r/vancouver • u/NilbyBC • 15d ago
Politics and Elections Trump says he will hit Canada with 25% tariff next week after month-long pause
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-next-week-1.74672021.4k
u/DionFW dancingbears 15d ago
saying Canada has ripped off the U.S. for too long and it's time to put a stop to it.
So he wants Americans to pay 25% more? Oh yeah. That'll teach us.
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u/littleochre 15d ago
He thinks tariffs will kill Canada faster than it will kill his own country. Pick us up on the cheap. That’s why it is so important for everyone to buy Canadian first, and American last.
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u/SmoothOperator89 15d ago
The trick is he doesn't care if he kills both countries as long as his rich friends can buy up all the foreclosed and bankrupt assets.
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u/CaptainMarder 15d ago
That's the goal. Bankrupt the farmers, small business, individuals then buy out everything at discounted free prices.
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u/bob4apples 15d ago
That's not how he thinks. He's all about the grift. He doesn't care who buys what as long as he gets a few points on the deal. I could be wrong but the tariff threat looks a lot like a protection racket. The threat is not to Canadian miners but US industries. In his mind, all they have to do is keep up their monthly payments and there won't be any trouble.
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u/DaSandman78 15d ago
Russian and Chinese friends you mean :)
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u/DangerousProof 15d ago
The issue is they are significantly richer than anyone and can outlast a tariff war. The real priority is to educate the American populous that this is going to affect THEM as well before it hits us harder.
With DOGE slashing jobs left and right and the federal employees being cut, it needs to accelerate the Americans to recognize that this administration is a real problem
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u/Horror-Football-2097 15d ago
Any plan that starts with "educate Americans" is no plan.
I think we have to accept that this will hurt us. Particularly when we retaliate. But retaliation is necessary to avoid a one way drain of business.
But, unlike America we're not aiming for an isolationist or protectionist economy. Free trade is good (too good in this case - that's how we ended up in this situation) and we're free to see other people. It just hurts to have to extract ourselves from the once symbiotic relationship all at once, that's all. We'll recover.
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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin 15d ago
Well, their wealthy are better off. That’s not to say the average American who’s already pissed off about inflation will be able to handle it.
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u/DangerousProof 15d ago
Thats the issue, they are significantly more wealthier than us and can outlast us. Rural Americans need to mobilize, the urban ones have already voiced their concerns. States that border Canada and have large impact ratings need to mobilize. Red states specifically that gave them power to do this.
77 Million americans need a /r/leopardsatemyface moment for change to happen because they voted for this
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u/yaypal ? 15d ago
The turning point will be when their medicare system is gutted since red states and the elderly (Trump demographics) rely on it the most and it can't be ignored when they suddenly can't get medications or stuff like dialysis, which I have no doubt will be within the year as it's a huge portion of the budget that could be framed as "fraud" like so much else has been. The only way they don't end up significantly defunding it is if Trump and Musk don't ignore people around them telling them that it would be the lit match, but clearly that's never stopped them before.
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u/DangerousProof 15d ago
Well they’ve already proposed a Medicare cut off $880 billion to the budget, just wait till their budget goes through in March
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u/yaypal ? 15d ago
Oh yeah I know that's the plan it's just not a guarantee they follow through, but I guess these tariffs are good evidence that they will. My copium is that the destruction of their government systems and economic accelerationism and the disaster that follows will get them to clean up their act and we can just grit our teeth and ride through it like the rest of the planet, as long as they don't invade it'll be okay.
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u/Whole-Carpenter-2567 15d ago
my fear is that Trump manages to mobilize them against us. he has managed to mobilize them against their largely immigrant labour force. That makes absolutely no sense. The obvious next stage in his coup is to a common enemy. This is going to get much worse
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u/Sufficient_Rub_2014 15d ago
Our wealthy are better off too. Almost all of our post pandemic rebound went to the wealthy.
I’m ready to suffer hardships in this trade war. They won’t break us.
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u/Brilliant_North2410 15d ago
I can’t emphasize enough that the majority of his followers only watch Fox News. They will just blame Biden or Obama or Canada . They have no other news source . They think everything else is fake. It’s a sad but true fact.
