Ottawa should block Donald Trump’s chosen ambassador to Canada until the U.S. president stops questioning Canada’s sovereignty, says one expert.
“We could potentially use (this) as a way of signalling the seriousness with which the Government of Canada is viewing this unwelcome talk,” said University of Victoria international relations professor Will Greaves.
“It is an overt, aggressive policy that (Trump) seems to be shifting his administration to endorse. And if we are remotely serious as a country, we should regard that as a hostile action and embrace a wider array of tools in our response towards it.”
Considering Trump said he would begin the attack by hurting us economically and then enacted tariffs, paused for only a month, and then added more tariffs that ARE in effect, we should be considering this as already started.
It’s literally happening right now and people need to stop acting like it’s not.
Delaying tariffs is worse than having them.
Canadians can’t price orders to US companies or price any cross border deliveries.
Tariffs are functionally in effect as long as the axe swings over our head like this.
For incoming products, sure, but I don’t see how that applies to outgoing products? If we sell something to the US, and it gets a tariff applied after the sale but before delivery, it’s the receiver that has to pay the tariff, so the only risk is for multiple delivery contracts being cancelled.
We have no problems with pricing since any tariffs we put on will have advance warning unlike that buffoon that comes up with an idea and signs it in place within two days.
If I were in charge I’d be nailing him to the wall with 50% tariffs on EVERYTHING we ship to America. His supporters would be screaming at $8-10 per gallon of gas.
Hit him hard and force him to step back 'cause this pussy-footing around isn’t doing any good.
100%. The US does not have the domestic manufacturing capability to be swinging their stick like this and the tariffs don’t affect(directly) trade with the countries willing to play nice.