You know what are also a significant problem coming from the US? Their guns, their ideaology, their crap additives in food, and their inconsistent policy making just to name a few.

Canada should minimize vulnerability to US trade relations and focus on increasing trade with more reliable partners seeking mutual benefits. US tariffs on imports from Canada encourage this so they are not all bad.

Fuck Trump. Canada should do everything it can to cut the US out of its supply chain, altogether. They will never learn, so it’s pointless to keep trying to deal with them.

The US has every right to set its international trade policies to whatever they like.

And the rest of the world can and must, at a minimum, match them.

Reciprocity’s a bitch.

That 25% or whatever it is tax the CRTC is going to put on streaming things should go to something closer to 100%, many people will stop using them and those who continue will help the Canadian arts. The CRTC should also tax the hell out of the US shows being played on Canadian TV channels, more people will keep that and fund the Canadian Arts. Then the CRTC should tax the heck out of the TV service providers who provide US channels, people using those are more likely to just keep that and fund the Canadian Arts or hell the TV providers may create Canada specific packages that encourage the Canadian Arts.

Then we need to bring back the digital services tax so people using US digital services get taxed, pushing further use and funding of Canadian Alternatives. Not everyone is going to homelab to remove US services, like I am trying so desperately to do. I am practically there with my home set up, I just have a few Apple devices left and I have practically dropped the Google.

These are not tariffs per say but they do the same thing.