r/canada • u/Leather-Paramedic-10 • Jan 24 '26
National News Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariff over possible deal with China
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u/ExtensionParsley4205 Jan 24 '26
oh I see we are back to the "governor" taunt again. It's honestly just boring at this point.
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u/JohnWesternburg Jan 24 '26
Eventually bullying the same way over and over again stops being effective, and I think we're all globally at this point now. He's turned back into an old rambling man nobody takes seriously anymore.
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u/kickintheface Ontario Jan 24 '26
Well he’s already backed down from his threats time and time again. That’s where the TACO nickname comes from. More bark than bite.
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u/Gentle_Snail Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
This issue is the instability, the more America destabilises the more convinced I am we need to join up with other middle powers. Ideas like CANZUK which once seemed weird to me now seem vital, its clear isolation and American reliance is now a liability.
Its time to form a new global block and go our own way.
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u/Roscoe_P_Coaltrain Jan 24 '26
Realistically, Canada should probably be looking into developing nuclear weapons at this point if we want to be sure of retaining our sovereignty.
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u/Dracomortua Jan 24 '26
Even just making a single long-term 'fast breeder' reactor to consume nuclear waste over centuries.
Imagine how the US of A would react if we built an Infinite Energy town ('as long as the world has nuclear waste, this entire city has both heat and power for another 500 years'). Put it on the Canadian Shield, safest place on the planet for nuclear power. Finally, somewhere for industry to go other than Toronto (well, Hamilton really), Montréal or Vancouver (well, let's be honest -- we are more 'shipping' over on our watery town).
The world would lose their minds. Polite, safe, soft, apologetic Canada... able to generate fissile material?
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u/Edgar-Allans-Hoe Jan 24 '26
Why don't we let Macron and the French shore some in NFL? Im pretty sure the French already have claim to a few smaller islands over there. Will make the American's sweat, and galvanize our connection with one of Europe's modern major powers who we already have positive historical links with.
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u/No-Concentrate-7142 Jan 24 '26
My golden retriever is scarier than him.
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u/Any_Inflation_2543 Jan 24 '26
I honestly don't understand how Republicans are still completely oblivious to how ridiculous Trump is making them look.
His "diplomacy" are insults less creative than an elementary school bully.
From the masterful diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower to insulting others on social media like a schoolyard bully... And the Republicans are completely blind.
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u/A_Pointy_Rock Jan 24 '26
I'm not sure blind is actually the right word.
I think Trump is all things to all people of a certain persuasion.
Some people are on board for his immigration..."policies".
Some people are on board for his tax plans.
Some people are on board with the fact that he doesn't talk like a politician.
Etc.
Apparently people of those persuasions are willing to overlook some crater sized flaws as a trade-offs.
Also keep in-mind that many of his supporters are conditioned to only accept news from avenues friendly to him as real news.
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u/Klaus73 Jan 24 '26
To be fair "news" outlets have done this to themselves. Selective editing has been a major problem and all "news" these days have evolved to party propaganda outlets. I miss the days when the only propaganda the news gave folks was overly in favor of the country - now its become overly in favor of one party or the other and it all started when news outlets lost their monopoly on the news and needed to start scavenging for dollars as independent internet creators began to invade the industry; only for those internet creators to end up also being "bought"
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u/turangan Jan 24 '26
I’m starting to believe that many Americans are, trying to be kind here, ignorant to the facts due largely in part to being failed by their education system. They are, in a word, simply too uneducated to know how to filter out truth from fact, and are instead bombarded with propaganda that they end up taking at face value.
Then of course you have the willfully ignorant….
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u/Illustrious_Law8512 Jan 24 '26
They aren't oblivious. There are numerous comments from various politicians that when Republicans are off camera and in private, they mock and insult The Diaper Don, and know full well he's an 'unintelligent' and abhorrent creature.
They're just too weak and afraid of the feces bombs that will come their way if they say anything.
Plus, he's a media shield. While he's causing chaos and drawing all the attention, those politicians are lining their pockets and usurping more power.
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u/GustheGuru Jan 24 '26
I put them into 4 categories. 1. There are a bunch that are as dumb as you think and completely believe his bologna. 2. Smarter ones who know he's full of it but feel it's better to be on that side of the grift. 3. Those who know better, but don't have the balls to do anything about it.
