Trump’s Trade War Is Failing. Here’s Why

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  @lizhewetson8424 · 3 weeks ago

  As a Canadian it is refreshing to hear an analysis that actually addresses the fact that all of the tariffs on Canada are in violation of the USMCA trade agreement.  If a country does not honour an existing trade agreement what is the point of making concessions.  As our PM has said it seems the signature on US trade agreements is written in pencil

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  @jozr1334 · 3 weeks ago

  From NZ - Ive been boycotting anything made in USA and I know many others are doing the same. NZ people stand with Canada.

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  @Rick-p3d8u · 3 weeks ago

  When Trump says he does not want anything from Canada, what Canadians hear is that he no longer wants to sell anything to Canada or Canadians. Ok, no problem No more American stuff in my house, no more shopping at any American owned or branded  businesses. That is our only method of defending ourselves, and more Canadians are on board with that every day.

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  @winding-roads · 3 weeks ago

  I am an 81-year-old Scots Canadian who has seen a wee bit of change in my time. If your goal is to leave the world a little better than it was when you entered it, that sounds like a simple goal. But everyone in the world is in a different place, with different histories, beliefs, needs, and hopes. So perhaps the goal is not so simple after all. Still, I believe there are some things that should be simple. <br>We should try to leave kindness where we found hardship, understanding where we found anger, and hope where we found despair. We may not be able to solve all the world&apos;s problems, but we can choose what we add to them. <br>And surely, after all we have learned, we should understand one thing: War is not the answer. It seems that there are world leaders today who do not know this. Both in the term guns and trade. This Canadians cares about wars &nbsp;because in the little time he has left he wants to see less of them. That will make a difference. Marc Carney of Canada has my support because &nbsp;is vision of Canada benifits the world and that includes Americans and fewer wars.

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  @patrickgriffiths889 · 3 weeks ago

  Thanks from Canada. Sadly, the lesson we learned is that we are far too vulnerable to American aggression. Heretofore, we didn&apos;t imagine y&apos;all would turn against us. But you did. So we have to build deterrence and resilience.

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  @qcca123-f1v · 3 weeks ago

  Canadian here. I don´t think the effect of these &quot;brief and temporary&quot; tariffs are going to have a commensurate effect. Prior to Trump, the consensus was: &nbsp;Let&apos;s build North America as an integrated economy. Together we can take on low-cost economies defending ourselves against non-market economies that don&apos;t play by civilized rules.<br><br>The US has demonstrated, with utter finality, that they don&apos;t play by civilized rules. Stopping cheating isn&apos;t enough to put things back together. We have no idea when you&apos;ll cheat again... The free traders were the Republicans, traditionally. Now there is no party that, even in principle, supports free trade. &nbsp;So &quot;North America&quot; will never again be integrated. Canada will be more aligned with Europe. That&apos;s permanent. <br><br>It&apos;s not just economic either. The Americans have further demonstrated that they are not a military ally. The Canadian military, and that means, to some extent the economy, has to realign to be able to defend against a US attack, something we haven&apos;t had to do for 150 years (though we did it at least three different times before that.) We will spend the next 50 years building our military so that the US is credibly deterred from invading. &nbsp;Not easy or cheap.<br><br>There is nothing a future US admin can do to change these things. &nbsp;It&apos;s done. We will never trust US weapons. We will never trust us motives in foreign investment. We will not allow further integration with the US at all. &nbsp;<br><br>Also, for generations, the aspiration of young Canadians and Europeans (and maybe Australians too) was, when they got successful, to go to the US and succeed at whatever they were doing. &nbsp;The continuous haemorrhage of brains to the south has stopped, and is, to some extent reversing. &nbsp;The US will never again be perceived as a positive place to go to set up a world business. &nbsp;This is not reversible. &nbsp;It&apos;s broken and it won&apos;t come back.

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  @pauldiamond9219 · 3 weeks ago

  Its scary that no one is willing to take away &quot;granpa&apos;s keys&quot; given the massive, generational damage he has and is doing to the US economy, our military and trade alliances, the Rule of Law and US credibility around the world in general. &nbsp;Is it possible people think everything will just go back to &quot;normal&quot; once he leaves office? &nbsp;Seriously?

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  @pelham8910 · 3 weeks ago

  Tariffs are a shakedown for bribes. Trump could care less about anything else.

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  @donnahollywood7083 · 3 weeks ago

  I wholeheartedly support Canada in this stupid U.S. war against Canadians.<br>The Mango Mussolini is a huge embarrassment to most Americans. 25th Amendment Now!!!

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  @MrMcBuggins · 3 weeks ago

  Thank you Justin. You’re my second favourite economist after Mark Carney. 🇨🇦

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  @gypsycat12 · 3 weeks ago

  Trump is not using tariffs for economic reasons he is using them to exert his authority. His attitude is, see how powerful I am. I can cause problems and pain anywhere in the world if i want to. Canada is in his sights because we have not acknowledged his power and our Prime Minister is too much of a contrast and respected for his competence. &nbsp;Trump is all about flaunting power. To do that he must demean competence.

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  @GoBlueGirl78 · 3 weeks ago

  Canadians won’t forget even when Trump is gone. This is a betrayal. Je me souviens.

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