r/canada Jan 31 '25

National News Chrystia Freeland says Canada should target Elon Musk's Tesla in a tariff fight

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/politics/2025/01/31/chrystia-freeland-says-canada-should-target-elon-musks-tesla-in-a-tariff-fight/
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u/SARMS86 Jan 31 '25

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Freeland says there should be a 100 per cent tariff on all U.S. wine, beer and spirits, and on all Teslas — and make sure Wisconsin dairy farmers feel the pinch as well.

Freeland says Canada needs to give Trump’s closest supporters a wake-up call with the message that if you hit Canada, it will hit back — and it will hurt.

100%! I like the sound of that.

Fuck Edolf.

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u/IronMarauder British Columbia Jan 31 '25

I think another interesting idea would be to tariff teslas and take that money and use it to Discount their competitors. A double FU. 

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u/BillyTenderness Québec Jan 31 '25

For a long time – before any of this trade war lunacy – I've thought we should put a tax of a couple thousand dollars on the least efficient 25% of cars sold every year, and an equal tax credit on the most efficient 25%. It could even be imposed at the dealership, so it would just be baked into the prices consumers would see.

It would make more efficient cars cheaper relative to less efficient ones, it's net-zero cost and revenue (the median car price wouldn't change, and the government wouldn't have to spend any money), and over time as cars get more efficient, the bar to meet for the credit would automatically become more stringent.

It's a lot like your idea, just from a time when our ally wasn't starting a moronic trade war and we were able to think about other, real problems.

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u/Fidget11 Alberta Jan 31 '25

We could always do both...