Trump’s rebranding of Lake Ontario was just the beginning of multi-day effort to provoke Canada
Donald Trump sought to escalate his trade war with Canada on Sunday afternoon and issued a demand on Truth Social that Canadian companies wanting to do business with the U.S. reshore their headquarters within its borders.
His latest remarks come as Canadian officials warned that the country was prepared for an extended dispute with the U.S. after trade talks collapsed and Trump announced tariffs as high as 50 percent on some Canadian goods including dairy products and lumber. Canada has levied reciprocal tariffs against U.S. steel, aluminum and other exports.
On Sunday afternoon, the president said Canadian companies should move their headquarters and production facilities to avoid newly imposed tariffs. The duties are set to begin in 2027.
He wants to become a producer like China and his plan is to force foreign capital to make up the difference. Why should Canada worsen its position in the long run? He offers nothing in return. What a joke.
He’s scared were gonna shut down pornhub.
What a market, free from government intervention.
Moving to the US sounds like a good way to have all your wealth stolen from you and go broke.
do you want your kids getting shot at in school? because this is how you get your kids shot at in school…
“I demand you come to the US so I can give you “executive orders” instead!”
Even with tariffs, employing Canadians remains cheaper as wages are lower overall, and you don’t need to pay for obscenely expensive medical insurance for your employees in Canada.
I don’t think Americans grasp how uncompetitive their labour market is specifically because they don’t have single payer healthcare.
Companies have figured out that you can move to economically ravaged conservative hellholes and just not offer any benefits or sick time at all!
These same hellholes recently made it so even if you are completely broke and on government funded healthcare, you must work or volunteer for little or nothing to keep it! The labor force is shifting to folks working for minimum wage or less to keep up long term care, and prisoners working for third world wages, with the rest just trying to keep from joining the first two groups.
I mean… that’s why manufacturing moved oversees in the first place.
Yep. I remember as a teenager listening to Clinton blather on about how American workers can compete with any other workers anywhere in the world, and everyone cheered. No one had any doubts at all. Even as a stupid kid I knew that was a completely insane idea. Globalization was the start of the end for the US. We really arent a smart people at all.
Healthcare is almost always paid for by 1) the individual which is expensive, 2) the employer which is expensive or 3) through taxes which is expensive.
If I had a business in Canada the trade-off I see here is substituting high taxes for having to provide employee medical benefits, and how long I think the tariffs would stay in play.
That being said, tariffs on the Canadian side are focused on US production that happens in swing states. So the further escalation here is going to be politicized as geopolitical, in addition to economical, warfare. Who really benefits? Nobody. Who pays? Average people on both sides of the border.
I mean this already happens with like 90% of hightech or milltech companies, because we’re not allowed to succeed…
I hope that if the US collapses we will be able to show that we are not just the shadow of the US economy (as much as it will hurt), and that if we got to keep our own IP and companies we could grow our own economy past “digging shit out of the ground”
He is so astonishingly stupid.
“They’ve been ripping us off for decades, and it’s going to stop.”
Just once, I want to hear him back up any of his insult-claims with evidence of any kind. If a reporter pushes back, they get, “you know, you really are a stupid person” in response. Never any explanation. Canada has been ripping us off. Venezuela ripped us off. Everyone ripped us off, apparently, but I have no idea how. Just once, Donny, for the history books.
those nations aren’t, never were.
dipshit donny is the one ‘ripping us off’… all of us.
When a dotard like donnie the dumbass hears a term like “trade deficit”, he assumes something untoward is going on.
But that is probably one of the most idiotic takes one could have. But donnie is not the only one…
Accuse others of what you’re guilty of.
Trump is a fraudster through and through. He accuses everyone else of ripping off the US because he’s ripping off the US.
Is he turning his attention back to Canada because he’s upset at losing to Iran?
Like many leaders before him, he’s going into a critical election weak. He thinks he needs a win to look strong. Iran is a big pile of shit for him, so he’s looking to other “easier” targets.
