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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Nice try but US used blind misplaced faith in your own superiority. It was super effective.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Trump is more respected by other nations than Biden" part deux dipshit boogaloo

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (15 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Indeed and the BS, from the Orange Stain, are orders from Moscow to divide NATO and US allies.

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[–] [email protected] 215 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Eggs are going to be so cheap bro.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago

Just one more oil boom, bro. We promise not to piss this one away. C'mon, don't hit us with oil tariffs on our marginal product we can't get to market. Don't be a dick bro.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

some car parts cross the border as parts en route to assembly plants, and then back again in fully-assembled vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Some cars cross the border 5 to 6 times while being assembled. Car prices are going to sky rocket.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I've said this before, the EU should just invite Canada into the Union.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice idea, but it’s not a good thing to distance yourself from your closest trading partner…just ask the U.K.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm.not saying Canada has to take the offer, just that it's something that should be on the table for trump to chew on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I see your stance now. Down with that mate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Canadians can take the Blue States with them to the EU.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Canada would have to switch to European standards instead of US ones. Their companies wouldn't be happy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

How do Canadian companies like tariffs? Just saying, it's not impossible...

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I’d like them to focus on taking all the Americans who can contribute to the economy. I volunteer for tribute.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The problem is Canada doesn't want a bunch of Americans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

We don't want their guns, the litigiousness, the exceptionalism and the arrogance, but other than that, we actually love Americans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Tell me about it. Buddy of mine married an American, a texan, she's fairly liberal as far as they go...

She just had a baby and was granted 18 months maternity leave, didn't pay a dime, had an in home nurse due to complications. All for free.

We just talked about how she would prefer to have to pay her employer for health insurance rather than "Lose so much to these crazy taxes."

If a liberal minded, young person thinks like this, how many of them think like this? Stay to the south. Please.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The weirdest thing is that their thinking is so short-term. Like it didn't occur to her that those "crazy taxes" would also cover someone else's maternity process?

Texans seem to think they're top of the world and unstoppable "without those pesky taxes" until some family-illness or accident shows up and threatens to bankrupt them overnight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It's all very short sighted and to be honest I can't blame them for their brainwashing most of the time.

They hear if places with 30, 40, 50% tax rates and are appalled but they don't realize that the combined income of a nation can more than subsidise education, healthcare and so much more while still affording an amazing quality of life.

They call Europeans poor because they don't own 50 acres and a McMansion with 3 mud crawlers in the garage.

My buddy's wife just doesn't understand how far out tax money goes and thinks our government is just as corrupt as hers.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Kind of. Some of my best friends and all that... lots of fabulous expats in my little exurban community. Usually great people with american cultural baggage that encourages a kind of heroic individualism that is no big deal until you're organizing in a group or the like. Not smug, more... socially entitled? It grates on local sensibilities sometimes, and it's hard to explain unless you apply an analysis of colonialism. We recognize the colonizers more than the other way around.

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