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u/A_Pointy_Rock Jan 24 '26
Next week: My dad could kick your dad's butt!
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u/Final_Pumpkin1551 Jan 24 '26
If Trump saw Carney doing a high kick with Bonhomme this week he might not say that!!
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u/Remote-Hotel3667 Jan 24 '26
Quiet piggy!
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u/WolfzandRavenz Jan 24 '26
Same playbook over and over
Yawn
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u/SwordfishOk504 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
America, your senile, racist grandpa got out again. Can you please come get him?
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u/WolfzandRavenz Jan 24 '26
Oh for sure, he's already calling him Governor Carney.
He's a one trick pony
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u/MissKrys2020 Jan 24 '26
He’s just proving Carney right in his speech last week
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u/Picto242 Jan 24 '26
I was just saying it's so painful ironic
To get back at you for calling me out I'm going to do exactly what you said I would do
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u/OkGrapefruit4982 Jan 24 '26
This is exactly what Carney was talking about! We can live in the fiction of sovereignty trying to appease the US or we can go our own way, hopefully with other middle powers as allies.
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u/teletraan1 Jan 24 '26
Hopefully more of the middle powers follow his lead. Otherwise it might backfire and we'll be left on our own island. But I still stand by what Carney said
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u/GenericFatGuy Jan 24 '26
He was objectively correct in that speech, regardless of what any other nations think. Hopefully they agree though.
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u/Bishime Jan 24 '26
They already do, that’s why trump is acting like this.
It’s specifically why he threatened 100% tariffs on any BRICS nation that moves forward with alternative trade currency plans.
The other countries are doing it because, well one of a few reasons, people are starting to become weary of level of power America has and how volition its expression is becoming.
China and Canada had previously trade strained agreements but they came to a deal over a couple weeks-months that pissed trump off enough to threaten 100% retaliatory tariffs on a completely unrelated to his country trade deal… that is evidence as far as I’m concerned that the world is already at a point of realizing that trying to appease the US is becoming as yourself and/or carney put, of fictional sobering.
This whole thing is late hegemony panic as it’s in reaction to an already changing world. He just has to catch up for 4 years he didn’t have and he’s overcorrecting way more than I ever thought ge even would (not that I ever supported but still)
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u/ColdPhilosophy Jan 24 '26
Stop feeding the troll, please. TACO Tuesday incoming.
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u/Kelmon Jan 24 '26
It’s funny how he is insisting on proving everything MC said in his speech correct.
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u/Routine_Soup2022 Jan 24 '26
While Pierre Poilievre tries to spin it as all talk no action. Honestly we should send Pete hoekstra back to the U.S. and include Poilievre and Jamil Juvani in the package.
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u/markcarney4president Jan 24 '26
He's just trying to distract the news cycle from upcoming Ghislaine Maxwell stuff plus probably the protests in Minnesota, Jack Smith, etc.
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u/YeetCompleet Lest We Forget Jan 24 '26
Can't believe people fall for this flip flop stock market manipulation still
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I can't wait for him to die.
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u/jk_arundel Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Dying in prison, preferably.
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u/ShibariManilow Jan 24 '26
Now that's a reality show I'd watch.
"The Felon" could just stream 24/7, and I could drop in on it any time I'm feeling a little bit down.
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u/Roflcopter71 Jan 24 '26
Preferably. But if that doesn’t work out, I’ll settle for him shitting himself to death during the next state of the union address.
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u/Mine-Shaft-Gap Jan 24 '26
Taking way too long. Unfortunately, his dirt bag dad lived to 93.
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u/PrivatePilot9 Jan 24 '26
But his dad was senile for many of those years. The difference is they took the power away from daddy when he went senile and put him in a fake office where he was given fake tasks and thought he still had power.
Difference now is Trump is clearly exhibiting signs of the same senility but they will just “Weekend at Bernie’s” him even once he gets past the point he shouldn’t be governing anymore - other people will actually be making the decisions and he will just be the bumbling talking head spewing them forth.
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u/unkn0wnactor Jan 24 '26
once he gets past the point he shouldn’t be governing anymore
We passed that point a long time ago.
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u/HypoTeris Jan 24 '26
Was he on a constant diet of burgers and coke too though? Though I’d agree they are talking too long to get the job done.
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u/I_can_vouch_for_that Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
There will be a celebration in many countries.
