This is a super important point. You go to Home Depot and you see something with the American flag on it. You turn it over - "Made in the USA with domestic and global materials." Read - a lot of Chinese inputs, parts and subassemblies. That along with a small markup for the fellow poorly paid American assembly worker, and a huge markup for the corporation owner. Cut the middle man and let the American worker deal with him many-on-one - something that has to happen anyways, if this shit is to ever get better.

This. I starred buying from AliExpress years back because amazon stores were just sending the exact same product for 5-10x the price. People got upset and said I wasn't supporting american entepaneurs stores they setup. Lol. And that Aliexpress owner is a billionaire. Sure, but why make Bezos rich too? Just buy direct.

Everything we buy from the US

Trump's tariffs are on things Americans buy from Canada.

I think I found the remote to change this godawful channel but the batteries are dead.

I was thinking he'd have at least a quiet week or two after the EU mostly called his bluff.

Our deal with China was barely dipping our toes in the water. If Trump doesn't get anything substantial from Carney he'll probably lose significant ability to try anymore power plays on larger countries for the rest of his term unless he actually starts invading more countries.

Domestically he's starting to see some real pressure so he is desperate for a win.

This man is so fucking emotionally fragile, he’s like a fucking baby.

He's so emotionally fragile that he's showing the entire world there's no point trying to deal with him. He'll always change his mind tomorrow and you'll be back to square one. Why even bother? You are better off dealing with someone who understands the value of negotiating a deal and keeping promises.

You're making the same mistake as Trump. Tariffs aren't paid by Canadians.

It's more, "Hey Amazon, I've got all this stuff I want to sell and you've said you don't need it, and you've been altering our agreement a ton lately, unilaterally and arbitrarily, making it hard to maintain a business relationship with you. So I'm going to sell it to Target too". And then Amazon saying "That's it!! We're gonna double the price for our customers on any good you sell to us, so our customers'll probably buy less of it!!!"

So.... you sell more to Target and other vendors. Cause Amazon's actions are reducing your market viability in their selling space even further. And their idiotic random arbitrary actions, basically just re-emphasize the point you were making. Sorta like how Carney made a Davos speech about great powers bullying smaller countries, and Trump's response -- that many Americans thought was 'great!', was "Canada doesn't live without the US" -- so more bullying. Canada exports a silly amount of raw materials, which can be sold in quite a few places other than the US if the US ain't buying. Canada's spent a big chunk of 2025 building those additional trade relationships to buffer against this sort of strange behaviour from the states.

The US Administration makes very little sense these days.

It's not a 4yr blip, because this isn't about Trump.

It's about the American System not being able to prevent a Trump.

For all the talk of the constitution/branches/check and balances,

It's obvious, none of it worked.

Its not a blip. How can you trust America ever again. They could vote someone else in and do the same.

(ie, is this really a rupture or just a 4 year blip)

It's a rupture. The Canada/US relationship has been shaky this entire millennium. Many people here are probably too young to remember, but the US got mad when Canada joined the US in Afghanistan, but refused to join the next adventure in Iraq. They might have heard of Freedom Fries, but forget how the US was encouraging Americans to boycott Canadian goods because "you're either with us or you're with the terrists!"

After Bush, Obama made things somewhat normal again, but after Obama, the US elected Trump, then it was Biden, then it was Trump again. If every second president the US elects is going to try to wreck Canada's economy for not simply falling in line, the relationship is done for. Besides, any deal with the US would now be a suicide pact. The US is intent on destroying itself. You don't want to tightly integrate your economy to that of a country that is poised to collapse.

Does that include electricity?

And potash?

And crude oil?

And lumber?