Summary
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Trump will “probably” announce a tariff reduction deal with Canada and Mexico, tying it to their efforts to curb fentanyl trafficking.
However, Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly denied any discussions, stating her office hadn’t been contacted about the plan.
Canada and Mexico imposed retaliatory tariffs after the U.S. enacted 25% levies.
Prime Minister Trudeau condemned Trump’s tariffs as “very dumb” and accused him of attempting to “collapse the Canadian economy” to enable annexation, vowing, "We will never be the 51st state.
Geographically perhaps…
Canada needs to stick to the tariffs until US stops smuggling drugs and guns into Canada!
Trump did it unilaterally, so no discussion anymore.
Canada should coordinate with Mexico to tariff the US until they stop smuggling firearms to Mexican cartels
Why would Canada, or any country for that matter, trust what we say now?
We are turning away from US (i am talking popular opinion here in NL) like nothing we have seen since the end of ww2.
This is literally the opposite of a pump and dump scheme. Trump is intentionally tanking the market to enrich himself and his group of oligarch cronies that sold at the highest point and will buy back into the market before he announces the tariffs gone.
Insider trading while manipulating the market as a whole. Open corruption at the highest level.
Maybe if we peacefully occupy some sidewalk that these oligarchs never walk on for another 40 years, that’ll teach them!
Isn’t it still a pump’n’dump? As the Big Cheese, the man can just keep repeating the cycle as long as it suits him.
It’s more like a dump’n’pump I guess.
Any probable actions are reading tea leaves. The idiot is unstable and cannot be trusted. Tariffs could be gone tomorrow and back again Friday.
Rework the terrorism color coding for his temperament on a daily basis…
I hope they don’t. Please see straight through this giant toddler and show him that actions have consequences. Do not negotiate.
Teach him a lesson that the US is refusing to teach him.
That’s a mighty dangerous game. Two things will happen if this will happen:
- Your economy will collapse. Some crucial US goods and services are the only game in town.
- US will turn away from it’s old western allies towards the autocratic countries of the world.
The US is clearly already turning away from allies, and running right into the arms of Russia
it’s already doing that, in order to meet them in the middle we’d have to believe they were doing it in good faith which they aren’t
Economy won’t collapse new customers, and sources can be found. US already turned to autocratic countries under Trump.
so it is non issue.
Seems a dumb move to surround yourself with enemies at your borders and turn to an ally who is across the ocean, over what exactly?
a desire to inflict his psychosis on the world? chaos in a system offers the best opportunity to “win bigley” with the commensurate loss borne by the non-billionaire class.
crazy on a ship of fools.
Don’t meet in the middle.
His middle is never in the middle of both sides.
He didn’t like NAFTA, he cancelled it and force Canada and Mexico to accept a better deal for him by putting tariffs.
Even his deal is not good enough, so he put tariffs again.
If you meet him in the middle, he’ll take more.
We have to make sure that everyone feels the maximum pain whenever he uses tariffs to force his will so he’ll learn that it’s not a good idea to bully other countries.Don’t you fear that it’ll be seen as escalatory?
As a Canadian: no. Sick of this shit and I don’t care how it’s seen by him. He’ll just make up a reason for us “escalating” even if we don’t anyway
The right move for Canada and Mexico is to pay the bill up front and move enough trade to other countries so USA will never be able to use strong-arm tactics again.
And that’s what’s happening, Europe is very interested in Canada and I hope Mexico will also get a piece of that.
Trump kinda made that too late
And Dump isn’t being escalatory?
Eat shit rump.
Trump never sticks to his words so the concept of a middle doesn’t exist when he will go back on whatever he says over and over and over. Wish countries would just unite to sanction the US and isolate it.
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