Is Canadian electricity subject to the tariffs?
Let it ride. Make him claim the tariff for long enough that the shelves empty and the cars stop being made in Detroit because they can’t afford the parts.
Let the consequences to US companies and consumers show up. I don’t think Canada should retaliate . Drop the rope and let him trip on it.
There is a lot of timber down here. But I do wonder how long it would take to drastically increase the size of our logging industry.
My younger son works for the U.S. Forest Service, and is coming back next week from a long-planned extended vacation. What a different environment for forest conservation — and much else — he will return to.
This is my hope, that the world lets him hang himself and red states bleed.
Well if we don’t retaliate Trump will just cement this war for longer. The American people need to see the downsides to electing a nutter.
Donald Trump is a “nutter”’in the same way that Adolf Hitler was a nutter.
I don’t have a strong opinion on whether Canada should retaliate. But I think that most of damage Trump’s tariffs do, to the U.S. economy, will occur regardless of whether Canada retaliates. Automobile-industry-related disruptions will get lots of publicity down here. A decline in U.S. whiskey exports will not.
And Trump will blame those disruptions on Canada, even though tariffs are paid by the U.S. importers, preparing his supporters for further attacks on Canada.
I wish more Americans understood this.
I understand, but how Canada responds does matter. Yes, it matters to Americans who just cannot pivot to US resources and need to close down. However above all, how we respond matters to Canadians.
We will be looking back at this moment (much like how we broke away from the US in Vietnam, or Iraq, or with them during 9/11). How shall we judge ourselves if we did nothing in the face of Trumps wild insanity?
Canada will ride through this storm, I’m sure of it knocks on wood I would also like that we can look back at this moment with national pride.
I hope this is a tipping point, much like the Tet Offensive in 1968, where public pressure is too much for the Mango Mussolini and his cult to withstand. (Not that I wish him a Mussolini-style exit, but I’ll be happy however he is gone.)
More details have come out. The tariff on energy will be 10%.
Understood.
As an American, it isn’t my business to say how you should respond.
Here is the shameful EO:
Very well said.
You get to be the first layer of the cordon sanitaire (not counting those famous adult diapers)
Re the thread title, it’s not just me.
Premier Eby of BC says the US has declared economic war on Canada.
The thing about lumber is you need to harvest it sustainably or you don’t have it anymore. Of course, Trump does look a little like the orange-haired Lorax in the movie…
'Dolf was a singular nutter. Trump only has such an ambition.
I’m discovering that the magaflatearthers are so deep into Trump’s gluteus maximus they really do believe it’s the Canadian government, not the US consumers, paying the tariffs.
Canada won’t pay for a stinking wall!