The Latest.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods if the country “makes a deal with China.”
- Prime Minister Mark Carney has not taken questions about the threat, but posted an ad online this afternoon reiterating that Ottawa’s response to economic threats will continue to be focusing on what it can control.
- Ministers on Parliament Hill today acknowledged the threat is serious, but they said it only confirms Canada needs to stay the course with its strategy to move trade dependency away from the U.S.
- Carney made a trade deal during a recent visit to China, calling the country “a reliable and predictable” trading partner. Then, in Davos, Switzerland, he also encouraged European leaders to work with the nation.
Shitstain Trump said the offensive thing about Carney (called him governor) last night. Fuck the US. Nothing more constructive to say other than that.
This is exactly why the deal with China is happening. Europe caved the first time and the US came right back with more demands. Canada isn’t having it anymore.
Last week Trump said it was a good thing to make deal with China if you could.
Hopefully, Carney cut the Digital Sales Tax when Trump said boo. I do have faith that he wont fall flat on his face after that speech. Trump came out with this plan on a Saturday so that the stock market would not freak out as much.
We need a wall, .then we can sit on it like that South Park episode and taunt them.
Canadian here. I’ll live with the tariff if it happens; anything is better than being beholden to that insane government down there.
We should be diversifying our local production regardless, so we don’t need as much from China, but that can’t happen overnight, so it is what it is …
The only reasonable way forward right now is to play them off each other. You want us to continue doing trade with the US? Make us a less insane offer, and stop constantly issuing us threats.
We’ll work on making better deals with middle powers over time, but our short term security has to be more stable than Trump’s whims.
We will not be the 51st state.
I would much rather be beholden to china than the USA right now. Its not even close.
That evil stupid empire needs to end.
The only response I want to see from the government is no response at all.
The United States is a rogue state and a direct threat to Canada, and the world.
Whatever Trump wants to do, let him. His words should carry zero weight as far as how Canada makes any decisions, and we should continue to diversify our trade and security as fast as humanly possible.
Carney needs to up the GST and taxes on the rich right now, any billionaires who want to leave, let them go. America will gladly take you and your money, get the fuck out of my country.
GST hurts the poor, not the rich.
I noticed Carney posted on Twitter, he needs to stop using that.
He has a Bluesky account
I suggested to CBC to move to Mastadon on a Canadian host.
Typical abuser behaviour. What do they have left when the victim decides to break the cycle and leave the relationship? They double down on what they’ve been doing so far. More abuse.
Either the victim caves and goes back, or it reminds them of all the reasons they left in the first place and guarantees they never return. We’re choosing the second one.
The Truth Social posts get more unhinged as the domestic problems get more and more out of hand.
I expect the focus will be on Canada for a few weeks since Idiot cowered away from the rest of NATO and Greenland. I hope the EU leaders who applauded at Davos will speak up for Canada a little more than before.
I saw that a few more of them are taking their gold reserves out of the US, and some of them are selling bonds.
I think the gold reserves being moved is a good idea however selling the bonds could be dangerous for the world.
I mean, our country is literally the second biggest country, we should be able to produce everything within our own borders.
We need to demand it.
We demand it by absolutely refusing to support the US economy in any way we can possibly control.
This includes McDonald’s, Starbucks, Walmart, etc. Just because they employ Canadians doesn’t mean they’re Canadian, some of your money is still going down south.
It’ll never, ever happen until we accept that it takes sacrifices to avoid supporting the US. Monetary and otherwise.
