U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he’s terminating all trade discussions with Canada effective immediately.
“We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period,” Trump said in a social media post.
He says he’s pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax (DST), which requires web giants pay a special tax.
Set to take effect on June 30, the DST requires U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay a three per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users — a policy enacted by former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government that the Parliamentary Budget Office projects will bring in billions of dollars in revenue.
We will let Canada know the tarrif that US citizens will pay to get Canadian products. That’s what he means, though he is too much a dumbass to know it.
If I were say… Disney, I’d consider planning a Canada Disney Land due to all the missed non-American’s avoiding tourism in Florida. Just Sayin’…
Good. I was a bit worried that we’d make some concessions to end the tariffs. Once you’ve paid the Dane-geld you’ll never get rid of the Dane. We have other partners to trade with.
Well lets see I wonder what the reason for this could be. Could it be the deal we signed with Greeland on Thursday? Could it be the 2.5bil US companies owe us on Monday? Could it be the fact they murdered one of our Citizens? gee which one could it be?
Fuck em and fuck that country. I hate Nazi’s and it makes my stomach churn that I have to live above a nation full of them.
Congrats to Canada on their newfound status of not having to listen to trumps noise anymore.
And no worries, America will be back soon on its knees groveling for lumber and fish. Just ship it through Mexico, itll be fine.
Lol oil. Railcar from Alberta to BC, onto a tanker to Mexico, then railcar back up to Montana for the refineries that are tooled specifically for tar sands oil.
Sure it’s expensive, but oil from across the pond is about to be as well, or did Iran back down on that?
I’d like someone to do the maths for me how much energy will be used versus how much is created after all that…
Yeah, well, Trump says lots of things. None of which have any meaning or worth. He’ll be saying the opposite best week.
Aw, even though Carney tried so hard to pass bill c-2 for daddy Trump? I wonder what their new excuse for the bullshit “border” bill will be.
That means nothing. He will taco. Then Canada will get even more pushed away from our once great partnership.
Remember how Trump fucked up the election in Canada for the conservatives? They literally had it in the bag. But Taco showed up with his tiny mushroom dick.
If people could stop putting that man’s meat and two veg in my head, that would be great…
Thursday, Canada signs huge rare earth mineral mining deal with Iceland, humiliating Trump.
Friday, Trump throws a tantrum.
Do you mean Greenland or did they do some deal with Iceland?
Ugh. No, you’re right. Greenland.
Iceland = Bjork, Greenland != More ice-covered land than green.
I love Björk. She’s small and angry.
It’s easy to remember which one is which, Iceland is green and Greenland is covered in ice.
As is tradition
I’m in favour of gradual weakening of the US leading to its ultimate dismantling. The sub-300 year experiment has clearly failed, so there’s zero reason for the US to exist in its current form.
Yeah I kind of believe that NA would work better as a bunch of smaller countries in an agreement similar to the EU. I say that as a Canadian who’s politics aren’t as much a dumpster fire too
He’s just trying to get our CDN back to an equal level with USD :)
Lol Donald announced that he’s shutting up? Canada wins
And U.S. consumers lose because, if there’s still anyone unclear on this, we pay the goddamn tariff and not a single person in Canada.
Well there is counter tarrifs on some US goods we’d hypothetically pay… if we were still buying US products, that is.
As an embarrassed American, I would urge you to boycott any remaining goods until such time as we’re not a Nazi shithole. Might be a while.
Don’t worry… already on it.
That’s definitely going to help him make a deal.
ART OF THE DEAL
I’m telling ya! ICE is running out of money, and tariffs are collected by the DHS instead of the IRS. I’m betting tariffs are going under the table to fund it
