Tariffs on Canadian Goods

[CdnFox]

15 minutes ago, eyeball said:

No they said it was because it made savings in court services that include diverting cases away from the courts and introducing the less formal community court in Vancouver.

 

Sure. Because crime was down. It had fallen again in 2008 so they wanted to look at reducing police and shift to a cheaper "community" system.  Did you think they were sending cases to less formal community court that were criminal cases? LOL are you actually dumb enough to think they're offloading rapists to 'community court'? 

 LOL  Awww poor little eyeball.  It's always the same.  You say something mildly dumb, you get called on it and you immediately double down on the dumb and keep digging, all the while demanding it's my fault you've said something stupid  

Conservatives have in many occasions suggested reducing the price of police services and diverting the resources elsewhere due to Crime reduction or crime not being as serious a problem at that moment.

 

22 minutes ago, eyeball said:

But yes, I was pretty sure you'd cawk up your response...as usual.

[Aristides]

Here's an idea. Go on the offensive. Tell the dumb orange fvck we are imposing a 25% tariff on autos next Friday if he doesn't remove all his tariffs. He has already backed off his threat because he knows how much damage it will cause. Let him know he isn't the only one who can play this stupid game.

 

Edited March 8 by Aristides

[CdnFox]

3 minutes ago, Aristides said:

Here's an idea. Go on the offensive. Tell the dumb orange fvck we are imposing a 25% tariff on autos next Friday if he doesn't remove all his tariffs. He has already backed off his threat because he knows how much damage it will cause. Let him know he isn't the only one who can play this stupid game.

 

I would rather move in that direction. I'd go a step further and say even if trump delays his tariffs ours will kick in anyway. To be honest I would go so far as to start taking advertisements out in areas most impacted asking the people why trump is doing this to them and whether or not they voted for him to attack Canada would cost them their livelihood

Midterms in about 14 months now

[eyeball]

1 minute ago, CdnFox said:

Sure. Because crime was down. It had fallen again in 2008 so they wanted to look at reducing police and shift to a cheaper "community" system.  Did you think they were sending cases to less formal community court that were criminal cases? LOL are you actually dumb enough to think they're offloading rapists to 'community court'? 

No, like I said probably money laundering friends of the Liberals.

Meanwhile...there was a crime wave under-way according the the G&M and the opposition.

4 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Conservatives have in many occasions suggested reducing the price of police services and diverting the resources elsewhere due to Crime reduction or crime not being as serious a problem at that moment.

Well, your first example of such an occasion was a flop. But good luck on your next attempt.

[CdnFox]

1 minute ago, eyeball said:

No, like I said probably money laundering friends of the Liberals.

Sure, the truth didn't work for you so you made something up that's completely ridiculous and false and tried to argue with that. That's a pretty standard MO for you, nobody's shocked

2 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Well, your first example of such an occasion was a flop

Would that be because of the thing that you just made up that didn't exist and you're trying to argue instead of the facts?

Sure kid  

[Barquentine]

And just to make things more complicated: "China announced tariffs of up to 100 percent on canola, pork and other foods from Canada on Saturday, in retaliation for Canada’s decision last August to collect steep taxes on imports of Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum."

[eyeball]

12 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Sure, the truth didn't work for you so you made something up

Sure kid.

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, eyeball said:

Sure kid.

Oh look, after years of hard work you finally reached the intellectual level of a parrot    well done!  Here's a cracker  

[herbie]

On 2/6/2025 at 1:44 PM, Aristides said:

A majority of Canadians support using oil as weapon if Trump starts trade war, including 72% of Albertans.

Don't forget Trump's speech where he claims to love farmers so much. An export tax on potash would show the farmers just how much, eh?

[Aristides]

The dumb fvck wants to put a 250% tariff on all dairy even thought it only applies to some items over the amount negotiated in USMCA. We imported over $700M in dairy last year and exported less than $300M to the US so lets each of us apply a 250% tariff to all dairy and see who's farmers hurt the most. Our dairy farmers would just love the stupid SOB.

[CdnFox]

43 minutes ago, Aristides said:

The dumb fvck wants to put a 250% tariff on all dairy even thought it only applies to some items over the amount negotiated in USMCA. We imported over $700M in dairy last year and exported less than $300M to the US so lets each of us apply a 250% tariff to all dairy and see who's farmers hurt the most. Our dairy farmers would just love the stupid SOB.

Honestly I have to say I don't think he understands how any of this stuff works. His actions and his tariffs aren't making sense, he obviously hasn't thought of the impact of various Industries because they're going to him and forcing him to back down, this just is not going the way he thought it was going to go. At this point if I were him I would be concerned about parting the economy into a recession which is political suicide right before midterms. Next week the inflationary data is going to come out for his first month and I don't know that it's going to be positive and I severely doubt that it's going to be positive for his second month.

