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Carney Liberals urged to ditch DST as Trump terminates trade talks with Canada
Toronto Sun ^ | Jun 27, 2025 | Bryan Passifiume

Posted on 06/27/2025 2:13:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

OTTAWA – Canada’s insistence on taxing American tech companies for Canadian-sourced revenue has prompted the U.S. to walk away from ongoing trade negotiations.

In a social media post on Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced an immediate suspension of trade and tariff talks with Canada due to the Digital Services Tax (DST) – describing it as “egregious” and a “direct and blatant attack” on the U.S.

“Based on this egregious tax, we are hereby terminating all discussions on trade with Canada, effective immediately,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial. “We will let Canada know the tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period.”

In response, Canada had little to say regarding Trump’s statement.

“The Canadian government will continue to engage in these complex negotiations with the United States in the best interests of Canadian workers and businesses,” read the one-sentence statement from the PMO.

Ottawa has been under intense pressure to repeal the DST ahead of Monday’s deadline requiring online service providers to make good on retroactive payments on revenues collected since 2022 – a $2 billion tax bill the finance department confirmed this week is still due.

(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: canada; canaduh; iran; northerncuba; snownazis; tariffs; tax; trade
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1 posted on 06/27/2025 2:13:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Who’s your Daddy, Canada?


2 posted on 06/27/2025 2:15:30 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

LOLOL


3 posted on 06/27/2025 2:19:16 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (TERM LIMITS IS THE ONLY WAY TO STOP CORRUPT CAREER POL ITICIANS. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
https://www.canada.ca/en/services/taxes/excise-taxes-duties-and-levies/digital-services-tax.html

"The Government of Canada has introduced the digital services tax (DST). The DST requires foreign and domestic large businesses to pay tax on certain revenue earned from engaging with online users in Canada if they meet certain conditions. Affected businesses will have to apply to register for a DST program account and may have to file a DST return."
4 posted on 06/27/2025 2:20:34 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: MinorityRepublican

I thought it was Daylight Savings Time.


5 posted on 06/27/2025 2:20:50 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: MinorityRepublican

How is it legal to be retroactive on a tax that never existed, so was never collected?

These US companies could go bankrupt over something that wasn’t supposed to be done.

It’s like requiring a check from Canada for all the nuclear protection and protection services against Mexico invading Canada, over the past 200+ years.


6 posted on 06/27/2025 2:21:07 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
If the Canadians want Daylight Saving Time, let them have Daylight Saving Time.

But we should make them take their geese back.

7 posted on 06/27/2025 2:31:01 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Great White North will experience FAFO, eh


8 posted on 06/27/2025 2:31:03 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: ConservativeMind

We have been protecting Canada against invasion by the Bahamas for the past 300 years. They don’t have enough money to pay for that.


9 posted on 06/27/2025 2:32:45 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: ConservativeMind
How is it legal to be retroactive on a tax that never existed, so was never collected?

Just for that, 100% tarriff on their goods, effective immediately!

10 posted on 06/27/2025 2:36:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good. Canada has never even funded the 2% of their GDP for their own defense which they agreed to as a NATO member in 2014. Now it’s up to 5%. Either pay up, or get kicked out. They’re nothing but a bunch of slackers and leeches.


11 posted on 06/27/2025 2:38:05 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MinorityRepublican

““The Canadian government will continue to engage in these complex negotiations with the United States in the best interests of Canadian workers and businesses,” read the one-sentence statement from the PMO.”

~~~~~~~

Negotiations?

You already “negotiated”.

Now you find out.


12 posted on 06/27/2025 2:50:24 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-A)
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To: MinorityRepublican
This is just plain ol' "RIP OFF CITY" crap by the Canadians!

Don't WORRY... President Trump will definitely PUT the "SCREWS to 'EM" and they will LEARN THEIR LESSON!

13 posted on 06/27/2025 2:58:11 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Canadian government will continue to engage in these complex negotiations with the United States in the best interests of Canadian workers and businesses,”


Well, apparently NOT!


14 posted on 06/27/2025 3:02:59 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Canada is being very obnoxious to the US in other ways too:
They want to destroy America from the inside. Now Iranian sleeper agents line up on our doorstep - and an ally could be set to unleash them all
“A shocking wave of Iranian regime insiders — including suspected members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — have quietly moved to Canada in recent years, stoking fears of sleeper cells poised to strike targets across North America.“
Not to mention all of the CCPeers in Canada.
We should charge them if they come crying to the US for military security.
Canadians had better vote these leftists out or they’re on their own,
But we’ll take Alberta if they wish to leave this madness.


15 posted on 06/27/2025 3:10:02 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: mass55th

Good. Canada has never even funded the 2% of their GDP for their own defense which they agreed to as a NATO member in 2014. Now it’s up to 5%. Either pay up, or get kicked out. They’re nothing but a bunch of slackers and leeches.

They’re posers that have been propped up for far too long.


16 posted on 06/27/2025 3:16:47 PM PDT by boycott
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To: mass55th

10 yrs of Liberal incompetence for Canada’s military funding.


17 posted on 06/27/2025 4:17:50 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: boycott
> They’re posers that have been propped up for far too long.

They’re hosers that have been hopped up for far too long.

18 posted on 06/27/2025 5:02:24 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: MtnClimber

We have been protecting Canada against invasion by the Bahamas

Haha, good one!

19 posted on 06/27/2025 5:38:07 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: existentially_kuffer
"10 yrs of Liberal incompetence for Canada’s military funding."

Canada had the banks there block the accounts of the trucker's who participated in the protests back in February 2022. The people of Canada should have a right to block the government's bank account.

20 posted on 06/27/2025 10:14:53 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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