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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
And that's probably why we should just ride out the 25% tariffs while strengthening trade with other partners (with the hope that internal pressure twists his arm over time) and not give them anything to use to frame us as aggressors.
I suspect the significantly reduced spending on American goods and pulling our $2B worth of tourism to the states may be reason enough for him, but we can at least try.
Although I fully expect the next elected government here will respond in kind and blow this thing wide open.
I admire our leaders standing up to them in front of the cameras and on X, I really do, but this guy is already showing with Ukraine that he's bat#### insane with how he'll deal with foreign leaders, so in terms of an actual response I think we need to just fawn our way as far as it'll get us.
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We definitely have to walk a fine line here. I do like that Canada's response so far is a measured one with $30 billion tariffs to start and then ramping up to the full $155 billion in 21 days if the U.S. doesn't pull back. This gives us at least a few weeks to possibly try and negotiate something with them. Sadly they probably won't back down because this entire administration are a bunch of petulant twats who have no sense of diplomacy and are completely full of s***. But we might as well give it a shot I guess.
In the meantime, we need to start making more new trade deals and strengthening/enhancing existing ones immediately. The only way we're gonna be able to ride this out is by working together with other countries and allies.