Well lets see I wonder what the reason for this could be. Could it be the deal we signed with Greeland on Thursday? Could it be the 2.5bil US companies owe us on Monday? Could it be the fact they murdered one of our Citizens? gee which one could it be?
Fuck em and fuck that country. I hate Nazi's and it makes my stomach churn that I have to live above a nation full of them.
Congrats to Canada on their newfound status of not having to listen to trumps noise anymore.
And no worries, America will be back soon on its knees groveling for lumber and fish. Just ship it through Mexico, itll be fine.
Lol oil. Railcar from Alberta to BC, onto a tanker to Mexico, then railcar back up to Montana for the refineries that are tooled specifically for tar sands oil.
Sure it's expensive, but oil from across the pond is about to be as well, or did Iran back down on that?
I’d like someone to do the maths for me how much energy will be used versus how much is created after all that…
Yeah, well, Trump says lots of things. None of which have any meaning or worth. He'll be saying the opposite next week.
Thursday, Canada signs huge rare earth mineral mining deal with ~~Iceland~~ Greenland, humiliating Trump.
Friday, Trump throws a tantrum.
Do you mean Greenland or did they do some deal with Iceland?
Ugh. No, you're right. Greenland.
As is tradition
Lol Donald announced that he's shutting up? Canada wins
And U.S. consumers lose because, if there's still anyone unclear on this, we pay the goddamn tariff and not a single person in Canada.
Aw, even though Carney tried so hard to pass bill c-2 for daddy Trump? I wonder what their new excuse for the bullshit "border" bill will be.
I'm in favour of gradual weakening of the US leading to its ultimate dismantling. The sub-300 year experiment has clearly failed, so there's zero reason for the US to exist in its current form.
Yeah I kind of believe that NA would work better as a bunch of smaller countries in an agreement similar to the EU. I say that as a Canadian who’s politics aren’t as much a dumpster fire too
"We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying..."
How has he still not learned that it is Americans and American businesses that pay the tariffs.
Right, but he can't raise income tax very much, and he needs money to give to all the rich fuckers, so a big federal sales tax "disguised" as a tariff is a decent way to raise funds.
Don't need to raise the income tax. The government makes up the money. Could simply turn on the printers and give to the billionaire. The cruelty is the point as it always is.
Oh he knows. He's just compelled to lie by whatever that jelly is in his head that is a brain in normal people.
He knows, but he also knows that his base is too dumb to recognize it, so he lies because raising taxes on Americans is unpopular.
hes also been obsessed with tariffs since forever.
He also knows that if he just repeats things people will believe them, even in spite of evidence they can see, feel and touch.
We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying
...that's... not how this works...
After all this time he still has no idea how tariffs work.
Doesn’t matter, it’s what his sycophants believe. If Trump does it/says it - it becomes the truth to them. It’s the result of a decade or more of brainwashing on tens of millions of trump fans by Fox News etc
Canada should back out of the USMCA and stop respecting US IP
US already contravened it, thanks to Trump, CUSMA is pretty much meaningless now. That being said, Canada wont contravene our side, but we’ll humour the US in their bullshit just as we make better deals with reliable countries, leaving the US behind.
It would be highly amusing for Canada to start making Star Wars films without Disney's approval, along with a little "Come get me fuckers".
With the Trailer Park Boys as the main characters. Bubbles as Han Solo.
Canada needs to start cashing in their US Bonds. Let's watch the US economy start to crash.
I feel like that’s probably our nuclear option and we’re holding out for now since it’s likely Trump chickens out again
Agree with @regedit Canada should cash in a few bonds, and when president felon freaks out, do a few more. Explain to the orange child that he needs to shut up about Canada, drop the tariffs and observe the trade agreements. America deserves all the backlash the world is piling on it right now. Republicans are vile scum, treat them with the disrespect they have earned.
How dare the Canadian government get American companies to pay their fair share for operating here [in Canada]
How dare they charge *checks notes* the same thing Visa and Mastercard charge everyone in our entire country for everything.
At least they are not charging American Express numbers. (really blowing out your closest trading partner over 3% on netflix is nuts)
Conspiracy Time!
I wonder if they are trying to flood the 'Canada' SEO because of this recent event:
https://globalnews.ca/news/11262681/canadian-dead-ice-custody-florida/
The deceased lived in the US for their entire adult life. It's not like a tourist was snatched and died in custody. First, everybody should be outraged about this type of treatment happening to a human being, but there's no reason for Canada to have anything more to do with this.
ART OF THE DEAL
That's definitely going to help him make a deal.
This is the equivalent of that obnoxious kid in the neighbourhood saying they're taking their basketball home and no one can play basketball any more .... then after he leaves, someone else brings another basketball anyway.
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