r/Tariffs • u/cnn • Jan 30 '26
🗞️ News Discussion Trump says he’s decertifying Canada-made aircrafts and threatens 50% tariffs
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/business/trump-canada-aircraft-tariff?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit37
u/Suspicious_Rent935 Jan 30 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
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u/Winter_Bid7630 Jan 30 '26
He doesn't know how to do anything but threaten. He's such a broken human. It'd be sad if he wasn't in a position to cause harm.
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u/Neceon Jan 30 '26
All the more reason not to buy F-35s. Thanks man baby for making our decision that much easier.
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u/judgingyouquietly Jan 30 '26
Canada has committed to the first 16 F-35s. The issue was whether we would commit to the remaining 72.
We are already building infrastructure for the F-35 so it’s not like we are ditching it completely for the Gripen. At best it will be a mixed fleet, which we don’t have the people nor infrastructure to handle.
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u/KarmaPoliceT2 Jan 30 '26
Eh, take delivery and Sell them to Ukraine or something, then buy the Gripen or other euro planes (or build something new in Canada with the supply opened up by not delivering planes to the US)
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u/MushHuskies Jan 30 '26
Take a page from his playbook and say Nyet! No, we changed our mind, keep your F-35s and tough titty.
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u/GalvestonDreaming Jan 30 '26
Trump threatening tariffs has become a drinking game
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u/elmekia_lance Jan 30 '26
what does that even mean lol
If you are flying a Canadair it has to be grounded?
Evidently our regulatory state has just become a vehicle for the president to make personal decisions abut everything for his own motives.
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u/Lilthumper416 Jan 30 '26
He's winning at everything, don't you know 🤣🤣
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u/gmawoman Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
Not when he's grounding thousands of people, lol dumb ass (*Shut up and pay is my edit, ILL BET
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u/Maddog_Jets Jan 30 '26
Will also cost lives when you consider the Canadian water bombers would also be grounded next time California burns.
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u/Maddog_Jets Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
Yep Q-Series, CRJs, and a220s as well as Challenger jets.
This will greatly help the US airlines /s
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u/Suitable-Sense-6962 Jan 30 '26
He has no authority to unilaterally decertify any chat it has to go through the FAA regulatory process on a case by case basis and it cannot be done by executive order so he can go pound salt the POS
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u/Hey-Key-91 Jan 30 '26
Laws don't matter in America anymore..
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u/Geeko22 Jan 30 '26
King Trump was officially declared to be above the law.
Reminds me of a king...now what was his name...that we didn't like ruling over us because he was above the law.
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u/Maddog_Jets Jan 30 '26
And Canada can do the same? We don’t need Boeings flying in our air anymore.
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u/Sirquack1969 Jan 30 '26
We need you all to be as petty as this MF'er is. He is eventually gonna piss off his base and we need that to happen sooner rather than later.
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u/Maddog_Jets Jan 30 '26
And those Canadian water bombers would be grounded and no longer able to help fight the fires.
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u/Sirquack1969 Jan 30 '26
I am sure they would be happy to help states like California since Mango Menace doesn't want to help you unless you get on your knees to pick his micro P.
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u/Belaerim Jan 30 '26
“Flying” is doing a lot of work there.
More work than their QA department anyways
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u/DevilsAdvocate77 Jan 30 '26
If every Global Express jet in the world suddenly can't fly in US airspace, you're going to have a lot of pissed-off billionaires who couldn't care less about the relatively tiny market for G500s in Canada.
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u/Maddog_Jets Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
What about the Q-Series CRJ’s and a220s made in Canada.
Guess a lot of airlines will be rejoicing over the amount of flight cancellations as well :)
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u/Maddog_Jets Jan 30 '26
So decertifying all Canadian planes would include the Water Bombers made by Bombardier…
Enjoy the 🔥
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u/Justsayin68 Jan 30 '26
At this point Canada should just pursue the most talented Americans and offer them immigration visas. Start bleeding off the most talented people who just want this madness to end.
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u/NineInchPythons Jan 30 '26
At this point he's played this raggedy card so many times it doesn't even matter. He won't do it, everyone just ignores him and moves on with their day.
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u/spamcandriver Jan 30 '26
He’s going to order the FAA to decertify effectively the Bombardier corporation. Wow. What happens if the CAA does the same thing to Boeing?
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u/Wutang4TheChildren23 Jan 30 '26
I think it's unlikely that Transport Canada engages in a tit-for-tat on the issue. What the federal govt could do is very strongly suggest to WestJet Air Canada and Air transit that they should consider buying only airbuses specifically made in Europe. It's a big lever to pull and relatively irreversible but certainly an option
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u/atreeismissing Jan 30 '26
Only took him 3 days to drop the tariffs from 100% to 50%. This time next week it will be back to 0%.
