Trump only likes people he can bully. Saying he like Carney "a lot" makes sense given how much he's backed down and fucked Canadians. "Elbows up"? Fuck off Carney. "Head down" is more like it.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think Carney is just smart. Trump liking him is good for us. We can still do our part. I am done with the USA and so are many Canadians. Our gov can play nice (called diplomacy) while we boycott the hell out of them. Win-win

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We can boycott them on an individual level, but the real money is from industry buying massive quantities of things. They use them to make things and we never know where it came from. We don't need the tariffs to keep Canadian people from buying American. We need it to stop corporations from doing it.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Corporations won’t stop if they don’t want to. Why? They pass on the cost to the consumer anyways.

If we have to drop the tariffs on CUSMA products to have any chance that the USA isn’t dropping out I am good with that. CUSMA is a great deal in today’s world and unless the USA drops it it’ll be good until 2036. Let’s take that.

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

Corporations won’t stop if they don’t want to. Why? They pass on the cost to the consumer anyways.

Correct, and then the consumers are less likely to buy them and will pick the ones that are made from non-tariffed materials.

The point of tariffs is to lower purchases from countries who are waging economic warfare on us, even when we can't directly see the source.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Tariffs have never worked when broadly applied.

Btw here is a post with a clip from what Carney said: https://www.threads.com/@team_canada_forever/post/DNq05s-y7XE That’s exactly what I was mentioning in my earlier comment about CUSMA we have the best deal. Let’s stand down on the tariffs and not jeopardize that. We Canadians can still do a lot of harm to them and we have. The gov can’t stop us and the gov can’t be nailed for that in the negotiations.