Either that or no tariffs but non-tariff measures stay in effect until the decision is permanent.

Sure. Just to be clear, I was defining the term, not describing Ford or Can/ON cons.

It basically means fiscal conservative, social liberal.

The auto industry already had a 30-day exemption from tariffs.

I’m sure this is an effort, in part at least, to drive a wedge between the democracies targeted by this administration. Don’t lose sight of who our enemies are. Viva Mexico! Death to America!

More than 120! I couldn’t make it through 5. No idea how people can listen to him talk.

Not at all a Liberal voter but crisis Trudeau is 🔥

I wonder if he’d be resigning if this happened earlier…

Many actions are targeted at red states. But sometimes the weapons you have are the weapons you have.

And, really, whatever US internal politics are, this is an act of war by the US against Canada. I think few will lose sleep about making any American bleed right now. Hopefully it wakes those blue states up to start really taking action.

He said it in an interview with the WSJ.

This was published before he made those statements.

Sorry for messing around with this post. Lemmy.world has a weird bug(?) where posts with CBC articles won’t federate. Had to trick it.

Most frozen assets, by far, reside in Europe ($217 billion (€201 billion) to $230 billion (€210 billion)), with the United States holding just a small portion ($5 billion (€4.5 billion)) and Japan also holding some.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confiscation_of_Russian_central_bank_funds#%3A~%3Atext=Most+frozen+assets%2C+by+far%2Cand+Japan+also+holding+some.

The tariffs shouldn’t apply:

Canada’s countermeasures do not apply to U.S. goods that are in transit to Canada on the day on which they come into force.

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/02/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-25-per-cent-tariffs-effective-february-4-2025.html

I think the only answer is: journalists write stories, editors write headlines 🤷

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uUyiE0fzJ4

This is just initial reaction to an announcement. The tariffs aren’t even implemented yet.

I wonder how close we are to Trump declaring that “no one knew” how complicated the economy is…

You can find a general list of the types of products covered by the initial $30B tariffs here. There’s a very detailed list released by the government here.

I don’t think they’ve released the details of the second wave of tariffs (~$155B) yet.

Canadian tariffs are targeted in a number of ways. One of the ways is targeting American goods that have Canadian alternatives. So the goal is to make American products less attractive by making them more expensive, damaging the US economy while bolstering our own.

There aren’t really winners in trade wars but the goal is to minimize our pain while maximizing theirs.

Economic death to America!