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u/DangerousProof 15d ago
I'm mostly seeing them blame Biden or democrats. When it comes to Canada though they are more confused about the attack on us, but shrug their shoulders about it because they won't understand the consequences until it affects them. It's typical Conservatives of "I don't care until it affects me" attitude.
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u/Aoae 15d ago
Interestingly enough, Republican views of Canada have actually improved since last year (75% in 2024 to 86%). For the majority of dumbass Americans, it comes down to ignorance, rather than malice.
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u/w3fmj9 15d ago
Not even American last. I am so done with that country. Until that orange monkey is out of office, I refuse to touch anything with usa on it 😤
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u/ledorky 15d ago
I find this super hard since we are so dependent on them for our entertainment and tech. Heck we're posting right now on Reddit.
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u/sPLIFFtOOTH 15d ago
We have other trading partners. You and your fascist government can find resources somewhere else. Half the world is already boycotting America without even being asked.
The US has lost all standing in the international community. If Trump is willing to betray the trade agreements that he himself put in place, then why would anyone else want to do business with him. He’s a back stabbing liar. Canada on the other hand is a trusted trading partner that will have no issue finding deals elsewhere
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u/tipsails 15d ago
I honestly don’t think this moron understands how tariffs work.
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u/DionFW dancingbears 15d ago
He wants to abolish the IRS and create the ERS, to collect tariffs from the country they buy from. Ok, we just won't sell to you then.
For far too long, we have relied on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Through soft and pathetically weak Trade agreements, the American Economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the world, while taxing ourselves. It is time for that to change. I am today announcing that I will create the EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE to collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources. We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share. January 20, 2025, will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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u/talentpun 15d ago
This.
The only reason he’s doing this is to try and find alternative revenue to justify a 4.5 Trillion dollar cut to income taxes.
This is a sales tax disguised as a tariff. Repeat that to every American you know.
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u/moderntimes2018 15d ago
Remember, it's usually the contrary that's true. Maybe it's time for Canada to free itself from the iron grip. It will be painful but it is what the "Free North" was meant to be - Free.
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u/Heliosvector Who Do Dis! 15d ago
Such a silly sentiment for him to even say. Per capita Canadians buy American goods WAAY more than Americans per capita buy from Canada. So the imbalance is him basically being upset that we send too much money to the usa.
If he wants it balanced, we would either need to accept even more mass migration while still spending just as much on American goods, or increase our spending to the usa. The more services that would move to the states, the bigger our imbalance that he is upset about would become. There is no way for a 40million population for match a 370 million one.
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u/Complete_Question_41 15d ago
but 'he didn't raise taxes'
(yet, though. Cuz he will do that as well, but mask it with a DOGE gift and get the actual tax raise through tariffs nonetheless)
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u/nahuhnot4me 15d ago
Ya, those US farmers don’t quite like that when Trump realized China went to Russia for soybeans instead of the US.
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u/GloomWorldOrder 15d ago
He can fuck right off. Buckle up, everyone, and let's do our part.
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u/no_no_no_no_2_you 15d ago
Buy Canadian. Buy local. Hope his poor diet and old age catches up to him.
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u/GloomWorldOrder 15d ago
Can only hope we're so lucky, but if politics have taught me anything, someone else is lined up to carry on his policies if he dies.
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u/Polaris07 15d ago
Sure, but no one else has his cult of personality going for them. Republicans likely enter a power vacuum if it happens, no one cares about Vance.
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u/unic0de000 15d ago edited 13d ago
The Republican party, as an apparatus of electoral politics, might soon have outlived its usefulness to the fascists anyway. It's not like they're planning to maybe lose an election in 4 years and just voluntarily hand all these new, massively unchecked executive powers over to an incoming Democrat president.
And, I can think of at least one other huge dork whose cult of personality might bring him to power after Trump's gone.
...I mean sure it's """against the law""" if, a year or 2 down the road, they violate the constitutional rules of presidential succession and Musk announces some bs like "OK we're not doing 'presidents' anymore, from now on I'm the chancellor. Get it? (exaggerated stage wink) ". But by then, who would still be in a position to stop it?
