Trudeau Blasts US Tariffs, Vows Canada Will Stand Strong

[kwonitoy]

The LCBO is the largest liquor purchaser in North American and no more american

Kentucky saw a 40% drop in bourbon sales and were whining about "but it's not tariffed"

 

[kwonitoy]

Same in Saskatchewan, BC, and Alberta

 

Canada buys about a third of total US global exports of wine and alcohol, plus nearly a fifth of US global exports of beer. Losing the Canadian market will be felt.

 

FAFO

[bamnutsak]

2 minutes ago, kwonitoy said:

Same in Saskatchewan, BC, and Alberta

 

Seems silly to remove products from your shelves that you already paid for, but these are silly times.

[NumbNut]

21 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

I think the world has enough problems without Trudeau dancing.

 

 

Maaaaate... he looks cooler then 99.9% of politicians on this planet.

 

Try again, and lift your game

[kwonitoy]

1 hour ago, bamnutsak said:

 

Seems silly to remove products from your shelves that you already paid for, but these are silly times.

 

It's being removed, not destroyed

After all the stupidity from south of the border dies down they might restock.

Or not.

 

[bamnutsak]

Just now, kwonitoy said:

It's being removed, not destroyed

 

Who said it was being "destroyed"?

 

I said "removed".

 

 

[JAG]

1 hour ago, kwonitoy said:

 

 

I absolutely love Wab and his signing

The Canadians have many strengths.

Amongst them is an unerring ability to take the Mickey!

[Hamus Yaigh]

On 3/5/2025 at 8:19 AM, Harrisfan said:

So ignorant. Canada has had higher tariffs for years. Lefties - dumbest.

Trumpets don't know the true meaning of ignorance when living in a Trump world of spin and alternative facts and lies they cannot understand are lies.

[spidermike007]

11 hours ago, kwonitoy said:

 

This is a underlooked and potentially much more important import from Canada.

No Potash, no fertilizer and there goes your farm production.

 

 

The US has limited domestic MOP production and more than 80pc of its potash needs are from Canada — 9mn-10mn t/yr of MOP. No other major potash import market relies so heavily on one source.23 hours ago

I completely agree, a lot of disinformation is taking place, and a lot of details are being omitted. The US could barely exist without Canada, Mexico and China. 

 

 

[Harrisfan]

7 minutes ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

Trumpets don't know the true meaning of ignorance when living in a Trump world of spin and alternative facts and lies they cannot understand are lies.

You posted no facts. Just cliches and insults. Trumpets is the language of a young girl. Nuff said.

[Harrisfan]

1 minute ago, spidermike007 said:

I completely agree, a lot of disinformation is taking place, and a lot of details are being omitted. The US could barely exist without Canada, Mexico and China. 

 

 

You posted that image many times. 

[Harrisfan]

1 hour ago, NumbNut said:

Maaaaate... he looks cooler then 99.9% of politicians on this planet.

 

Try again, and lift your game

He looks like he wants to date Macron. They both act like drama queens.

[NumbNut]

13 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

He looks like he wants to date Macron. They both act like drama queens.

Try again, lift your game

[impulse]

3 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

Seems silly to remove products from your shelves that you already paid for, but these are silly times.

 

Just silly people.  That's what the syndrome does to them.

 

[impulse]

21 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

There's only one stat you have to be concerned with. Canada supplies about 60% of the crude oil and 99% of the natural gas that the United States imports.

 

The USA is actually a net exporter.

 

And if we quit importing oil from Canada (to process and export), we'll import it from somewhere else.  It's a fungible commodity and Canada's nasty, heavy, dirty crude can be replaced by Venezuela's nasty heavy crude. Or any one of a dozen other sources.

 

But Canada hasn't bothered building the pipelines and ports they need to export the vast majority of it anywhere but the USA.  They recently built a pipeline and port to handle a small amount on the Pacific side, but most of that is going to California anyway.  So who's got who by the short and curlies? 

 

Not that Trump intends to disrupt the flow.  In fact, they're resurrecting Keystone Pipeline.  He's just negotiating from strength.  Not from a desire to be liked. When it's all said and done, Canucks will make more money, and Americans will spend less to fuel up.

 

[spidermike007]

24 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

The USA is actually a net exporter.

 

And if we quit importing oil from Canada (to process and export), we'll import it from somewhere else.  It's a fungible commodity and Canada's nasty, heavy, dirty crude can be replaced by Venezuela's nasty heavy crude. Or any one of a dozen other sources.

 

But Canada hasn't bothered building the pipelines and ports they need to export the vast majority of it anywhere but the USA.  They recently built a pipeline and port to handle a small amount on the Pacific side, but most of that is going to California anyway.  So who's got who by the short and curlies? 

