What's going on Canada?
🍁 Meta
🗺️ Provinces / Territories
🏙️ Cities / Local Communities
Sorted alphabetically by city name.
🏒 Sports
Hockey
Football (NFL): incomplete
Football (CFL): incomplete
Baseball
Basketball
Soccer
💻 Schools / Universities
Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.
💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales
🗣️ Politics
🍁 Social / Culture
Rules
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca
The chart from this article just posting it as the main link since it by far the best representation of the data I've seen.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/most-retaliatory-tariffs-removed-1.7620036
The article does skip over the 7 Billion from the Digital Service Tax we gave up as well.
What happened to elbows up?
We still have our wallets, and the will weaponize them.
The consumers are the ones that end up paying the tariff costs. This is fine.
We voted in a traitor 🤷
Selling us out to make the line go up.
But wasn't the other guy worse?
Yes.
I'm still not happy with Carney though.
We don't have a two party system. There was more than a binary choice.
Canadians need to forget this red vs blue 🐂💩
There are other options.
Only 2 had a realistic chance to form a Government.
That's what sucks about a hypothetical let's say 20% 40% 40% split. The 20% supporters and others not confirmed always say well I'm not throwing away my vote and switch to voting for one of the 40% parties.
Fun fact, even with our shitty voting system if everyone votes a certain way things will go that way. It’s not a gamble, we can just vote for what we want. We can delay it and try to fix it when it’s even harder and more dangerous or start now.
Still is
I don't care too much about retaliatory tariffs to be honest. We're the ones paying for those anyway.
We shall continue boycotting to send them the middle finger
The point of the tariffs is that we don't pay them because we don't buy those products. It makes it more economical to boycott, so more people do it, and profit driven companies will also do it.
It makes it more economical to boycott,
I guess technically? It makes boycotting more economically "sensible" but just because it makes it less economical to not boycott. It doesn't really benefit the people boycotting, it just penalizes those that for some reason don't.
If I could just pick and choose, I be down for keeping some targeted retaliatory tariffs up because I see the value in forcing the hand of people that would be otherwise indifferent (or worse) but most of the damage we've been doing to the US is not really tariff driven, e.g. booze, travel, groceries.
Frankly, considering what the US has said they wanted to do to us, I’m ok with making goods from there more expensive for people who don’t want to boycott. I’m ok with any purchases made from US companies costing more even if I find myself doing it for one reason or another, too, no matter how legitimate or innocent I personally think my reasons are.
Fair. I'd say me too. If anything, it helps me making sure that if I don't boycott on a purchase either intentionally or by mistake, at least there will be an extra tax collection for it.
As an American, I say, "Keep boycotting the ever living fuck out of the USA."
The boycott continues that’s what.
Retaliatory tariffs only hurt Canadians. Find other sources or boycott.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYHv8eJrW2Y
It's free on yt
Oh wow, it's actually an HD copy straight from the official source.
Wow that's an unexpected reference! Bravo
I agree that we should be doing something to retaliate against the US regime, but to be honest they’re doing a fine enough job of that themselves. Best thing we can do is pivot our exports to Europe & Asia, become a new leader to developing nations and emerging markets, and stop being vassal for US foreign policy. That’s what really hurts them, not import taxes.
People will vote Con thinking they’ll somehow be more anti-American.