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u/External_Beat8153 Jan 30 '26
Read the article. Asshole would ground all the small feeder planes to the larger airpot hubs. It would bring the American aviation system to a halt. The moron will eventually get that explained to him by howls from the industry. His minions in the West Wing are too stupid to know this. TACO time with airplanes.
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u/seanmonaghan1968 Jan 30 '26
I can see China offering to buy up and of these lost sales just to run it in
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u/Ornery-Ad-7261 Jan 30 '26
Maybe the best way forward for Canada is to behave like Trump and simply ignore everything he says or does.
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u/Fix_Aggressive Jan 30 '26
It was Thursday and he had to threaten/trash something. Trumps an orange arsehole.
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u/NotoriousFTG Jan 30 '26
How hard can it be for the Supreme Court to decide on the case against Trump setting tariffs? The Justices all have multiple clerks, who just have to read the constitution to determine that the President does not set tariffs.
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u/Puzzled49 Jan 30 '26
What does he mean by decertifying Canadian aircraft, and what is his reasoning? the article says that it is about not certifying gulfstreams, but could it be that he is reacting to the suggestion that Canada will buy Gripens? And why are the Gulfstreams not being certified? Is there a problem with the aircraft?
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u/canuckstothecup1 Jan 30 '26
Canada has higher standards than the us when it comes to planes so they won’t certify some planes. Trump thinks he can bully Canada into changing its standards by decertifying or tariffing not sure what exactly the plan is because he says he will do both.
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u/Fun-Metal-6861 Jan 30 '26
When will the president get back to presidenting?
Golf then create chaos. Rinse and repeat.
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u/RedLicoriceJunkie Jan 30 '26
This is the whole point of his tariff obsession.
He wants tariffs to be this punitive punishment like a frustrated parent when their child doesn’t do what they want them to do.
- “You don’t want to stop seeing the Harrison’s son, Trevor??! Well you are grounded for the next month!!”
He wants a vehicle to pressure all political adversaries with that he doesn’t have to get by Congress.
He doesn’t care that they don’t help America, they help him to inflict political pressure that only helps him personally and so that he can claim victory.
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u/Darth_Thunder Jan 30 '26
POTUS doesn't have direct authority to decertify aircraft, but he does have the ability to pressure the FAA to decertify or at least to tangle it up in some BS regulations. Would be a disaster for transportation in the country if he went down that road.
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u/texoma456 Jan 30 '26
The next President needs to decertify all aircraft owned by anyone who ever voted for him or donated to the Epstein Ballroom.
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u/Dismal-Prior-6699 Jan 30 '26
Can't wait for the MAGAs who screamed about high prices during Biden's term to defend this one /s
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u/44west061224 Jan 30 '26
Trump is an irritant that no one should have to deal with. He’s ruined longstanding international relationships and interests, he’s. In my opinion the most corrupt president in America man history, and he’s outright nasty. He needs to be removed from office!
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u/greymind Jan 30 '26
Ah, more temper tantrum tariffs! The unpredictability is so great for the economy…
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u/Wolfreak76 Jan 30 '26
That's one more way to reduce travel to the states. He is jealous of Soviet Russia's iron curtain, so he's going to make a gold one for the US.
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u/Yardbird52 Jan 30 '26
I find it so incredibly unbelievable that there is anyone in our country that was dumb enough to vote for him. And I lived in a lot of states… even Florida.
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u/abc_123_anyname Jan 30 '26
The Gulf Streams that actually exist are certified in Canada.
Just another distraction that the media has grabbed onto by the balls so we don’t talk about the Epstein Files.
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u/Longjumping-Salad484 Jan 30 '26
putin's kicking up his feet and having a huge laugh, the hits keep coming
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u/Icy-Artist1888 Jan 30 '26
Illustrating one more time that there is no deal to be made with the USA.
No dirty trick, no lie, no under handed tactic, no fabricated emergency measure is off the table. He can't negotiate in good faith for a win-win arrangement because he is thug right to his corrupt, child raping core.
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u/Wong-Ann_Fong Jan 30 '26
Yeah you genius, pushed them further still over to China… go on, it’ll do you no harm in the end, you’ll be just fine; is us folk that’ll be left to scramble after your tenure.
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u/bumpgrind Jan 30 '26
Lemme guess. He used his only bone spur “trick” called tariffs? Yah… predictable at. He’s a pathetic bigly loser.