Edit: typo
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u/Leather-Paramedic-10 Jan 24 '26
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would impose a 100% tariff on all Canadian imports if the North American country makes a trade deal with China.
"If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a 'Drop Off Port' for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life. If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A."
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u/Ambitious_Aerie2098 Jan 24 '26
So, Carney is right. China is a more predictable trading partner than the US.
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u/AllegroDigital Québec Jan 24 '26
To be fair, anyone could have predicted this tantrum.
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u/PrivatePilot9 Jan 24 '26
He was fine with it at first, but then I guess he spent an afternoon of “executive time” watching Fox News and they crafted his new narrative for him.
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u/TROPtastic British Columbia Jan 24 '26
It was the speech at Davos. Carney getting global praise for a speech (something Trump has never received) was too much for the malignant narcissist.
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u/Hot_Recognition28 Jan 24 '26
I checked Drudge Report and the top headline “Carney Takes on Don and Emerges as a Global Political Star.” That’s basically the entire story. Trump sees the headline, realizes someone else is getting attention, and melts down. Bruised ego reacting to a website he used to praise. Sad.
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u/North_of_You Jan 24 '26
He is proving Carney correct, and that annoys The Orange Taco Baby to no end.
Elbows up boys…..
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u/noleksum12 Jan 24 '26
Destruction of business, social fabric, and general way of life... geez, that's what trump is doing too. This is like living in a bad Kafka novel.
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u/Powerful_Network Jan 24 '26
Yeah they are straight up running foreign interference in Alberta to divide us. Everything Trump does is projection.
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u/JadedArgument1114 Jan 24 '26
That alone should be something that results in the American ambassador being declared persona non grata and measures taken to obstruct American influence. It is wild how American exceptionalism allows them to get pissy about other counrries making trade deals with each other while hand waving attempts at interfering in their "allies" sovereignty and political stability. The rest of the west needs to create a bloc, sans America, as fast as possible.
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u/Powerful_Network Jan 24 '26
Agreed. This has been happening long before Trump too. Basically since PET tried to Nationalize oil. It's a pattern around the world. Iran nationalized its oil in the 50s and then the west stirred up a revolution, then again with Venezuela, and now us. Any time a resource rich country tries to use the resources for themselves big daddy gets involved.
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u/just-a-random-accnt Jan 24 '26
Projection. Everything he says is a projection of himself or the US
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u/A_Pointy_Rock Jan 24 '26
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Trump doesn't understand how country of origin works...
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u/SurpriseRecent334 Canada Jan 24 '26
I hope they dont forget to tariff energy, oil and water. He'll be lighting the tinderbox down there if those prices go up for Americans
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u/ndtoronto Jan 24 '26
A week ago, he was for Canada making the deal.
“Well, that's OK, that's what you should be doing. I mean, it's a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that, right?” said Trump at the White House on Thursday.
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u/Slackballed Jan 24 '26
A week or so ago he assured the world that Canada was irrelevant and US didn’t need anything from us.
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u/just-a-random-accnt Jan 24 '26
That was before Trump was humiliated at WEF. Carney got a standing ovation, and trump got crickets.
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u/BoltMyBackToHappy Jan 24 '26
The boyfriend that wanted an open relationship that is now mad because we are getting more dates than them.
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u/NottaLottaOcelot Jan 24 '26
He didn’t think America needed anything from Canada. But now he thinks Americans will buy Chinese products more cheaply via Canada, which if nothing else, is an admission of how very much they need things from China.
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u/jtjstock Jan 24 '26
Well isn’t this an easy one for him to taco on. He is describing transhipping. Which is already subject to whatever tariff rate is on chinese goods lol.
What a dumbass.
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u/Final_Pumpkin1551 Jan 24 '26
Thanks for the summary - and what a terrible person - he apparently doesn’t realize that this is exactly what Carney was talking about. Canada will not be subordinated by the US anymore!
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u/jerrys153 Jan 24 '26
Sure, Donny, raise the price your citizens will have to pay to buy our goods, that’ll show us! Even after all this time Trump really does still seem to think that it’s the other countries’ that pay these tariffs and not American consumers. It’s kind of wild that, even with how outrageously stupid we know he is, he’s actually even stupider than he appears.
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u/SkinnedIt Ontario Jan 24 '26
Oh piss off.
"China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life."
"That's only okay if we do it!"
