Or, maybe it's not (just) distraction. Maybe he is seeding interest amongst the Canadian magatards. Maybe this is designed to give traction to Dani Smith and her ilk, to create division and internal strife.
Maybe Trump and the repubs have been following a playbook for all his Canada talk... maybe Putin's playbook on Ukraine.
I guess you would apply the tariff on the company that buys distribution rights for broadcast or theatrical release in the former USA. Which would make it near impossible to release a foreign-produced film in there.
The intent wouldn't be to actually collect the tariffs, it would be to stop US filmmakers from filming outside the USA.
This would devastate the US film industry... so many great shows just wouldn't be made if they couldn't save money filming elsewhere. Even if they could all afford it, there simply isn't enough production capacity in the former USA if all those productions returned home tomorrow.
I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm. I hope.
The other 38% is likely consumed in oil and gas camps, the true heartland of Albertan separatism.
About 20% of them want to be. Alberta's Premier, Danielle Smith, is a Trump-loving separatist.
Cool story. Now pay your workers a living wage and get them health benefits.
Anyone who is voting for these fascists isn't reading anything and doesn't give a fuck about a platform. They want to see PP gel up his hair, be cruel to minorities on their behalf, and make us over in Trump's image.
The conservative human centipede keeps doing its thing.
And afraid of everyone that doesn't look just like them.
More bald faced lies and doublespeak from chief pig, Per Bank.
They’ve choked out competition so people have little or no choice but to use stores, they have an effective monopoly on their market so face little price competition. They are gouging as hard as they dare, offering “bargains” on their inferior, high-margin fakes and knockoffs. Every item they steal as a knockoff to generously offer us suckers as “value” takes money away from food suppliers, who then have less leverage to negotiate. Per Bank, Loblaws, Safeway, Save-On, all the major grocers play the same piggy game, gleefully gouging both ends of the market and hoarding the loot for there C suite bonuses and institutional shareholders… while throw handfuls of nickels to the retail shareholders to keep them voting the right way and parroting the doublespeak.
It’s a polite oligarchy. Per Bank is a thug in a yellow cardigan, holding a knife to your throat and emptying your pockets while he smiles and tells you how invested he is in bringing you more value.
Rampant and criminal exploitation of the working class that literally threatens their ability to feed their children, while government watches and does nothing - this is a recipe for violence.
I hope Per is setting some bonus money aside for security - history is full of pigs just like him who come to an end with their head on a stick.
How dumb do they think we are? The problem isn’t your supply chain, it’s your record profits raked in by gouging us. Gouging is their new business model.
I’m starting to think these pigs won’t change until we start putting their heads on sticks.
The Cartels invented that process after our "war on drugs" made it impossible to get pseudo-ephedrine over the counter in drug stores, which was a key ingredient in good ol' fashioned biker meth. Biker meth wasn't a nice drug, but it was afternoon tea compared to the new production methods. The new stuff is much more addictive and it causes permanent changes in the brain. You can get off new meth, but you are never the same... this is a key ingredient in the increasing levels of violence and psychosis amongst street addicts.