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.
I’d like them to focus on taking all the Americans who can contribute to the economy. I volunteer for tribute.
The problem is Canada doesn’t want a bunch of Americans.
We don’t want their guns, the litigiousness, the exceptionalism and the arrogance, but other than that, we actually love Americans.
Kind of. Some of my best friends and all that… lots of fabulous expats in my little exurban community. Usually great people with american cultural baggage that encourages a kind of heroic individualism that is no big deal until you’re organizing in a group or the like. Not smug, more… socially entitled? It grates on local sensibilities sometimes, and it’s hard to explain unless you apply an analysis of colonialism. We recognize the colonizers more than the other way around.
Tell me about it. Buddy of mine married an American, a texan, she’s fairly liberal as far as they go…
She just had a baby and was granted 18 months maternity leave, didn’t pay a dime, had an in home nurse due to complications. All for free.
We just talked about how she would prefer to have to pay her employer for health insurance rather than “Lose so much to these crazy taxes.”
If a liberal minded, young person thinks like this, how many of them think like this? Stay to the south. Please.
Nothing is for free, taxation pays for the medical care.
The weirdest thing is that their thinking is so short-term. Like it didn’t occur to her that those “crazy taxes” would also cover someone else’s maternity process?
Texans seem to think they’re top of the world and unstoppable “without those pesky taxes” until some family-illness or accident shows up and threatens to bankrupt them overnight.
Are any of these lovable Americans in the room with us now?
I’ve some of them in my family and my friend circles, so, yes sure.
But but, I have good job, no guns, no criminal record, aaaaaannnnndddddd I like hockey. So, maybe? Like a trial basis? 😅
Hmmm…are you from Michigan? Minnesota?
I will be from wherever you want me to be.
I’m currently up in Canada for an extended stay, it’s honestly so much nicer than back home. I’m gonna be sad to leave. I too gladly volunteer as tribute.
Edit: also everyone here has been so incredibly welcoming
You should stay in Canada, at minimum, until Jan 2029.
You should probably wait until after Monday to come home. Maybe something catastrophic will happen and you’ll get stuck there. Oh noooo
Nice, what part of Canada?
Ontario :)
OooOoooO fancy