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Some Canadian stakeholders have argued for the government to target US swing states with retaliatory tariffs, to put political pressure on Republicans. But Brian Clow, a former senior Canadian adviser on trade and US relations, said the midterms shouldn’t be a major factor for Canada’s approach to negotiating tariff relief with the US.
“Nobody should expect the Democrats to save Canada or come to our rescue when it comes to Donald Trump’s tariffs,” Clow said. “Although there are some voices speaking out against Donald Trump’s tariff policy, many of them aren’t speaking out against it and may actually support it.”
As an American Democrat this is bullshit. Fuck tariffs. trump is a demented rapist sociopath, if we can get a significant majority we’ll finally be able to stop or at least heavily limit his idiocies to a large extent.
Democrats have traditionally been more in favour of protectionism than the Republicans. Don’t forget corporations are loving these tariffs because it basically blocks foreign competition.
Trump’s tariffs have nothing to do with that though - they’re just a product of his fevered ignorance and greed.
Actual industry-serving tariffs are still valid though with the utter shitshow of these “liberation day” idiocies I don’t know if there’ll be a lot of political will to use them anytime soon.
Either way, we have a lot of repairing to do. Which I suggest we start off by jailing this sonofabitch for any number of his seemingly limitless crimes.
Remind me how many of Trump’s first term tariffs were removed during the Biden administration?
So the answer is none, relative to Canada, because they were already removed before Biden took office.