Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar

Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by cmrdporcupine on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:04PM (#49403871)

If there's any way to swing the "referendum" in October in a very bad direction it would be to do this.

Right now Alberta and Saskatchewan are not suffering at all (2% of exports affected) from Trump's tariffs.

This is by design.

He (or the "smarter" people he surrounds himself with) is attempting to drive a wedge in Canadian unity.

Danielle Smith is, btw, totally onside with playing this to her advantage to get things.

Export tax, as just as it might be in these circumstances, would be used as pretext for wholesale foreign interference and domestic disruption on a level we have never seen in this country. It would end up being a profound self-own

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by THX1137 on Saturday August 22, 2026 @07:17PM (#49404798)

The referendum is a hypothetical while federal power is real and spelled out in the constitution. All I hear about Alberta and Saskatchewan's leverage is that we ought to fear their willingness to invite a foreign power to dismember Canada. It certainly leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

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Re:Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tar... by Pxtl on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:31PM (#49405867)

Apparently according to downthread that's a "Reddit opinion" to notice what their re-elected political leaders and all their pundits keep saying.

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