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.
