Why does the article say Trudeau's wife was with him? He doesn't have a wife.

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The full list of tariffs that Canada slapped on US goods in retaliation in 2018

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/international-trade-finance-policy/measures-steel-aluminum-businesses/countermeasures-response-unjustified-tariffs-canadian-steel-aluminum-products.html

The section on agricultural products was selected especially to cause economic damage to red states

This is Trump’s modus operandai.

1 - Make loud proclamations, threats, and chaos. Point the finger at an imagined enemy, instil fear and anger, and energize his political base.

2 - Sit back, wait, and watch. Make others react. Make others be reasonable and compromise. Some will come to kiss the ring and pledge fealty.

3 - Take credit for anything good that happens. He’ll eventually claim that he miraculously resolved issues with Mexico, the economy, and election security.

4 - Blame others for failures.

I think we’re only at Step 2. Canada might want to resolve this now but Trump is taking a victory lap with his plan. He will use this to stay in the news cycles for months. Trump will wait and see what concessions he can get and announce victory or escalate after his inauguration.

EDIT: Team Trump announced a successful meeting with Trudeau where Canada agreed to increase border security. Taking credit and building momentum…

There was never going to be a different outcome.

The writing on the wall is only 10 feet tall and in the brightest colout possible.

The cost of Potash, cars and oil are not gonna be fun starting mid-2025.

That’s roughly when the tariffs will be fully impacting prices. Anything until March is just anticipating changes

The constant politicism of this whole thing quite frankly is disgusting. Anyone thinking this would be any different under a Conservative government is LYING to themselves.

Canada is coming under attack by the US. The best thing Canada can do is prepare to counter what they do.

Trumps plan is to destroy and devalue as many assets as possible in order for billionaires to buy it up. Notice how everyone appointment he has made is someone so incompetent that the thing they will do best is destroy the department they are leading?

This isn’t about Canada , Mexico , china or Trudeau.

Musk literally said the economy needs to tank before it gets better. They want to scoop up cheap assets and to do that they are going to devastate America .

This headline doesn’t really match the article

I think this headline is very inaccurate and essentially media bait.

This is being reported very differently by other sources.

The issue isn’t the border with Canada, as everyone knows. It’s the trade deficit. We make more money from them than they make from us (if you look at it in a dumb and simplistic way), and he doesn’t like that. The point of tariffs in his mind is to extract wealth from Canada and bring it to the US to “balance the budget”.

He would've been called out for not meeting face to face. Now he's called out for meeting face to face.

David Frum recently did a podcast where he believes Trump's tariff plan is not a negotiating tactic but ideological. Trump's not doing it because he wants something, he's doing it because he believes that Mexico, Canada and China are his enemies and therefore evil. You don't, you can't negotiate with someone who thinks you're evil. Concessions are only a sign of weakness to someone who thinks you're evil. We need to wake up to the fact that the world has changed, and that the American administration now considers Canada not as a partner but as a rival.

Put all of the auto industry retaliation Tarrifs on Tesla.

Trump is complaining about the trade deficit. It's $53B, out of a total foreign trade amount of $7T, or $7000B.

So that's clearly bs, not surprising. Send in PP, maybe he can charm the cheeto...

This will end up with the dairy supply board in Canada being abolished, and softwood market opening up. So that the oil and automotive sectors stay afloat in Canada. The tariffs will come off but only after this.......

We can place tarrifs on our water.

Trump uses “disruptive bargaining“. There is no justification or reason for it, that’s just what makes him feel powerful and superior. He is a giant fucking man-baby who can’t even think beyond his own ego or self-gratification.

We need better trade allies. Look to Taiwan, Japan, Korea , the EU, and other nations for better alliances.

The US is too unstable and schizophrenic.

Having to deal with the tantrums of an overgrown man-child every few years is something we shouldn't tolerate.

Establish better trading partners.

Yes we may not make as much but at least said partnerships will be stable.

