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Some Canadian stakeholders have argued for the government to target US swing states with retaliatory tariffs, to put political pressure on Republicans. But Brian Clow, a former senior Canadian adviser on trade and US relations, said the midterms shouldn’t be a major factor for Canada’s approach to negotiating tariff relief with the US.
“Nobody should expect the Democrats to save Canada or come to our rescue when it comes to Donald Trump’s tariffs,” Clow said. “Although there are some voices speaking out against Donald Trump’s tariff policy, many of them aren’t speaking out against it and may actually support it.”
Agreed; let’s not forget that theUS was already found guilty of setting illegal tariffs against Canadian goods long before Trump took power.
The only difference is that the original tariffs were actually of strategic benefit for US industry and the new ones just funnel money to the rich.
If the Democrats seize the reins of government, fixing trade relations with Canada is going to be a long way down the list, and when it’s finally addressed, they’re still going to want concessions for each tariff they remove.
strategic benefit for US industry … just funnel money to the rich
They’re the same picture
Same outcome sort of, but the older ones gave entire industries a long term advantage that actually benefited the US as a whole. The new ones are just a federal cash grab.
Yeah, I couldn’t avoid the meme response.
Careful tariffs can help shield a local industry against an exploitative economy in another country, which could result in benefits to a larger workforce / population.
But “tariffs so American automakers get higher profits so they can do more stock buybacks” ain’t it. (Example; I don’t really know who other than Trump is benefiting from current tariffs)
The money from the current tariffs goes into the income tax bin to offset the strategic tax cuts for the wealthy.
This is also why the US can’t just get rid if them; they’d have to find the money somewhere else.
Not illegal, free trade with the US means only the US can use tariffs. The US courts sided with the US.
Trump is the symptom, not the cause.
The cause is that Americans are Americans and always will be. They are bullies by culture and by nationality. They were raised to believe that America would always be number one, and would always call the shots. It was never about America the defender of the free world, it was always about America the undisputed power of the world.
For seventy years, that was true. All world economic metrics had America 80% rest of the world 20%. Now, it is more like America 30% rest of the world 70% or better, and Americans are just not able to accept that. The rest of the world, that 70% ,is now their enemy, period. Well, maybe not directly their enemy, but the target of their adversarial nature. They believe in win-lose negotiations, and can not accept that America no longer calls the shots, that it is either win-win (which to an American means they-win-America-loses) in negotiations, and that makes them very, very dangerous, collectively, no matter who leads them. T\he Thucydides Trap. Research it and you will understand what is happening in America.
As an American Democrat this is bullshit. Fuck tariffs. trump is a demented rapist sociopath, if we can get a significant majority we’ll finally be able to stop or at least heavily limit his idiocies to a large extent.
Democrats have traditionally been more in favour of protectionism than the Republicans. Don’t forget corporations are loving these tariffs because it basically blocks foreign competition.
Trump’s tariffs have nothing to do with that though - they’re just a product of his fevered ignorance and greed.
Actual industry-serving tariffs are still valid though with the utter shitshow of these “liberation day” idiocies I don’t know if there’ll be a lot of political will to use them anytime soon.
Either way, we have a lot of repairing to do. Which I suggest we start off by jailing this sonofabitch for any number of his seemingly limitless crimes.
Trump’s tariffs have nothing to do with that though - they’re just a product of his fevered ignorance and greed.
Remind me how many of Trump’s first term tariffs were removed during the Biden administration?
Trump’s First-Term Tariffs on Canada Trump initially imposed 25% tariffs on steel and 10% tariffs on aluminum starting March 1, 2018. Wikipedia Canada was initially exempt, but Trump extended these tariffs to Canada on May 31, 2018, after failed negotiations. Wikipedia
However, these tariffs were lifted in May 2019 through a negotiated deal. Wikipedia The U.S., Canada, and Mexico reached an agreement to remove the steel and aluminum tariffs in May 2019, almost a year after they went into effect. Wikipedia This removal was seen as helping pave the way for ratification of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA).
So the answer is none, relative to Canada, because they were already removed before Biden took office.
The headline is dishonest. One thing is bipartisan support, another is ineffective opposition, which is what even the summary of the article suggests the complaint was about. Of course Canada can’t rely on US politics to suddenly fix themselves, even if Democrats end up winning the midterms which Trump isn’t going to cleanly allow. They couldn’t when things were much better.
oh yeah yeah. don’t worry about influencing the midterms or changing the party. the dems are the same as the reps and junk. man I have heard this before but never targeted outside of the stupidest of us voters.
Melanie is so pretty
Joly is a genocidal joke.
Canadas israeli policy is hugely problematic. But that has nothing to do with this issue.
I’d say that we passed the “problematic” phase years ago. I’d also submit that: the operatives within this gov running cover for these atrocities lack any credibility.
How are we supposed to trust anything she says?
