- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he’s terminating all trade discussions with Canada effective immediately.
“We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period,” Trump said in a social media post.
He says he’s pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax (DST), which requires web giants pay a special tax.
Set to take effect on June 30, the DST requires U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay a three per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users — a policy enacted by former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government that the Parliamentary Budget Office projects will bring in billions of dollars in revenue.
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Congrats to Canada on their newfound status of not having to listen to trumps noise anymore.
And no worries, America will be back soon on its knees groveling for lumber and fish. Just ship it through Mexico, itll be fine.
Lol oil. Railcar from Alberta to BC, onto a tanker to Mexico, then railcar back up to Montana for the refineries that are tooled specifically for tar sands oil.
Sure it’s expensive, but oil from across the pond is about to be as well, or did Iran back down on that?
Yeah, well, Trump says lots of things. None of which have any meaning or worth. He’ll be saying the opposite next week.
Aw, even though Carney tried so hard to pass bill c-2 for daddy Trump? I wonder what their new excuse for the bullshit “border” bill will be.
That means nothing. He will taco. Then Canada will get even more pushed away from our once great partnership.
Remember how Trump fucked up the election in Canada for the conservatives? They literally had it in the bag. But Taco showed up with his tiny mushroom dick.
Thursday, Canada signs huge rare earth mineral mining deal with Iceland, humiliating Trump.
Friday, Trump throws a tantrum.
As is tradition
Lol Donald announced that he’s shutting up? Canada wins
And U.S. consumers lose because, if there’s still anyone unclear on this, we pay the goddamn tariff and not a single person in Canada.
Well there is counter tarrifs on some US goods we’d hypothetically pay… if we were still buying US products, that is.
I’m in favour of gradual weakening of the US leading to its ultimate dismantling. The sub-300 year experiment has clearly failed, so there’s zero reason for the US to exist in its current form.
Yeah I kind of believe that NA would work better as a bunch of smaller countries in an agreement similar to the EU. I say that as a Canadian who’s politics aren’t as much a dumpster fire too
He’s just trying to get our CDN back to an equal level with USD :)
We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying
…that’s… not how this works…
After all this time he still has no idea how tariffs work.
Doesn’t matter, it’s what his sycophants believe. If Trump does it/says it - it becomes the truth to them. It’s the result of a decade or more of brainwashing on tens of millions of trump fans by Fox News etc
It works like that when you assume the other country will desperately lower their export prices and eat the difference so in the end it’s still sold at the same price in the country raising the tariffs. In practice the greedy capitalists raise prices in the shops at the mere mention of the concept of tariffs, even when the product is produced locally.
Canada should back out of the USMCA and stop respecting US IP
US already contravened it, thanks to Trump, CUSMA is pretty much meaningless now. That being said, Canada wont contravene our side, but we’ll humour the US in their bullshit just as we make better deals with reliable countries, leaving the US behind.
It would be highly amusing for Canada to start making Star Wars films without Disney’s approval, along with a little “Come get me fuckers”.
With the Trailer Park Boys as the main characters. Bubbles as Han Solo.
Some of us never started
If you don’t mind losing leg so the other guy gets cancer. Canada needs more time to detach first.
“We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying…”
How has he still not learned that it is Americans and American businesses that pay the tariffs.
Oh he knows. He’s just compelled to lie by whatever that jelly is in his head that is a brain in normal people.
He knows, but he also knows that his base is too dumb to recognize it, so he lies because raising taxes on Americans is unpopular.
hes also been obsessed with tariffs since forever.
He also knows that if he just repeats things people will believe them, even in spite of evidence they can see, feel and touch.
What a stupid timeline, in which the above is true🙄
I’m not certain what he knows or does not know. In any case, his message to MAGA is clear, Canada will pay, and they’ll believe it.
I mean, he did make Mexico pay for the wall that he built. Right guys? He did, didn’t he? Fox News said that he did, and they wouldn’t lie, right?!?
Nah. Fox News is (usually) more subtle than that. They simply stop talking about fails. And that’s all it takes. Just stop talking about the fail and talk about something else. Why bother lying when you can STFU and get the same or better results?
Of course he did! Do you not remember? It was in the summer of 2022. President Biden launched a surprise nuclear assault on France. Every major American city was leveled. With NATO in ruins, Mexico built a wall to hold back the tide of refugees above the border. They also sent humanitarian and financial assistance, thanks to a deal masterminded by Trump.
simspons did an episode of a retalitory french nuclear strike.
ERR3067 TIMELINE CATALOGUE CORRUPTION
It’s not so much whether or not he knows it, so much as how much he cares. He knows what he says will get his base riled up, and that’s what he likes. It strokes his ego and gives him more power.
That could be true, but he is dumb enough to not understand. Malice or ignorance are always possibilities.
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Conspiracy Time!
I wonder if they are trying to flood the ‘Canada’ SEO because of this recent event:
https://globalnews.ca/news/11262681/canadian-dead-ice-custody-florida/
The deceased lived in the US for their entire adult life. It’s not like a tourist was snatched and died in custody. First, everybody should be outraged about this type of treatment happening to a human being, but there’s no reason for Canada to have anything more to do with this.
Canada geese are my favorite bird. I see them by the lake all the time. They are perfectly well-behaved, until you deliberately try to piss them off.
Right? They have a terrible rep but they’re pretty fair in my experience. The only time I’ve angered one was when I stepped too close to take a picture of her babies and she did this grass filled mouth hiss at me like a cat. Which to be fair, is fair
Canada needs to start cashing in their US Bonds. Let’s watch the US economy start to crash.
I feel like that’s probably our nuclear option and we’re holding out for now since it’s likely Trump chickens out again
Agree with @regedit Canada should cash in a few bonds, and when president felon freaks out, do a few more. Explain to the orange child that he needs to shut up about Canada, drop the tariffs and observe the trade agreements. America deserves all the backlash the world is piling on it right now. Republicans are vile scum, treat them with the disrespect they have earned.
I hope not. Please do it. tRump and his shit-sucking base only give a shit when the leopard is dousing them and theirs in hot sauce. If crashing and burning this fucker and our country is what it takes to end him and them, don’t wait! Do it slowly, like someone shredding important documents.
Bonus points if they or anyone does it each time this regime tries to lie or bury that pressure point. Rich people back this fuck-squad because they care about two things: their money and their lives. Threaten one and/or the other until they abandon him!
