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[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Y'all are remembering that it's us Canadians that will be paying this tax, right? It's not going to affect any company's bottom line in the slightest.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What? The digital service tax was for the American corporations to pay.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And they're absolutely never going to raise prices for Canadians to compensate right?

[–] rImITywR@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What is the price to use Facebook?

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

What they charge Canadian advertisers. That cost is then budgeted in the products and services.

Nothing is free.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

What is the price to use Facebook?

Hundreds of ads being shoved in your face.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

That wasn't the argument OP was making.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That foreign corporations would pay out of their Canadian sales.

Which would certainly cause them to increase the fees they charge their Canadian customers so they don't have to reduce their profits.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm well aware that's what they might do to offset their costs, but OP saying that the corporations us Canadians will have to pay the tax is plain wrong. They're probably conflating it with tariffs.

And sorry ‒ off topic question. I haven't lived in Canada in years, but do we really say "y'all" now? That's kinda weird.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

but do we really say "y'all" now? That's kinda weird.

Yes it's weird, it is another example of creeping American influence.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't agree, but even if I grant it do you feel great about a hostile foreign leader dictating your country's laws? The DST was finished legislation, legally passed by Canadian's elected representatives. And now it's gone. Because Trump says so.

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of all the things Carney could concede, this one is the least of my worries.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Canada's sovereignty means that little to you? Your elected representative just got overruled by a foreign leader.

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah. Carney made a strategic decision to appease a toddler.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Between selling out Canada's sovereignty and the NATO target he's doing a lot of appeasing. I don't think he deserves all the grace you're giving him.