Trudeau Buys Into Trump's Racist Border Lies After Trump Bluffs Canada With 25% Tariffs.
Trump would be assassinated by his own American business partners if he imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian goods and the WTO would rule against Trump, leading to billions in losses, for the US.
Trump thinks he is a master negotiator when in fact, he just an intimidator. He bluffs big to win big but Trudeau is so deep in Washington’s back pocket that he goes along with the charade. Done for public consumption, Trudeau dutifully humiliates himself and Canada dancing to Trump’s ludicrous threat of 25% tariffs. It would hurt the US far more than it would hurt Canada and Canada can turn right around and sell everything, we sell to the US and sell it to China and for that matter to all of the BRICS. If Canada closed off all trade with the US tomorrow, no problem. Canada has double track train lines coast to cost, to some of the most modern ports in the world, not to mention Great Lakes ports with access to the ocean. While the US let it’s infrastructure crumble, Canada kept improving it’s own world class shipping systems.
Trump is like the book of bad American assumptions, about the world outside America. Trump assumes Canadians are afraid of the big bad America and will cave to Trump’s intimidation tactics, to squeeze Canada for more than the US has already stolen, by the US trading the Canadian dollar down, to steal Canada dirt cheap. If Trudeau’s old man was alive and prime minister today, he wouldn’t even answer Trump’s toothless bluff and simply wait for actual, face to face trade negotiations to begin. It was Prime Minister Pierre Eliot Trudeau that was the first to open trade with China and Moa said so right to Nixon’s face. It was Prime Minister Pierre Eliot Trudeau that kept trade open with Cuba. So, Canada has no problem not trading with the US. Even if Trump does impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods entering the US, it would be temporary and mostly destructive to US industries. The WTO would have an emergency meeting and rule against Trump’s tariffs, likely fining the US in the billions.
The US can’t afford to alienate trade partners at this time as the US trade deficit with world just keeps gbalooning, while more and more nations drop US dollars and debt. No, Trump should be begging the world to buy US treasury bonds. So, why distract the public with racist lies about border security and American trade isolation? So Trudeau can give Trump what he is really after, in terms of trade, the rolling back of Canadian regulations US products don’t comply with, so the US can flood Canadian markets with substandard US products. Just like Trump’s trade bluff, the last time he was president, getting Trudeau to sell out the Canadian dairy market to poisoned American milk. Trudeau is just doing his part in being the Governor of the 51st. state of the United States of America, that NAFTA turned Canada into, long ago. Playing along, running down to Trump’s Florida feet, to beg the great American emperor not to chop off his head.
I can just see Canada’s racist crackers, in Alberta, comically guarding the US/Canadian border, violating First Nation’s rights to cross the border where they like and when they like. I would like to remind the US and Canadian public that there are treaties between Canada and the US, that ensure the free flow of people and trade across the US/Canada border. There are treaties allowing First Nations tribes to cross the border in an undocumented manner. This is why the US doesn’t fence the entire US/Mexican border, the US can’t prevent the free flow of First Nations tribes across that border either and it’s ruse to begin with. There is no border crisis.
Trump and Biden and many presidents before them, were and are, just covering up the fact that American capitalists are abandoning the American people and have even institutionalized homelessness as punishment for disobedience and are attempting to blame it all on immigrants stealing American jobs and now Canadian jobs. Trump is covering up the wholesale robbery of the US discretionary budget by at least 80%, going toward defence contractors, the US congress are all invested in and ending up in the hands of more and more newly minted billionaires. Instead of providing services to the American public. The average American citizen pays 32% in federal income tax but America’s wealthiest pay 35%. Even after WWII, the top tax rate was 90%. Due to the direct profiteering by America’s wealthy elite, off of WWII. But not today, after one disastrous military adventure after another, the wealthy only saw their taxes reduced and worker’s taxes increased. Trump is covering up, that he and his fellow billionaires turned America into a shit hole by becoming billionaires and blaming China, Canada or Mexico for America’s own domestically produced policy of canabalizing the American people and their economy for profits, reducing union participation in the American work force down to 13%., won’t absolve Trump’s class from the responsibility in creating the entire mess.
If I were the PM of Canada, I’d be on the phone to China’s Xi right now. To opening up free trade talks with China, as a counter to Trump’s tariff threats to Canada. Mexico already has. I’d call up India’s PM Modi and apologize for Canada making false accusations against Indian diplomats being involved in the murder, on Canadian soil, of a Khalistani terrorist being protected by Canada and US intelligence services and propose free trade talks. Finding markets for Canadian goods will be absolutely no problem, as American buying power continues to shrink. So yeah, I would call Trump’s bluff.