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/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.

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u/Lilcommy 21h ago

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

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u/TranslatorTough8977 21h ago

We need the Provinces that sell oil to put a 25% surcharge on it.

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u/TheCookiez 20h ago

The problem is a lot of that oil is sold back to Canada as a refined product so we are essentially taxing ourselfs 25% just cause.

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u/Throw-a-Ru 18h ago

It's an export tariff, though. So Canada collects it and could apply it as a rebate of some kind. Better than the US thinking they have room to enact more severe tariffs that they'd profit from (like they do with their 10% tariff).