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Summary

Canada is preparing to retaliate against Donald Trump’s proposed 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, which could trigger the largest trade war between the nations in decades.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised counter-tariffs worth $37 billion, with potential for further measures, depending on Trump’s final order.

Canadian officials warn the tariffs could harm both economies, disrupting key sectors like automotive, energy, and agriculture.

Labor leaders expressed concerns over job losses and urged collaboration. Canada hopes to avoid tariffs by highlighting their mutual economic impact to U.S. lawmakers.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’d like them to focus on taking all the Americans who can contribute to the economy. I volunteer for tribute.

[–] FlashMobOfOne 19 points 1 day ago (12 children)

The problem is Canada doesn't want a bunch of Americans.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But but, I have good job, no guns, no criminal record, aaaaaannnnndddddd I like hockey. So, maybe? Like a trial basis? 😅

[–] NikkiDimes 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Hmmm...are you from Michigan? Minnesota?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

I will be from wherever you want me to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

(whispers) "Go Knights, go!"

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I'm currently up in Canada for an extended stay, it's honestly so much nicer than back home. I'm gonna be sad to leave. I too gladly volunteer as tribute.

Edit: also everyone here has been so incredibly welcoming

[–] Gammelfisch 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You should stay in Canada, at minimum, until Jan 2029.

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[–] NikkiDimes 10 points 1 day ago

You should probably wait until after Monday to come home. Maybe something catastrophic will happen and you'll get stuck there. Oh noooo

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[–] kreskin 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We have no choice-- we must give California to Canada to assuage their anger. A tariff war would be bad for business. Its a shame its come to this, but jobs might be at stake here.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

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?

[–] DicJacobus 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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.

[–] DicJacobus 18 points 1 day ago

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.

In before the whining about National security starts again.

I dont get it. They say they dont want to pay others bills anymore, but when they start making moves to detatch themselves from the US (the only way to provide for themselves without leeching off the US is to detatch...). they cry about their national security, which is just another word for their hegemony.

America doesn't want allies, America wants an empire of subservient vassal states who do nothing but buy their goods and services, and provide them raw materials and clients. this is not the behaivor of an ally, this is the behaivor of a hostile force. its just a shame that we're dealing with multiple of those in the world at the same time. (Russia, China)

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[–] Gammelfisch -4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Tommorrow, "America" will become "AmeriKa." Canada will survive and make progress, while the US will regress and fall apart.

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