Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread
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Advance summer flight bookings from Canada are down 70%.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/31/canada-us-travel
Matt Yglesias jokes: For us to all have glorious futures doing labor-intensive manufacturing work once the sock factories are repatriated from Cambodia, people are first going to need to lose service sector jobs in hotels and such so the reduced tourism is good.
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He's a chronic narcissist, cut him some slack.
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@Renauda said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:
Chronic? More like pathological.
Either way, he's neurologically divergent and allowances should be made in the name of diversity and equity.
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@Renauda said in Canadian Tariff situation gets its own thread:
Chronic? More like pathological.
Either way, he's neurologically divergent and allowances should be made in the name of diversity and equity.
So we’re being led to believe.
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Fact checking Trump’s allegations from yesterday:
"We subsidize a lot of countries and keep them going and keep them in business," Trump said. "In the case of Mexico, it's $300 billion. In the case of Canada, it's close to $200 billion a year."
According to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, The U.S. goods trade deficit with Canada was $63.3 billion in 2024, down from $64 billion in 2023. That's far less than Trump claimed on Wednesday.
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US Senate passes bill aimed at stopping Trump tariffs on Canada
Doesn't mean the House will take it up, of course.
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Trump is at it again, campaigning for the Carney Liberals:
"I'm really not trolling. Canada is an interesting case.… I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-time-interview-analysis-1.7519086
And just like that, Donald Trump single handedly defeated the Conservative Party of Canada causing it, for the fourth time in nine years, to implode on itself and eat its leader. Six months ago it was the Liberals heading to the rubbish bin in the political wilderness. Now the Liberals are about to hold parliament and form a majority government.
