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Canada’s secret weapon in U.S. trade war? Trump's billionaire backers: Canada should be directly targeting American oligarchs with sanctions. (www.policyalternatives.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by PeaceLove@lemmy.world to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

Literally the reason presidents are supposed to divest is to stop other countries from applying political pressure like this...

So yeah, do it.

Fuck over any corp backing trump.

[-] ceph@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Anything Canada can do to directly impose sanctions on our own domestic (and foreign) oligarchical enemies is welcome.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

We should also make CPP and the Ontario teachers union pension invest ethically in Canadian businesses.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

100% tariff on Teslas for a start.

[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Tariff? Simply ban their import.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, let's not even screw around. Ban them all and take all their assets, IP, chargers, anything remotely valuable in this country.

Let's not even play around. They're trying to take over the country.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You know what, let's not let patriotism get in the way of common sense politics. We shouldn't be targeting them just because they back Trump.

We should be targeting them because they are billionaires. That's enough, regardless of who they support.

To quote Bill Burr: ‘These fucking billionaires. They need to be put down. You know, like fucking rabid dogs. They’re rabid with fucking greed and just going out and just dividing everybody.’

Make billionaires millionnaires again.

[-] Warehouse@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure, but targeting them because of their threat to our sovereignty is still a valid reason to do so.

[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

What was the result of the announcement to rescind Musk's Canadian citizenship? I saw the first stories about it, but nothing since, I'd say that successfully removing the legal citizenship of someone directly and ardently working counter to Canada's national interests should count as sanction, no?

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

No legal pathway to revoke his Canadian citizenship without opening a way to disenfranchise Canadians.

[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

This is true, which I'd assumed was the reason that I heard talk of limits to its scope, specifically concerning sedition or actions which ran counter to the national interest/security. Bit of a Pandora's Box though, absolutely.