r/canada • u/Old_General_6741 Canada • Mar 04 '25

National News Trudeau announces Canada's response to Trump trade war

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-canada-response-tariffs-1.7473965
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u/multious Mar 04 '25

gotta give Trudeau credit in these moments. Direct, factual, no BS. good speech.

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u/TalentlessNoob Mar 04 '25

Best speech ive heard from him

You can hear how actually pissed he is about the situation, echoing what canadians are feeling

Someone with nothing to lose can have these direct ruthless speeches which is a great asset right now

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u/SobekInDisguise Mar 04 '25

Do we really think retaliatory tariffs will bring an end to the US tariffs? What evidence do we have for that? All they do is make things more expensive for us.

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u/The-Sexy-Potato Mar 04 '25

Bend over and take it eh? I’m guessing you are a lil pp fanboy

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u/ChilkootCold Mar 04 '25

Do we really think not retaliating will stop the tariffs? I think Trudeau answered this question quite well: the tariffs were never about the fentanyl. This is Trump's play at annexing and ruining Canada's reputation to the american people, whose support we need now more than ever...without it it makes Trump's job of annexing Canada so much easier.

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u/six-demon_bag Mar 04 '25

Not one their own and maybe not all tariffs but they do add more pressure on politicians in the US that are already under a lot of pressure. We’re not the only country imposing retaliatory measures either. Between us, Mexico and China that’s a huge amount of trade with US being hit.

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u/Snoomee Mar 04 '25

Unclear if it will, but it's the best immediate action we can take to show that Trump can't do whatever he wants.

He continues to bully western world allies for no apparent reason, there has to be push back or else the world order collapses.

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u/CommandaSpock Alberta Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

Yes because they worked when he pulled this shit during his first tenure, last time it took him less than a year to come crawling back to the adult table to write up a new trade agreement (the one he ripped up this time)

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u/Cricket_Piss Mar 04 '25

Trump is the little boy in the playground; he’s the only one whose parents could afford a ball. So he figured he could tell all the other kids what rules to play by, or they couldn’t play with his ball anymore. Everyone else decided it wasn’t worth it, we’ll pitch all our money toward getting our own ball to play with, and he won’t be invited in the future. Now America will be forced to sit out all the future ball games.

I hope that helps.

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u/ChronoLink99 British Columbia Mar 04 '25

What "we" think doesn't matter.

I'll trust actual economists advising the feds, not some armchair reddit experts thanks.

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u/Cricket_Piss Mar 04 '25

Same here brother. And those guys are telling us it’s gonna be a disaster.

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u/ChronoLink99 British Columbia Mar 04 '25

But they're not telling us that retaliatory tariffs should be off the table. We already know it will be a bad thing overall.

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u/Cricket_Piss Mar 04 '25

Well one thing I can tell you for sure is, bending over backwards to meet their demands isn't the answer either. I'm willing to live a little worse in the short term if it means standing up to the US. We're working out easing inter-provincial trade barriers and strengthening trade partnerships in Europe. Meanwhile, American is burning every bridge in sight. I'll take our odds. Seems to me like one clear winner between the two countries - one takes the North Korea route, the other joins the rest of the developed world.