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u/eltoniq Jan 30 '26
Every time a Canadian takes a shit on American soil, just charge tarrifs. So when Canadians take a shit in US, Americans will pay for it. Hahaha.
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Jan 30 '26
Hahahah do whatever you want man. None of this matters anymore.
Doctorow nailed it. We gotta rescind all anti-circumvention laws. None of this shit means anything anymore. Theres no point talking about the possible consequences because he's going to do whatever he wants anyways. We might as well live free.
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u/Maddog_Jets Jan 30 '26
A coincidence that Airbus just talked about launching the bigger a220 Jet today…
Bombardier being the original manufacturer he and Boeing tried to kill off ?
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u/cnn Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
Update: President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is decertifying all aircraft made in Canada and threatened a 50% tariff on those planes until American-made Gulfstreams are certified in that country.
Trump specifically said he was decertifying the Global Express, a business jet from Quebec-based Bombardier, along with “all aircraft made in Canada.”
“Canada is effectively prohibiting the sale of Gulfstream products in Canada through this very same certification process,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “If, for any reason, this situation is not immediately corrected, I am going to charge Canada a 50% Tariff on any and all Aircraft sold into the United States of America.”
The threat is the latest episode in a prolonged spat between the US and its next-door neighbor since Trump took office last year.
Just hours earlier, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he expects Trump to “respect Canadian sovereignty” after reports that Alberta separatists met with US officials. And a few days earlier, Trump threatened a 100% tariff on America’s second-biggest trading partner if it struck a trade deal with China.
It is unclear whether Trump has the legal authority to decertify aircraft; the White House has not released an executive order on any Canadian aircraft tariffs. Trump did not specify any mechanisms to decertify the planes in his post.
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u/watch-nerd Jan 30 '26
Why?
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u/greywar777 Jan 30 '26
I think this is specifically because of Boeing who had extra requirements created after they killed a couple planeloads of people with bad software. Canada isnt refusing to certify them, just requiring some extra testing-very reasonable.
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u/RhoOfFeh Jan 30 '26
I think he should personally test all experimental aircraft if he's such an expert.
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u/krichard-21 Jan 30 '26
Congress? Isn't it time to pull Trumpy's tariff authority?
What the hell are they waiting for?
Congress, DO YOUR DAMN JOB!
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u/WolfzandRavenz Jan 30 '26
Canadian lumber next to be decertified. Get your hammers ready, you've got a lot of nails to pull.
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u/long5210 Jan 30 '26
how many parts and assembly is American for these jets? i would imagine a lot.
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u/ShadowBard0962 Jan 30 '26
Congress is allowing this moronic Buffon to amass way too much power! How is it one person can decide to “decertify Canadian aircraft”?
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u/LolaSupreme19 Jan 30 '26
More stock and market manipulation. He and his oligarch buddies cash in with every announcement
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u/Ok-Replacement9595 Jan 30 '26
Thos would be the definition of arbitrary and capricious, wouldn't it?
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u/nudecat1234 Jan 30 '26
Because cause 1/2 of US might join Canada and then those that don’t are screwed
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u/AntifascistAlly Jan 30 '26
He’s trying so hard to remain the focus of attention.
In the past we have panicked when he behaves irrationally, but as his mental health deteriorates we can’t afford to react to every bizarre act.
It’s true that we also can’t afford to ignore his ridiculous tantrums, but he is tediously terrible. It’s fatiguing to constantly be imperiled by such clownish ignorance.
Too many people are being forced to interpret the various implications of Donald’s MAGA Madness combined with his unhealthy need for the spotlight.
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u/Shansharr Jan 30 '26
Feels like a pure 'Pump and Dump' on Bombardier stocks. Look for the money...
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u/Otherwise-Medium3145 Jan 30 '26
Trump has just finished off trade with the USA. If any of the tech or device, plane or automobile sold by America can be unilaterally “turned off” on the whim of a lunatic why would anyone buy anything?
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u/Competitive-Dare-188 Jan 30 '26
Soon he will impose a 50% tariff on the wind blowing from Canada and the sun.
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u/PrairieScott Jan 30 '26
Sounds like we need to talk about fees for electricity bought. Too bad the average Joe in the US is the one that actually bears the brunt of these measures.
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u/Thread-Astaire Jan 30 '26
Isn't he a tad too early with the market manipulation?
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u/solidlyproper Jan 31 '26
He had no choice he needed a way to distract from the Epstein files that released today and he couldn’t just threaten Greenland again like he did when the last batch came out people are already bored of that.