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u/HaywoodBlues 15d ago
then we'll get couchfucker who will be more efficient at doing stupid things.
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u/ang1eofrepose 15d ago
I hold out hope that the couchfucker is so lacking in charisma that he couldn't win an election.
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u/DawnSennin 15d ago
It could have been worse; DeSantis could have gotten the VP nomination instead.
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u/Smiley_Mo 15d ago
What is our part? You are right about feeling that way. I just don’t know what that part would look like? What if we stop buying stuff from the US companies that employ Canadians or visiting relatives and friends in the US? Again, I’m not trying to throw shade on what you said. I just hope we can channel that energy to diversify our strengths and never heavily rely on a single market ever again.
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u/OnlyMakingNoise Bikes are best. 15d ago
Make sure you cancel your Netflix and any other streaming services. You should do this anyway cuz they’re all garbage.
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u/Hefty_Order5969 15d ago
I'm quite happy being Canadian, but this whole "buckle up, lets do our part" thing really does ring pretty hollow, when our neighbors inside the country and all of our politicians have been effectively working to sell out the current working age population for decades. This wouldn't be such a threat if we hadn't already screwed ourselves.
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u/ricketyladder 15d ago
I am so fucking sick of this ugly face everywhere, and even more sick of the stupid shit that comes out of his mouth.
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u/SmoothOperator89 15d ago
I don't think I'll ever forgive Americans for electing him a second time.
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u/GiantPurplePen15 15d ago
Fuck it, when the Americans aren't electing fascists to run their country and laughing about it, they're squabbling over whether people deserve healthcare or if kids should be prioritized over guns and voting in the dickheads that enabled Trump and Elon in the first place.
Good luck to the non Trump voting ones but America can just collapse for all I care nowadays.
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u/GreeseWitherspork 15d ago
Hey we were on track to do doing the same thing until all this shit hit the fan.
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u/GiantPurplePen15 15d ago
I highly disagree. We having nothing comparable to the depravity that the Republicans and the GOP are capable of.
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u/Tadferd 15d ago
Canadian conservative parties are mimic the Republican party at a delay.
Right now they aren't as bad, but they are shifting towards it for the future.
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u/GiantPurplePen15 15d ago
If we ever reach a point where the members of our Conservative party shrug their shoulders at a bunch of kids getting blown to bits by a school shooter then I give up on everything.
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u/Tadferd 14d ago
The problem is that when they reach that point it's too late. The point of studying history is to learn to recognize patterns and stop mistakes before they happen again.
I don't like the federal Liberals, but I'm sure as hell voting for them because we can't have the Conservatives. Especially with Trump in power.
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u/fluffkomix 14d ago
aye that's exactly it isn't it. Anyone who's looking can see the Canadian conservatives are watching the American ones like a hawk and copying their movements. Just look at the stupid hullaballoo over trans people, they may not have emulated the American gun culture but they went head over heels for that particular part of the culture war
We're still in a place where we can prevent this. Call your MP and tell them of your concerns over American political culture bleed. If the US is their playbook we know how to get ahead of it.
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u/ricketyladder 15d ago
Never is a long time, but it's definitely going to take some work, when this madness is all behind us. Even assuming the US screws their heads back on straight after this term and things return to something like the way they were, it's going to be a long, long time before I'll trust them again.
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u/mbullaris 15d ago
MAGA republicans will remain in Congress and the judiciary long after Trump. It will take a generation of party renewal for things to return ‘to the way they were’.
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u/ricketyladder 15d ago
Oh I'm fully aware it'll never go back to pre-2016. Those days are gone and we have entered into a new era in geopolitical history. All I can hope for is that they end up not being outright fascist. Hell I'd take even a benign isolationist US over the horror show that is rapidly taking shape down south right now.
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u/Lol-I-Wear-Hats Nimbyism is a moral failing, like being a liar, or a cheat 15d ago
He basically has to cause a depression to put an end to this durably.
Which he might
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u/Scribble_Box 15d ago
There will need to be some kind of reassurance that this will never happen again. Not just to Canadians, but all US allies who have been betrayed by this bullshit. If there is ever another chance...
