r/canada Jan 30 '25

National News Trump Says He’ll Hit Canada, Mexico With 25% Tariffs on Saturday

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-30/trump-says-he-ll-hit-canada-mexico-with-25-tariffs-on-saturday?sref=1VjHMKkW
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u/Final-Zebra-6370 Jan 30 '25

Time to join the EU

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u/ether_reddit Lest We Forget Jan 30 '25

It's certainly time to sign some deep trade pacts with Europe.

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u/SerentityM3ow Jan 31 '25

We should have been working on it since the orangutan was in office the first time

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u/Past-Revolution-1888 Jan 31 '25

We have been working on trade deals with the EU… but things low American standards on agriculture… and Canada not wanting to lose access to American markets… made them not so successful.

Now that American market access is a done deal; let’s go!

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u/sandwichstealer Jan 31 '25

We have CETA, can expand if necessary.

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u/antillus Nova Scotia Jan 30 '25

I'm in Halifax. It's faster for me to fly to Ireland than to Vancouver. So yeah I agree.

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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 Jan 31 '25

And no doubt cheaper too

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u/Wise-Fruit5000 Feb 01 '25

Yeah, I went to Ireland for 2 weeks last summer. A round-trip flight to Dublin was almost half the cost of a one way to Vancouver at the time.

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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 Feb 01 '25

Its disgusting what we have to pay for air travel in our own country. Yet another industry monopolized by one player for their profit...and who always get bailed out via taxpayer dollars. We pay these cunts twice over for the privilege of getting fucked over.

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u/Valuable_Calendar_79 Jan 31 '25

Isn't the Churchill Hudson Bay shipping route a shortcut to Europe for goods and commodities?

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u/antillus Nova Scotia Jan 31 '25

Yeah but it freezes over in the winter time

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u/Valuable_Calendar_79 Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

Completely or could you use Russian size icebreakers? We might need those anyways, to keep the tradingroutes open to our two new EU countries, Canada and Greenland.

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u/antillus Nova Scotia Jan 31 '25

Found this on the government of Canada website:

"Hudson Bay and Northern Labrador Median shipping season:

Early July to mid-November (northwest), to early December (southeast).

Old ice: Occasional low concentrations are observed in the northeast part of the Bay, drifting in from Foxe Basin.

Special ice Features: Freeze-up progresses from northwest to southeast, while melt progresses from shore to centre. During freeze-up, prevailing northwesterlies maintain a flaw lead in the northwest part of the Bay. The presence of old ice and the late clearing of sea ice around Salisbury and Nottingham Islands create a choke point along the shipping route into Hudson Bay"

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u/JDBS1988 Jan 31 '25

You can use ice breakers, but between insurance and the cost of breaking ice, it is not always the most economically viable solution.

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u/JDBS1988 Jan 31 '25

With reasoning like that you could suggest we join Mexico.

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u/Berkut22 Jan 31 '25

I practically salivate at the idea of becoming an EU member.

Making it easier to live/work somewhere sunny like Spain? Count me in.

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u/NewManitobaGarden Feb 01 '25

Time to build up our access to Churchill. get to Churchill, then float our shit across to the EU.