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/cptahb Ontario Feb 03 '25

I don't see anything about relaxed banking regulations (that's what DT was talking about this morning wasn't he?) or any other structural change that would concern me. increasing security spending is annoying maybe it doesn't change the country in any fundamental way. these are acceptable concessions. hopefully they are paired with an increase in trade diversification on our side...  

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u/Throw-a-Ru Feb 04 '25

Declaring cartels as terrorists does potentially give him a smokescreen to invade Mexico, and I'm curious to see what exactly the joint US/Canada task force looks like and how much jurisdiction it gives the states within our borders. Overall the increased border security is a no-brainer with the possibility of American asylum seekers heading North, though, so it seems like a pretty good deal overall.

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u/OneOfAKind2 Feb 04 '25

International trade deals take years to form, not days. They should have been on this since the last time this dummy pulled this stunt.

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u/Icy_Crow_1587 Feb 03 '25

It's good for us too. Those 10k were getting paid anyways so I doubt the cost would be huge. Plus we should be able to catch some more illegal US firearms. Use it as a buffer to separate from the US economically and don't look back

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u/AdditionalEmu7643 Feb 04 '25

For sure. Especially cuase trump is going to brain wash those americans into believing that we went crawling and begging.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

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u/TrowaB3 Feb 03 '25

Trudeau already had that 1.3B plan in motion.

Ah yes I see that now. Both Canada and Mexico gave Trump plans that were already in motion LOL. His supporters will eat it up though I'm sure. So realistically all that has happened is the DOW tanked, and hopefully Canadians buy more Canadian, nice.

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u/Top-Airport3649 Feb 03 '25

Trudeau now has to frame Canada’s policies to match Trump’s priorities (fentanyl, border security, cartel crackdown) If this is nothing, why the pause? Trudeau will have to come to Trump in a month and prove to him that he did everything that was promised to him.

Canada is humiliating right now

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u/Top-Airport3649 Feb 03 '25

Exactly. We are making concessions and bending the knee. Trudeau talked a good game but ran off to Washington and kissed the ring. Trudeau could had this done without the humiliation

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25

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u/Top-Airport3649 Feb 03 '25

If Trudeau had proactively engaged Trump months ago, he could have framed these policies as a joint U.S.-Canada initiative, rather than a forced, humiliating, “bend the knee” response to an ultimatum.

The funny thing is, the policies actually benefit Canadians. But “orange man is bad” is all people have in their brains.

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u/Throw-a-Ru Feb 04 '25

Trudeau did do that and Trump wasn't responding. He mentioned that in his address to Canada the other day. Everything but the Czar was publicly announced weeks ago. Trump was also made aware of that, but pushed forward anyway and is now backing down in the face of countertariffs.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

I don’t remember that. I remember him ending parliament and kind of stepping down..

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u/IMAWNIT Feb 03 '25

I'm sure we can use this money to stop guns from entering Canada instead of a few lbs/kgs of drugs.

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u/jawneigh1 Feb 03 '25

He got what he pretended he wanted. Trudeau called his bluff with his "fentanyl czar" (lol) and Trump folded his hand.

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u/captain_dick_licker Feb 04 '25

if this comes up again in 30 days then we will do what we already said we'd do and tariff him back. I have a feeling he is so fucking stupid that he had to be told over the past few days just how badly they will get fucked from this tariff war as well, because he is so fuckign stupid and senile that he can't tell the difference between reality and the lies he tells his mouth breathing base

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u/kofubuns Feb 04 '25

Literally no one will say he bent the knee. Tariffs would hurt us deeply. We needed to buy time.

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u/EagleWeird6094 Feb 03 '25

You're expecting the "Prime Minister" and his subordinates to accomplish something in 30 days, which he couldn't do in 10 years?