Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread
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wrote on 21 Mar 2025, 15:18 last edited by
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wrote on 21 Mar 2025, 15:39 last edited by
Canadians are fired up:
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wrote on 21 Mar 2025, 15:44 last edited by
With that video title I was really hoping to hear Jordan himself comment.
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wrote on 21 Mar 2025, 15:46 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:
With that video title I was really hoping to hear Jordan himself comment.
I know - I’ve been meaning to watch the whole video to see what Jordan says.
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wrote on 21 Mar 2025, 16:02 last edited by
@89th said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:
That’s a little misleading. You also have to remember that not all oil is created equally. Most of our own refineries are set up to process “heavy” and “sour” crude oil, while most of the oil drilled in the US is lighter and sweeter. That’s a big part of the reason why we import so much oil even though we produce even more. The type we produce isn’t the type we are set up to process.
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wrote on 21 Mar 2025, 16:03 last edited by
I've heard lots of people note that Canada's liberal politicians have gotten a boost from the reaction against Trump. Eric Kaufmann most recently. He's a long-time favorite commentator of mine.
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wrote on 21 Mar 2025, 17:07 last edited by Renauda
I've heard lots of people note that Canada's liberal politicians have gotten a boost from the reaction against Trump.
Trump has not given a boost to liberal politicians. Rather he has turned the electorate in this country away from both left and right populists and back towards the non populist centre.
The decidedly left populist NDP has lost its moderates toward the centre and the right populist Conservative Party of Canada has lost its traditional base of what we called “red Tories” - such as myself who find the right populist trend repugnant - towards centre. The loss to left NDP and the right Conservative Party has been to the benefit of the Liberal Party of Canada. Meanwhile the Liberal Party is returning to its traditional centre right/left position that it had occupied before the advent of Justin Trudeau who, during his decade long tenure, pulled the party away from the centre and towards the progressive left.
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wrote on 23 Mar 2025, 22:14 last edited by
New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called a snap election for April 28, saying he needed a strong mandate to deal with the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump, who "wants to break us so America can own us."
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wrote on 24 Mar 2025, 15:58 last edited by
Alberta premier faces backlash for asking America to pause tariffs until after election:
https://globalnews.ca/news/11094625/danielle-smith-tariffs-canada-election/
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wrote on 24 Mar 2025, 16:20 last edited by Renauda
Albertans care. What the article doesn’t mention is that Smith and her government are dealing with a growing scandal related to its procurement practices in health care services.
Smith defaults to confrontation with Ottawa as a means to deflect attention away from her and her government’s incompetence.
So yeah, people care.
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wrote on 24 Mar 2025, 16:54 last edited by
@Renauda I’m thinking Danielle best STFU to any of the Americans, and speak as a Canadian on board with Canada. FFS. On her home front, there’s a whole slew of urban youth (Canada and foreign born) worshipping Nenshi to worry of. And, there’s plenty of us old ones without good healthcare.
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@Renauda I’m thinking Danielle best STFU to any of the Americans, and speak as a Canadian on board with Canada. FFS. On her home front, there’s a whole slew of urban youth (Canada and foreign born) worshipping Nenshi to worry of. And, there’s plenty of us old ones without good healthcare.
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wrote on 26 Mar 2025, 23:23 last edited by xenon
I can’t believe the GOP is letting this guy set fire to the economy. Pure incompetence.
Let’s watch those BYD cars from
China start getting some serious share around the world. (I think they cost as low as $13k and the new ones charge in 5 mins). Canada currently has a 100% tariff on them (following the US’s lead)Put aside all other topics. I can’t think of anything Harris would have done that’s even in the same universe as how stupid this is. And she’s incompetent too.
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wrote on 26 Mar 2025, 23:57 last edited by
On the bright side - we can spend the DOGE savings on a new tariffs compliance agency, and companies can spend part of their tax cuts on a new tariff analysis agency.
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I can’t believe the GOP is letting this guy set fire to the economy. Pure incompetence.
Let’s watch those BYD cars from
China start getting some serious share around the world. (I think they cost as low as $13k and the new ones charge in 5 mins). Canada currently has a 100% tariff on them (following the US’s lead)Put aside all other topics. I can’t think of anything Harris would have done that’s even in the same universe as how stupid this is. And she’s incompetent too.
wrote on 27 Mar 2025, 11:58 last edited by@xenon said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:
I can’t believe the GOP is letting this guy set fire to the economy. Pure incompetence.
It really is remarkable. I wonder if the history books will remember this time for how the branches of government were tested in the scenario of: what would happen if the legislative majority was so scared to "check/balance" the executive branch out of fear of not being re-elected due to a loyalty-hungry President's wrath.
Maybe the 2026 mid-terms will be a massive wake-up call similar to the 2018 blue wave (representatives and governorships).
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@89th said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:
That’s a little misleading. You also have to remember that not all oil is created equally. Most of our own refineries are set up to process “heavy” and “sour” crude oil, while most of the oil drilled in the US is lighter and sweeter. That’s a big part of the reason why we import so much oil even though we produce even more. The type we produce isn’t the type we are set up to process.
wrote on 27 Mar 2025, 12:05 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:
@89th said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:
That’s a little misleading. You also have to remember that not all oil is created equally. Most of our own refineries are set up to process “heavy” and “sour” crude oil, while most of the oil drilled in the US is lighter and sweeter. That’s a big part of the reason why we import so much oil even though we produce even more. The type we produce isn’t the type we are set up to process.
Anchor is up. Quality is said to be very good.
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wrote on 27 Mar 2025, 21:41 last edited by Renauda
Anchor is up. Quality is said to be very good.
Distractor alert!
Beauregard is seeking attention by proving once again he has nothing of consequence or value to say on the thread topic or discussion at hand.
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wrote on 31 Mar 2025, 22:53 last edited by jon-nyc
A bill to end the national emergency which is the pretense for trumps Canadian tariffs.
So far a handful of Dems and Rand Paul have signed on.
