Trudeau tells Trump: Tariff war will shut American factories

[ninemiletower@lemmy.world]

He thinks it will make manufacturers come to MI because they won't want to pay tariffs.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Minimum wage in MI is $10.25 USD, and the Mexico minimum wage is supposedly $248.93 PESO equal to about 12 USD and potentially rising, so your boss might have a point if the US workforce doesn't just leave the country themselves.

[natakunox@lemmy.world]

If you are a Canadian or Mexican please contact your representatives and have them do a more targeted tariff plan. Target American red states directly! Oil tariffs should be universal but anything made in red states and counties should have a 100% tariff. Force industry and goods to flow through blue areas and Trump's support will crumble.

[bassturd@lemmy.world]

If Canada just stopped selling aluminum and steel to the US, it would heavily affect aerospace and military manufacturing.

[fakir@lemm.ee]

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

[curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

They can just take their sweet, sweet time to take them off, time they get paid for. Probably more relaxing too.

I used to be a pump jockey, I personally wouldn't have minded. Thats just my take of course.

[whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world]

Ohh, that’s clever. It took me a moment.

[bdonvr@thelemmy.club]

Automotive too

[jlh@lemmy.jlh.name]

Even 38.3% of Californian voters voted for Trump. The Trump party only has a 9 set majority in the house, and California has 9 of them, all of which are up for reelection in 18 months. Targeting individual states probably isn't that helpful.

[piecat@lemmy.world]

Christ- mexico was becoming a good ally for manufacturing.

[twentyseven@lemmy.world]

I had to look that up, because it didn't sound right. Turns out it's 248.93 pesos per day, not per hour

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Ah shit you're right, mb. Yeah, Manufacturing is staying in Mexico.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

I was wrong with my numbers earlier, made an edit.

[zelaya@lemmy.today]

México could send 25% of his citizens.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

When everything in the world is zero sum, there is no cooperation.

Such a sad way to view the world.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

They will just blame Democrats

[brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

This assumes the people in the red States would see the chain of causation, which is unlikely.

It will create an enemy out of the taxing countries. I dont have a better idea but at this point his base will never turn from him.

[brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm curious if they're gonna start pulling out of our stock market

[steal_your_face@lemmy.ml]

And the flew there on the 4th of July 🫡

[tm12@lemmy.ca]

Justin Trudeau tried to speak to the American people and did play heavy on the lasting friendship between the two countries. Will that dull the backlash against Canada? Trump wants an enemy out of Mexico, Canada, and China.