Trudeau hits back at Trump by announcing massive tariffs on the United States: ‘Canada will not let this unjustified decision go unanswered’
Trudeau hits back at Trump by announcing massive tariffs on the United States: ‘Canada will not let this unjustified decision go unanswered’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday night that his country will retaliate against the U.S. if President Donald Trump goes through with his plan for tariffs on Canadian goods, which are set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday.
Summary
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced retaliatory tariffs after Donald Trump confirmed 25% tariffs on Canadian goods and 10% on energy, set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.
Trump justified the move by linking it to fentanyl smuggling concerns.
Trudeau called the tariffs "unjustified" and imposed 25% tariffs on $155 billion in U.S. goods, with $30 billion effective immediately and the rest in 21 days.
He warned of price hikes and job losses in the U.S., arguing the move violates Trump’s own trade agreement from his last term.
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I like Cory Doctorow’s plan.
The reason Canada got tariff-free access to sell to the US in the first place? Canada agreed to enforce penalties for tampering with digital locks, following the premise of the Digital Milennium Copyright Act.
If the US is going back on the deal, then Canada should too. Make it legal to jailbreak all US tech.
Doctorow advocating for this plan:
- On Democracy Now
- On his blog
- On his podcast
- In the Ursula Franklin lecture at the University of Toronto’s Innis College (I especially enjoyed this one, but it is the longest)
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Heck, make it legal to pirate all American media.
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A surprising amount of 'American' media is filmed and produced in Canada.
TorontoVancouver is like Hollywood North. This would probably be a footgun-
Vancouver is a huge TV filming location as well.
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Ugh, I feel like a dummy. I was picturing BC in my mind and typed out Toronto. You're 100% correct about Vancouver
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Toronto is used for pretty much any scenes set in NYC though
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No problems, make exceptions for anything that was made involving Canada!
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Stargate SG-1, full of blatant military propaganda (I know it's not so bad, but), was filmed there.
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Producers like to film in Toronto while pretending that it's NYC. X-Men and What We Do In The Shadows are the first things that come to mind. I still find it hilarious that the "Westchester" Train Station in X1 is in Hamilton (I believe)
A more subtle crossover is that Ramona (Scott Pilgrim) is from NYC
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Yeah, I'm not too concerned about that. Their courts are being attacked with so much that I'm pretty sure downloading a car isn't going to be high on their list.
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Hit where it really hurts: stop paying Microsoft.
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It already basically is; Anti-piracy laws in Canada don't have a lot of teeth. I leave my torrent computer running 24 hours a day to seed and I don't even get emails anymore after switching to a smaller service provider.
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In that case, the Candian government should set up an official service for downloading American stuff. Making it easy to find things would be worth a nominal fee for a lot of people.
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VPN with multi-hop proxy, my bratha/sista.
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Im pretty sure i watched him say this on democracy now and he was a great listen
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Yep, I caught that one too. He’s a fantastic orator. He’s got an endless arsenal of one-liners.
I added a link to that and some other instances where he’s made this argument.
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If the US is going back on the deal, then Canada should too. Make it legal to jailbreak all US tech.
That should be considered with plans for further escalation varying from nothing to an embargo.
Though arguably piracy and jailbreaking are not so bad for said domination. Microsoft practically encouraged piracy in ex-USSR at some point. Piracy solves the availability problem, supports market share, leads to short-term loss in sales but long-term growth.
But that's Microsoft, while US government in general seems to think DMCA is for them what the Sound was for the Danish crown in middle ages.
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They could also make their own play store and apple store, and could charge the developers much lower fees, for the same apps that would work anywhere. It would cost them very little and be nothing but profit.
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The fact that both Apple and d Google fail to keep malware off their stores makes me think it’s maybe not so easy.
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Pretty sure Canada could do as good of a job as anyone though.
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