I made a mistake. USA alcohol had a Canadian import tariff of 25% between March 4, 2025 until August 31, 2025. I guess with the Provincial alcohol bans the feds removed it to avoid retaliation from the USA against our alcohol.

The USA has now put a tariff on Canadian alcohol on Aug 22, 2026 of 50% so as a result Saskatchewan will introduce a provincial 50% tax on USA alcohol starting Sep 8, 2026:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/article/saskatchewan-premier-announces-50-tariff-on-american-liquor/

Unpopular opinion but that would be disproportionate escalation.

Alberta sends crude oil south and then refined gasoline, jet fuel is sent north. We have a mutual dependency on each other. Causing too much pain for them or ourselves will not be good. A fuel crisis could be an excuse for Trump to declare a National Emergency with justification for even more escalation.

The rules of a trade war are to match their import tariffs with our import tariffs. Canada is targeting our counter tariffs at USA products mainly coming from purple/red states:

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2026/08/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-counter-tariffs-effective-september-8-2026.html

It’s AI but still done well about the Canadian Resistance Army. Bears, Moose, Wolverines and Beavers ready to fight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SUAdxU9CDE

There’s a reason the Trump administration only focuses on the goods trade deficit. Canada imports more in services from the USA than is exported to them. Although combined goods and services Canada still exports more than it imports from the USA:

https://usafacts.org/answers/what-is-the-value-of-us-trade/countries/canada/

In any case having a trade deficit does not mean that Canada is “ripping off the USA”.

@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca, your link is broken and the quote in your post looks to be from earlier by-elections.

Today the Liberals won all three Aug 31, 2026 by-elections for:

• Beaches-East York, Ontario
• Chicoutimi-Le Fjord, Quebec
• North Vancouver-Capilano, British Columbia

Here’s a CBC link for today’s by-election results:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/live-updates-byelection-chicoutimi-le-fjord-vancouver-capilano-beaches-east-york-9.7327074

It’s now Aug 31 evening and the results are available at:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/north-vancouver-capilano-byelection-results-9.7324520

The Liberal candidate won. The Liberal and Conservative candidates received what the poll predicted within the margin of error. The Green party over performed and the NDP under performed their poll predictions.

Rather telling the RNC did not provide a reason for revoking the CBC’s accreditation. Presumably the RNC doesn’t like CBC’s journalistic standards about the use of the term terrorism but we’re just guessing.

But wait! There’s more! Another more recent “truth” posting today:

https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/41405

For many years, the USA has been losing more than 60 Billion Dollars a year with Canada. Why??? Our long ago stolen businesses are now coming back to America in order to avoid paying tariffs. They are lining up, just like the rest of the World!!! President DJT

He seriously thinks a trade deficit with Canada means Canada is ripping off the USA.

Make it make sense.

Trump seems to be still angry with nasty Canada. Renaming Lake Ontario wasn’t enough for him.

The conservative candidate is now highlighting he is the local choice.

I replayed that section of the video. His exact words were:

“We will provide support and we will do whatever it takes to support these businesses. We’ll be releasing details of this early next week alongside our tariff actions to support these businesses. And we will support these businesses for as long as it takes. In other words beyond the life of this US administration.”

It’s hard to navigate through that paginated list of items but I found wine, beer and spirits are being tariffed at 25%.

So one of the demands from the US was to stop the provincial alcohol boycotts and instead they end up with new tariffs for the few provinces not boycotting US alcohol (Alberta, Saskatchewan).

Even though US booze is still available for sale in Saskatchewan sales are down 40%. With the upcoming tariffs they are likely to decrease more:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-american-liquor-sales-down-2026-9.7306544

Here’s the Canadian Government’s “Complete list of U.S. products subject to counter tariffs”

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/international-trade-finance-policy/canadas-response-us-tariffs/complete-list-us-products-subject-to-counter-tariffs.html

Effective September 8, 2026

The new targeted counter tariffs are concentrated in sectors such as steel and aluminum, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, plastics, and electronics. In certain sectors, such as steel and aluminum, existing counter-tariffs will increase from 25 per cent to 50 per cent to match U.S. rates.

Other existing counter-tariffs, including against U.S. autos, will also continue to apply.

After his speech Mark Carney took questions from reporters. I’ll summarize the first few questions and his responses along with video timestamp.

https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/pm-carney-speaks-to-media-after-suspension-of-canada-us-trade-talks?id=6b77d2c2-d09d-47fb-9bf1-7c88f3c2445c

@23:07 What specific last minute changes made the deal untenable?

• level and scope of the tariffs for the auto industry with no tariff rollback for medium and heavy duty trucks
• veto over Canada’s ability to make trade deals with other nations
• restrict protections on language and culture

@25:55 Was Howard Lutnick’s involvement in the last days an impediment to getting a deal?

• That’s a question for the US administration
• I take responsibility along with my cabinet for decisions of the Canadian government
• I will say the Canadian team was united and working together - I can’t say that for the US side

@29:40 What’s your message for those who will become collatoral damage?

• many are small/medium companies and have been top of mind. They are why we tried so hard to get a deal but not at any price.
• We are going to hit back via tarrif protection where we can where it’s relevant for some of those industries
• We will do whatever it takes to support these businesses for as long as it takes, beyond the life of this administration, we will provide details in a few days

I had created a new user on lemmy.dbzer0.com and subscribed to some bot communities mirrored from reddit via lemmit.online before it shutdown. The experience was underwhelming but it did lessen my need to use reddit as a social media app for discovery.

Latest on the ground update.

The Liberal candidate’s signs are being surrounded with small Canadian flags. With the recent events of the trade dispute with the US they are literally rallying around the flag.

Thanks for your detailed post.

I’ve bookmarked many of the links to various tools you mentioned and will put them on my todo list to look into.

upvoted for referencing Cory Doctorow’s enshittification.

From the CBC article:

“Just put this in context. Tripling the current generation capacity of Churchill Falls to that 14,000 megawatts of renewable power — that’s more than the entire generating capacity of B.C. Hydro, it’s more than double the output of Bruce Power, the largest nuclear plant on this continent,” said Carney.

Here’s the Federal Government’s News Release :

Prime Minister Carney announces the largest clean energy investment in North American history

Hydro Electricity and Wind Generated Electricity are a great combination:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity