Posted on 04/02/2025 7:21:01 AM PDT by hardspunned
Call his bluff, Doug. If he doesn’t reciprocate, you will have exposed him as a liar and then you can reimpose them. Live dangerously, Doug.
I don’t think so. I think it’s a tactic to get countries to drop their tariffs against the United States.
Wait. Can the PM of Ontario speak for all of Canadia?
Dunno about that. I’m no canadaphile (except for Seagrams and smoked whitefish) but I think Ford just cost himself the next election. He protested too much. Too much grandstanding about opening trade with the rest of the world. Found out the hard way nobody else wants their stuff.
If you watch Trump’s TV interviews from the 1980s and 1990s, one of his criticisms is that we did the Marshall Plan post WWII and then over the following decades we accepted restrictions and tariffs from our allies to continue as if they were still not fully recovered from war. Why are we still subsidizing them?
He asked them nicely to move to a free trade economy but many greedily refuse. We essentially have to force them to restore free trade. The US is not the sugar daddy of the world. These tariffs are a form of forcing others to drop their restrictions and long standing tariffs against us.
Looks like Drug Doug is getting nervous.
Yes, he might have. Eastern Canadians are the anti-Americans.
It’s mostly a big city Eastern Canadian mindset.
I think rural Canadians are a lot more unified in their attitude towards the States, which is more positive.
Canada’s Doug Ford was all tough-talking weeks ago
Let him embrace what he has wrought
That’s what has been happening...They import steel (dump)...Mexico puts it into a product and it goes tariff free into the USA via USMCA.
lol probably, and that’s what confuses me anout Rand Paul’s stance on tariffs
Good for thee but not for me?
Everyone has tariffs on US goods, drop them all and see what happens, but no only US imposed tariffs are bad?
Sounds kind of globullist.
Now now, we don't need all that... as much as some of us might enjoy seeing it for a moment, lol.
They ARE a historic ally, and an important and worthwhile one, and we need that tight friendship to be re-established, starting with this significant step. The world will know that they caved, we don't need the victory dance or the public humiliation. We just need a level playing field once again.
Right, which is why the simple, reciprocal lifting of tariffs is inadequate.
Squish them, crush those socialist bastages. Make them squeal like pigs. Cuck Fanada.
Kinda like getting a cut...do you try and stop the bleeding...or bleed to death...
we had, that was under the USMCA that President Trump negotiated in his first term.
we recently put new tariffs
Fifty Years too late you Canuckistan Nazi.
Canuckistan needs to take their medicine for about half a Century to restore the "Fair" to Fair Trade.
Screw Canada.
Yes, we do support our industries in various ways but I recall reading somewhere that it’s not on par — as a percentage of GDP — with Canada’s support for its industries. The level of support varies in both countries so its a complex thing to compare.
The thing is that the USA subsidizes its dairy industry.
The US government spends roughly $22 billion annually on dairy subsidies, with 73% of dairy farmers’ market returns coming from government handouts rather than product sales.
Examples of Subsidy Programs:
Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC): This program makes direct payments to dairy farmers when the minimum monthly market price for milk falls below a certain level.
Dairy Price Support Program: This program mandated a support price for milk, which was effective through December 31, 2007.
In 2023, the USDA announced additional assistance for dairy farmers, including payments totaling nearly $100 million.
This isn’t exceptional - the EU also subsidizes its dairy but Canada’s dairy industry operates under a supply management system, not direct subsidies, meaning dairy farmers do not receive financial support from the government,
I think the tariffs on steel will remain. That’s because China will just ship to Canada who will ship to the US tariff free. If that is discovered they will lose their status.
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