In a way, as a Canadian, I’m glad for Trump for two reasons. One, we hated him so much that the conservative candidate in our federal election lost what should have been the easiest conservative win of my lifetime because he threw in support behind trump. And two, we are finally diversifying our economy away from that volatile ass country.
The art of the deal
America: I’m bleeding making me the victor
I wish I could export myself to Canada permanently
Why trade with Canada when we can just start a war?
You don’t understand it is 5D chess
By playing checkers against your opponent and scamming as much money as possible from your pawns?
My brain broke a little bit your statement was so stupid. So, unfortunately, I’m sure you’re 100% correct.
We are all Canada.
The whole earth should boycott the Yanks
The country should be sanctioned out of existence.
Plus their little pal Israel. I saw a meme making a case for the biblical ark being built in North America. Perhaps we could convince Bibi and his cronies Israel should actually be in the American Midwest. We’ll see how many Yanks support Zionism when so-called ‘settlers’ are killing their neighbors and taking their homes.
Yeah buddy, they’re one and the same.
The word you are looking for is sanction.
Walmart is currently deep-sixing a whole bunch of Canadian products that are subject to tariffs. that doesn’t really sound like a Canadian win to me. That doesn’t bring me joy, but let’s not be delusional here.
Carney was right to walk away, but the retaliatory tariffs are just going to further punish Canadians on top of this.
Times are about to get really tight.
What part of we’re, in a trade war. That means taking hits to our trade. Get used to it or give in. Don’t you understand?
What part of the image in the OP did you not understand. It’s trying to paint the whole thing as nothing but a win for Canada.
That’s what I would do if I where there. I’m in the Pacific Northwest and we feel the tourism squeeze here. I don’t care. You can’t insult your closest friend and bully them. I want the US to suffer the consequences, for a good amount of time, so every idiot is aware of the reasons for their pain. Not to mention Canada is beautiful. I could vacation at Banff or even in the far east for the rest of my life and be fine, you guys will be fine and even happier spending money to support your own countrymen.
I cannot wait for trump to shit himself to death. Or at least fall down and hit his big fucking orange face.
Can we do export tariffs on potash now? I think an extra 30% is reasonable.
I’m an American who didn’t vote for trump and none of this is my fault…but fuck it make it hurt harder daddy, we deserve it uwu
Well, most Canadians. I gotta say, maybe not surprised, but definitely irked that Carney is trying to encourage Canadians to put US liquor back on the shelves.
I think he’s trying to encourage the premiers to allow US brands back onto the store shelves.
If that were enough to make a deal, it wouldn’t be awful. I think a lot of Canadians wouldn’t buy the liquor if it was back on store shelves, so it might not change much.
It could be a good negotiating tactic, because the Americans might think that it meant that the revenue for US alcohol companies might start flowing again, when in reality it just puts it directly in the hands of Canadian buyers, rather than in the hands of the Premiers.
What’s more annoying to me is that Carney is going to go with counter-tariffs. That just means that if Canadians choose to buy American products they have to pay more. And, since the US is so monstrously huge, in many cases there aren’t alternatives to American products.
What I think they should be doing instead is investigating American companies for antitrust, allowing Canadians to circumvent DRM to do things like install alternative app stores to deprive Apple / Google of revenue, allow Canadians to work around printer ink restrictions to use any ink they want, allow Canadian farmers to repair their own tractors without John Deere’s approval, etc.
Instead of raising Canadians’ costs, deprive American companies of the unfair IP rules that they use to make massive profits. Those rules were forced on Canada in exchange for the US agreeing to barrier-free access to the American market for Canada. If the US is withdrawing from their own trade deals, then Canada shouldn’t feel obliged to uphold its obligations under those deals either.
Pretty sure that no longer applies after we just walked away from the table.
That was always a bargaining chip. It wasn’t super significant from an economic standpoint, but it’s an easy thing to remove liquor from the shelves, just a decision by Premiers. Liquor producers have way more influence in the US relative to the actual economic impact. That makes a very good bargaining chip. Don’t know why you’d be upset over Carney wanting to use that bargaining chip.
It’s a moot point now, pretty sure US booze isn’t going back on the shelves anytime soon after the collapse of trade talks.
