Summary
Trump’s new 25% tariffs on Canadian goods, along with threats of more on lumber and dairy, have sparked widespread backlash in Canada.
Canadians are boycotting American products, canceling U.S. trips, and rallying around “Buy Canadian” efforts. Ontario has banned U.S. liquor sales, and Premier Doug Ford threatened to cut electricity exports.
British Columbia’s premier vowed national unity against the tariffs. The federal government launched a $5 billion aid program for affected businesses.
Many Canadians see the tariffs as a betrayal and reject Trump’s taunts about making Canada the 51st state.
As a US citizen, it makes me so happy that this is making Canada and Europe become stronger and more willing to stand up for themselves.
Since the end of World War II, the USA has been a big bully swinging it’s dick around fucking up the planet and getting hardly any consequences for being such a dick. The only reason we had a period of relative “stability” was because no one would stand up to the country that was siphoning off the wealth of the rest of the world for its own. The USA decimated countless countries and enabled despots who were willing to give the USA what it wanted. (*cough Saddam Hussein, Operation Ajax cough)
This honestly has been a long time coming and well deserved. It is going to hurt me and everyone I love, but too many US citizens have been ignoring this festering wound of a problem for eighty years.
As another American, fully agree. We have been ruining other parts of the planet for a long time just so everyone here can have cheap food and toys to keep them complacent. Even though I was technically covered under it by enlistment, our rule about never sending anyone to The Hague despite what they do has always made me feel like we are not the good guys, just the strongest ape.
Trek made me hope we’d see the stars as a united planet one day but we seem to be regressing and hopefully CA and EU becoming more self-reliant can lead to that.