Canada

It's a stirring speech. Things are about to get very expensive for both Canadians and Americans. I have already scratched out future plans for visiting the US for the rest of the year, but I am also considering cancelling ones I pre-booked months ago, even at a 50% loss. Haven't decided firmly yet.

Watching all of this unfold is incredibly disheartening.

The world is becoming more splintered, more nationalistic, more war hungry. Am I getting old and sensitive or is everything really just going to shit?

I'm from the UK so not involved directly in the current conflict, but with Brexit in the recent past (the effects of which still being felt) I feel like we aren't immune to these dumb decisions. Our leadership is likely watching things, taking notes and looking for how to apply this strategy themselves.

Time to cancel the Netflix and Disney streaming services too. Stick with Canadian services or go grab some DVDs from your local library and watch CBC.

Absolutely loving the fire from you guys in the comments in the various threads. 🇮🇪❤️🇨🇦

Summary article from the cbc, if anyone doesn't want to watch the whole thing: Trudeau hits back at the U.S. with big tariffs after Trump launches a trade war

And NatPo are absolute trolls, looking to cause more division on exactly the day we don't need it. They knew there was no answer for their questions, which could obviously wait til another day - they just wanted him/Canada to look weak or divided.

Crap... We're about to hear a whole lot of noise online about how divided we all are on this, aren't we?

Don't believe the hype. The Murdoch media machine, the Brietbart, Rebel, Manning Centre, Twitter, Facebook, and bot army machine are all going to turn this into a story about internal division. Whatever story or Debate they push into your FEED, remember that you were 100% onside with your neighbours today.

Just as well. We need to develop climate solutions fast and work on food security; healing our battered healthcare system... and that should be a lot easier without that troglodyte government dragging us backward with Christian Science and buying up our diabetes meds supply for cosmetic weightloss. Gonna be a rough go for awhile though.

The government has also put out a press release on their website.

The first phase of our response will include tariffs on $30 billion in goods imported from the U.S., effective February 4, 2025, when the U.S tariffs are applied. The list includes products such as orange juice, peanut butter, wine, spirits, beer, coffee, appliances, apparel, footwear, motorcycles, cosmetics, and pulp and paper. A detailed list of these goods will be made available shortly.

Minister LeBlanc also announced that the government intends to impose tariffs on an additional list of imported U.S. goods worth $125 billion. A full list of these goods will be made available for a 21-day public comment period prior to implementation, and will include products such as passenger vehicles and trucks, including electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products, certain fruits and vegetables, aerospace products, beef, pork, dairy, trucks and buses, recreational vehicles, and recreational boats.

Which means Canadians will lose their jobs, they will be out of work, and some companies in Canada will not hire because there's not enough sales to hire anybody new.

Part of me regrets to had made this post with a youtube video given the context, so I want to remind you that you can watch youtube videos without ads by using Firefox and the uBlock origin extension.

Be set to counter the rampant misinformation from the US government trying to paint us as the bad guys rather than the good Neighbors who always have their back when times get hard.

• California fires
• 9/11
• Tehran hostage crisis

Just to name a few. You don’t get a free pass when you punch your buddy in the face and lie about it.

This is when Trudeau is at his best. Can’t think of Pierre being able to pull this off with any measure of sincerity.

Carney could easily do it as well.