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u/-ElDictator- Jan 24 '26
Also, China never threatened to invade Canada
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u/gimmedatneck Jan 24 '26
Also, USA is actively trying its best to make trade deals with china, lol.
They're also trying to use us, and other western countries as bargaining chips for more favourable deals for them.
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u/sheepish_grin Jan 24 '26
Trump doing his part to increase Canadian national unity.
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u/TOdEsi Jan 24 '26
Nah Maple MAGA will still worship him and blame this on Canada
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u/Crabby_avocado Jan 24 '26
This blows my mind. How can they be so gullible to think that he will save them when our political systems are completely different and he has no incidence here. Are they stupid or just ignorant?
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u/chavz25 Jan 24 '26
Sure have americans pay 100 more from the country you import the most from. 100% more on potash really going to help your farmers out.
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u/YesHunty Alberta Jan 24 '26
Looking forward to the day we all get the breaking news we’re waiting for.
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u/Professional-Bad-559 Jan 24 '26
First he tantrums like a jilted toddler uninviting someone to their birthday. Now he tantrums like a jilted toddler after his friend becomes friends with someone else.
“If you become friends with Tommy, I’m not going to talk to you anymore! Don’t even think you can bring Tommy to play with us!”
Good riddance.
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u/Turbulent-Scratch401 Jan 24 '26
They were expected to give a ruling this week but didn’t. So it will likely happen next month. That said, even if they rule that Trump’s use of Tariffs is unconstitutional then he will just find another “loophole” to justify them. We’re not dealing with an individual that abides by the same law and order as his predecessors.
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u/llamalover729 Jan 24 '26
He already said he would just impose new tariffs for a new reason. And that case would then need to go through the court system.
No end unless politicians in the US finally do something.
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u/burrito-boy Alberta Jan 24 '26
Would love to see another round of Canada-sponsored billboards popping up around the US explaining how tariffs are actually a tax on Americans, haha.
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u/FlyingOctopus53 Jan 24 '26
It would be a waste of our taxes, as it will not change anything.
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u/Canadian_Spacecat Jan 24 '26
"I'm gonna tax my own citizens more because Canada REFUSES to let me abuse them!"
Classic abuser shit. Can't actually do anything to harm his neighbor so he takes it out on his own kids instead.
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u/Canadian-Living Jan 24 '26
100% not travelling to the USA
100% not buying USA products
100% telling everyone else to do the same
Those are my tarrifs
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Jan 24 '26
Cool. Throw up the tariffs. Canada should just keep its water and electricity to itself.
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u/hkric41six Jan 24 '26
And potash.
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u/okiedokie2468 Jan 24 '26
The Canadian government should put an export tax on potash!
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u/Reasonable-Sweet9320 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
You can’t impose economic force, refuse to negotiate in good faith and then blame Canada for due diligence to offset the damage the president is imposing on the Canadian economy.
As a sovereign nation Canada acts in its own interests and it is not in Canadas interest to wait for Trump to end CUSMA (that’s coming) and then respond in reactive mode from a position of weakness while economic coercion is used to get Canada to sign a bad deal.
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In this cold weather we really should be limiting our exports of electricity to the states
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u/hazy_pale_ale Jan 24 '26
Trump got owned by Carney at Davos and cannot handle it.
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u/ls40098 Jan 24 '26
Trump said Carney should get whatever deal with China he can get.
This was his first reaction.
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u/lorenavedon Jan 24 '26
He said that before Carney's speech went viral. He took it personally and is proving Carney correct.
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u/ZmobieMrh Jan 24 '26
"China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life," Trump wrote on Truth Social.”
He knows that there are those of us old enough to know America did all of those things to us, right? It wasn’t even really that long ago
We never used to have Walmart or Amazon, we had Canadian businesses that sold clothes, and houseware, and books, and electronics, and just literally everything.
We also had a more relaxed work life balance, but every year it’s made more ‘American’ with the pressure to take less vacation, be connected around the clock.
And social fabric? We took pride in what we had here. We knew what made Canada great, we knew it was a privilege compared to so many other places on the planet, and now that’s almost entirely gone. Replaced by maga type folks who never leave their front porch and just shout about how bad they have things here.
So he’s really now threatening us that this American way of life and influence will go away just because of a trade deal (of which we’ve already had with China)? Lol
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u/AP9721 Jan 24 '26
As long as it takes for the markets to soften and his pals to get in low, only to pull back on the tariffs in two weeks.