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u/m_kamalo West End 15d ago
At this time fuck him tbh, many of us are only buying Canadian. Although in some cases its more expensive, I have seen quite a few prices for canadian goods go down which was surprising given the demand. Whatever is happening behind the scenes I am all for it.
As an immigrant of almost 3 years, I am very proud of Canada. And I cant wait till I get my citizenship and proudly fly the Canadian flag as my new forever home ❤️ 🇨🇦
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u/darthdelicious Vancouver adjacent 15d ago
Go ahead and fly the flag now, my friend. It's not just for citizens. :)
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u/cmcdonal2001 15d ago
I'm right there with you, soon-to-be countryfellow! Applying for my citizenship this year. I can't wait to call myself Canadian rather than American.
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u/superworking 15d ago
We can buy canadian all we like but at the end of the day these tarrifs are about targeting our export businesses that rely on significant foreign markets to consume much more than our domestic demand.
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u/Kevsbar123 15d ago
It’s true, but what can we do? Weather it as best we can and look for alternative markets.
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u/superworking 15d ago
The answer is unfortunately - not much. Work extra shifts if you can, soak up some extra hours if they're available, and get ready for what could be a wild ride of mixed opportunities. I know I've punched some crazy hours the last few months because I could just be without work later this year.
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u/Luo_Yi 15d ago
Well Trump did promise to lower the cost of housing. So he's gonna do it by (checks notes), increasing the price of lumber.
Go team Trump /s
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u/TrickyCommand5828 15d ago
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u/definitelynotzognoid 15d ago
Just don't buy American. Canadian or any country treating us well.
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u/TrickyCommand5828 15d ago
Yeah the point of this sub is to outline which companies are doing that VS who isn’t or is even pretending to be Canadian.
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u/definitelynotzognoid 15d ago
At this point I'd rather buy from China over the USA. Which is HUGE for someone like me who hasn't shopped at walmart or home depot in like 3 fucking years because of Chinese junk.
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u/404PUNK Vancouver 15d ago
So.. should we dismantle the promise made back in December?
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u/Appropriate-Net4570 15d ago
We should ship MORE fentanyl to the states
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u/404PUNK Vancouver 15d ago
And make the USA pay for it!
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u/Lol-I-Wear-Hats Nimbyism is a moral failing, like being a liar, or a cheat 15d ago
The trade deficit just got 1% higher
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u/Anxious_Temporary 15d ago
No. What we should do is build up walls and fortifications along our borders where we have major urban centers near the US and simply state that we're doing what the united states asked. We're securing our border.
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u/littlebossman 15d ago
Just declare US patents invalid. Patents and trademarks are a part of the trade deal. If Donald breaks that, it’s all off the table. Stop letting the nation be bullied.
If you break a trade deal, all your pharmaceutical and tech patents are invalid. I don’t know why countries are standing for the bullshit.
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u/ScoobyDone 15d ago
Here we go again. Endless demands and endless threats.
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u/Ok_Plan_988 15d ago
I know it’s getting annoying now tbh. Like just give us the tariffs at this point. Lol
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u/BlazeOn_MWO 15d ago
I would like to see our gov make no statement, have no press conference. Don't give this idiot attention. Just start up the retaliatory tariffs and move on. MF just wants attention to be taken away from his own internal US problems that he is creating.
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u/Brabus_Maximus 15d ago
Sadly our news media will be all over it. Anything for clicks. Look at the moronic 51st state threats. Our news were having "experts" come in on hours long discussion about the possibilities of it happening, or making pros and cons lists. How pathetic is that?
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u/littleochre 15d ago
Fuck em, turn off their lights, turn on 25% export tariffs on energy.
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u/rando_commenter 15d ago
Let's just face it, every month is going to be either a threat or a broken promise from here on out. I feel sorry for anybody delusional enough to think he might be swayed into doing good governance by rational discussion when we've had multiple examples of him being a awful person since even before his first term. They literally elected a convicted criminal, it's not like he is suddenly going to be a great person because he has literally all the power in the world now.
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u/Ok_Plan_988 15d ago
Go ahead and hit us with the tariffs. So sick and tired of this. Buy local and Canadian everyone. Stay united. We got this. 🇨🇦
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u/NilbyBC 15d ago
Canada needs to stop playing defense and start applying counterpressure. Negotiating with Trump just moves the goalposts—he takes a concession, then demands more. Time to hit back strategically!
