Canada

There are other options than tariffs! Export taxes. Changes in regulation. Contract cancelations.

Canada has many options. We could, for instance, withdraw from bilateral copyright agreements. Or limit the amount of electricity that's permitted to be exported.

Cory Doctorow suggests that we could establish Canadian app stores with a 5% cut and mandate that all phones sold in Canada be configured to use them. Lots of ideas, on a scale from good to bad, but there's options.

What is stopping this from hurting out economy the same way it will likely hurt the US economy?

The main factor is that our tarrifs are likely to be more targeted, because we have a reasonably functional government

Is the end goal here is to bolster our own economy by making US goods prohibitively expensive for Canadian citizens to buy, in turn making Canadians more likely to purchase Canadian goods (which is what we are trying to do anyway)?

The end goal of retaliatory tariffs are to make US businesses lobby their government to have our tariffs removed so that they can resume sales.

We should put export tariffs on energy and other critical goods that US needs in order to raise US inflation without cost to Canadian consumers, and with a boost to Canada revenues. It is the US consumer impact that would affect popular opinion against the tariffs.

FFS, we should make sure China buys our agriculture instead of US agriculture.

yea, Tariffs suck for everyone, especially when applied unilaterally... however its the best weapon we have, a tit for tat.

I hope to see some SHARP tariffs, 100% of starlink and Teslas.

Canadian tariffs are targeted in a number of ways. One of the ways is targeting American goods that have Canadian alternatives. So the goal is to make American products less attractive by making them more expensive, damaging the US economy while bolstering our own.

There aren't really winners in trade wars but the goal is to minimize our pain while maximizing theirs.

Agreed. But most of the measure were actually targeted, like removing alcohol from red states. I think Canada should also straight up ban X/Twitter and have a roadmap to ban everything Meta, too. Yes, people could still access them via VPN, but Meta not doing business here would prevent them from getting ad revenue. Also, the target most prone to falling for fake news (boomer and dumb people) probably can't get a VPN to work, so we kill 2 birds with one stone.

This is your guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzrIoJ0Wo2U

They have been talking about tariffs on oranges, Harley Davidson, Jack Daniel's. Tariffs like this specifically target red states putting pressure on the people who voted for Trump. Ontario alone accounts for 45% of all American liquor exports.

The CBC has published a website to explain things, you may find it useful.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2025/tariff-explainer/#intro

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I tried.

We had just 49% turnout.

Less than half of all eligible voters decided to show up. They must love the idea of FORD robbing Ontario blind.

While it hasn't been used formally until 2025, it has been used unofficially / informally since at least the time of FDR.

It's not an uncommon title.

Tzar actually comes for Caesar.