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.
So they’ll make Canadians pay import taxes on American goods. Do American exports to Canada compete with anyone on price? Surely it’s mainly availability of goods?
a lot of it is about choice. whether its by foreign culture brainwashing/advertisement spam, or canadian products just being less popular. people tend to buy american products because the retailers are locked into supplying them. if that were to change the average consumer might have to change brands for food, pay more for luxuries, and say goodbye to some specific things for a while until replacements are found, but when national security is on the line, canadians need to learn how to go cold turkey and abandon this dependence on an obviously untrustworthy, unreliable, and hostile United States.
Our countries were like best friends for so long. This makes me sad and angry. I feel like I’m gonna be this way for a while.
If you guys could have not voted in a hostile garbage idiot whose idea of strength is going all bull in a China shop that friendship could have remained warn and fuzzy.
But now that you’ve gone and re-elected the guy who treated us like we’re a hostile enemy (and said as much 5-6 years ago), we don’t have much choice other than to take a few steps back and see other people.
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I hope you guys can fix your issues, so we can feel like we can trust you again, but until then we have to do what’s right for ourselves.
In before the whining about National security starts again.
I dont get it. They say they dont want to pay others bills anymore, but when they start making moves to detatch themselves from the US (the only way to provide for themselves without leeching off the US is to detatch…). they cry about their national security, which is just another word for their hegemony.
America doesn’t want allies, America wants an empire of subservient vassal states who do nothing but buy their goods and services, and provide them raw materials and clients. this is not the behaivor of an ally, this is the behaivor of a hostile force. its just a shame that we’re dealing with multiple of those in the world at the same time. (Russia, China)
Yeah, I get it. I don’t know how to fix it because apparently we want this.
You don’t want this. I don’t want this. Not even half of the voting public want this. And yet it’s happening. We don’t know how to fix it because it’s broken by design. The purpose of a system is what it does.
Canadian friends, best of luck moving forward. I hope you can do a better job than we did of staving off the torrent of bullshit.
I just wish yall decided to have your meltdown -before- Russia turned fascist, got bold, and decided to start shooting wars.
Europe is asleep at the wheel, disarmed themselves a decade ago and are now playing catchup and sitting on their hands with a wait and see attitude. Its a very “Adults have left the room” feeling. New adults are going to have to step up.
And for a shocking number of EU nations: “Oh hey, your weird street-corner-arms-dealer cousin who hangs out on 4chan a lot says he wants to be ‘man of the house’ now, whaddya think?”
At least the Russians are greedy fucking idiots or we’d all be in big trouble
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About 277 Billion worth of goods annually.
You can look it up if you just type the question into a search engine, instead of making up facts.
https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/imports/united-states
With about a $70bn trade deficit in Canada’s favour mostly due to oil and energy exports. Which are very likely to get very expensive should we enter a trading war.
Most likely serving to make that deficit worse for America.
Add a 5% levy on that and it’s nearly 12 billion in tax revenue extracted from Canadian business and consumers under the guise of sticking it to Trump.
Didn’t mean to represent my statements as factual, just personal observation.
I’d still argue that it’s not impossible for us to navigate around that. But I don’t have any statistical basis for thinking that. If our dependence is that large then maybe America will annex us. Lord knows I wouldn’t survive such a thing. So maybe I’m delusionally trying to be hopeful about having a future at all.
The US cannot “annex” or “invade” Canada.
Both are key members of NATO. That means that all other members must defend any fellow country if it’s invaded. Almost the entire western world - INCLUDING AMERICA - would have to defend Canada.
It’s just Trump spreading lies and misinformation to distract from him stealing American’s money. Same as always.
I’d love to tell you that that’s comforting. But you’re saying this under the assumption that the American military wouldn’t be able to handle that. How many of those other nations even have standing militaries? Laws and treaties are just words. He will have nearly absolute power starting tomorrow. He can basically decide for himself what the rules are.
Last I checked, all of them except Iceland. However, your point stands - the U.S. accounts for well over half of total NATO defence expenditure.