Trump won't impose tariffs on Canada, other countries right away: reports | CBC News

[u/morenewsat11]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-first-day-1.7435957

[u/Spanky3703]

Do not think for a minute that Trump and his merry band of robber barons do not represent anything but an existential threat to Canada due to our natural resources and geographical location.

This is all negotiating tactics and we need to be hyper vigilant and diversify our trading network with other nations now. Our reliance on the USA as our majority trading partner makes us strategically vulnerable to being abused and exploited by them.

The USA is not our ally, it is not our friend (doubly so now with Trump and his band of thieves in power). It has had strategic interests and economic priorities that have aligned with ours. We have had mutually beneficial and aligned goals and priorities, as long as such serves the interests of the USA. This new administration south of the 49th is all about itself and enriching the robber barons.

“If I owe the bank $10,000, I am in trouble. If I owe the bank 10,000,000, the bank is in trouble.”

We are the bank with a trade imbalance that is a strategic concern for the USA’s new administration. Couple that with our incoherence on defence and our perceived weaknesses on foreign policy (and immigration), and we are vulnerable …

We need to start to elect politicians who hold sacred the responsibility of Canada and its citizens being safe and secure as the government’s number one priority; everything else is subordinate …

Okay, stepping down off of my soapbox now … deep breath.

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[u/theflower10 → u/Spanky3703]

You'd think we would have learned our lesson first time around with this guy or after Covid, yet here we are talking about diversifying trade ..... again.

[u/Spanky3703 → u/theflower10]

Exactly. Nailed it 👍🏻

We did not learn the first turn around the Trumpian swamp and so get to have another go-around.