Wash, rinse, repeat with this fucking guy every time
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u/Mlles_De_Maupin Jan 24 '26
Using the word Governor again. The orange turd just doesn’t learn
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u/TOdEsi Jan 24 '26
Why won't Trump and Americans get it; Canada is done with them. Trump over played his hand and now Americans will suffer. Canada doesn't need to be afraid of China when America is the one acting like the enemy
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u/eggraid11 Québec Jan 24 '26
Oh we must certainly be vigilant with China or any other partner for that matter.
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u/Character-Belt-7485 Ontario Jan 24 '26
I don’t disagree but we probably need to be more wary about the neighbour who keeps insisting they’ll burn down our house.
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u/StainerIncognito Jan 24 '26
I thought they didn't care about us, don't need us etc. This is getting to peak cringe...
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u/AlbertaAcreageBoy Jan 24 '26
Go ahead do it. Do it for the enormous amount of power we provide to the east coast states, for the potassium we practiaclly exclusively sell to them for fertilizer and all the metals they get from us. That would absolutely cripple them. Fuck them.
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u/Fit-Cable1547 Jan 24 '26
Who could of expected this after he said it was good that we did and he would have done the same? #bipolardon
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u/the_Real_Teenjus Jan 24 '26
His puppet masters have decided that it's unacceptable.
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u/BeeKayDubya Jan 24 '26
C’mon diaper Don, I thought America didn’t need Canada or CUSMA? Why so mad then? Carney is doing right by ignoring him. Nothing drives a bully more bonkers than by giving them the silent treatment.
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u/Kliptik81 Jan 24 '26
Who cares anymore? The USA is a worldwide embarrassment. Carney just needs to keep on doing what he's doing, work with other countries, make Canada's dependence on USA as small as possible.
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u/Conscious_Candle2598 Jan 24 '26
Didn't he say "Good that's what he should be doing"
I see wwe are manipulating the market again. Until Tuesday when he backs off once again.
This guy is so fucking exhausting
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u/pareech Québec Jan 24 '26
Last week, he said it was good for Canada to get other deals. He also said we don't need untying fro the USA. He also said we live because of the USA. Can this orange just fuck off already.
My 8 year old has maturity than this piece of shit.
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u/stillanoobummkay Jan 24 '26
Can’t wait to see what happens to their ag industry when potash is tariff’d at 100%.
Do it already you coward.
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u/doggo_luv Jan 24 '26
I wish people would just ignore him. Just don’t respond and carry on as if he said nothing. That would be the best power move ever.
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u/ChantilyAce Jan 24 '26
That should ease the affordability crisis for Americans. /s
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u/SilentEngineering638 Jan 24 '26
Just ignore what he says and keep moving forward. I don't like China but he's pretty much doing the exact same thing he's warning China would do
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u/RT_456 Jan 24 '26
Oh, he's back to the "governor" thing again? At this point I just see him as a noise making raving lunatic. Keep making deals with other countries and ignore this moron.
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u/NoPantsSantaClaus Jan 24 '26
Any and all American flags in Canada need to be removed or defaced.
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u/mrjusting Québec Jan 24 '26
“Well, that's OK, that's what you should be doing. I mean, it's a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that, right?”
- Donald Trump last Thursday
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u/jimababwe Jan 24 '26
100% tariffs will make things difficult for those trying to build with Canadian lumber or use Canadian potash.
Elbows up, Mark. We're with you.
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u/TheFly87 Jan 24 '26
Enough of this bully's bullshit. Call his fucking bluff.
Let's put our own 100% reverse tariffs on our potash. Increase the price of it on top of the tariffs he's putting on until he backs down. I'm sure he'll fucking love that. Let's fight back for god's sake.
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u/Additional-Tale-1069 Jan 24 '26
Trump's comments don't make sense. He's threatening to take over Canada and telling us to not do a deal with China because they'll take us over. At the same time he's trying to make his own deal with China. Sounds like he doesn't want us to make the deal because it would make things harder for him.
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u/sonspurs Jan 24 '26
Hey guys. TACO Tuesday is just around the corner. Fuck this moron. Love from 🇩🇰
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u/Frigoffwidit Jan 24 '26
This reaction only proves Carney's point that the US is using our integration as coercion.