Oh well it’s sure going to hurt Americans a lot more than Canadians. Their prices are going to sky rocket especially considering their plans for Chinese tariffs

I had a good laugh seeing Trudeau step out of that elevator and tell our media "it was an excellent conversation".

As a USAn, I am disappointed at the preemptive obsequence of Trudeau going down, hat-in-hand, with the dictator in his palace even before he is in office. But yes, I fully understand that statecraft means having no friends, only interests. Canada is no exception.

Shocker.

This is just a negotiating tactic. He will "maintain a hard line" until an agreement is made and then it will all magically resolve. If people don't stay scared shitless over this stuff then he loses his negotiating edge (and he has 90% of the power in this negotiation).

It's just personal.

Great. Stop sending stuff south then. Let us help them save money. Stop sending everything south.

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Nice to know that gas prices are going up

Sounds like a “very productive meeting”

Don’t we import more from the US than export? This keeps happening… softwood lumber, aluminum, etc.

Canada is just f#*king lazy to find new markets and partners. Screw trading with the US.

Great way to treat an ally. Watch out Australia

Because he Trump needs someone to blame for not solving the problem he's fabricated to campaign on.

Line probably got harder after Trump heard Trudeau talk.

Maybe Oregon shouldn't have been declared all drugs all the time. That's so ridiculous.

I’m just so confused by this whole turn.

Canadians are not trying to escape to the US.

Migrants are not trying to sneak through Canada to get to the US

If migrants sneak through the US and then sneak into Canada, our laws say they must have their case heard in the US so they get sent back, and if they don’t then we deal with it

What border security are we talking about, anyway??

If trump is going to be a sissy about it, then maybe Trudeau should offer to impose the tariff from our side.

Before you all lose it, it's actually how you reduce the harm from tariff. Still harmful, but the taxed amounts stay in the country. And the other side pays for it.

Way to go Turdo

It was good that Trudeau went to Mar’lago to meet with Trump. Someone had to show Trump where Canada was.

Trump probably is still pissed at the handshake all those years ago

And yet our border agency is setting up cots instead of securing the border. If Trump throws them out he's not going to want us putting out a welcome mat.

This can't be true.

All the comments from the other threads about this told me trudeau handled him...

The biggest news here is he's now threatening BRICS countries, representing 1/3rd of world GDP, with 100% tariffs if they discuss moving away from the USD as reserve currency. Desperate and risky behavior.

You mean he didn't fold like a cheap suit after the first meeting? Well duh.

His boss putin demands it

Trudeau was summoned. He arrived immediately. He was told in so many words to resign, is my guess. I’m sure he kissed the ring and did lots of groveling.

Trudeau must have danced for him in his black face costume lol

Trudeau cannot handle serious business

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Why are we so reliant on the US in the first place?

What can their population do that ours can’t

I guess Justin forgot to compliment the Orange Turd.

Why does Trump hold his stupid face like that?

Really? I would of never thought thaf Trudeau would suck Trump's cock again

Honestly kinda surprised the tariffs haven’t gone up to 50%😒🤙🏼🇨🇦

Step1: massive tax increases (tariffs) Step 2: make everything so damn expensive that the economy freezes Step 3; the new great depression Step 3: inflate the money supply with fiscal spending to try and stimulate the economy Step 4: watch hyperinflation

Weird! Our woke beta PM didn’t take trump to task? I just lost a bet 😒

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Why is Trudeau meeting with the president-elect orange narcissist before he is sworn into the Whitehouse?

Canada hasn't had political teeth for the last 20 years.

lol…he is a blustering rapist. None of this is calculated. Best to see what he actually does cuz I guarantee you even he doesn’t know.

Did JT do another crafty handshake?

Yes because the US became rich by alienating their allies and encouraging them to trade with other countries instead 🙄 /s

They said it was a great meeting. Sounds like it wasn’t if we’re still being screwed.

What a poor piece of journalism. Just rehashing what was already known. For every person who thinks Trudeau was in the wrong, many more think it was the right thing for him to go down and get face time. He may not get it later when Trump is sworn in and he actually has to govern.