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So folding to all his demands was a lot of effort and spending for absolutely nothing.
Fuck the US.
Yup. I don’t know why we’d even try to appease a convicted felon and rapist.
I wouldn’t even bother trying to deal with that Nazi pig at this point. Raise the price of all our essentials goods to them. If we’re really vindictive, hold back any sales of potash and other materials needed for their agriculture for a while. Starve the beast.
Start raising of oil, power and potash to compensate our losses. Keep increasing the price everytime he adds a new tarrif. Hell I would raise everytime he says 'governor Trudeau'
If we made “governor trudeau” a drinking game, we’d all need new livers by 10:04 AM.
Just potash alone would kill them. That's a huge hit to lose so much necessary fertilizer. Impact the food chain heavy and suddenly the citizens aren't so comfy to let It all go down.
And oil. Let's do that, too.
What effort and spending did we do? My understanding that it was just a bunch of platitudes or things that were already in the works.
LOL! Well first of all Trump wildly exaggerated how much fentanyl was being brought into the US from Canada.
Source
More stats here
They set up a border fentanyl "Czar" and spent a few millions to have a increased presence at the border with little impact. Because there's already so little fentanyl crossing from Canada to the U.S.
CBSA launches Operation Blizzard to target fentanyl and other synthetic narcotics
There's a lot more coming into Canada from the U.S. actually. But the main and biggest source is China.
I'm not disagreeing that trumps claims are bullshit? I'm wondering what the "lots of time and money" were. AFAIK, we spent a few million dollars to fly some helicopters around. We might just have very different definitions of what "a lot of money" means in the context of federal spending.
Besides, if those millions of dollars bought us one extra month of no tariffs, that's the investment of the century. Quite the opposite of a waste of time.
Let's agree to disagree on that one.
The end result is the same. It only delayed the inevitable, made us waste our time and resources that we could've used for better things, and we're still going to have a fucked up economy and make our lives a living hell.
I'm already pretty mad that I had to survive through the economic crash of 2008 at the start of my adult life and I had to cancel all my life goals of having a family and shit. And now I have to deal with this bullshit when I finally achieved financial comfort. Fuck all of this. I'm mad as hell.
Nah we didn't bend to jack shit, Trudeau did what we were already doing and Trump called it good enough and now Trump's changing his mind because he's pulling from Putin's bag of tricks: soft power projection by questioning our sovereignty. Trudeau made the right call but unfortunately it doesn't matter.
Agreed. This was never about drugs, we can't stop what isn't happening. Trudeau bought us a month to get our shit together and prepare for the inevitable, Which we've done. At least we won't be completely blindsided this time.
The increases border security was announced back in December, but the "Border Tsar" was new.
I think at this stage, we could make a proclamation that "Governor" is an acceptable informal title for the Governor-General or something. This is already the stupidest trade war ever, and we already are suffering from the uncertainty. Buy us some time to further diversify.
That money should have gone into our economy to prepare for more domestic goods and business. Controlling what comes INTO their country is THEIR job not ours to keep shit out anyways.