So Canada wants to pick a tax fight?

American Thinker ^ | 30 Jun, 2025 | Silvio Canto, Jr.

[woodbutcher1963]

Canada is one of our largest trading partners.
We buy a lot of oil and petroleum distilled products from Canada.
Like 100’s of billions of dollars worth.

There was a list of products a few months ago.
Petroleum products was the largest. Automobiles and parts was second.
Lumber is way down the list and is still around 10 BILLION.

[MinorityRepublican]

there is the whole question of defending Canada, a pretty good deal that our friends up north enjoy. Who protects their airspace and massive coastlines?

200% tariffs on Canadian goods until they are paying 5% of their GDP on defense.

[The Great RJ]

Canada is going to hell in a handcart. They have replaced Trudeau’s Marxist laced socialism with a EU globalist who is clueless about how to grow Canada’s economy let alone have a good relationship with their largest trading partner, the largest economy in the world.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

The DST applies equally to Canadian and US tech firms. Its a tax on consumption, not a tariff. Canadians would have to consume the services of US tech firms anyway because there usually isn’t a Canadian alternative.

It really is dumbfounding why the Trump administration is whining about things like VAT and other taxes that do not convey any advantage to domestic firms in the way tarriffs do.

All governments need to be able to tax internal economic activity in order to function.