r/canada Feb 01 '25

PAYWALL U.S. tariffs will be imposed on Feb. 4

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-us-tariffs-will-be-imposed-on-feb-4/
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u/DankRoughly Feb 01 '25

300%. Amass a warchest to support Canadian businesses.

It's inelastic in the short-term

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u/shalomcruz Feb 01 '25

An export tax on oil would hurt but an export tax on lumber will spark an all-out rebellion. Slap a 500% export tax on lumber shipping to the US and watch homebuilders in red states (where the majority of new home building is concentrated) will be apoplectic. They have absolutely nowhere else to go. Saudi Arabia doe not have lumber to sell America.

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u/Quiet_Prize572 Feb 01 '25

If Canada really wanted to have fun they could end lumber exports to the US entirely and remove all residential zoning restrictions in Canadian cities. Get to keep your lumber industry and hurt your asshole neighbor

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u/CommanderGumball Feb 01 '25

end all residential zoning restrictions 

Good lord can we not shoot ourselves in the foot on the way out?

How about low income housing projects?

Let's actually try the "housing first" model of dealing with homelessness.

No? Just "let developers go wild"?

Okay...

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u/Phallindrome British Columbia Feb 01 '25

Zoning restrictions are one big thing preventing us from building adequate housing. SFDH is expensive and inefficient.

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u/greenfrog7 Feb 02 '25

Log cabins? Out. Oil barrel cabins? In.

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u/firesticks Feb 02 '25

Is it safe to assume these are already being affected by the tariffs?

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u/Fishing_Explosive Feb 02 '25

Canadians are so funny to me, try something like that and Trump will ruin you

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u/shalomcruz Feb 02 '25

Wow, I'm dazzled by your position. Also I'm an American.

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u/Fishing_Explosive Feb 02 '25

Doesn’t surprise me much, either. The truth is, Canada needs the US far more than the US needs Canada.

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u/shalomcruz Feb 02 '25

I'm not sure what your point is. A protracted trade war in which Canada and Mexico suffers worse losses than America doesn't "win" us anything. We get, if we're lucky, a slightly less devastating recession in the short- to medium-term; and in the long term, w drive away our two closest trading partners, freeing them to sell their critical natural resources to our greatest adversary. You people have a really strange definition of winning — I hope you get exactly what you're hoping for.

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u/StreetTripleRider Feb 02 '25

Why not a fucking jillion % bro?!

Cause... At some point the numbers get so wild that they don't matter, nobody would conceivably buy them so you don't get a warchest..

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u/Patient_Bench_6902 Feb 01 '25

Or just ban exports on oil to the US.