He doesn’t understand Canadians at all.
He’s trying to turn your attention to it.
He’s afraid the Epstein files are finally going to hit the streets.
Whoever murdered Epstein must be feeling really dumb right now, given that basically nobody in the riles faced any real consequences.
I hope that Canada’s intelligence agencies release the PDFiles. Trump and his lot need to be dragged into their swamp and drowned by it.
The man isn’t playing 5D chess, he’s fucking sundowning
Well, the good news is that I can uproot my life and business with basically no repercussions, so yeah, I’ll do that immediately.
Trump: All Canadian companies must move to the US
Also Trump: We don’t want foreigners in our country
To all Canadians:
The only way we’re not going to end up another victim of this lunatic and his kind is if we all act, every one of us. I still see Starbucks overflowing. I still see people porking out on McDonald’s, Popeyes, Wendy’s. People still filling up their baskets with Coca Cola and Lays potato chips.
What the fuck, people? We did way better when this when this all started, US produce was rotting on the shelves. He’s literally attacking us now and I would hope that could at least get us back to that point.
You. Yes you. Stop. It’s not just a coke. It’s not just your favorite fries. It’s evidence that your dependence on US crap is too high and needs correcting.
Also something I don’t hear said enough is: with boycotts, anything is better than nothing. If you really can’t live without Coca-Cola, that doesn’t have to stop you cutting down on everything else. Just making the small effort on the shelves to check the label goes a long way.
Lol, all the USA exports is junk. Social media that’s bad for us. Food that’s bad for us. Drinks that are bad for us. On an individual and societal level.
I like fender. But basically its only registered in the us. Made in china et. al.
Fender has been acting stupid lately too apparently
https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/youtubers-cutting-ties-with-fender
At least of partial blame is all the franchisee’s of those fast food places claiming “100% Canadian owned and operated” (I’ve seen these signs) and people falling for it, meanwhile they tithe back the licensing fees for the franchise.
100% of profits expatriated!
From my brief research it seems it’s about a 50/50 split of profits (corporate measures in gross revenue though, so no Hollywood accounting to get out of it), and a large chunk of the corporate half goes to advertising.
Don’t forget Tom Hortons is US owned now and if that’s not enough maybe their Harry Branding on everything right now can help, I see Tim Hortons Harry Potter trash all along the roads lately.
Yeah Tim’s is another chain that’s been Americanized for sure. Both in ownership and the way they ratfuck customers with inferior service and quality now.
A&W, Bar burrito, local independent joints… That’s pretty much it for me.
Most of that crap is just licensed American IP produced locally. Cutting it out isn’t even going to be as impactful as other things and will harm local manufacturers and suppliers.
Boycotts need to target direct things. People have been making those choices at the grocery store quite effectively. Liquor and oranges. Web services need to be the next target with government support. Tax Netflix and friends into paying into our culture as they always should have been.
Not just a boycott, it’s a buy Canadian thing as well.
Why buy from the place sending fees back to the USA when you can buy from a purely Canadian company?
Good luck convincing all those Ontarian auto workers to stop buying “american” cars.
I don’t care myself, I don’t buy none of that shit. Just not helpful to target people who are probably on your side.
not helpful to target people who are probably on your side
Encouraging you to buy Canadian is “targeting” you?
Interesting.
That doesnt even make sense lol
Who does he think still listens to his rants? Even the pundits chalk it down as empty senile air
Everyone in Canada is already in America… That was easy.
We would have to stop deporting foreigners for that to work. Also, if everyone doing business with the US moved there, all his precious tariff income would drop to 0.
I know nobody here needs to be convinced of this, but this is just the absolute dumbest thing he’s said in a while…
Well if your looking for somthing dumber, just check back on tomorrow
Facts.
I feel myself die,
When verbal diarrhea,
Spews out of his mouth
Doesn’t hold the cards,
He thought this would be easy,
Never a thank you
