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Mark Carney: "It's not a surprise that the US would take some form of reprisal to our response to their unjustified tariffs, which was on top of other unjustified tariffs. But what message does that send to the workers in Michigan and Ohio and Kentucky and Alabama who rely on Canadian demand?"

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If Trump puts 50% tariffs on essential Canadian automotive parts sent to USA manufacturers and Canada places a 50% surcharge on hydro sent to the USA automotive manufacturers, will it not be less expensive for USA automotive manufacturers to move their production to Canada for their export markets?

Perhaps we should look at who negotiated the CUSMA trade deal in the first place and what was agreed. Dairy products imported into Canada from US under CUSMA are ZERO tariff. The dairy arrangements were negotiated as part of CUSMA/USMCA during Trump’s first administration.

Canada agreed to give U.S. dairy producers additional tariff-free access to its market, while retaining its supply-management system and the high tariffs applying above the quotas. The resulting agreement was signed in 2018 and came into force in 2020. So the sequence is essentially:

A subsequent USMCA dispute panel actually ruled in 2023 that Canada’s administration of the dairy TRQs did not violate the agreement. So once an agreement entered into and signed by Trump is not worth diddly squat.

Right, it is wrong to do, but lets do wrong too. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ We should be fighting for free trade. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2/3 in the Senate? Democrats would need to gain 20 Senate seats in the midterms. Of those up for election, 22 currently held by Republicans. Not likely. 🤷🏻‍♂️

His staff is probably going through US’s input/output table and trade stats to find the most painful way to hurt trump, US and unavoidably USers, and where US have no escape by reduction of demand, alternative supplies, or substitutes, and hurt Canadians least. It is a very technical and hard job.

Relief programs need to be designed after what the retaliations are determined. Moving people of various skills into labor demands of different skills takes time too. Canada also need to talk to real allies about cooperation in our retaliations too, now that a common adversary confess.

what's the point of making a "deal" when he never honors a deal, breaks terms immediately followed by a new list of demands, total joke and waste of time, like everything else just performative belligerence

I read many of the NYT Focus Group reports leading up to the election. Far too many people who really did know better just couldn't bring themselves to vote for a black woman, and so either voted for, or didn't vote against, a sexual predator with 34 felonies to his name. It's on them.

Here’s the message for those workers in those affected States: trump never cared about those of you who voted for him. Do you get it now? Has it sunk in?

The message is they get what they get and they don’t get upset. They are among the fools who voted for Drumpf. Oh yes, with her eyes closed, Kamala Harris would have been superior to this felon chump that Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Alabama racists and misogynists voted to put in the White House.

Please don’t say the U.S.- it’s our pansy- nasty ass- racist rapist of a president. And this is just one of many examples of why I cannot be proud to live here right now! He is undoing 250 years of precedent!

The message is, Trump cannot follow the concept of consequences even a single step into the future. If he held a hammer aloft and was asked what would happen to the hammer if he let go, he'd be stumped and ask you what media outlet you worked for and then say "fake news."

The message is that T doesn't care about anything or anyone other than himself and $$$. He's publicly admitted that countless times. "When someone tells you who he is, believe him the first time." - Maya Angelou

As a Canadian I’m so finished with your despot of a leader. It’s like owning a townhouse where you’ve built a beautiful home for your family but it’s always threatened by the meth lab on the other side of the shared wall. He’s a rapist. A thief. A grifter. A liar. We are done.

Mark Carney & Doug Ford are heros. The only leaders to tell the US to go to hell. You should be very proud of your government for standing up to a corrupt, ignorant bully. I hope other world leaders follow their example on how to beat Trump & do it with integrity & dignity & intelligence.🇨🇦👏

Reports were that Carney was ready to hand trump a W on Friday, but trump's imbeciles pushed us on constitutional protection of French and our economic sovereignty to make international trade agreements. They were THIS close to beating NAFTA/CUSMA to the detriment of Canadians but theyre fuckin dumb

🍊 doesn’t care and it’s the people of MI, OH, KY, etc that need to listen to the same message he’s been sending since before 2016!

Mark Carney asked the right question: what message does this send to workers in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Alabama who rely on Canadian demand? If and when the power cut happens before election day, wouldn't that stop people from voting? Another election interference attempt if you ask me?

🇨🇦 It’s up to the Americans to stop their govt. The tariffs are eating them alive. You pay that govt - you are their boss Remember that when you vote Yes, they are eating your face!

The very message he's told workers in MI, OH, KN, & AL to their confused friggin' faces: "I don't think about you." All Trump cares about is that Canada told him "no," and for that Canada must be punished. Sure, he'll do it by screwing millions of American workers, but they're just NPCs to him.

I’ll tell you what it says to all those US workers who make products for export to Canada, it says Trump is a fucking imbecile and doesn’t give a shit about America.

We are at war with America albeit an economic war. Trump has no idea of our resolve and it’s similar to Britain’s resolve under the German Blitz. We will carry on!

this is so unbelievably stupid. attacking canada. as i type i realize, why. it's just a bullying tactic. big bully trying to beat up the nice, quiet, smaller guy in the back of the room. he is a madman. FUCK EVERY LAST REPUBLICAN IN CONGRESS. they are as guilty as he is & must be held accountable.

Tarriffs are taxes on us! This pos uses them to bully other countries. What he is doing is illegal. Courts have already told him he does not have the authorization to do so. In his typical bully move, he does it anyway!!! What a pos!!!

Message = Trump could care less about your economic pain, but hey! DON'T think about it, just vote for ReTHUGlicans again in the mid-terms! (We are COUNTING on you not to think!) FAFO.

Oh yah!!! Thanks for him stating that! Love to see what the affected states he mentioned will vote blue all the way now!!

Trump is not "the US." He's the monster who resides in the WH, the Insane Soviet Puppet who has no idea what "governing" means and only knows one two syllable word, tariffs.

It certainly does not send a good message to States that do significant commerce with Canada. But does Trump care? He's not even listening to the Supreme Court.

Our "president", can only think linearly about one thing at a time. He cannot see the ramifications because he doesn't see things as connected. Canada is right to abandon talks with us, the US. Hopefully we can repair the relationship one we're rid of said "president".

We have a stupid, incompetent, CORRUPT, 34-count felon, liar, cheat, grifting imbecile as President, along with an incompetent, corrupt cabinet and republican party. That is what we need to change. We all know the assignment in Nov. 2026 and again in Nov. 2028. Protest, boycott, and VOTE BLUE!

Sad, and inappropriate, that someone from Canada cares more about workers in the United States than the President does. That's just wrong. Hey Republicans, your politicians don't care about you. Have you noticed?

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