I got curious and tried looking up stuff about Kentucky bourbon exports. Apparently we have already done this retaliatory tariff on Kentucky distilled spirits back in 2018. At the time, it seemed to be a 10% retaliatory tariff. When the tariffs was lifted later (in June 2019?), export figures for the bourbon coming to Canada went from $48M to $54M.

And now the Kentucky distilled spirits exports is probably a $90M+ industry.

IMO, losing 10%+ of your business is obviously not good, but I am not sure if that'll cause enough pain.

https://www.weku.org/the-commonwealt...new-trade-wars

Ford 'ripping up' Ontario's $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink

Ontario signed a deal with Starlink in November to provide high-speed internet access to 15,000 eligible homes and businesses in rural, remote and northern communities by June 2025. PC Leader Doug Ford announced Monday that the province is backing out of that deal.

He is also banning American companies from all government contracts

https://i.imgur.com/DY82xpk.png

I can't say I've ever bought a bottle of American hard liquor in my life.

(I don't drink a lot of hard liquor to begin with, have a bottle of Tofino Jalepeno vodka for making Caesars, and a 3 year old bottle of Bacardi in my pantry)

My neighbour gave me a bottle of Maker's Mark last year for helping him wire up his little backyard studio that he built last summer. Took one sip, haven't touched it since (Whisky is not for me). It's relegated to making BBQ sauce.

^ What kind of Polak are you man? hahaha

We're just at that age now... I can't even remember the last time I drank something that wasn't just a solitary beer socially... except the 69 taco meet I had TWO beers omg.

you're a disgrace!!!

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...kecdDRUPI8HA&s

I would have had 3 but you insisted on evenly distributing among all the participating patrons. GS8 almost got tipsy, he's got no body fat to absorb that alcohol.

Mexico tariffs rescinded - for a month.

Canada - let's see how Trudeau does.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...-25/index.html

• Pause on some Trump tariffs: President Donald Trump said he agreed to “immediately pause” tariffs on Mexico for a month after a conversation with the country’s president Claudia Sheinbaum, where she consented to send 10,000 Mexican soldiers to the border. This comes as Trump is set to hold another call with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau later today as tariffs to that country still loom. Over the weekend, the president announced extraordinary new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, and the leaders of all three countries had announced retaliatory measures. The 25% US tariffs on Mexico had been set to take effect at midnight ET.

^
So with our border issues being about 1% of the southern border, sending an extra 100 CF soldiers should do the trick I guess.

Saw this take on Reddit a few weeks ago.

"Trump is gonna put in these tariffs, and rescind them by Q2, and declare that USA won the trade war"

And his supporters will believe it to be the truth!

Don't care what Trump's supporter thinks, as long as he knows that we ain't weak and we can't be bullied then I'm happy.

Call it whatever you want.. we are much more educated and will read between the lines. I'm just glad all the business mogos will start calling Trump asking him what's he's going to do... perfect.... flood him with calls.

Trump beaten by a hispanic woman! SAD!

With us not even amounting to being 1% of the purported problem, it simply makes Trump look even more ridiculous if the US does not offer the same deal to us as they did with Mexico, esp given how we have tangibly beefed up border security.

Then again, Trump has always disliked Turd, and will find every opportunity to bully him (and us). Nobody expects him to be logical in all this.

Well, she's also Jewish...so there's that :fullofwin:

i saw workers at the liquor store yesterday take 2 shopping carts full of liquor, i thought a business came in and had a huge order, i guess they were gathering up some US brand to 'ban' them.

i saw Eby post no US booze to be sold by BCLB

Trump basically got played by a socialist Mexican woman. She also forced him to admit there's a gun problem at the border, and part of the deal requires the U.S. to stop the flow of guns into Mexico. Talk about taking the L.

Trump has terrible negotiating skills. When he was negotiating with Chrystia Freeland during the last round of the free trade agreement talks, the USMCA, Freeland did not concede to the U.S. anything in terms of duties on Canadian steel and aluminum exports.

He took losses twice to both Freeland and the Mexican president haha.

So what you are saying is, Trump keeps losing to women.

Delaying by a month isn't a win. We need to end this here and now while we have momentum. Let's hope Trump decides we aren't worth it when he has MX, China and soon the EU to deal with.

Btw, what is going on with USaid? One of the best institutions left in the US is getting locked out because Musk wants their classified data? What a shit show.

Cheeto has a .500 record by my count. He lost to Freeland and the Mexican president during negotiations.

-beat Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris in two presidential elections.

remember? he likes getting spanked by them. its his turn on

so we need to elect a strong Canadian cunt and let her have at it with him

USAID has had its share of controversies over the years, and this is all Trump needs to gut it and shut it down.

It's also looking more and more like both Trump and Musk are Russian pawns. Putin just came out today and basically said Europe will ‘stand at the feet of the master’ after Trump’s tariff threats. Even if they're not pawns, this is exactly what Russia has dreamed of, destroying America from within. Destroying Western democracy from within.

Sending money out to help other countries from diseases and starvation is bad for the bottom line. It's more of the Isolationist "wasting money" overseas idealogy.

I don't agree at all.

Forgetting the whole helping other humans thing, it's a line item and the bottom line is improved because you have less 'boat' people/terrorists/havens for strategic competitors. You are also more like to get the votes you need at the UN.

The ROI is amazing long term.