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

[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

[Guest]

Someone I know just keeps telling me he disagrees with every policy that's bad, while also saying he agrees with Trump for 50 things per the 5 he disagrees with.

Anyway that relationship is very sour as you can imagine

[Guest]

Makes you wonder if this is the first phase of what he meant about "blue states completely disappearing off the map" next year.