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Only if the US has a change to sane leadership to go along with it

It was never about the drugs or migrants. Trump himself said "nothing" Canada can do to prevent tariffs[1]

[1]: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/nothing-...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/impo...

lol, this is just "paper" justification just like the whole Military plane debacle with LatAm countries.

Eventually Colombia still reject Military plane deporting immigrants, just like how Mexico said "Fuck you" when Trump sent military plane (this didn't make a huge news in the US)

Funny now that Mexico and Canada has come to the table the "end of the world" tariff's has been given a 30 day extension while they negotiate a better border agreement. This has always been about Canada and Mexico getting the better end of the deal Bill Clinton gave them, why would they negotiate until there forced to?

China is a different story I suspect the 35% tariff (25% Biden, 10% Trump) will stick.

I thought conservatives thought that the drug problem was because people stopped going to church, lack of personal responsibility and “absentee fathers”?

Or is the causation different now because it is affecting “rural America” and not the “inner city”?

Nothing quite like good old Liberal racism to make yourself feel better huh?

I’m more calling out conservative hypocrisy.

What ever happened to “personal responsibility”, “not blaming others for your position in life” and “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”?

> allow drugs

I do hope this is sarcasm? It's more than obvious that this was just a pretext since US government was not able to clearly formulate any specific coherent demands that they had from Canada.

> sane leadership

Well clearly sane people seem to have issues communicating or comprehended the current US government. So maybe the opposite would work better?

Anyway.. If anyone can save the Liberal party in Canada from defeat it's probably Trump (by antagonizing Canadians to such a degree that they would vote for anyone opposed to him).

There’s no going back to normal after this. Even if Trump called off the tariffs right now, the damage to international relations has already been done.

Yep at all levels. Chinese businesses planning their next 5 years may want to diversify away from US customers. US people voted for unhinged presidents is the clear message.

This is my understanding as well. Suddenly, China as main partner doesn't look that bad for a lot of countries right now. The era of US seen as the champion of the free world is over. Not that surprising since Trump always said he will put USA First, but the way he's implementing is really unbelievably stupid.

I hope Europe hears the wake up all.

It's hard to picture a future where it doesn't last at least two years long.

Trump is not famous for admitting he is wrong. Plus he's probably not wrong in this case, if destabilizing the US has been the goal all along.

Technically this could be challenged in court?

He can only enact these tariffs because he declared a national emergency. Otherwise he'd need the congress to confirm them. The illegal immigrants/fentanyl pretext seems absurd and flimsy...

That's only the paper justification. Trump needed to claim an emergency to allow him to impose these without involving Congress and repealing the USMCA.

Uh this isn't about Trudeau.

This is about Trump wanting to replace the deficit from him fleecing US tax revenue to be distributed to the billionaires as Tax Cut.

He needs to replenish some from another source: Tariff, which is a form of tax for stupid voters.

He already said it that there's nothing Canada can do during meeting between Officials.

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