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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’m not expecting Trudeau to respond to stupid shit like this but he’s been pretty silent this week. I’m hoping that means he has some trade deals to announce.

The good news about global tariff threats is that it would be really easy to find allies that would match responding tariffs made against our exports or diverting required resources away from that orange fuck.

[–] Snowstorm 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Responding in a slow pace is a feature not a bug : the toddler in chief will get bored and might go get is dopamine with another target, while we redirect export elsewhere

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

That’s a really good perspective I hadn’t considered the attention span aspect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Harper came out to say that worst case if he was in Trudeau's position he would have just dealt with the bad economy for a few years until Trump gets replaced.

(Edit: my opinion from here) Introduce help measures like during COVID (some form of UBI) and regulations to prevent banks from seizing the property of those losing their job due to the tariffs and yeah we would end up with more debt as a country, but we would keep our sovereignty.

[–] psvrh 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, Harper talked about UBI and banking regulations? The right honourable Stephen Harper? The one who had to be dragged, kicking and screaming by his own caucus, to respond to the 2008 crisis with anything other than austerity?

That Harper?

Wow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Priorities. If there's no longer a Canada, then he doesn't get to style himself "the Right Honourable" anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah, just the first part, the second part is the logical thing to do if we decide to just tough it up! I've made it clearer in my previous post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

My guy, Republicans aren't going anywhere in 4 years. Canada is part of their goal and they will not stop. The Oligarchs want it and don't want to pay for it. They don't care if both economies suffer in the process because they have ways to profit out of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

You don’t need to wait 4. You will know by the midterms if it will get better or worse.