*PM says Trump is trying to make it easier to annex Canada — but it won’t work *
An unbowed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada will hit back hard at the U.S. after President Donald Trump launched a North American trade war by slapping devastating 25 per cent tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods.
Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said Trump is trying to prompt “a total collapse of the Canadian economy” because he thinks that will “make it easier to annex us.”
But Trudeau said that will never happen because “when it comes to defending our great nation, there is no price we all aren’t willing to pay.”
Trudeau said Canada will not back down from a fight in the face of “completely bogus and completely unjustified” trade action that has the potential to ruin bilateral relations and prompt job losses, economic devastation and higher inflation on both sides of the border.
Decriminalize C-42 41.1.
If Canada signed NAFTA and then USMCA to get unrestricted access to US markets, and part of the price was that Canada had to add obscene laws that made it illegal to fix your own farm equipment, then just drop the enforcement of those laws.
Make it so a Canadian can set up a shop where they remove the DRM from HP printers and let users use any ink they want. Let someone set up a kiosk in the mall where they jailbreak your phone so you don’t have to pay Apple 30% of every dollar you spend on your iphone. Then if some Canadian wants to sell an ad-blocker for your iPhone that Apple would never allow into the app store, let them do it.
It doesn’t even have to involve passing new copyright laws. Just treat anti-circumvention the way marijuana was treated about a decade ago: something that’s not yet legal, but that the justice system is no longer prosecuting.
It’s maddening that this isn’t being discussed in a more official capacity. Doctorow pitched this at least a month ago.
Yeah, well, echo chambers and all that. I’ve done what I could to try to nudge it outside my echo chamber, but sometimes these things take time to spread
It will happen in bits and pieces. I bet Alberta will go first. Then my home province of sask. Then someone else and so on.
It’s just not going to happen. Not without a referendum, and the conservatives are not into it. Only the extreme right nut jobs want to give up their sovereignty and become Puerto Rico North with no federal support and no voting rights.
It’s not about the Canadian economy. He is working to upset Allies, which Putin wants. He also wants to cause a recession so the rich can buy up even more of the country.
It is a big disservice to world/humanity/Canadians to interpret US empire aggression as service to Russia. Evil is not done for Russian profit, even if they enjoy the divisiveness of alliances previously devoted to destroy it. Understand the US empire as self serving for its own evil ambitions. When you fantasize another enemy, you encourage responses of hatred towards your fantasy instead of your actual enemy.
Trump is trying to do to Canada what Putin is doing to Ukraine. Why? Because taking over a major food supply source is where the money will be soon enough. Add to that Canada’s almost unlimited potable water supply, lots of spare hydro electricity, a fair amount of rare earth minerals, a large oil source, and a huge part of the Arctic region and you’ve got all the makings for a self-sufficient kingdom led by an orange butt plug.
Trudeau ain’t wrong here and we’d better start paying fucking attention … 'cause we’re the goose that lays golden eggs and Trump is a greedy motherfucker.
Trump is trying to do to Canada what Putin is doing to Ukraine.
Russia is defending itself from evil. The analogy to US vs Canada is that it is powerful enough to liberate regions of Ukraine that want to join it, and it is powerful enough to obtain neutrality from Ukraine under a more reasonable/traditional rulership.
It is grossly unfair to compare Russia’s provoked defensive necessary operation with blatant evil empire expansion of the US.
I will respectfully disagree on Canadian resources, because the US already owns Canada and its permission on who to sell to. I think its more about intentionally destroying auto sector for Tesla benefit, and steal away investment from Canada. It is a war that US can think it can win, and so “smarter” than losing a war on Russia. It’s an ego power play without actual reason, but any extra Canadian sycophancy is a win he can brag about.
Ешь дерьмо, русский тролль.
A fight with Canada will have no winners.
Cui bono? As with many of Trump’s actions, it’s obviously not the USA. It’s not as if they don’t know that it will hurt the American people. It’s not being done for their benefit.
I can think of one guy who definitely benefits
Is it the fElon?
Putin.
Everything Trump has done helps Putin.
He’s started a trade war that will destabilize the west. He’s pulled funding from Ukraine. He’s blatantly lied about who started the war. He’s stopped cyber efforts against Russia. He’s openly talked about lifting sanctions. He’s trying to get the Nord Stream back on the table.
You take all these facts together, it is plainly obvious that Trump is a traitor to the United States. He’s openly aiding a dictator by destabilizing western civilization. If you put these facts on the table in front of anyone and they deny he is a traitor, they are probably a traitor too.
I’m the one who gets called a traitor around here by suggesting to decouple more strongly from US, but as our PM just clearly explained. Any enemy of our enemy should stop being our enemy. Even worse than our continued commitment to get Ukraine destroyed further, as per original US plan, Trudeau forcefully asserted the US plan to justify invasion of Mexico through (state sponsored) terrorist designation of cartels.
All sycophancy must stop.
You are a traitor, for encouraging further death and war.
Pay attention to the crickets of international support for Canada. After Trudeau spending time in Europe, and kissing up to them on Russophobia. Alienating Mexico, FFS, is the biggest self own possible right now. But Canada needs new friends in the world, and more diplomatic/trade visits, including with old friends.
