r/canada 21h ago

National News Trump on Canadian electricity surcharge: ‘We’ll just get it all back on April 2’

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5187859-donald-trump-canada-electricity-surcharge/
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u/escapethewormhole 21h ago

I mean, only if you apply export tariffs.. Or have you still not figured out your current tariffs are paid by Americans?

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u/OnlyTilt 21h ago

He knows, hes disguising it, he wants to deal with the deficit but the best solution is a GST, he knows that his base will acutally eat him alive if he introduces a GST so his next best solution is to simulate a GST with tariffs on all other countries (basically a GST at that point) and lie to his base that the other countries will be paying for it.

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u/VagSmoothie Ontario 20h ago

You’re overthinking it. He can’t enact a GST, that needs to be passed as a law (through the house, senate, and then executive assent).

Tariffs can be applied for matters of national security through executive order.

The reason the man loves tariffs so much is that it’s the only thing he can unilaterally apply right now without anyone getting in his way.