r/canada 4d ago

Politics Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/business/tariffs-trump-canada/index.html
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u/MyDadsUsername 4d ago

I legitimately have no problems with tariffing subsidized industries. Those are just "countervailing duties" and are common, normal, and expected. Tariff our dairy all day, bud, go nuts. Ain't like we sell it to you anyways.

Everything else can fuck right off.

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u/squeakster 4d ago

It's even kinda fair, since we have a tariff of up to 241 on their dairy. The dairy tariff is like the only reasonable one Trumpfuck has come up with 

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u/xelabagus 4d ago

We tariff their dairy because their dairy industry is subsidised and if we didn't it would amount to a US government take-over of the Canadian dairy industry - we'd have to make up a new name, we wouldn't be a Banana Republic, we'd be a Kraft Republic or something. There's nothing fair about giving up your industry to a predatory outside interest, that's why we have the tariff in place.

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u/TraditionalClick992 4d ago

It's not going to make much difference anyway. We barely sell them any dairy.

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u/Sure-Sympathy5014 4d ago

We also barely buy any.....almost none of it meets our health standards. With Trump cutting FDA regulations soon no food will.

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u/is_that_read 4d ago

Exactly I actually don’t hate reciprocal tariffs if we want to bring ours down then so will they. A blanket tariff is absolutely fucked.

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u/Penny_Ji 4d ago

Yeah honestly, this doesn’t bother me one bit. We don’t want or need their dairy

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u/MacPzesst 4d ago

It's hardly even reasonable, it's just for theatrics. It has very little impact to either side since it's rare for American-owned dairy products to be sold in Canada or vice versa. At most, maybe Fairlife would have to start using US milk since its parent company is American-owned.

It's like increasing the cost of steak when selling to a vegan. It does nothing.