Summary
Donald Trump launched a trade war against Canada by imposing a 25% tariff on nearly all Canadian goods, including a 10% levy on energy products.
His action, intended to pressure Canada to curb fentanyl flows, contradicts official trade figures and ignores that most deficits result from American demand for cheaper Canadian oil.
The tariffs, set to remain until Canada complies, could cost billions to Canada’s economy and disrupt $800 billion in annual trade.
Canada is expected to retaliate, forcing Prime Minister Trudeau to respond amid escalating cross-border tensions.
Someone pin him down and ask him how the fuck this is supposed to help
What makes you think it’s supposed to help anyone? This is them speed running tearing the US down to the nails and selling it off for pennies to themselves.
He’s hoping he’ll hurt us (Canada) enough that suddenly his offer to “save” us by becoming a US territory is appealing. Any sort of fentanyl or national security reasoning is just an excuse.
at some point they’re gonna want our water, and it’ll be much easier if we’re a US territory when they finally make the decision to take it
Honestly…if you can manage to pin him down don’t even talk to him. Anything he spews isn’t worth hearing, just [redacted] him to [redacted]
“take him to Disneyland”?
I don’t know if it’ll do much from a policy standpoint – I doubt that Canada is simply not pulling easy-to-pull levers related to fentanyl. Also, he didn’t aim to negotiate, but just said that he’d impose tariffs, and didn’t announce concrete goals. But it might benefit him politically.
I imagine that a lot of his domestic agenda is not going to be all that popular with a lot of people who voted for him. If people are talking about him taking extreme actions aimed at dealing with fentanyl – an issue of widespread political concern – that’s probably preferable.
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