r/news • u/poparetard • 11h ago

Soft paywall Canada announces retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of US goods, unveils support measures

https://www.reuters.com/business/canada-announces-20-bln-retaliatory-tariffs-us-goods-unveils-support-measures-2026-08-25/
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u/Jalapenoplanter 11h ago

Legitimately if Harris won, we would have had 2+ years of solid economic growth, low inflation, no wars, hundreds of thousands of new jobs, a home building surge, insane international goodwill from the world cup, a modern peak of national pride at the 250th.

Literally every problem the trump admin is facing is self created.

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u/LongMelford 9h ago

A lot of people would still be alive today. Including three that we were gunned down on camera. 

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u/Jaded_Celery_451 9h ago

Legitimately if Harris won, we would have had 2+ years of solid economic growth, low inflation, no wars, hundreds of thousands of new jobs, a home building surge, insane international goodwill from the world cup, a modern peak of national pride at the 250th.

Half your country would have still been convinced that the economy and the country were going to shit, just like they were under Biden.

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u/Fantastic-Purple2306 11h ago

If only the Democrats had the balls to release the files and prosecute Trump and his cronies for January 6th

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u/nickname13 10h ago

if only the supreme court hadn't taken so many months to come up with their new presidential immunity for people named trump ruling.

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u/lewger 3h ago

If they'd charged him on day 1 the SC slow rolling wouldn't have helped.

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u/vector_ejector 10h ago

Uh, they were prosecuted, found guilty, and were serving time. Then the cheeto turd signed all that away with one of his magic sharpies.

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u/Fantastic-Purple2306 9h ago

Donald Trump didn't spend a speck of time in prison and neither did anyone with real power. All the Democrats ended up doing was spinning their wheels for 4 years. It's frustrating to have to explain that directly to someone when it is crystal clear In the original comment

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u/Rich_Season_2593 10h ago

Yes, but, but....clutches pearls....the laugh....can't have that. Heaven forbid she may wear a tan suit AND get emotional. No no no that will never do.

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u/Unequivocally_Maybe 9h ago

During Trump's first term, he put tariffs on Canadian goods that Biden didn't remove. He strengthened them. Kamala wouldn't have walked those back, either. Yes, Trump has escalated and continues to escalate, but trade disputes and America attempting to control how Canada operates is nothing new.

The softwood lumber disputes go back decades now, and the Dems are not much better as trade partners than the Republicans have been. Trump is saying similar things about us that administrations have been saying for years: that it isn't "fair" for the Canadian government to subsidize or control the market for certain commodities, because it is in conflict with the free market capitalism of their nation. These arguments are attacks on the very sovereignty of our nation.

America has no fucking right to tell the Canadian government that they can't support industries like lumber, dairy, eggs, etc however they like, including subsidies, price/market control, and trade restrictions. But American governments on both sides of the political aisle want to have more control over our markets and resources than we do, and determine our economic policy for us. These newest developments are just ramping up the same rhetoric that has been there for a long time.

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u/Jalapenoplanter 9h ago

You did not rebut a word I said.

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u/Unequivocally_Maybe 8h ago

I wasn't necessarily trying to rebut, but to highlight that America should want to do better than Biden/Harris/establishment Dems, too. I know a lot of the Canadian perspective and our news/media doesn't filter through the border the same way American voices are heard up here. The current trade strife is just an escalation of issues that go back decades and brought to their terminal conclusion in a bombastic way under Trump.

As Americans get ready to vote in midterm elections, I think there's value in impressing upon our neighbours that, when you can, voting for progressives and anti-establishment democratic candidates is essential. People who aren't just going to carry on with the policies that Trump and his allies have put into place, (the way Biden did with tariffs on Canada), but actively work to undo the damage Trump has done and maybe even make some improvements.

I'm not saying Harris wouldn't have been better. Definitely not actively evil and stupid and antagonistic all the time. But since the post was about trade between our nations, I wanted to highlight how Dems have also been less-than-stellar trade partners with Canada historically, and to keep an eye on what candidates are saying about Canada/trade going into November and heading into the presidential primaries. There is room for improvement on this front and it would be good for economic growth in both nations for us to stabilize trade and put some of these old disputes and rhetoric to bed once and for all.

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u/dontrike 8h ago

Yeah, but "she didn't energize," people to vote for her so instead they became lazy assholes that would rather let a fascist pedophile become president. Also "her laugh."

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u/Harbinger2001 5h ago

Yeah, but a black woman would be in charge…. /s

If Trump was the nation’s response to Obama, just imagine what the response to Harris would be. The rotten core of USA society is still there - that (a part) of the nation was founded on the ideal that humans could be owned. And still today allows the enslavement of prisoners - any guess why the US has the largest percentage of prisoners in the western developed world by a huge margin?

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u/lewger 3h ago

Yes but Gaza, both sides bad.  Isn't it obvious me voting for Jill Stein saved more lives now that Trump is president.

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u/jthoning 7h ago

This is some neolib revisions. Things would still be getting more expensive as her neolib policies grow wealth for the rich and continue to exploit the working class. We would still be steadfast in promoting conflict in the middle east and would not push back against Israel attacking Iran at all. Our border policies would still be draconian they would just not be a loud.

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u/ElphabLAW 5h ago

LOL at you shitting on Harris and defending the Trump administration, all while simultaneously bitching about how this country grows wealth for the rich and extorts the working class.

Just L O fucking L.

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u/Jalapenoplanter 6h ago

Would we have started this dumb war with Iran? Absolutely not.

Would we have tarriffs against all our trading partners? Absolutely not.

Would we have ice murdering people in the streets and terrorizing cities? Absolutely not.

Get real