This letter has to be one of the greatest rage-bait posts ever. Trump really know how to do it.
the United States of America has agreed to continue working with Canada, despite Canada having financially retaliated against the United States
Barely and only after he swung the first blow and started shit over nothing, yeah.
the United States imposed Tariffs on Canada to deal with our National Fentanyl crisis, which is caused, in part, by Canada’s failure to stop the drugs from pouring into our Country.
“In part” meaning less than a single percent. “Failure to stop” meaning a massive increase in border presence and fentanyl seizures.
Instead of working with the United States
See above, we implemented border security measures to appease the charade of Fentanyl being an issue.
there will be no Tariff if Canada, or companies within your Country, decide to build or manufacture product within the United States
Perfect! Let’s just make ourselves the States’ little bitch, completely reliant on them for everything and with no details on how much production we even have to move over so that he can just say we didn’t fulfill our part of the bargain whenever he wants. Why wouldn’t we do that? Jesus H Christ.
Canada charges extraordinary Tariffs to our Dairy Farmers — up to 400%
Two things, 1. tariffs to protect your local agriculture makes sense to not become reliant on other countries for food. 2. that “up to” is doing HEAVY lifting as those high rates are almost never in effect¹, so why do you even care. Oh right, you don’t care! This is all a sham.
¹ Source
So are we gonna get a TACO pool going… everyone bet which day Trump caves and winner takes all.
Less trade with the US the better
Hopefully he actually follows through
Bring it, bitch.
I will never visit the us again. i cancelled netflix, prime, apple music. i use crave, cbc gem, and qobuz now. i installed ubuntu on my old surface pro and it works beautifully. switched to libre office. my next phone will be a fairphone.
when i go to the grocery store, if an item i want is a product of the usa, i eat something else.
I also cancelled and use the same services! Qobuz is pretty good, it has a lot of room to improve but it’s keeping me more up to date with music than Apple was.
I got Sync.com (Canadian) instead of iCloud (though iCloud is not fully replaceable). My backup server is in the EU because I use custom borg scripts, but there’s also eazyBackup in Canada.
I own my own domain for email, and I bought my wife one too so she can get off of Gmail.
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Legend. I had cancelled all that but then Telus came in and offered it for free. So technically I have it, but I’m not really paying for it.
Carney needs to grow a pair. I’ve had enough of him not saying anything. We voted for elbows up, not subservience. I’m still not clear what we got for the DST removal.
I’m also an NDP voter that voted LPC over CPC. I knew we wouldn’t get Value(s) Carney, but I do believe that if anyone is going to shift capitalism in a better direction it would be him.
As a former bouncer I completely disagree that silence is a sign of weakness or subservience. That’s just good tact. Never argue with an idiot, they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Elbows Up doesn’t mean you should draw a penalty. You’re supposed to hit them hard and get away with it.
As far as the DST. I find it interesting that a tax we never collected is being framed as a loss we deserve compensation for.
A month ago I thought bills C-2 & C-5 were overreach, and their lack of oversight definitely is… I wrote several letters to that effect. But given the continuation of Trumps annexation rhetoric, I now recognize those bills were designed for a political environment that is still burgeoning.
Based on Trumps usage of ICE I believe it’s inevitable that the USA will use domestic crossings to affect some form of hybrid war against Canada. Russia & China will certainly occupy northern Canada if we don’t rapidly expand our national infrastructure.
These threats, I believe, do justify deprioritizing environmental concerns, to a degree.
I think the silver lining is that Carney’s energy expansion in to oil/gas is not mutually exclusive with expanding renewable energy.
I also sold mortgages for a short time and saw the industry change more in 24 months than 24 years. I agree that the least harmful economic solution to housing is to freeze housing prices where they are until cost of living and supply normalize. The alternative of housing prices drop would have a net negative effect. The CMHC in 2014 & 15 made major changes to reduce Canadian borrowing power to avoid a post mortgage crisis of mass defaults like what we saw in the USA.
