Ontario slapping 25% surcharge on U.S.-bound electricity Monday, Ford says | RCI

[mynameisigglepiggle@sh.itjust.works]

Hold up - if there is already a 25% tariff - IE tax - on Canadian electricity, does that mean that there is now another 25% tax on that electricity?

And wouldn't this have a slight compounding effect on the second us tariff?

[regrettable_incident@lemmy.world]

I've met people like that here in the UK too. Trump has this incomprehensible charisma for arseholes the world over.

[hacksaw@lemmy.ca]

That's a problem we have globally. Although it might seem like Trump style populism vs Canadian neo-liberalism(with all it's pros and cons), we're both purple. You guys just have a bit more right wing red in the dye mix. It's plausible that Canada elects our own Trump then we can both be stupid.

The only ideology that has a chance at stopping the populist wave is Sanders style social democracy because it addresses the same core issue of wealth disparity. But it doesn't look like anyone is electing that anytime soon.

[ubergeek@lemmy.today]

We are blue in cities.... a lot of house support for Trump comes from those red NYS districts.

[amorpheus@lemmy.world]

To be fair, does it matter if it's a blue state either way?

[joebigelow@lemmy.ca]

On the other hand there are logging trucks piling up at the border on the golden road right now!

[machinist@lemmy.world]

US made things that are the best or in a small group of the best:

Hand tools, power tools, machine tools, alloys, plastics, clothing/footwear, hardware, firearms, whiskey, porn, movies/shows, glass/ceramics, camping/outdoor, and all sorts of luxury items.

Affordability is a different issue. There are usually options that are good enough and cheaper.

[madcaesar@lemmy.world]

Why is electricity so expensive in Quebec? Because fuck the people that's why

I don't pretend to know all the ins and outs of commerce but I do know Canadians are also getting fucked by Canada. Electricity, lumber, construction materials are artificially expensive as fuck. Since covid the price skyrocketed because of price fixing and no-one did shit and they stated high.

Same with food prices, telecom.... I love Justin standing up to Trump, but it's also true that he's failed protecting the average Canadian. Corporations have run amok and no-one has stood in their way.

[rusticus@lemm.ee]

Do you really think the Trump supporters will connect the dots?

[mashedtech@lemmy.world]

Yes, but us postponed their tariffs another month.

[Guest]

I'm not so sure about Poilievre. Imo he'll take a more moderate stance against MAGA if any at all. He's changed his stance recently, similar to Ford, but it felt a bit later and a bit weaker.

[Guest]

Drug Fraud is hilarious . I'm gonna use this later.

[danquebec@sh.itjust.works]

They're the Austrian who likes Hitler.

[shawn1122@lemm.ee]

JD Vance showed how much he cares about rural communities in Hillbilly Eulogy. Rural Americans are just impressionable pawns to Trump and his ilk.

[redditrefugee69@lemmynsfw.com]

How many of those people have rifles?

[t00l_shed@lemmy.world]

I'm rural, had starlink but thankfully there are cell towers around so I've got a gsm internet now. Fuck that nazi musk

[Guest]

Thing that sucks tho, is at this point it doesn't matter if there's tariffs or not, since people have started preparing as if there will be. Worse, tariffs get integrated into an economy and are next to impossible to un-do. God 45 is so stupid

[mapleengineer@lemmy.world]

https://youtu.be/R59JmC0u63I?si=haAAfXdq-oMQGMMU

[bier@feddit.nl]

You can replace Canada with any other country! Europe and the US aren't really friends anymore these days.

[Guest]

This read as downplaying Canada's significance for a moment, and then immediately circled back to the US being the isolationist Pariah state it is becoming