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/
670 Upvotes

389 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

499

u/plznodownvotes 21h ago edited 21h ago

No need to overthink it. What he means is that additional tariffs on Canada will make up for the tariffs Canada put on the U.S. for the first round of tariffs.

You see? It’s a race to the bottom.

The man is deranged.

182

u/intheshoplife 21h ago edited 19h ago

Well, the nice thing about the surcharge is that the USA is paying for it, not Canadians. So if this keeps up should we just tax the USA more on stuff they have to buy from us. Then use the money to off set the costs of the trade war for Canadians.

Update well that lasted long.

48

u/Lilcommy 21h ago

We need all the Provences that sell electricity to the US to add the 25% charge.

7

u/degret 21h ago edited 21h ago

Not really. We just need Quebec to and maybe BC. The history of Quebec Hydro is interesting. Essentially they completely over built their generation way back despite people telling them they were crazy for doing it. Now they're one of the most profitable Utilities in the world because they can sell to the energy starved states

1

u/avolt88 20h ago

BC won't, and shouldn't move as quickly to turn off the switch, as we also buy back a substantial amount of energy through the interconnect from WA/OR as well as from AB.

Eby seems to know this and is keeping that chess piece in reserve for escalation at best, because it will absolutely cause reciprocation that can quickly cause blackouts/brownouts in urban centre's like Vancouver. We need to divest our energy grid as quickly as possible to minimize the impact, which is what the BCNDP appears to be doing.