 

Not that Trump intends to disrupt the flow.  In fact, they're resurrecting Keystone Pipeline.  He's just negotiating from strength.  Not from a desire to be liked. When it's all said and done, Canucks will make more money, and Americans will spend less to fuel up.

 

Canada is presently in the process of building massive ports to accommodate a huge flow of oil, and natural gas to the EU and beyond. If the US loses access to Canadian oil or natural gas it will be a huge problem for the US. It WILL increase costs. 

 

There are at least a dozen ways this entire plan could implode and bite the US really hard and very painfully. Expect a big spike in inflation soon. 

 

Trump is a goon, he's a nitwit, a terrible negotiator, and he is playing with fire. 

 

 

[rough diamond]

2 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

You posted no facts. Just cliches and insults. Trumpets is the language of a young girl. Nuff said.

Which is all you do all day every day.

[connda]

Trudeau Blasts US Tariffs, Vows Canada Will Stand Strong

 

Canadians "Standing Strong."  Yeah - The US is really worried!  👠

[Purdey]

Maybe pause Canadian bands going on the road in the USA until they repair their roads.

[John Drake]

Trump really is clueless. There is a divide it seems between Alberta and the rest of Canada, with energy resource rich Alberta seemingly more aligned in policy with the US. The gap seems big enough to easily allow a savvy and smart American leader to divide them and even bring in Alberta as a partner. So what does Trump do: screw you too Alberta. 

[spidermike007]

Apparently this extremely weak, highly unstable and very fickle man has backed down on Canada tariffs after the stock market tanks for Just 2 days. Is it possible that this unskilled, unintelligent, badly informed man is actually getting the message that tariffs have the potential to destroy the economy? Does he have the potential to learn anything? Is he capable of learning? Does he have anyone that even resembles a smart advisor? 

 

Maybe. Just maybe. 

 

 

[spidermike007]

It’s a total mess. As the Ford Motor chief executive Jim Farley courageously (compared to other chief executives) pointed out, “Let’s be real honest: Long term, a 25 percent tariff across the Mexico and Canada borders would blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we’ve never seen.”

 

So, either Trump wants to blow that hole, or he’s bluffing, or he is clueless. If it is the latter, Trump is going to get a crash course in the hard realities of the global economy as it really is — not how he imagines it.

 

Ecosystems? Listen a bit to Beinhocker, who is also the executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. In the real world, he argues, “There is no such thing as the American economy anymore that you can identify in any real, tangible way. There’s just this accounting fiction that we call U.S. G.D.P.” To be sure, he says, “There are American interests in the economy. There are American workers. There are American consumers. There are firms based in America. But there is no American economy in that isolated sense.”

 

The old days, he added, “where you made wine and I made cheese, and you had everything you needed to make wine and I had everything I needed to make cheese and so we traded with each other — which made us both better off, as Adam Smith taught — those days are long gone.” Except in Trump’s head.

 

Instead, there is a global web of commercial, manufacturing, services and trading “ecosystems,” explains Beinhocker. “There is an automobile ecosystem. There’s an A.I. ecosystem. There’s a smartphone ecosystem. There’s a drug development ecosystem. There is the chip-making ecosystem.” And the people, parts and knowledge that make up those ecosystems all move back and forth across many economies.

 

As NPR noted in a recent story about the auto industry, “carmakers have built a vast, complicated supply chain that spans North America, with parts crossing back and forth across borders throughout the auto manufacturing process. … Some parts cross borders multiple times — like, say, a wire that is manufactured in the U.S., sent to Mexico to be bundled into a group of wires, and then back to the U.S. for installation into a bigger piece of a car, like a seat.”

 

Trump just waves off all of this. He told reporters that the U.S. is not reliant on Canada. “We don’t need them to make our cars,” he said.

 

Actually, we do. And thank goodness for that. It not only enables us to make cars cheaper, but also better. All that a Model T did was get you from point to point faster than a horse, but today’s cars offer you heating and cooling and entertainment from the internet and satellites. They will navigate for you and even drive for you — and they’re much safer. When we can combine more complex knowledge and complex parts to solve complex problems, our quality of life soars.

 

But here’s the catch. You cannot make complex stuff alone anymore. It’s too complex. And if you are not part of these ecosystems, your country will not thrive.”

 

And trust is the essential ingredient that makes these ecosystems work and grow, Beinhocker adds. Trust acts as both glue and grease. It glues together bonds of cooperation, while at the same time it greases the flows of people, products, capital and ideas from one country to the next. Remove trust and the ecosystems start to collapse.

 

Trust, though, is built by good rules and healthy relationships, and Trump is trampling on both. The result: If he goes down this road, Trump will make America and the world poorer. Mr. President, do your homework.