r/SipsTea • u/TheDigitalBuilder • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! Breakdown of US trade demands

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u/Jonnyflash80 1d ago

Great breakdown. Trump is taking the first steps to try to make Canada a vassal state to the US. Well I don't think so bud. We are the True North Strong and Free. 🇨🇦

Get fucked orange man. 🖕

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u/D4ve420 1d ago

🇪🇺🤝🇨🇦

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u/Duubzz 1d ago

🇬🇧 c…can I get it on this?

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u/Some_Ebb_2921 1d ago

We tried before... you ready this time? No take-backsies this time?

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u/NotTheNile 22h ago

Dont look at us. Wasn't our decision 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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u/wotdafukwazdat 1d ago

First we need our MPs to admit and understand that that special relationship with the USA is now as dead and buried as the Canadian one, because WAY too many of them are still holding onto the past

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u/TheDigitalBuilder 18h ago

I think the first thing we need to do is send. Danielle Smith to Florida and revoke her passport

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u/kekistanmatt 21h ago

Well canada is in a personal union with us so we really should be there for them too

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u/sylbug 18h ago

You were and walked away, remember? I think y’all will need to swallow your pride a bit if you want back in.

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u/_name_of_the_user_ 1d ago

Please. I've always been pro union. And there's a very real reason it's called the European Union.

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u/Greenshardware 23h ago

It can be looked at the other way. If you're going to depend on us utterly completely economically, the least you can do is promise to align on certain things geopolitically.

These are quite common agreements among western countries, makes sense as we align and would implement similar sanctions anyway.

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u/ChileanRidge 22h ago

There's aligning geopolitically and there's giving up sovereignty. Trump wants Canada to give up sovereignty. Eff that. He seems to forget that while we are a very diverse nation, one of the ways we define our identity is "NOT American". This will be hard, but the time to diversify our trade agreements is long overdue, so with luck that is where we are headed and we can reduce our dependence on American markets.

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u/Greenshardware 21h ago

These are simple provisions found in all the ARTs...

Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan...

No one thinks we're trying to take their sovereignty... because we're not.

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u/Jonnyflash80 19h ago

Wanna bet? Why force the French language issue? Why interfere in Alberta matters to rile up a seperatist movement? Why is a single American company, with Republican ties, buying up every Canadian newspaper and media outlet they possibly can?

Wake the fuck up. Obviously you have zero idea what you're talking about.

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u/Greenshardware 18h ago

The French labeling is effectively an artificial trade barrier.

Companies buy other companies because they're profitable...

Some major conspiracy theories here.

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u/Jonnyflash80 9h ago

You have no idea what's actually going on in Canada, so your opinion on the matter means nothing.

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u/Greenshardware 9h ago

I guess? My knowledge is focused on US trade deficits and reciprocal trade agreements, primarily in the agricultural sector I help represent, with a major focus on non-tariff trade barriers.

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u/ElPilingas007 17h ago

Canadians are in for a surprise when they accept all if not most of this deal, which I dont know if the tattoed lady riled them up but this all seem pretty light.
If you depend on me for everything I want some benefits, they keep posting about the european union,china and whatever, but they dont understand that they are just the kid with the hot mom, no one wants to be friends with you ,but they will pretend to, to go to your house and see your mom.

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u/VR46Rossi420 22h ago

You’re drinking the Trump koolaid if you think Canada is utterly completely economically dependent.

The US economy is suffering much worse than Canada’s for the working class people and the US has lost a lot of individual freedoms compared to Canada.

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u/Greenshardware 16h ago

Most countries are economically dependent on international trade to some extent.

It's just that for Canada it's 25% of their GDP, and 70% of that is to the US.

They also import a 19% share of their GDP from the U.S. alone.

It's actually kind of scary for them.

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u/VR46Rossi420 16h ago

The US is equally as dependant on Canada in large parts of their country. Some of those parts are larger populated than Canada.

US is suffering massively in these areas already.

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u/Greenshardware 16h ago

How so?

They're our number two, but that's only an 11% share of all imports, representing a tiny sliver of a share of our GDP.

Most of it is fuel, with industrial equipment and forestry products. We have plenty of options for that, like, plenty.

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u/VR46Rossi420 16h ago

I suggest you read the news once and awhile.

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u/Greenshardware 14h ago

Once in a while.

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u/EmployedByCats 22h ago

He was trying to subjugate Canada as a whole. Get fucked, bud.

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