I think the world is too volatile right now to expect concrete plans that aren’t heavily hedged. Carney is playing the game correctly by holding Canada’s cards close and not telling his bluffs.
holding Canada’s cards close and not telling his bluffs.
That’s what the “just tell us what you’re doing in the negotiations” crowd seems to miss.
It would be colossally stupid to put out a press release that tells the other players what cards you’re holding, and what your planned strategy is.
Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
- Sun Tzu
Those people also don’t appreciate that in the context of Trumps unpredictability no publicly made plans would remain unchanged.
I’m still not clear what we got for the DST removal.
The U.S. temporarily ended trade talks in late June over Canada’s digital services tax, but the federal government moved to drop the tax just days later and negotiations resumed.
Yes, and apparently they include 35% tariffs across the board now. So the question remains, what did we get for dropping the DST?
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We got jack and shit, and jack left town (ref).
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He wants housing prices to remain elevated, you dont get that by cutting off your supply of USD.
Con troll. Blocked.
HAHAHA I hate the Cons and am an NDP voter who lent Carney my vote (first time voting Lib, actually) because I felt a Con government would handle Trump exactly the way Carney apparently is doing, apparently.
That will likely be the first and last time, that is for sure.Goof.
We’re done with the US. let them Tax themselves into oblivion. We have closer friends now to trade with.
“You will never be disappointed with the United States of America.”
We’re fucking disappointed. Every fucking year of this relationshit. You are an utter disappointment in nearly every way.
bring back DST and 3X it, fuck em.
Add a “reciprocal” US services tax on top.
Buy Canadian 💪🍁
Meh. He’ll change his mind at least 15 more times before Aug 1st.
Every 2 weeks, methinks…
2 weeks Trumpy time is either very short or never happens.
Turn off their power.
Cool, calm reciprocity. They Tarrif us, we Tarrif them where it hurts in equal measure.
For everything else, there are better trade partners.
Trump is named in the Epstein files.
Trump cut NOAA and FEMA funding before flash flooding killed over 200 people in Texas including two dozen Christian girls.
Someone needs to take out this pedophile president.
Don’t forget, multiple time felon.
Sure Donnie, now please go take your meds.
Carney can’t decide if he wants elbows up or not. In fact, he flipflops so much, he looks like hes doing the chicken dance.
What are some examples? The DST is postponed as trade leverage which is still ongoing. I haven’t seen him flop flop on anything yet, and he hasn’t been PM for long enough to see how anything had played out. He seems very calculated and has been getting great results so far within Canada and internationally.
No I think he knows exactly what he’s doing and it has very little to do with anything Trump does, despite what he or anyone else says.
He’s handing our money to corporations and butt fucking us in a much quieter way than PP would have, but he seems to be doing it very intentionally.
So fucken true!! Really disappointed in Carney so far. He’s not standing up to Trump, doing everything in secret, no updates. Paying American companies for military equipment (night vision), not cancelling the fighter jets order, begging the abuser to trade with us while we’re giving shit up left right and centre. Fuck this!! But PP and cons would not be better.
doing everything in secret, no updates.
Do you think it would be beneficial for him to put out a press release saying what aces he has up his sleeve, what the plan is to counter Trump’s next move, or any other parts of the negotiations?
Do you think the Americans won’t love to learn those things?
He should be making weekly statements to Canadians, I thought we were in an emergency or crisis and Carney get elected then clams TF up. Could be vague but he should be communicating with Canada and giving us a status update. Actually Carney should just fucking walk away.
He’s a banker. He’s on capitalism’s side, not the people’s.
His literally said housing prices shouldn’t fall, even though he have a world leading housing bubble that threatens to bring down our entire economy. This level of mismanagement is how communist countries are created.
I suppose you’re right. It’s irresponsible to let him plead stupidity for fleecing us, when it’s all very calculated.
