald Trump is incapable of respecting anything.
Yep. I’m really glad we’re adapting to that early.
Canadians showing Trump you can put tariffs without shooting yourself in the foot.
Be careful, he might learn the trick. Or can he learn?
Can Donald “when I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same” Trump learn? You tell me.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/575962/donald-trump-tells-biographer-hes-same-now-first-grade
Good luck – E. Jean Carroll just kept getting excuses to re-sue him, which was hilarious, since he just could. not. resist. defaming her when legally ordered not to. :). The man seems absolutely compelled to double-down on his disrespect if he is pressured to act like a decent person. He just can’t resist trying to “assert dominance” or something.
Carney should formally demand Krasnov “say Thank You” for our water, oil, wood, steel, potash and aluminum, before we drop tariffs. Heh.
EDIT: Vance, too. He should have to say Thank You, on the air, on Fox ‘News’, before we drop tariffs.
That’s the point. This will hopefully eventually pressure Congress to do their job.
I fear people think this will be a short term thing but in reality if we want to protect our sovereignty it has to be more permanent. We need to evolve other markets.
this congress? the majority is drunk on the maga juice, the minority is a disorganized mess still in shock. and combined, the vast majority is bought and paid for by those who stand to gain the most from this shitshow.
So Putin is paying.
Have they even said thankyou for Trailer Park Boys once?
And can they please dress appropriately?
Thank you! ❤️
Meanwhile, in Canada…
It seems selling Tariffs to his constituency as something that only affects other countries was his biggest grift after all.
Ah, who am I kidding. It’s all grift. A gigantic hairball of grift.
I wish I knew enough about Canadian politics to have a deeper opinion, but afaics: Good
Oh and as a Eu citizen I feel very good about Canada maybe hopefully joining some sort of alliance with us. I didn’t have it on my radar before 2025.
But everybody said about Trumps tariffs, that the American people will have to pay them. Can somebody explain why Canada keeping the Tariffs is good then? Aren’t it the Canadian people paying for them?
Honest question btw, I’m not trying to be snarky. I’m just a bit slow sometimes.
Edit: Thanks for the explanations, I think I have a better understanding now. Tariffs hurt the consumer and the foreign industrie, but Canadians are rdy to pay that price for their sovereignity.
The Canadian Tariffs are targeted at certain goods that Canada knows it can ramp up production internally, or source from Europe/Asia. they are not broad tariffs on everything. It will cost some some, but there has been alot of thought to maximize pressure on American business while minimizing pressure on Canadian consumer.
I don’t think they’re saying it’s good economics and yes, for the most part, we understand how these tariffs will affect us.
But there’s a lot of anger at Trump here. Booing the American national anthem is not something we do lightly. I haven’t seen people this united for a common cause for a long time. I regularly see people checking labels at grocery stores to avoid buying American even if we have to pay more.
We know a recession is likely for both countries and we’ll be hit harder by it. It’s a small price to pay for our sovereignty.
So: at least 4 years, probably longer :/
The Democrats don’t tend to immediately back out of whatever direction the previous Republicans set the country in. maybe it has something to do with not being wasteful or respecting democracy or I don’t know . I’d imagine this New foreign policy will last for 20 years.
There’s a general governing philosophy that presidents tend to maintain agreements, policies, etc. agreed to by previous administrations. You want an international policy that is reasonably stable otherwise it makes it difficult for foreign nations to deal with the US.
Then we elected chucklefuck…
yea that’s exactly what im saying
I’m just reinforcing that it’s generally a “good thing” and done for a reason rather. Partisans tend to think it’s a bad thing, but it’s not.
If Project 2025 is to be believed then the goal is to remove tariffs on the US, including things like dairy, telcos, and banking. Which it will be interesting what that looks like if it does happen, I do wonder if things like cheese and cellular would be made more affordable via economies of scale.
american cheese is really gross though (the low quality stuff, which is lower than we have in canada)
tbh though high quality american cheese is better than anything we have
Good to see Carney is holding the line. But will he keep/bulid off of the energy Trudeau used?
The energy of “no business case” for alternatives export markets like Germany or Japan? Given he worked in the ESG department of Brookfield I’d garner that he will continue that legacy.
Who needs a funded social safety net, we can simply borrow billions more, and further fuel home prices to artificially grow GDP by eating the poor.
https://betterdwelling.com/canadas-next-pm-working-w-vancouver-condo-king-on-foreign-investment/
Better Dwelling was founded in 2017 as a real estate news service that used artificial intelligence to assist with its data journalism. It was co-founded by Stephen Punwasi.
That paragraph alone tells me to be skeptical of them.
Why? Machine learning has been around a lot longer than the current AI bubble, and housing market analysis seems like a reasonable use for it.
Okay I mean they are simply citing what someone else openly said in the video they linked. You can come to some opinion yourself I assume; as to whether we want foreigners to rent our own housing stock back to us, due to a mass immigration scheme that pushed prices out of reach?
Good shit. Go Canada!
This is what the Orange Turd deserves. Act like a shit get treated like shit.
Such a whiny brat about a needless tarrif war yam tits started himself. This orange turd has no clue how much Canadians hold grudges. This won’t ever be over. Canada is moving on.
