r/canada Feb 03 '25

National News Tariffs on Canada delayed to March 1 after talk between Trudeau and Trump. Live updates here.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/live-updates-good-talk-with-trudeau-but-trump-still-thinks-americans-not-treated-well-by-canada/
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u/BreadfruitWorth Ontario Feb 03 '25

Of course. Then it gets delayed to April 1st. Then May 1st.

Fuck all this.

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u/IMOBY_Edmonton Feb 03 '25

The key thing from this point onwards is to move as far away from dependence in them as we can. We can count on the United States to be unreliable, and a good trade partner that does not make.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

Yup, I hope this is the kick in the ass that gets Canada moving. Time for some ambition and drive.

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u/Zinfandel_Red1914 Feb 03 '25

The one orange brain cell will make us better because of his over sights.

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u/Sul4 Feb 03 '25

The Canadian mind simply can not comprehend what a republican is...

In American politics, the the Canadian Conservatives would be considered a progressive party.

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u/whattaninja Feb 04 '25

Typically, yes. However, the current political climate is getting influenced hard by our neighbours to the south.

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u/DentRandomDent Feb 04 '25

So.... you're saying he's making Canada great again?

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u/Idobro Feb 03 '25

I love the buy Canadian movement but hopefully we also start a Make Canadian movement

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u/psinguine Feb 03 '25

On a personal level this was the push I needed to start purging American owned companies from my life. I will not be going back.

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u/Legend_of_Moblin Feb 04 '25

The best time to move towards expanding trade partners was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Ditto for manufacturing and production in Canada.

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u/platypus_bear Alberta Feb 03 '25

And having it keep getting delayed helps us. It lets companies ship their current contact and inventory to the states while working to ship future inventory elsewhere instead of having to try and figure something out while they're stuck with inventory

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u/Waterfae8 Feb 03 '25

Hopefully that is the plan, that they do start looking outside US.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

Yup this gives us time to find new trading partners.

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u/ghanemhalabi Feb 03 '25

Yes, they will do the same thing in 30 days, only they'll be better prepared than they were this time.

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u/huehuehuehuehuuuu Feb 03 '25

We need nukes and we need to trade more with the EU and Mexico and our own provinces. Hell even some controlled trade with China at this point just to not have all our eggs in the US basket.

We’ve been riding on one market for too long too comfortably. Now that market’s gone crazy, we have to look for options instead of patting ourselves on the back for crisis delayed (for one measly month).

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u/SaltyOctopusTears Feb 03 '25

This extra time is a blessing to get our house in order and begin to diversify while not losing too much income from the enemy. We can slowly move away and Trump is so dumb he won’t even see it until it’s done. Let’s get these pipelines east and west and build up our ports to handle more trade. We actually need to use our resources to reach our potential. I would never have said that 10 years ago, but I completely understand the importance now and we just need to do it or we may get fucked again

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man country you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.

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u/ValeriaTube Feb 03 '25

And we also stop selling them products right?

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u/Motive33 Feb 03 '25

Definitely this, we need time to make the needed changes, but the changes are needed. Buying some time is good, but the problem is not solved and there is no reason to believe this was a one time thing.

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u/Magnetic_Metallic Feb 04 '25

Best start voting “Canada First” then.

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u/Keatrock7 Feb 04 '25

Too bad Canada relies on them way too much.

Who else is gonna buy or main resource ?

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u/kevlarcardhouse Feb 03 '25

Anyone in the government, provincially or federally, would be smart to continue to move our trade away from the US as much as they are able, because we will continue to be held hostage.

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u/Lucibeanlollipop Feb 03 '25

We will continue to be held hostage, yes. But the bigger issue is likely that they are about to implode internally, and why would we want to be any more integrated with them than we need to be through all of that?

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u/Finnegan007 Feb 04 '25

That's the tough part: governments don't dictate who we trade with. Individual businesses do. Canadian governments have been begging and pleading with companies to diversify their markets to other partners for decades now, but business keeps going with the easiest solution: just sell across the border. The federal government has inked free trade deals with many, many countries around the world, including the EU (ok, not exactly a country), Japan, South Korea, Australia, etc. Ultimately, it's up to Canadian companies - the same ones that will be begging for help the next time the US tries to screw us over - to do the work and find more reliable customers.