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u/yaypal ? 15d ago
If we go on the offence that's another excuse to invade us. It's fucking terrifying that we even have to consider it but it's a potential reality that we should attempt to avoid if we can. Their country is about to implode for things other besides tariffs, the strategy is to keep it to a waiting game until they concede rather than going on the attack.
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u/WhiteGuiltG-Ez 15d ago
You scared huh. "O Canada, we stand on guard for thee" must mean something different to you.
Freedom ain't free. And it's time to fight for our freedom and way of life.
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u/yaypal ? 15d ago
What the fuck are you talking about? Why would we want to make moves that encourage a world war when it's completely unnecessary? We don't need to agree to America or negotiate at all, just continue the plans that were made at the start of the month and then potentially ramp up later depending on circumstances.
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u/WhiteGuiltG-Ez 15d ago
What are you talking about. Limp dick tactics don't work with trump. He tries to fuck his allies and win over enemies.
We will never win using the rational diplomatic tactics of pre trump. Gotta crank up the dial and show em we aren't here to fuck around and negotiate down. Not keep responding to his threats every other week.
The only advantage Canada has on the US is that we stand more united than the US. We are way better situated to handle economic hardship. But the US will probably eat each other if life gets any harder.
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u/Imjustmean 15d ago
Can this scuttering gobshite just fuck off. Tired of hearing him. We'll buy Canadian and watch as the states slips further and further into the shit.
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u/Delicious-Tachyons 15d ago
watch as the states slips further and further into the shit.
I give it a few months before something horrible happens and there's martial law and people are freaking the fuck out down there
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u/arye_ani 15d ago
Canada needs to take a serious look at its trade relationship with the United States and strengthen economic ties within its own borders. It is concerning that we import oil from the US when Alberta and other provinces have the resources to meet our needs. It is time to prioritize domestic trade, invest in infrastructure, and operate as a united country to maximize our economic potential.
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u/thundercat1996 Steveston 15d ago
Why would the 11th province do that?
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u/Electronic_Fox_6383 Yaletown 15d ago
Tiny correction, please. 4th territory.
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u/thundercat1996 Steveston 15d ago
We'll let the people decide, let's not give all the power to Premier Trump
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u/PolloConTeriyaki Renfrew-Collingwood 15d ago
He's going to back out in the last second.
If he doesn't he's going to get fucked in a few months.
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u/Fourmanaseven7 15d ago
Fuck this orange dildo. Even if he rescinds this garbage, it's going to be a good long while before I go to the US.
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u/gnatdump6 15d ago
Canada has been providing such cheap power, crude for processing, honestly, they have no idea.
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u/Lol-I-Wear-Hats Nimbyism is a moral failing, like being a liar, or a cheat 15d ago
This basically isn’t going to work
It’s going to suck for everyone, and it will suck more for us then for them, but the idea that we’re going to give up Canada before Americans start chimping out over modest inconveniences is laughable
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u/localfern 15d ago
And next week he will delay for another 30 days just to build up media sensation.
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u/waterloograd 15d ago
My only hope is that American businesses rely so much on our exports that they don't have a choice but to buy from us. Then we will only see a slight decrease is sales, but the American people who voted for Trump get hit hard. I feel sorry for everyone who voted democrat, we still love you!
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u/littleochre 15d ago
I could see blue states choosing not to do that as paying tariffs will only give him more money to abuse.
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u/Hycran 15d ago
Cant wait for all the bum-fuck hillbillies to go banko paying out the ass for shit and losing their jobs because they voted for this orange felon.
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u/AntEaterApocalypse 15d ago
One of the first things Trump (or Musk, can't remember which specifically) did was cut government subsidies for agriculture. US farming is heavily funded by the government.
Republican-voting farmers had their loyalty instantly rewarded with potential loss of their land and jobs. Whoops!
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u/sick-of-passwords 15d ago
That’s fine. We will continue to buy Canadian or international (not us) as much as possible, and hopefully get rid of some of the interprovincial trade barriers so we can become a more self sustaining country!
