This gives enough time to Canada to prepare and plan. This will be everyone’s worst year ever.
It’s all a distraction while they seize the treasury. This is a coup
Trump is like Vinny in My Cousin Vinny when he thinks he sweet talked the prosecutor into turning over his files.
Trudeau couldn’t talk to him until then and it wasn’t because of a lack of trying.
All of this was theatrics to give Trump an appearance of strength.
See you in 30 days for more of that same bullshit.
This will be the norm with your dumb US Cheeto leader in Mountain Dew - just never ending posturing, threats, theatrics and general stupidity. Flashing cards and flowers in one hand while swiping your wallet with the other.
The even dumber part will the political experts and academics in charge now who will write best selling books in 20-30 years time criticizing everything that is happening now and in the near future and talking about how all this could have been prevented.
I came to see the spin on how we caved, which I’m sure we did somehow, but:
Trudeau in his tweet said, “I just had a good call with President Trump,” and suggested that the pause on tariffs was in response to Canada’s agreement to target the flow of the deadly opioid fentanyl across the border into the United States.
As I’ve already said too much today, 2023 numbers are apparently 43 pounds. Should be easy enough to target.
Trump’s pause on tariffs on Mexican imports likewise came after Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said she would immediately send 10,000 soldiers to the U.S. border to prevent drug trafficking, fentanyl in particular, from Mexico.
I think we should do that for other reasons so thanks.Edit: misunderstood by me and no longer in the same context in the article. But also we already live at the border, and we should send some, and we can repurpose them to help defend Greenland or Panama.
Trudeau said Canada had made new commitments “to appoint a Fentanyl Czar,” among other measures.
Already have one as part of ministerial stuff, but if he can’t understand that, a simple name change when speaking should do.
Edit: article updated since I copied all that (together). It’s fairly different now and shittier.
which I’m sure we did somehow
Trudeau sold him measures that Canada had already voted on. See this post from the end of last year. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/12/the-government-of-canadas-border-plan-significant-investments-to-strengthen-border-security-and-our-immigration-system.html
Trudeau “caved” by giving Trump essentially zilch, apparently assuming – perhaps not incorrectly – that Trump would be that easily swindled.
See you in 30 days for his next round of ridiculous demands. And he’ll be emboldened knowing he “won” this round.
That, now, is indeed a genuine issue. Trump has stated that his end game is annexation, and experience has shown that when he sounds like he’s got a bee in his bonnet about something, however bonkers, he’s actually serious about it. So I’m not seeing him stop the aggression on Canada.
Is having a fentanyl czar similar to having a crack smoking mayor or
Doug Ford goin Federal?
Similar, but more sedate.
I wonder if this was their scheme to tank markets, crypto and stocks, in order to buy more and have it pump again.
Trudeau’s 4 years of experience working with a toddler-in-chief is showing.
Presumably his time teaching literal children also helped prepare him for dealing with that one.
Good shit, turns out Trump’s misunderstanding of Tariffs works in multiple directions.
wonder if Trump is doing this just for market manipulation for family and friend’s trading
We caved, and now that orange asshole is pushing for access to our banks. Looks like this was what he wanted all along.
Motherfucker.
In a social media post after his first call with Trudeau wrapped earlier Monday, Trump chastised Canada for not allowing U.S. banks to “open or do business there.”
Until this point, Trump has framed the threatened tariffs as a way to hit back at Canada for the ongoing trade deficit and supposed inaction on drugs and migrants crossing the northern border into the U.S. — his stated concerns about banking fairness are a new development.
Personal banking in Canada is largely the domain of Canadian-based banks, due to stringent federal regulations designed to protect against bank failures. According to government figures, Canada’s large banks hold more than 93 per cent of all domestic banking assets. Canadian banks are routinely ranked among the safest in the world.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-speak-trade-war-1.7448805
Part of (well a lot of) me wanted to see this go through so America’s closest allies start abandoning it, but I guess that’s the only way it was going to turn out.
As an American I wanted this to go through to show that American exceptionalism is only recognized by Americans. And maybe 10% of the people who voted for him would learn to do their own research or at least look at multiple sources before buying whatever the cult leader says.
On the later at least, there are still plenty of failures to be had.
I’m really disapointed not by the halt of the tarrif war but about how trudeau already forgot any support canadian products and diversifying trade partners
It’s been a few hours. I’m confident that no one is forgetting this as a lesson in the danger of trusting the US going fares.
I’m sure that people will not forget but not so sure about our leadership
The issue is postponed not solved. Canada has every incentive to consider the issue as an ongoing crisis.
I hope that what our leadership think too
I’d rather do that through long term economic policy, and not because there’s a fire under our feet and we have no other choice.
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