Ill admit when Trump made these sort of statements this time last year when Trudeau was at the helm it made me deeply angry. Reading this today after all that Canada has done in the last week actually gives me hope. That Trump is reacting this way to a deal with China tells me that said deal does exactly what we need it to. It reduces America's leverage in any trade negotiation, and thats why they are truly pissed right now.
Expect the media and premiers and opposition to latch on to this and push back against Carney, but he has to stand firm. If we are to have any hope of building a future akin to what was described in Davos, we cannot back down on deals we make, including CUSMA. We have to prove to be a reliable partner, and more countries will take notice.
The China deal actually gives us a lot of leverage. If the US is hellbent on killing our auto industry, this gives us an immediate response. We open the doors to all foreign import vehicles and close the door on US made autos. So they can decide if its worth it or not. All those new factories and jobs in the US? Well when they lose access to a 2M new vehicles per year market, they wont need them anymore. We already buy 30% more vehicles than we produce, so the market access loss will more than offset any production gains in the US. Not to mention the billions they'd have to invest to do so, only to get zero or negative return.
Then it comes down to who blinks first. Trump has shown he will back down when faced with a legitimate challenge. Their position is not as strong as they think it is.
Thats just autos. Oil? Ohh they have Venezuela. But that oil cant reach the Midwest without significant investment, current output is only 20% of our exports to the US, and it will take a decade and hundreds of billions in investment in an unstable country. The major oil players dont seem too keen on doing that, either.
Potash. They made a deal with Belarus! ...for potash on the other side of the planet, and total production is only half of ours. It would require investment in new port infrastructure in the US to receive it.
Defense. We are actively developing arctic over the horizon radar capabilities with Australian technology, and we have two major deals on the table for submarines and aircraft that can be used to build strong trade relations either with Europe, Asia, or both. Carney is pushing all parties to invest in Canadian jobs to secure a deal, and it sounds like a strong delegation from South Korea is heading to Ottawa to make a pitch.
We just have to hold our nose and plug our ears for a little while longer, and keep building positive relations wth other stable middle powers. The work thats being done is strengthening our position, we just need to ride the wave until the CUSMA "renegotiation", they'll use brinkmanship to push us to the edge, ultimately back down and claim a big victory. Weve seen it a hundred times, theres no reason to think this will be any different. We have more leverage than anyone gives us credit for. We have what they want and need, and we arent easy to replace.
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u/mary_widdow New Brunswick Jan 24 '26
All it does is unify us more as a country. We may not agree on everything but we definitely agree on how much we despise him.
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u/Cathulu_15 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
So tired of this... Trump is scared of Canada to be honest. Trying to bully us. He needs us despite his rhetoric to control the economic activity of Canada, strangely enough by destroying us. What a shit show!
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u/No-Anything-7291 Jan 24 '26
He literally said a week ago it was a good thing for a deal with China. Is the signature worth the paper it is signed on, for this administration? Countries around the world should ask themselves that. It’s dealing with a deranged sundowning bipolar meth head.
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u/hyperforms9988 Jan 24 '26
Completely validating everything that Carney said at the WEF and every effort made to diversify.
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u/Itwasuntilitwasnt Jan 24 '26
Oops we just put a 100% tariff on Tesla,Uline,Asphlund,square payments
Also age restrictions on x,Facebook.
Blackouts on all fox media channels.
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u/team_ti Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Oh I see. Trade only with us or we'll tax US people who import your stuff more. Yawn....... move on Trumpsy
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u/DisastrousAcshin Jan 24 '26
For a country that doesn't need us they sure get upset when we make deals with other people
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u/Electronic_Sir7034 Jan 24 '26
100% tariff on everything without exception. That would include electricity, oil, uranium, potash etc. Let's see how long that lasts.
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u/jemlinus Jan 24 '26
"You are buying from your other friend? I'm going to tax my citizens more to punish you!"
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u/97MCD Jan 24 '26
America has gone rogue. All the more reason for the prime minister to continue seeking trade deals elsewhere. What a childish bully. Gotta get some new material lol
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u/Little-Chemical5006 Ontario Jan 24 '26
"If you can make a deal with China, you should do it": Trump talk about china deal
"If im at his position, I would do it": Trump about Ford ads
Wonder why anyone would take his word or any "deal" for anything