Tom Fetter

[Tom Fetter @TomFetter2]

@MelissaLMRogers American importers, and consumers, will pay the tariffs. Sovereign countries can only tax their own people, not other sovereign countries.

Let's see if the US needs the copper, nickel, building supplies, and energy it imports from it's largest trading partner.

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@HaveWeAllGoneM1 Canada has the "greatest ever" trade deal that Trump negotiated last time. And broke.

Why should Canada expect that giving Trump concessions won't end the same way? He's shown who he is.

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@mario4thenorth Bullshit. The issues with forest management aren't with not "raking" enough, but creating coniferous monoculture. Which is ever more dangerous precisely because of climate change.

Humans, whether via arson or stray campfire sparks, directly cause fewer fires than lightning.

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@KEriksenV2 Canada isn't objectively declining. What's happened is that social media has provided a venue for folks to farm and nurture grievances. Like your post.

I'm in my 60s. There've always been triumphs and problems in Canada; there are no more now than in the mid 70s.

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@ericmetaxas Your grasp of religious history is as tenuous as your grasp of politics.

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@DonnaBarford no, that's the job of right wing bloggers and podcasters.

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@VigilantFox American companies paid that $100B in tariffs, on goods they imported. To stay profitable, those companies will pass that $100B on to American consumers, as higher prices.

Are Americans better off with Trump's voluntary inflation?

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@_angelica_toy De gustibus.

I lived in Alberta for a decade, my wife did for 21 years. It's where our 3 kids were born. We liked parts of it a lot.

We live elsewhere now, happily. As do our kids and their families. You do the math.

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@callme_Chari I'm sure there are schmucks in both parties.

I'm also sure that there are laws against destroying (and endangering) someone's life by publicly implying they're guilty of disgusting things, but refusing to ever test the charge in court.

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@JonFraserTF I for one stopped flying the flag when it was taken over by "freedom convoy" "patriots." Many of whom see no irony in their recent rabid conversion to Western Separatism following their failure to win majority democratic office.

I'm flying it again. It's my flag, my country.

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@kpac_15 Yet somehow that "6 year old" defeated multiple Conservative leaders, and facilitated the electoral win of his successor.

You might sit down, yourself.

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@AmazingZoltan Except we have a democracy. And they lost.

Try again next election. In the meantime, we have this thing called the Loyal Opposition. Be a patriot.

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@TomMarazzo That accusation you made might just be actionable defamation.

Be aware that not everyone shrugs off trolling forever.

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@RiseOfAlberta Fuck you. I've lived in half Canada's provinces, including 10 years working as a policy guy for Conservative Alberta governments.

You're fooling yourself, and trying to dupe others. Quit it. Be a patriot, it's Canada Day.

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@david_parker Oh.

Like being a resident of a Blue State, reflecting that your local industrial base has always supported Red States? And still is?

Or like how Alberta was a "have not" dependent on central Canada till the late 1950s?

That's patriotism. Imagine it

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@DefiyantlyFree No, it will also ensure that the American republic remains a Constitutional Republic, not an authoritarian state.

In the medium term, the MAGAs would fade out of electoral relevance, and a new (loyal) Conservative party emerge.

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@mdt546 Supply management helps keep dairy farmers financially solvent, in every region, with no federal subsidy. It's also the basis for health and quality regs which keep Canadian products testing on average higher than American competitors. And builds CDN food security.

Worth it.

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@erik_thorvalds How long before a "free and independent Alberta" simply joins the USA, trading it's power as 1 of 13 Provinces and Territories to become the most junior State? With no bargaining power and less economic clout?

Don't be stupid.

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@RobynUrback In contrast, Trump looks manly and powerful when he changes his tariffs weekly, contradicting himself again and again?

Perhaps there's strategy involved in ditching a tax which hasn't yet been collected.

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@EricRStPierre No.

I was alive during the Cold War. I also have the best part of a PhD in international relations, and spent my career as an intergovernmental relations professional.

Canada's about the farthest thing away from authoritarianism under Khrushchev or Brezhnev.

Don't be stupid.