“Canada has failed to co-operate in curbing the ongoing flood of fentanyl and other illicit drugs, and it has retaliated against the United States for the president’s actions to address this unusual and extraordinary threat,” says the statement.
If I remember correctly most of the fentanyl found was heading north to Canada not south to the US.
Carney needs to just respond publicly something along the lines of “if you’re so concerned about drugs why did you pardon the silk road guy”
Then he’d be “mean and nasty” and we certainly wouldn’t want that.
Thank you for your attention in this matter!
Marijuana, fentynal, and worst of all: Kinder Surprise eggs
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Funny thing is, he’s still a rapist who is partaking in a massive cover up to conceal the fact that he was involved in Epstein’s child sex trafficking empire.
We shouldn’t be doing business with him, regardless of whatever “deal” Canada expects to get from this unstable idiot.
The worst kept secret: Trump is a rapist pedophile. The Untied States is a laughing stock because they not only refuse to enforce their own laws consistently, they make a known criminal who has committed at least 100 felonies their leader. Why do other world leaders put up with this shit?
Why do other world leaders put up with this shit?
Literally this. Why not come together and say that they cannot work with criminals? It looks bad on them that they still do, and it continues to give trump legitimacy.
who gives a fuck
Epstein file ya gd pedoliar
What’s this? We capitulated to a bully and he… turned around and punched us on the mouth? How can this be? Who could possibly have seen this coming?
FFS stop trusting Americans already.
You mean about the DST? I’m pretty sure Carney just used Trump as an excuse to axe it. There was opposition to it from Canadian tech companies, too.
The taco shitstain will do what the taco shitstain always does, just you wait
This was, and continues to be, never about fentanyl.
Trump wants to feel like a powerful leader so instead of taking on actual substantial threats to the US economy he bullies his smaller allies, like the weakling he is.
We can’t transition trade away from that failed state south of us quickly enough. And, as with many of Trump’s shortsighted “bull in a China shop” decisions, this will only serve to motivate us to do so quicker while also detrimentally affecting the US’ own long-term trade prospects.
Ironically, we all know the fent is from China and it’s flowing here to fuck us up as a plan to crush us.
Opium Wars 3? Do we know that? Got a link for more info?
Unfortunately I don’t see every post that’s ever posted to Lemmy, so yes I missed it.
Thanks for the link though.
These guys sound totally unbias…
The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is committed to working on a bipartisan basis to build consensus on the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party and develop a plan of action to defend the American people, our economy, and our values.
Yes, I do agree that it reads pretty bad in the introduction. They should’ve run the shit through an LLM to cool it down a little bit. There was actually a place where it compares the number of deaths per day to an airplane full of people. Just try to filter that crap out and get to the data.
I didn’t know that. I always assumed it was big drug companies with a backdoor illicit business.
I think that’s pretty rare. They can push through doctors and keep their hands super clean. Now, there have been issues of misleading marketing, overproduction, and failure to report suspicious orders.
There are several other articles available online, but here is a pdf.
Headline should more accurately read: “Trump raises taxes on Americans purchasing goods made in Canada by 35%.”
That would be far to accurate for the GOP base to understand. In fact, Trump himself doesn’t seem to understand this either.
Headline should also read their defence of Trumps emergency powers had a shit day in court and now he’s trying to do a full court press so we sign while he has a semblance of authority here.
Fuck that fucking fuck.
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Fuck Donald Trump.
They’re in a (self imposed) worse position than us, so I think we just keep pushing them.
Today’s hearing on whether the “fentanyl” tariffs are legal swung heavily in our favour that Trump does not have authority to impose them.
It’s no coincidence he throws a shit fit when things are not looking his way, so he’s just trying to extort us into signing something before the courts rule this illegal and they have to pay back all the importers who paid tariffs.
This will likely go to their Supreme Court, so god knows what will happen in October when that happens, but realistically they’ll lose all their leverage and have to gasp follow their own legal framework as laid out in the US Constitution.
I like your optimism, but their Supreme Court is captured and the Constitution and rule of law is dead.
Let’s build a Canada that omits the US.
Do you honestly think that the Republicans give a single fuck about what any court says?
Reciprocate.
I never understood the reason to reciprocate, if tariffs only effect Americans than wouldn’t Canada imposing tariffs only effect Canadians?
I sure bet there is a lot more American made products in Canada than vice versa.
- Blink the lights, Doug.
- Reciprocate+1
- That+1 is permanent until the next regime.
- Agree to remove the ‘basic tariff’ if he does.
- That +1 really stays.
- Next time Trump rattles his plastic sabre, it’s another reciprocation +1 more permanent.
Or
Cut the power by 35%.
I’m hoping for the power cuts, personally.
Meh, a direct pissing match against a bag of piss isn’t likely to go well.
Carney pre-bitchification had the right idea – he just needs to remember what he’d been saying on the campaign trail. Like how he wasn’t going to pre-emptively make concessions/statements, as that would harm trade negotiations… but then when he gets into the hot seat, he’s pre-emptively bailing on the DST. Or how he confidently said shit like “We need to focus more on the things that are in our control, as the US will do whatever the US will do” (or something along those lines) – just let the piss bag piss himself, and focus on other markets.
Waa waa, it takes time to detangle supply chains! Well it’s been 8+ months, how much progress have these companies/industries made? Any? No? Well too fuckin bad then.
Our response hopefully:
I would just love it if someone would just tell this guy to fuck off and follow through.
I nominate this fellow from Ottawa and this particular speech as our trade representative to the US: (Obvious strong language warning)
Bring back the DST
Bring back the Grassy Knoll.
Yes tax the heck out of his donors!
OMG, he’s still on fentanyl, wow. He didn’t even use the Palestinian statehood on this one. That’s great. It means absolutely no one in Canada would be confused this is bullshit.
The TSX doesn’t seem to have responded, so this either already baked in or everyone bets on TACO. Which makes sense either way because:
However, Canadian goods that meet the terms of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement will not be subject to the tariff, which means the vast bulk of Canada’s exports can still cross the border tariff-free.
So it’s still just theatre. I’m not sure who the audience is at this point.
I’m not sure who the audience is at this point.
His followers, who think this makes him a strong leader.
You’re probably right. I keep forgetting the context he operates in. From propaganda perspective these tariffs are a perfect tool for him. They allow him to maintain the strong leader facade while having little economic effect. The fentanyl issue is something his base is concerned about so he loops than in to demonstrate he’s taking care of it. We can live with that.
