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U.S. resumed trade talks with Canada on Monday morning, says Carney (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Despite the move, Canada is still in active discussions with G7 allies to introduce an international tax, with Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne leading that work, the PMO said.

If this ends up happening, it's important context to this decision.

If it ends up not happening...pretty weak shit.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I feel as though the entire point of this was to make Canadians feel ashamed and discouraged on the day before our national holiday.

    And in that Trump was successful. It’s brutal and bullying propaganda.

    No success of realpolitik in negotiations can undo that.

    The business community and media were calling the digital services tax an unforced error.

    But the real unforced error is Carney getting played to do something destructive to national unity heading into Canada Day.

    This is one of the few cases where his lack of political experience is showing. I’m wondering if his team will let him understand that and see the polling impact.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I feel as though the entire point of this was to make Canadians feel ashamed and discouraged on the day before our national holiday.And in that Trump was successful.

    The fuck he was. I feel no shame, nor discouragement whatsoever.

    All Trump "won" was getting Carney to scrap a policy that wasn't even in force yet, effectively gaining nothing. And there's nothing stopping us from just reimplementing the same policy under some other name that Trump's dumb ass won't even notice.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I think that's been missing from most of the conversation. Our DST was retroactive and higher than the one in the UK (which Trump&co didn't bitch about). If this version of the tax dies and we can replace it later, but we still gain something by this move then we're coming out ahead.

    We'll see what happens.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I agree. We can't know the full reason that it was cancelled, and I doubt we will for a while. Unlike Trump, Carney is smart enough not to ramble about everything and show the world all his cards. Hopefully he pulled this back in order to either roll it into something else, or go in with the EU to turn it into a new deal. With how much he seems to be trying to unite Canada, E.U, and Europe as a whole I wouldn't be surprised. We will have to wait and see how the 90 days plays out. Nothing is stopping him from turning it back on later.

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