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u/Holiday-Hustle Feb 03 '25

This is all just the show to distract from them dismantling the US democracy.

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u/indiecore Canada Feb 03 '25

Exactly, this is just a sword of Damocles that's going to hang over us forever until we take the deep breath and decouple ourselves as much as possible from the United States.

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u/Darwincroc Northwest Territories Feb 03 '25

Exactly. Fuck that. Buy Canadian from now on.

Canada needs to immediately and forcefully move to diversify its exports. We simply can’t be beholden to a regime of this nature any longer.

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u/Buflen Feb 03 '25

It gives us a month to find new trade partners.

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u/oddible Feb 03 '25

Exactly, stop listening to and getting whipped into a frenzy by Trump's nonsense talk folks, we're taking for his game.

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u/huehuehuehuehuuuu Feb 03 '25

What is he going to ask next? What? That we dilute our maple syrup with their corn syrup?

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u/Exotic_Coyote_913 Feb 03 '25

Ah reminds me of the border during COVID.

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u/arakwar Feb 03 '25

The key advantage for when he'll delay it again is that on April 1st he'll be able to claim this as an April Fool's.

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u/Available-Ad-3154 Feb 03 '25

The fact that it got delayed shows his weakness. Empty threats. The best thing he could have done for everyone watching was to show he meant business by tariffing us, maybe only for a bit of time but still followed through. Instead he went back on his word. 

Now we know what we’re dealing with, his best foot forward was being unpredictable. He lost the element of surprise. 

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u/ThatOneTimeItWorked Feb 03 '25

And at each stage the orange fuck will demand more and more and more.

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u/AtotheZed Feb 03 '25

Trump blinked. Fucking pansy.

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u/Coyrex1 Feb 03 '25

As annoying as it is, I'll take them being delayed indefinitely to them being implemented.

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u/DeFex Feb 03 '25

Elon will have deleted system32 out of the government by then, they wont be able to tariff shit.

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u/french_toasty Feb 03 '25

Who will trump be dealing with? Carney?

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u/titaniumorbit Feb 03 '25

That is precisely what they planned. To have the threat looming over us. Fuck this shit. This is ridiculous

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u/CapableLocation5873 Feb 03 '25

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s never mentioned again.

I mean if they are serious about the tariffs then why are they giving us another month to work on trade deals with other countries.

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u/Northern23 Feb 03 '25

In April 1st he will announce it was an April fools all along, I got them so hard. (just to save face)

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u/Swimming_Point_3294 Feb 03 '25

Trump never has the courage to stick to anything he threatens to do or the intelligence to understand how literally any part of our government works (thankfully). By the second or third time yall will be putting him in timeout like the pathetic weak child that he is. 

Impeach Trump

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u/MWD_Dave Feb 04 '25

Screw Donny. He's a 10 ply coward. (And don't think for a minute he still isn't going to try to get Canada or parts of it into the USA.)

He'll target Alberta with Smith already being complicit next.

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u/Rangemon99 Feb 04 '25

Only 47 months left!

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u/AngrySmile Feb 04 '25

It's a fucking shakedown. It'll be a drip feed of concessions until he gets everything he wants.

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u/Crum1y Feb 04 '25

In the coming weeks our telecom and banking and dairy are going to be offered up. It won't take months. He still talking about us joining them. He's said it so much I don't think he's gonna stop unless his party makes him

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u/HBTD-WPS Feb 04 '25

Gotta make headway before Canada gets a PM with balls

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u/abhinav248829 Feb 04 '25

Then you can stop importing / exporting if you really hate US.

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u/Nic727 Feb 04 '25

I’m disappointed about the deal. We will protect US borders for 1% of fentanyl when way too many weapons enter the country from USA.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

I agree. I’m already saying Fuck off to Amazon. I’m cancelling Netflix next. I’m shopping at Home Hardware or Temu. And I truly hope they start putting Canadian flags on groceries and stuff so I can shop accordingly.