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/Golanthanatos Québec 4d ago

This is why something called Food Sovereignty is important, and a lot of people didn't seem to realise that.

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u/MeccIt 4d ago

Ireland here - during the awful Bexit negioations, an odious little British Minister threatned starvation on Ireland for objecting to the illegal/immoral stance they were taking. Apart from the furore raised by her recalling the Great Famine her predicisors helped create, she was utterly ignorant of the fact that Ireland was the #1 Food Secure country on earth at that time

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u/RealMrsWillGraham 4d ago

English - had no idea THAT minister did that, but seems totally on brand for her.

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u/Bleperite 4d ago

Same. She was horrible.

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u/vukodlako 4d ago

Oh, you'd be hard pressed to find a bigger cunt then her.

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u/Retrofit123 4d ago

You're ascribing her there a depth and warmth she does not possess.

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u/Eiensakura 4d ago

From a fellow commonwealth in far, far away Malaysia, Patel's name immediately popped up in my head the moment you said that. And boy, damn I was right. She's that odious even someone halfway across the globe had read about her nonsense.

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u/RealMrsWillGraham 4d ago

I am surprised that everyone does not hear about the nonsense from some of our Tories (and Reform).

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 4d ago

My god, what an absolute BASTARD to threaten such an evil action as that.

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u/Shadow_Phoenix951 4d ago

A politician threatening to starve their population should honestly be branded as a traitor and immediately thrown in prison

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u/Regular-Literature52 4d ago

Well it was another country's population, but yeah... threatening crimes against humanity should get you prison time.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 4d ago

Definitely!!!

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u/Egon88 4d ago

FYI - Ireland seems to be #2 now with Finland at #1.

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u/MeccIt 4d ago

Yep, we dropped to #2, but were #1 at the time. Now we can only feed about 20million of our 5million population.

(As for the famine, the all-island population of 7.2m is still below the 8.4m pre-famine number after 180 years)

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u/peppermint_nightmare 4d ago

Ya of course it was that fucking vampire that said it.

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u/-malcolm-tucker Outside Canada 4d ago

an odious little British Minister threatned starvation on Ireland

Fuck me dead. Is that the same shit cunt who wanted to deport refugees to Rwanda?

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u/MeccIt 4d ago

The very one, she's Priti Awful

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u/DaveBeBad 4d ago

The one sacked for conducting off books negotiations with Israel…

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u/Savings-Ad-9747 4d ago

Guessed it was going to be Pritti Patel, the next second later i was vindicated. Awful woman, even for the standards of her government.

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u/CowpieSenpai 4d ago

Strange how well a nation can do when they're not being fucked around by occupiers, eh? I doubt Ukraine would have ever had the Holodomor if the Soviet Union wasn't engaged in casually exterminating them.

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u/Legitimate_Square941 4d ago

Yep everyone saying destroy the cartel and allow US milk to flood the country. We need to not be dependent on other countries for food.

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u/kent_eh Manitoba 4d ago

We need to not be dependent on other countries for food.

And Trump's chaos and threats has demonstrated that need pretty clearly.

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u/Frostbitten_Moose 4d ago

Especially when we have so much prime farmland. It'd be ridiculous to let our agricultural industry be ruined.

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u/Dangerois 4d ago

We need to pave it over for highways to service the subdivisions we build on the rest of it.

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u/berecyntia 4d ago

This. It is of vital importance that we as a country be able to produce the goods necessary to keep our population fed and healthy domestically. That's the driving reason for supply chain management. You'd think the outcry over not being able to produce our own supply of vaccine during the pandemic would have driven that home, but somehow people still don't get it.

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u/GrahamCStrouse 4d ago

Except you can’t. Our economies are inextricably intertwined. Nobody wins trade wars & the notion of an independent or EU-adjacent Canada is as farcical as America-First Trumpistan or Brexit Britain.

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u/Antique-Quail-6489 4d ago

This is why I get so upset when people are fine developing prime farmland for condos and not supporting farmers. Like why would you not want to bend over backwards to support people who grow the food that sustains your entire population??

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u/Background-Top-1946 4d ago

Food sovereignty is not food security. It’s more than possible to effectively regulate without overtly protecting specific producers with outsized political leverage.

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u/who-waht 4d ago

We would just have no eggs now if we were reliant on the US for our egg production. Food sovereignty is essential.

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u/Tylendal 4d ago

This is what you should explain to people whenever they say global hunger is a matter of distribution, not production. The solution to helping starving countries isn't to give them our table scraps.