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Nothing's certain yet, but all the pundits seem certain that Dofo will call a snap election next week for February 28th. Using the threat of Trump tariffs is the impetus is pretty smart. In the Toronto area, they have been buying attack ads against the Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie for months now. I would be shocked if he loses. But in 1990 the Liberal leader tried a snap election and that got Ontario an NDP government for the first time ever.

And again it's not a serious proposal. He makes up Trade deficit figures and implies that exporters will pay for tariffs. I'm almost certain they won't levy tariffs on Oil. That could result in an almost immediate increase in gas prices which is the one kitchen table issue people care about most. I guess that's why Danielle Smith is going rogue, she wants the oil supply line to continue. As for manufactured goods, that's the big issue. Canada has an natural advantage for manufacturing due to the cheaper cost for labour, due to universal healthcare and the lower dollar. I don't see how he does this without increasing the price of goods in the US. And not only that, US firms doing business in Canada will immediately become uncompetitive with the counter tariffs. I do like how Dofo has leveraged this "crisis" to try and get a third mandate. Prudent polytiking.

It wouldn't have been mentioned at all if a reporter didn't open his stupid yap. Now the media is acting like it's fact and JT has to respond today. Perhaps this is all for the best, it'll force Canada to diversify its export market.

It was an off the cuff remark. If he was serious he would have said it in his speech. He had all this immigration stuff locked and loaded for day 1 but not the tariffs. When was the last time he mentioned Canada as a 51st state? I could be proven wrong, but the idea of an External Revenue Service is idiocy. It's not the importers that pay tariffs. Has someone not explained that to him?

Cooler heads have likely prevailed. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-first-day-1.7435957 Tariffs on Canada would increase the price of energy for most Americans. He seems to think imposing Tariffs would be like an external revenue agency where he can tax other countries. That's not how tariffs work.

The irony is lost on Trumpers that this whole election was about lowering the cost of living but staggering tariffs will do the opposite. Trump says there's nothing Canada makes that the US needs. Well if that's the case why do they buy from us? Because it's cheaper or better? How are US companies not screaming at Trump to not do this?Imagine an American company importing products from Mexico to export to Canada. Would that not be double tariffed? One thing I haven't heard in a few days is about Canada becoming the 51st State. I think the focus groups Trump listens to have reported back to him how silly it makes him look to keep saying that.

I don't think so many do. Just the blowhards you see online.

It's just winning back the uncertainty created when this whole drama started in December. But yeah, a change in government is required to win back confidence in Canada.

Then the only way that happens is with a hostile military take-over. This time against a peaceful ally. If it wasn't my own country I'd find this entertaining AF. He has said 51st state, not a territory. Though this only makes sense with 10 new states. I don't think Trump realizes that Canada is a federation, Is he just going annex Quebec and do away with all their French laws?

Capitulate how? Let itself be annexed? I still haven't heard a workable way to annex Canada that doesn't make US a permanently left-wing nation.

Sure, but this only proves to make life more expensive for Americans. This is a bait and switch on the US electorate. Do you think these tariffs are going to drop the price of Big 3 car?

Americans buy Canadian goods out of the kindness of their hearts? And not because it's cheaper? Tariff may not make it cheaper anymore, but it'll also make things more expensive for Americans. It'll also make American products much less competitive. I know of a top US company in the industry I work in that gets products made in Mexico and shipped to Canada. I wonder what Trump's tariff's will do to them in the Canadian market?

I think the Tarifs are coming. But that only proves to hurt the Americans he needed to get elected. But he clearly hasn't thought this 51st state thing through all that much.

So for salvation you have to believe the world was made in 6 literal days, Noah could fit all the world's animal in a boat, and a human was swallowed by a whale and survived? Gotcha!

I'm sure this is mentioned in other threads, but I don't see a thread ABOUT it. This is obviously a troll job. Getting Canadians all worked up. Now he can take credit for JT's resignation. But why does everything this guy talk about have to be taken seriously. Is he going to annex Canada? Make us a singular state? Or treat us fairly and admit each province as their own sub-sovereign territory. PEI gets a congressman and two senators? Quebec can form their own alternative party to screw with their two-party system? We know he hasn't thought this through. It's just rhetoric. But I know this site is full of people that support Trump. What do you think the end-game here is? And if you are taking this seriously, how does this get done?

For Trump the Troll is the predominant principal. Imagine the US annexing Canada and suddenly absorbing at least 8 Blue States.

Trump always starts from bluster to start out a negotiation. Lots of US companies take advantage of the lower cost of labour in Canada to import products. This will hurt them as much as it hurts Canada. We went through this already before the last free trade agreement was signed.

Lots of Repubs have come out condemning the comments. It's telling you're cool with them.

It's also defined the coverage of Trump. That's how his campaign is ending.

He's also a comedian. He was one of the best parts of the Tom Brady roast. All that doesn't negate the fact that calling Puerto Rico a floating pile of garbage is politically ignorant.

Sure. A roast comedian is gonna roast. It's speaks to the Trump Campaign and their judgement that they thought that a person like this would appeal to voters. Especially Latino voters.

Ouch. Maybe screen some of the opening acts before letting them speak for your campaign. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2024/10/27/trump-rally-speaker-calls-puerto-rico-floating-island-of-garbage-campaign-says-joke-doesnt-reflect-trumps-views/ The attack ad write themselves. If the goal is to court the Latino vote away from the Dems, I would suggest this backfired in their face. I actually thought this dude was pretty funny on the Tom Brady Roast. . . but that's a roast, not a political rally. They also let this gasbag speak: https://www.instagram.com/grantcardone/reel/DBpDVTKvoc0/ I see this guy grifting on Instagram. If that's the type of dude the Republican party wants to represent them, it's not a party of the people.

The issue here is that there's very few people that haven't made their mind up. It's likely that those people aren't on team: Stop the Steal. Not that Vance could have said that the 2020 election wasn't rigged and stay on the ticket.

So you can appreciate the differences between a slip of tongue and posting on your own Social media platform that you're in a state that you're aren't in fact in.

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