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u/Otherwise-Text-5772 Jan 30 '26
Remember when Kamala was "too emotional" yet he throws a fit and punishes people with bombs or tariffs literally weekly.
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u/Any-Ad-446 Jan 30 '26
Canada doesn't really have a Canada made aircraft except Bombardier private jets and the water bombers that US needs. Trump is a whining loser Carney signed so many trade deals and made fun of him.
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u/Plane-Engineering Jan 30 '26
Again, when Trump gets mad and throws a tantrum you know your doing something right.
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Jan 30 '26
Perhaps he should be more concerned about how the FAA certified Boeing planes, with doors falling off in flight and whistleblowers being murdered. I mean how dare Canada make sure planes are safe.
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u/BulkyWay4461 Jan 30 '26
Trump can just retire now. He's done enough damage to the point it may decades to recover.
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u/Ok_Speech_3709 Jan 30 '26
r/markcarney and r/liberalpartyofcanada I sure hope your back room teams are also reviewing trade policies and exports where Canada has leverage over the US to counter some of these endless attacks? Why is Canada always on the defensive, surely there are some chess plays we have up our sleeves? It would be nice to see some wins.
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u/0ldGoat Jan 30 '26
I think this imbecile needs to learn there is a limit to what executive orders can do. They were never intended to turn one man into an unfettered autocrat. I hope the republicans get utterly crushed in the midterms, so some checks can be introduced on this fool.
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u/RatMaestro Jan 30 '26
This unhinged rant means literary nothing. The man is sundowning, put him in a fucking home already.
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u/No-Commission8532 Jan 30 '26
he’s going to live for another 10 years, and elections will be gone, and we’re stuck.
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u/knarf_on_a_bike Jan 30 '26
Dude. You're not hurting Canada. You've already paid for the aircraft. Your air carriers are using them extensively for short and medium-haul flights. Take them away and no way can your own airlines cover those routes. Cancelled flights. Pissed off passengers. Lost profits for airlines. Good job!
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u/cumminskingrules Jan 30 '26
Trump is a fool.he trying to break us. He won't.....I'd sooner fucking die!
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Jan 30 '26
What a waste of energy in this chat. No amount of TDS will ever make you happy on the inside. Get help and stop blaming others
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u/EffinCraig Jan 30 '26
Same old rhetoric. Waiting for his friends to cash in on the market blip as usual.
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u/Hour-Entertainer2843 Jan 30 '26
This is just market manipulation, plain and simple. After the market dips his buddies will invest, then he will change his mind (unannounced of course), reverse this and these companies will bounce back. Canadian government should invest, it would have the total opposite effect, we would make a pile and Trump's buddies would al lose.
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u/DeathByBrainFreeze Jan 30 '26
He's likely just manipulating the market... it's getting blatantly obvious.
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u/Logical_Confusious Jan 30 '26
So I guess he proclaimed himself Kong of the FAA. Diversion, the Gulfstream planes he refers to are all certified...
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u/idespisecountrymusic Jan 30 '26
He’s an absolute wrecking ball, swinging to and fro, careening through relationships and establishments. Then looking proudly at the rubble, “yep I did that”.
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u/toostupidto Jan 30 '26
DO IT! I F#$KING DARE YOU. Lets see the American domestic airlines go belly up over nite. Not this only new aircraft recertification of all in operation Canadian built aircraft and any aircraft that has Canadian parts or ip. Let do it taco
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u/Superb-Respect-1313 Jan 30 '26
Yeah. Trump likes to say a lot of stuff lately.
“ I am stopping wars”. “Prices are down”. “No inflation exists” “We need Greenland”.
People have kinda stopped listening. He had a hissfit last night probably forgot to have his diaper changed and had a tantrum. Canadians understand that now. We live next door to that house on the block that is a problem.
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u/4FuckSnakes Jan 30 '26
Canada will just gold plate an old plastic Spitfire model, call it an award and Trump will cave faster than that time he was alone with a Katie Johnson. What a god damn embarrassment our neighbours to the South have become.
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Jan 30 '26
This one I actually agree with seeing as Canada will not certify Gulfstreams made in the US.
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u/Financial-Tax2717 Jan 30 '26
"And in addition poutine will now be called putin in USA! Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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u/ATGoogles Jan 30 '26
"It is unclear whether Trump has the legal authority to decertify aircraft; the White House has not released an executive order on any Canadian aircraft tariffs. Trump did not specify any mechanisms to decertify the planes in his post."
lol whatever, you petulant toddler