Summary

Canada will maintain its initial $30 billion (CA$) in retaliatory tariffs despite Trump postponing 25% tariffs on many Canadian imports for a month.

A second wave of tariffs, originally planned at $125 billion (CA$), has been suspended. Ontario will still raise electricity prices for U.S. customers, and B.C. is considering tolls on U.S. trucks going to Alaska.

Trudeau expects a prolonged trade war, following a heated call with Trump.

About 62% of Canadian imports remain subject to tariffs, as Trump pushes for U.S. companies to shift production domestically.

  • turnip@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Its project 2025, the goal is to get restrictions on the US repealed. So we need to allow them access to our bank, dairy, telecoms, remove the digital service tax, etc…

    Just read the document, its clearly crafted by Trump. There is no way the heritage foundation thinks a border wall is an efficient usage of resources, nor is capital punishment an economic policy, they are Trumpisms of things hes convinced himself of over the decades.

    • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      the border wall isn’t to keep people out. it’s a symbol. a monument to xenophobia and the culture of terror.

      capital punishment isn’t an economic policy. it’s a cultural policy. it’s there to make killing not just a solution, but THE solution.

      the tariffs aren’t being put in for money reasons. they’re being put in to strike at an enemy, real or imagined, to steer the fascist horde and direct them outwards, rather than inwards where they might notice how shit things are. to give them an enemy to blame for how shit their lives are that isn’t the parasitic billionaires who fucked everything up.