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The United States imposed 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products early Saturday, and Canada immediately said it would retaliate, after last-ditch negotiations failed to resolve the latest strain in already tense relations between the historic allies.

Donald Trump’s import taxes will hit about 5% of what Canada ships to the United States every year, including products ranging from hockey sticks to tongue depressors.

“Canada will match those tariffs dollar for dollar to protect our workers and businesses,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement. The retaliation escalates the trade conflict and calls into question the future of a North American trade pact between the United States, Canada and Mexico that is crucial to industry in all three countries.

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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 41 points 15 hours ago

Canada has been ceding our sovereignty by centimetres since the signing of NAFTA. It's time to take it back.

[-] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yeah, I think the future is bright. We need to cut out Microsoft, Google and Oracle from public service use. Hold Amazon accountable for its labour violations. Remove our data from US owned or located datacenters. Ban Facebook for its criminal activities. Force Netflix and other streamers to pay into our culture production funds and create/promote more Canadian/French Language content. We need to become food independent from the US. No way we should die from eating their bullshit.

We've allowed our sovereignty to be eroded by these companies who do whatever the fuck they want with no consequences.

And quite frankly, I think the Auto Industry in Ontario can die and then be replaced with military industries: small arms, drones and missiles. Enough fucking around.

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

The financials are most important. Alternatives for Visa and MasterCard

[-] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Damn straight. Upgrade Interac, nationalize it if needed.

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 24 points 15 hours ago

Give them an inch and they'll take 1609.34 Meters.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

What? Canada made out like a bandit with NAFTA, industry in the US closed overnight and located across the border. They got labor on the CDN $ and didn't have to pay US healthcare.

If we want to get serious about decoupling with the US, we need to stop subsidizing the auto sector like Australia did.

[-] pilferjinx@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Financially Canada came out ahead in exchange for IP protections no? In any case we got lazy and complacent in developing a robust world-wide trading scheme and it's biting us in the ass now.

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