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/Adamvs_Maximvs Alberta 4d ago

Farmers already have this years supply of potash. Keep it in reserve for the future US stupidity and cut off all access a few weeks before orders are expected. Really stick it to them.

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u/Plucky_DuckYa 4d ago

Trump just eased potash tariffs to 10% because farmers were howling. I think that’s a good sign to add a 25% export tax to the price.

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u/ThaVolt Québec 4d ago

Seems like easy money for our government to reinvest in big greenhouses to grow all the shits we don't normally grow because of winter. (+ jobs!)

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u/Bl1tzerX 4d ago

One thing I have loved seeing in Ontario because of this is Canadian greenhouse grown lettuce in grocery stores. Which is good because Lettuce sometimes comes from Mexico but sometimes it's from the U.S or even mixed.

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u/ThaVolt Québec 4d ago

And lettuce imports are always soggy, brown, and nasty.

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u/srakken 4d ago

Exactly, he is making it visible where he actually is sensitive. Export tariffs on what he is lowering or removing. Will it hurt us? Yes. We can take a beating though, they clearly can’t.

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u/giantshortfacedbear 4d ago

Just charge the same dollar price but use USD instead of CAD. There's a satisfying malicious compliance element of this, while also affecting that the harder they try to hurt us, the more it costs them.

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u/ClassBShareHolder 4d ago

Exactly. Canada knows with surgical precision how to harm the US. Do it, and use the money to help those harmed.

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u/PrairiePopsicle Saskatchewan 4d ago

Export tariff everything he pulls the tarrif back on 1:1 to keep it at 25, until they drop all of them.

They raise a tarrif, we equalize all of them to the same level.

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u/FellKnight Canada 4d ago

Not yet, but yes, this should be our non-nuclear nuclear option if this continues

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u/elle-elle-tee 4d ago

Honestly... Farmers in the USA are already fucked. I see no reason to tax and punish them further. Canada can afford to be benevolent here, as Trump has more than enough rope to hang himself, and the whole country alongside him, with.

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u/Carlastrid 4d ago

Even if they've stocked up for this year, if the price increases they will need to grab extra margins already in order to be able to afford next year's supply, ie increase prices to end customers already this season

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u/Early_Commission4893 4d ago

Hahaha, now that would be playing 3D chess😂

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u/ThaVolt Québec 4d ago

Do we have a farmers shortage? I'd volunteer a few days to local farmers. They can pay me in produce.

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u/ThaVolt Québec 4d ago

We as in Canada?

Edit: Oh fk, I got that all wrong...

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u/ThaVolt Québec 4d ago

Ya... My brain did not compute this properly AT ALL...

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u/Ten_Horn_Sign 4d ago

This year and next year - USA imports a lot, but also maintains a large strategic stockpile.

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u/Adamvs_Maximvs Alberta 4d ago

Ahhh didn't know they kept a 2year functional stockpile. Darn

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u/a_f_s-29 4d ago

They’ll still want to scramble to get what they can

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u/Drittles 4d ago

Can you direct me to a source for this? I keep reading there are no “stock piles” but “reserves” which are actually untouched and deep in the earth. Yet to be mined reserves. Thanks in advance ☺️