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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.

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[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Our countries were like best friends for so long

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.

.

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.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I get it. I don't know how to fix it because apparently we want this.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

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.

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