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Canada imposes tariffs.
Topic Started: Jun 8 2018, 10:59 PM (697 Views)
Sea Dog
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Good to see that Canada is standing up to
the fat orange guy!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/canada-is-slapping-tariffs-on-dollar128-billion-of-us-goods-%e2%80%94-here-are-the-states-that-stand-to-lose-the-most/ar-AAy7gKv?ocid=sf
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Thumper
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Not to worry Sea, we will continue to take care of you folks.
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Berton
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Canada has had tariffs on US goods for years. That is why the President has stood up to your little boy leader.

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Sea Dog
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Please post a few instances from your list!
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President Donald Trump's views on foreign policy -- and, really, everything -- are surprisingly simple: He likes people who are nice to him and do things he wants and he doesn't like people who aren't nice to him and don't do things he wants.

So, his views on any given issue or foreign leader are largely informed by how that person has treated Trump in their last interaction -- and how much of what he wants that they are willing to give him. That worldview is important to keep in mind as Trump travels to Canada to attend the G7 summit on Friday, a trip which he has already tried to wiggle out of, is cutting a day short and, if Twitter is any indication, is assuming will be a total and complete disaster.

"The European Union treats us very unfairly," Trump said as he left the White House Friday morning to head to the G7. "Canada [treats us] very unfairly."

That's the latest in a series of increasingly frustrated and angry comments coming out of the White House over the past few days, as its become more and more clear that leaders Trump thought were his friends -- French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau -- have pushed back on his demands, particularly on tariffs.

Trudeau and Trump had a reportedly contentious phone call late last month as the Canadian leader expressed his unhappiness with the United States imposing tariffs on its neighbor to the north for "national security reasons." {Trump} kept up that drumbeat Friday morning, tweeting: "Canada charges the U.S. a 270% tariff on Dairy Products! They didn't tell you that, did they? Not fair to our farmers!" (It's slightly more complicated than that.)

Trump expected more capitulation from the likes of Trudeau and Macron because, well, they had been nice to him. They had, of course, done that out of a (mistaken) belief that praising Trump and playing to his desire to be venerated would make him more malleable to their policy wishes.

When he didn't get the full support of Macron and Trudeau for policies that, well, they don't support, Trump pouted. Publicly.
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Even as late as Thursday afternoon, Trump was questioning why he would attend a G7 meeting where he's outnumbered on key issues like trade and climate change. As a series of combative tweets from Macron began emerging late in the day, Trump again raised the prospect of scrubbing all or part of his visit to Canada, asking advisers what the point of attending the summit would be, according to a person familiar with the conversations.
This my-way-or-the-highway (or take-my-ball-and-go-home) approach is what Trump promised as a candidate for president. Past holders of the office had made terrible deals for the US -- Trump would make good ones. He alone knew how to talk to world leaders to get them to do exactly what he wanted. It was all in the art of the deal.

Campaigning is easy. Governing is hard.

And it turns out that simply telling other countries to, say, pay for a border wall (and enjoy it!) or renegotiate broad and complex trade deals isn't as easy as firing someone on a reality TV show.

That reality makes Trump mad. And when he gets angry, he tweets. Watch his Twitter feed over the next 24-48 hours.
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You'll note that not once does Trump mention the tariffs the US already puts on incoming goods to the US.

The Nincompoop-in-Chief's whining when the rest of the world doesn't bow down to him is becoming very tiresome..
Edited by Brewster, Jun 9 2018, 12:18 AM.
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Brewster
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CBS has just reported that the spoiled child is going to stomp out of the G7 meeting in Quebec City early, and miss the Climate Change discussion, leaving the US out of any chance to profit from all the new technology coming online in the last while.

It will likely also prolong the use of oil and fossil fuels in some countries for a few more years.

I'm sure there will be "Thank You" letters in Trump's mailbox from China and Russia.

Whatever happened to "America First"?

Edited by Brewster, Jun 9 2018, 01:15 AM.
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Jim Miller
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I will do my best to put Canadian goods right up there with the Chinese goods. I won't buy any unless there is no alternative.
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Jim Miller
Jun 9 2018, 04:06 AM
I will do my best to put Canadian goods right up there with the Chinese goods. I won't buy any unless there is no alternative.
Chinese goods are better. I had a Canadian built MOPAR that was total junk.
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Jun 9 2018, 04:25 AM
Jim Miller
Jun 9 2018, 04:06 AM
I will do my best to put Canadian goods right up there with the Chinese goods. I won't buy any unless there is no alternative.
Chinese goods are better. I had a Canadian built MOPAR that was total junk.
Why would you buy MOPAR no matter where it was built?
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Jun 9 2018, 01:14 AM
CBS has just reported that the spoiled child is going to stomp out of the G7 meeting in Quebec City early, and miss the Climate Change discussion, leaving the US out of any chance to profit from all the new technology coming online in the last while.

It will likely also prolong the use of oil and fossil fuels in some countries for a few more years.

I'm sure there will be "Thank You" letters in Trump's mailbox from China and Russia.

Whatever happened to "America First"?


And your spoiled child" PM is doing everything he can to profit from those fossil fuels, with no real, continual complaint from the Canadian left... not on this forum.. or much of anywhere I suspect.

•In 2016, Canada’s energy sector directly employed more than 270,000 people and indirectly supported over 600,000 jobs
•Canada’s energy sector accounts for almost 7% of nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
•Government revenues from energy were $12.9 billion in 2015
Canada is the sixth largest energy producer, the fifth largest net exporter, and the eighth largest consumer, IN THE WORLD. And Brew's province leads the pack.

Those are pretty high rating, considering THE WORLD and considering Canada's population (BTU per capita production).

Naw, Canada's child PM is apparently smarter than most Canadians when he looks at holding the economy together.... he wants the pipeline; he wants the production and he wants the exporting and he certainly isn't about to tell Canadians that they can't use fossil fuels.

And before Brew jumps on HYDRO, hydro energy and "other renewables" is only 8.1% of energy production in Canada.
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