Canada 'will stand up to a bully', says Mark Carney

[hellsbelle@sh.itjust.works]

As for dental added to healthcare, are you sure? Or was it just added for people with low-income?

Jfc. Every Canadian knows that dental care has been enacted for >18, 65+ and people with disabilities for over a year now.

Not knowing that kinda outs you as someone whose opinions mean nothing at all.

[plaidbaron@lemmy.world]

The iraq war was a rousing success.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

Jfc. Every Canadian knows that dental care has been enacted for under 18, 65+ and people with disabilities for over a year now.

You apparently didn't. You claimed that the NDP put in policies that helped everybody.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

War yes, peace no. If you know many Canadians who'd act as suicide bombers, maybe the analogy is correct.

Just - being livid about something is not the same as sacrificing your life to fight it.

People talking about savagery and brutality don't quite get, it seems, that they'll likely die very soon. But when faced with a decision. That's the point where most go to their occupations other than writing heroics in the interwebs.

There are plenty of people in the US itself calling Trump fascist etc, are they committing such acts of resistance as to force fascism out of their areas? Why would anything with Canada be much different?

In any case, I'm just getting that feel that many things in the world will be remade with pain and blood. I doubt Canada is among them.

[plaidbaron@lemmy.world]

I dont think you know anything about this country.

[gift_of_gab@lemmy.world]

Yes, and I’m showing that the action they were forced into was so small as to be essentially meaningless. So, that undermines their accomplishments, wouldn’t you say?

Not for the people who use it? You know, our poorest people?

All our lives? Again, is this dental plan open to everyone?

So just to be clear, no party has done anything ever because it didn't impact every single citizen? What the hell is this insane criterion?

This is the least Canadian response I've ever heard, where help is useless unless every person gets something. I don't care if it 'only' helped poor children, it was a massive achievement and worth doing.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

Not for the people who use it? You know, our poorest people?

Great, you're admitting what I said. It's not available to everyone. Thanks, we're done here.

[synicalx@lemm.ee]

I don't want to be a downer, but realistically considering the impact of this Canada is probably going to have to acquiesce at least temporarily.

Trump is applying cold, calculating business logic to this; Canada needs to do business with the US to a large degree, if that becomes costly their (relatively) small economy becomes less viable without reform which they don't have time to implement.

Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% behind Canada in fighting this but realistically it's not a fight they're going to win.

[fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de]

The text is hinting at a kind of conspiracy where you deliberately cause a market to crash and then just buy everything cheaply. I don't necessarily subscribe to that theory.

The meme is saying a blanket 25% retaliatory tariff is not a good idea but targeting specific items might be beneficial. I tend to agree with this. No point applying a tariff to goods for which there is no alternative.

[fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de]

There's a few comments like this, but what would rolling over look like and / or why would a country do that?

The entirely expected and appropriate response is to apply retaliatory tariffs. This doesn't take bravery and isn't "standing your ground" it's just the obvious default response.