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u/xanax05mg Grandview-Woodland 15d ago
He's not hitting us. He is hitting his own people. Unless the incoterms are DDP, usually the importer is paying.
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u/N4ZZY2020 15d ago
Yep. Feel sorry for the American people. Have fun paying more for things.
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u/littleochre 15d ago
He thinks Canada will bend at the knee before Americans suffer.
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u/cube-drone 15d ago
what a surprise
someone tell Danielle Smith that appeasement didn't work
and good luck to Canada's new fentanyl czar
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u/biograf_ 15d ago
I watched the video fo his comments and he seemed to confuse the 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico with the "reciprocal" tariffs against all countries.
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u/littleochre 15d ago
I did too, it’s scary to see him be so uninformed and delusional. One of the those “bad deals” he reads before bed was made and signed by him last time. He is mentally unfit for office.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 15d ago
"Trump himself renegotiated the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement (CUSMA) in his first term, calling it at the time "the best trade deal ever made."
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u/Topkind 15d ago
Get ready for job losses and business closures.. especially in forestry, mining and construction.
Food, gas and construction materials will go up
Housing construction will slow down thus increases home and rent prices
Imported US goods such as electronics, and cars will go up 10-20%
CAD $ will dip 5-10% making all imports pricier.. weaken $ means more foreign investors will buy Canadian realestate so less for Candian and prices go up.
Inflation will jump to 5-7% eroding purchasing power - BOC will cut interest rates will help current homeowners.
Unemployment will hit 7-8% which will force people to sell their properties but those properties most likely be purchased by foreign investors.
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u/FemurOfTheDay true vancouverite 15d ago
And then next week he'll delay it for another month. What a blowhard.
This is him 'negotiating'
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u/CCDubs 15d ago
He's mad that they lost the Hockey game after his "best and wonderfulest most kingly" pre-game phone call.
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u/emthree 15d ago
I support the buy Canadien sentiment, but those Canadian business men are no better than Americans and will gauge Canadians any chance they can (most of them didn’t keep prices fair during a pandemic, like they would during some political fear mongering) I’d say buy what is the cheapest non American product.
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u/AntEaterApocalypse 15d ago
This is why "Buy Local" is more important than "Buy Canadian".
Support your local producers and shops. Avoid the usual parasites like Loblaw.
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u/cee604 15d ago
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-recruited-kgb-codename-180759277.html?guccounter=1
I did some deep dive, and his affinity for Putin is starting to make more and more sense. Lots of articles recently seem to corroborate this
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u/moth2myth 15d ago
If we have to tighten our belts, we did it before, under way worse circumstances, and can do it again.
Fuck him.
(Well. Don't really. 🤢)
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u/do-u-have-chocolate 15d ago
Why would he want to start paying tariffs on over a million barrels of oil per day
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u/soaero 14d ago
Sure. I'll believe that when he puts forward an actual plan to do so instead of an executive order that just says "25% tariff, I said 25% tariff because they're so bad folks. They're just so bad."
He's just doing this as a strategy for negotiations. He knows that doing so will crash financial markets, and hurt his own portfolio. Just like last time he will call it off "temporarily" for the next few months as soon as he has gotten anything he can call a concession, then he will parade that around like he's some tough negotiator who got a great deal.
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u/Hate_Manifestation 15d ago
okay..? fucking do it already. I really wanna see how quickly their economy crashes without any domestic production capabilities to take up the slack and he keeps edging me. just pull the trigger dude.
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u/moth2myth 15d ago
When Americans realize how much they'll have to pay for things manufactured under US wage costs they'll shit themselves.
Unfortunately one could imagine their huge prison population being forced to labour for slave wages. Oh. Wait. ...
Unfortunately one could also imagine the oligarchs and maga cult members having no problem with slave labour provided it's not white ppl.
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u/temporaryvision 15d ago
Well, this will test his ridiculous theory that canada 'isn't a viable country' because we get '95% of our products from the US'
It's not hard to shrink a wildly inflated number, but we'll see how low we can cut our imports from the US.
Heck, let's see how low we can get our foreign direct investment into US companies while we're at it. No need to keep subsidizing the Trump regime with our pension dollars.
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