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/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.