Canada/Mexico Tarriffs are reportedly, -not- coming "right away"...
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billionaires would kill trump before they let him take a dollar from them
where were you when the billionares were lining up to kiss the ring of the man who was given clemency and immunity from literally murdering all of them with government spook squads?
So they'll make Canadians pay import taxes on American goods. Do American exports to Canada compete with anyone on price? Surely it's mainly availability of goods?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Yeah, I get it. I don't know how to fix it because apparently we want this.
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.
I've said this before, the EU should just invite Canada into the Union.
Canada would have to switch to European standards instead of US ones. Their companies wouldn't be happy.
How do Canadian companies like tariffs? Just saying, it's not impossible...
The Canadians can take the Blue States with them to the EU.
I'm not too sure they'd be such a great fit for the EU, culturally and socially. That sounds like we'd be taking in a Trojan horse.
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