And correct.

So far, the replies have been “everyone should just drop all American services, that’s a minor detail for IT” and “a trillion dollar trade negotiation isn’t actually about jobs.”

I get the kneejerk reaction but damn, this is silly bordering on depressing.

Canadians upset Carney caved to Trump over digital services tax

Less than 48 hours before Canada Day and in the face of annexation threats from the White House, the federal government dropped a bombshell.

CityNews Vancouver (vancouver.citynews.ca)

Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.

This seems really premature. I dislike Carney’s policies for a bunch of reasons, but it’s premature to shit on him for this. We don’t know what the final trade agreement will be.

The last time Trump threw one of these tantrums, NAFTA morphed into USMCA without much of a hit to our economy (afaiu). If our government can repeat that success while we’re diversifying our economy away from the US then that’s a win.

Canadians upset Carney caved to Trump over digital services tax

Less than 48 hours before Canada Day and in the face of annexation threats from the White House, the federal government dropped a bombshell.

CityNews Vancouver (vancouver.citynews.ca)

Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.

Then why would Trump object to it then?

Canadians upset Carney caved to Trump over digital services tax

Less than 48 hours before Canada Day and in the face of annexation threats from the White House, the federal government dropped a bombshell.

CityNews Vancouver (vancouver.citynews.ca)

Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.

Y’all are remembering that it’s us Canadians that will be paying this tax, right? It’s not going to affect any company’s bottom line in the slightest.

I mean… On the things to cave on… Caving on a tax paid by CANADIANS is not the worst thing in the world.

Because it targets his buddies Zuck and Besos.

Does it target the billionaire tech bros or will Canadians pay it? Which one is it?? If Canadians are gonna pay it - why would Trump care? If it targets billionaire bros - big whoop! It’s so small it doesn’t even register.

Canadians upset Carney caved to Trump over digital services tax

Less than 48 hours before Canada Day and in the face of annexation threats from the White House, the federal government dropped a bombshell.

CityNews Vancouver (vancouver.citynews.ca)

Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.

So does no one here understand the concept of manufactured chaos as a distraction ?

The service tax was put in place ages ago but was never enforced. It’s the same trick with the whole border czar bullshit where Donald needs to feel big about something as a distraction despite its a throw away card and often something that was already agreed upon even without the US.

Carney only kicked it up for Donald’s ego to feel like he made a deal. Why? Cuz Cheeto thrives on drama. Meanwhile Canada stole the wheat export market from right under the nose of trump. As well as a few other things no doubt.

Canada is slowly disempowering US but needs some keys to periodically dangle in Donald’s face while they do it.

Sheinbaum is a pro at this game and has been playing it cleanly for 7 months. Carney’s simply following suit.

Rutte did it too with his daddy comment. Stroke the ego of the big baby and prevent more tantrum from said baby

Canadians upset Carney caved to Trump over digital services tax

Less than 48 hours before Canada Day and in the face of annexation threats from the White House, the federal government dropped a bombshell.

CityNews Vancouver (vancouver.citynews.ca)

Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.

Try sending an actual written letter: maybe it will be a little bit attention because in this day and age of e-mail, it’s actual paper letters that are oddities that get people’s attention.

So does no one here understand the concept of manufactured chaos as a distraction ?

The service tax was put in place ages ago but was never enforced. It’s the same trick with the whole border czar bullshit where Donald needs to feel big about something as a distraction despite its a throw away card and often something that was already agreed upon even without the US.

Carney only kicked it up for Donald’s ego to feel like he made a deal. Why? Cuz Cheeto thrives on drama. Meanwhile Canada stole the wheat export market from right under the nose of trump. As well as a few other things no doubt.

Canada is slowly disempowering US but needs some keys to periodically dangle in Donald’s face while they do it.

Sheinbaum is a pro at this game and has been playing it cleanly for 7 months. Carney’s simply following suit.

This seems really premature. I dislike Carney’s policies for a bunch of reasons, but it’s premature to shit on him for this. We don’t know what the final trade agreement will be.

The last time Trump threw one of these tantrums, NAFTA morphed into USMCA without much of a hit to our economy (afaiu). If our government can repeat that success while we’re diversifying our economy away from the US then that’s a win.

I really don’t care what the trade deal looks like, letting the US president dictate Canada’s internal tax policy is a bridge too far for me.

We don’t know what the final trade agreement will be.

It doesn’t matter since Trump can reneg on it at any moment as he did with the previous one

What Carney did here is signal trump that he will chicken out even faster than trump does at any tartrum he throws

The US wiped its ass with first NAFTA, now CUSMA, it will wipe its ass with whatever comes from this shitshow. The US cannot be trusted. It’s signature is worthless on any documents. I hope this is all lip service and we are doing the real trade negotiation with the EU, Asia, Lat Am.