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Originally Posted by Azure
There are a lot of people in Canada running around with the elbows up mentality thinking we can go punch for punch with the Americans and win.
We won't win.
We can hurt them A LOT by not buying American and buying Canadian, yes.
But an extended amount of time with these tariffs and who knows what else coming April 2 is going to blow up the Canadian economy.
Our government needs to come to an agreement going forward.
We are also not going to be making cars in Canada to avoid any of this. Anyone suggesting that is a giant moron, Carney included. No car manufacturer is going to invest a dime in Canada knowing it costs a 25% tariff to ship their cars to the US. The fact that it was even suggested was complete stupidity, but hey gotta take advantage of naive Liberal voters.
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FFS Azure there is no agreement to be had here, Trump wants to hurt us, he wants to hurt everyone, including the US, it plays to his base, he and his rube followers want to break everything, there is no economic rationale to any of this it is just performative economic cruelty so Trump can look powerful, he doesn't care about manufacturing jobs for the US, he doesn't care about the balance of trade or the US economy, he is breaking things just for the sake of breaking things because it makes him look tough.
Trump is the worst kind of bully, a physical and mental coward who has never stepped up to anyone in his life, who suddenly finds himself able to hurt people without it having any risk for him, he is getting back at a world that he thinks has effed him over his whole life, he is both stupid and burning with resentment for a lifetime of slights and being the butt of jokes and laughter by all the rich folks he aspires to be like
Canada, the US and the world are just going to get poorer and there is nothing we can do to stop it, nothing, we just have to ride it out as best we can as a country and as individuals