Canada poised to fight back against Trump tariffs, rethink U.S. reliance

https://financialpost.com/news/canada-retaliate-trump-tariffs-us-reliance

35 comments

  1. Really hoping for a moratorium on oil and gas and mineral exports to the US.

    🇨🇦

    Watching the news ATM: “sources say tarrifs to increase if Canada retaliates.”

    Well that solves it. All critical resources sales into the US stop. Shut down their refineries, shut down their agricultural sectors, major cities in the northern states can sit in the cold and dark.

  2. Please just cut off electricity to Super Bowl…
    That would be a blast

  3. As a Canadian, I can tell you this is surprisingly the most united we’ve been in awhile.

    Basically everyone I know is looking for ways to hit the US back. So far it’s just canceling trips to or through the US and looking for alternative products. But little by little that’s going to add up.

  4. The rest of the world needs to decouple from the US economy more than ever.

  5. How to isolate yourself and make everyone else band together speedrun any%

  6. What a bully. 

    24.8 trillion GDP vs 2.2 trillion. 

    Fight back Canada but it’s going to hurt big time. 😥

  7. We should just follow Trumps words… he doesn’t need anything from Canada… take it literally… and turn everything off…

  8. Being poised to fight trump only makes me think even more highly of you Canada.

  9. We need a pipeline that goes to the west coast and one that goes to the east coast so we can trade with Asia and Europe. We also need to double our military.
    Our economy and national security can’t depend on what 20k swing voters in the rust belt are going to do.

  10. >*Freeland suggested hitting Elon Musk directly by applying a 100% tariff on Teslas*

    Please please please be true because that would be fucking funny

  11. In US here – please hit us hard – it’s the only thing that is going to get people to step up and revolt Tru mp

  12. Cut the power, cut the fertilizer, cut the natural gaz and over tax American transport on the saint-Lawrence…. Fuck them….. he said he doesn’t need anything Canadian well fuck off then…. Canada is maybe smaller, it’s gonna hurt, but we aren’t no cowards

  13. It’s also a pretty even trade deal between the two countries which makes it even more interesting to even try this.

    >U.S. goods and services trade with Canada totaled an estimated $908.9 billion in 2022. **Exports were $427.7 billion; imports were $481.2 billion**

    On top of that, the majority of the 44B that is the delta is just the US using more oil.

    There isn’t that much inequality in the agreement. Add on Mexico

    >In 2022, the US exported $362 billion in goods to Mexico, but imported $493.1 billion.This resulted in a trade deficit of $130.5 billion.

    which sure does a bit larger deficit, but that’s nearly $1T in imports and $1T in exports that are going to be impacted. The US Imports ~3T worth of goods, so that’s already 1/3 of everything that the US uses.

  14. Canadians, remember that half of our country hates Trump too. That being said, do what you must to destroy him!

  15. Canada would be smart to team up with Mexico and the EU so they have more leverage against Trump

  16. Canada needs to increase trade with China and the EU. And then add 50% taxes to electricity exported to the US.

  17. They can’t keep dancing to different US administration’s whims every 4 years. They need to de-risk from US dependency on trade, technology whatever other area, such that their exposure to US is not more than 10%.

  18. I like the idea of BANNING TESLAS outright. Totally 100% here for that

  19. cut the potash which is 90% of American fertilizer…. They want to starve us financially, they could starve literally

  20. When Donny Dimentia said he wanted to take our country by economic force, this is what he meant. This is not a drill. THIS IS GO TIME. We need to stand united against this fucker and his American fuckwads that put him in power.

  21. I think we join with Mexico. We can’t make anything anyway quickly so let’s help raise 140million people up and buy made in Mexico stuff and give them good deals on our oil and natural resources.

    Alternatively it would be hilarious to ship them 1 million dollars worth of 30 foot ladders

  22. Didnt Canada recently had a deal with Musk’s Starlink? Yeah start with that

  23. As an American, I want to see a strong Canada fight back against bullies. And our president is a bully.

    We all know Canada is polite. Now it’s time for Canada to show some teeth. Enough is enough.

  24. Get ready for inflation Trump supporters. And no, it has nothing to do with Biden no matter what you keep telling yourself.

    I’m waiting for him to actually help America. So far he’s made things worse, factually. He’s purposefully creating instability. But you’d think he’s throw his supporters a bone. Nope. You put him in the white house, now it’s like you don’t exist. Elon eyeing social security and services you paid into your whole life. Think you’re gonna get a check for everything you put in when they start using it? LOL

  25. Canada, Mexico, the UK, the EU, Japan and Korea should form some sort of anti-US consortium.

  26. I want Canada to just ignore all US patents on medication. Mass produce cheap generic versions of every single medication and sell them.

  27. I’ll never buy another American made item in my life, country full of legit weirdos.

  28. As soon as Trump realizes he is being outsmarted he will up the 51st state rhetoric. Trust NATO Europe will have Canadas back.

  29. If Mexico and Canada aren’t making their own deals with the EU and pumping their military up right now they are crazy, this fascist shit needs to be responded to

  30. Canada stood side by side America during D-Day. We landed their planes in Gander, housed and fed their people on 911. We honoured Nato article 5 and went to war in Afghanistan with them, spilled blood and lost our own people for them.

    Meanwhile Russia meddled with America’s elections spread falsehoods to divide the country. China steals intellectual property from them, hacks into their government computers and phones, but somehow Trump decides Canada is his target.

    My country will survive this. We will come out stronger in the longterm when we shift our trade partners and build up our infrastructure. America is going to lose one of their closest allies in Canada , as well as Mexico.

  31. Here’s what we do.

    1. Stop exports of weightloss drugs to the US.

    2. Close all US bases in our countries across Europe. You’re not welcome anymore.

    3. Invite Canada to join the European Economic Union.

    4. Change Visa requirements for all Americans in Europe. Note. Europeans don’t care if the US does the same. Why the fuck would we want to live in the US anyway? To have our kids shot, only to have to pay for the ambulance to take them to the hospital we can’t afford?

    5. Ban Musk from all travel to Europe. Nobody meddles in EU or UK politics ever again.

    6. Ramp up military and economic support for Ukraine to ensure less need to rely on the US.

    7. Boycott American products. What do they sell us anyway, that we cannot source elsewhere? Almonds?

    8. Increase price of Botox. Botox is made in just one single factory in Westport, on the West Coast of Ireland.

    9. Stop all US Military flight stopovers in Gander, Shannon and Prestwick. That would actually be a big one. They’d have to go the long way around….oh, wait.

    Lol..

  33. This is how to fight back against the chaos. Set boundaries and then enforce penalties for violating them.

    Trump will throw a fit, but the nation he hurts the most is the US, and that’s not Canada’s problem. We’re supposed to be allies, but if America doesn’t behave that way then Canada needs to do what is best for Canada and to secure its future without the chaos here impacting them negatively.

    In America we voted to *make* this happen. People say they didn’t vote for this, *but yes they did.* We are highly unreliable and cannot be trusted any more, and I hope our — maybe former — allies, look out for themselves and move on without us. The world can’t stop because America is digging its own grave.

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