Canada will keep in place its retaliatory tariffs against US-made products as long as President Donald Trump persists with a trade war, said Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister-designate.

  • darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 hours ago

    I don’t think they’re saying it’s good economics and yes, for the most part, we understand how these tariffs will affect us.

    But there’s a lot of anger at Trump here. Booing the American national anthem is not something we do lightly. I haven’t seen people this united for a common cause for a long time. I regularly see people checking labels at grocery stores to avoid buying American even if we have to pay more.

    We know a recession is likely for both countries and we’ll be hit harder by it. It’s a small price to pay for our sovereignty.

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      4 hours ago

      This is only marginally related but I just want to tell someone. I bought a more expensive Canadian bag of chocolate chips to make cookies today and holy smokes, they were immensely better than the other ones I usually buy. Way worth the extra 90c or whatever it was.

      Hopefully this will all lead to us being more self reliant and having easier access to the awesome things that are already produced here. I’m also excited about more local beer in the liquor stores.