I kind of feel like he thought this would be an easy way to collect taxes and put revenue in his pocket and the repercussions are far worse than he originally anticipated and he's not sure what to do

[Aristides]

The stable genius's chaotic behaviour alone is tipping the economy into recession because no one knows what to expect, so they are cutting back on production, spending and investment.

Edited March 9 by Aristides

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, Aristides said:

The stable genius's chaotic behaviour alone is tipping the economy into recession because no one knows what to expect, so they are cutting back on production, spending and investment.

yeah, both as I am to agree I pointed out a week or so ago that businesses can't survive with uncertain environments. They need to know what's happening or they pull their investments and wait and see.

Right now the stock markets are  all over the map, employment isn't bad but showed serious underlying weakness that could cause real problems, consumer spending is substantially down and business investment is bound to follow. 

So far it hasn't really made a severe impact on the economy yet but if this continues for another month or so then it's going to be hard to correct. The bank is going to hold interest rates, no more cuts, from the looks of things so the economy isn't getting any more stimulus. 

This is a house of straw, and he's doing a lot of huffing and puffing. He needs to get some stability into the markets. 

Edited March 9 by CdnFox

[Aristides]

We should be putting a 15% export tax on oil and gas to the US. The only reason Trump made it 10% is because he doesn't want gas prices to go higher. Put a tax on it and give the proceeds to the producing provinces to use as they see fit.

[Boges]

The bluff here is that Trump says he doesn't need Canada. But they do. He wouldn't want to annex Canada if he didn't need what Canada offers via resources and educated citizens. 

What these past few weeks have shown us that the attempt to cripple Canada, will only prove to cripple average Americans first. Which is why Dofo actually following through on a threat really stings. Someone's actually called his bluff. 

It's erratic and dumb behaviour, that even Americans can see. 

Edited March 11 by Boges

[Aristides]

1 hour ago, Boges said:

The bluff here is that Trump says he doesn't need Canada. But they do. He wouldn't want to annex Canada if he didn't need what Canada offers via resources and educated citizens. 

What these past few weeks have shown us that the attempt to cripple Canada, will only prove to cripple average Americans first. Which is why Dofo actually following through on a threat really stings. Someone's actually called his bluff. 

It's erratic and dumb behaviour, that even Americans can see. 

The MAGA base will never see it but hopefully it craters Trump's support from the rest of America.

[eyeball]

3 hours ago, Boges said:

The bluff here is that Trump says he doesn't need Canada. But they do. He wouldn't want to annex Canada if he didn't need what Canada offers via resources and educated citizens. 

The escalation, ongoing 51st state rhetoric and state of emergency talk from Trump makes it at least plausible to think he might try something like blockading Canada if we messed with their oil supply. The US has staged coups, installed and propped up many dictators over the decades when it came to oil.

As for educated Canadians, is he imagining everyone will just show up to work and keep the energy supply running for America's benefit following our annexation? Maybe at gunpoint. 

[eyeball]

In any case it looks like Canada and especially Doug Ford is kicking Trump's ass at the moment.

Like kicking an elephant though, the signal needs to travel to thru and back and forth between Trump and the ordinary Americans who will be feeling it.

Hopefully Trump just strokes out or something.

[Barquentine]

9 minutes ago, eyeball said:

In any case it looks like Canada and especially Doug Ford is kicking Trump's ass at the moment.

Like kicking an elephant though, the signal needs to travel to thru and back and forth between Trump and the ordinary Americans who will be feeling it.

Hopefully Trump just strokes out or something.

I don't think either side is getting its ass kicked. I just hope someone can stop Trump from doing something monumentally stupid (which he is capable of).

[eyeball]

33 minutes ago, Barquentine said:

I don't think either side is getting its ass kicked. I just hope someone can stop Trump from doing something monumentally stupid (which he is capable of).

I don't see too many Canadians as upset as Americans over the various twists and turns of events.

[SpankyMcFarland]

Apparently, Canada doesn’t import US farm produce ‘for the most part’ and yet still managed to land up with $28.4 billion of the stuff last year. This is the sort of uninformed nincompoop we have to negotiate with:

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And while Trump claimed in February that “they don’t take our agricultural product for the most part,” Canada is actually the world’s second-largest export market for US agricultural products as a whole, according to the US Department of Agriculture, purchasing about $28.4 billion worth in 2024.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/politics/trump-canada-dairy-tariffs-fact-check/index.html

Another issue I rarely hear discussed by Trumpsters - the number of undocumented workers in the agricultural sector down there. Both dairy and the rest are utterly dependent on them. Essentially, Trump is insisting we import even more proceeds of crime. Will these workers be getting a visit from Kristi Noem any time soon? 
 

 

Edited March 11 by SpankyMcFarland