U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he's terminating all trade discussions with Canada effective immediately.

"We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period," Trump said in a social media post.

He says he's pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax (DST), which requires web giants pay a special tax.

Set to take effect on June 30, the DST requires U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay a three per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users — a policy enacted by former prime minister Justin Trudeau's government that the Parliamentary Budget Office projects will bring in billions of dollars in revenue.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Wait until Tremp finds out all digital services now need to charge GST in Australia (10%) since like 10 years ago.

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  • [–] [S] 131 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How dare the Canadian government get American companies to pay their fair share for operating here [in Canada]

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  • [–] 86 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Canada needs to start cashing in their US Bonds. Let's watch the US economy start to crash.

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  • [–] [S] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I feel like that’s probably our nuclear option and we’re holding out for now since it’s likely Trump chickens out again

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    I hope not. Please do it. tRump and his shit-sucking base only give a shit when the leopard is dousing them and theirs in hot sauce. If crashing and burning this fucker and our country is what it takes to end him and them, don't wait! Do it slowly, like someone shredding important documents.

    Bonus points if they or anyone does it each time this regime tries to lie or bury that pressure point. Rich people back this fuck-squad because they care about two things: their money and their lives. Threaten one and/or the other until they abandon him!

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Agree with @regedit Canada should cash in a few bonds, and when president felon freaks out, do a few more. Explain to the orange child that he needs to shut up about Canada, drop the tariffs and observe the trade agreements. America deserves all the backlash the world is piling on it right now. Republicans are vile scum, treat them with the disrespect they have earned.

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  • [–] 231 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    "We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying..."

    How has he still not learned that it is Americans and American businesses that pay the tariffs.

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  • [–] 173 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    He knows, but he also knows that his base is too dumb to recognize it, so he lies because raising taxes on Americans is unpopular.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I'm not certain what he knows or does not know. In any case, his message to MAGA is clear, Canada will pay, and they'll believe it.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I mean, he did make Mexico pay for the wall that he built. Right guys? He did, didn’t he? Fox News said that he did, and they wouldn’t lie, right?!?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Of course he did! Do you not remember? It was in the summer of 2022. President Biden launched a surprise nuclear assault on France. Every major American city was leveled. With NATO in ruins, Mexico built a wall to hold back the tide of refugees above the border. They also sent humanitarian and financial assistance, thanks to a deal masterminded by Trump.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Nah. Fox News is (usually) more subtle than that. They simply stop talking about fails. And that's all it takes. Just stop talking about the fail and talk about something else. Why bother lying when you can STFU and get the same or better results?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    It's not so much whether or not he knows it, so much as how much he cares. He knows what he says will get his base riled up, and that's what he likes. It strokes his ego and gives him more power.

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    Canada geese are my favorite bird. I see them by the lake all the time. They are perfectly well-behaved, until you deliberately try to piss them off.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 year ago

    Right? They have a terrible rep but they’re pretty fair in my experience. The only time I’ve angered one was when I stepped too close to take a picture of her babies and she did this grass filled mouth hiss at me like a cat. Which to be fair, is fair

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    When I was 4 or 5 I went to the zoo with school and the woman who was showing us round starts telling us about these Canadian Geese and my teacher asked where they were from …the employee dryly says “Canada, would you believe…”.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Congrats to Canada on their newfound status of not having to listen to trumps noise anymore.

    And no worries, America will be back soon on its knees groveling for lumber and fish. Just ship it through Mexico, itll be fine.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Lol oil. Railcar from Alberta to BC, onto a tanker to Mexico, then railcar back up to Montana for the refineries that are tooled specifically for tar sands oil.

    Sure it's expensive, but oil from across the pond is about to be as well, or did Iran back down on that?

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    This is the equivalent of that obnoxious kid in the neighbourhood saying they're taking their basketball home and no one can play basketball any more .... then after he leaves, someone else brings another basketball anyway.

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying

    ...that's... not how this works...

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    After all this time he still has no idea how tariffs work.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Doesn’t matter, it’s what his sycophants believe. If Trump does it/says it - it becomes the truth to them. It’s the result of a decade or more of brainwashing on tens of millions of trump fans by Fox News etc

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    It works like that when you assume the other country will desperately lower their export prices and eat the difference so in the end it's still sold at the same price in the country raising the tariffs. In practice the greedy capitalists raise prices in the shops at the mere mention of the concept of tariffs, even when the product is produced locally.

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    Reminds me of a joke. The person that says it can quit smoking anytime they want, because in fact, they do it multiple times a day.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Lol Donald announced that he's shutting up? Canada wins

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    And U.S. consumers lose because, if there's still anyone unclear on this, we pay the goddamn tariff and not a single person in Canada.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well there is counter tarrifs on some US goods we'd hypothetically pay... if we were still buying US products, that is.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As an embarrassed American, I would urge you to boycott any remaining goods until such time as we're not a Nazi shithole. Might be a while.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    He's just pump and dumping the stock market again now that there's no Iran to distract us

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    We will let Canada know the tarrif that US citizens will pay to get Canadian products. That's what he means, though he is too much a dumbass to know it.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Conspiracy Time!

    I wonder if they are trying to flood the 'Canada' SEO because of this recent event:

    https://globalnews.ca/news/11262681/canadian-dead-ice-custody-florida/

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    The deceased lived in the US for their entire adult life. It's not like a tourist was snatched and died in custody. First, everybody should be outraged about this type of treatment happening to a human being, but there's no reason for Canada to have anything more to do with this.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Set to take effect on June 30, the DST requires U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay a three per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users

    Good.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    It should be a lot higher, honestly. Encourage building Canadian services and using European services instead of relying on predatory American monopolies.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    3% of revenue is a substantial number.

    However, even better:

    The tax, which will take effect on 30 June and be applied retroactively from 2022, will impact both domestic and international companies, meaning American giants Amazon, Google, Meta, Airbnb and Uber will have to start payments from Monday.

    Source

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    hah, imagine companies asking customers for taxes back from 2022

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You know this is not how it works, yes?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Yes and no. Companies will always try to pass expenses like tax onto their customers. My guess is they will increase rates on customers significantly to recover some of those unexpected retroactive costs in the near term with the side effect of increasing revenue above the 3% tax in the long term.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I mean it doesn't stop companies trying to comply with the law the worst way possible

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It is a corporation tax, not the sales tax.

    They are using the turnover to estimate tax liability because taxing profits achieved in a single country by digital multinationals is bordering on impossible (and too easy to avoid).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yup. Companies avoid paying taxes in one country by getting their divisions in other, lower tax countries to charge the one in the high tax country so much for intellectual property and branding etc that they make a loss in the high tax country, which in some countries entitles them to a tax rebate. It's insane.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven-day period,"

    ...proceeds to bomb Canada tomorrow.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah, well, Trump says lots of things. None of which have any meaning or worth. He'll be saying the opposite next week.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm in favour of gradual weakening of the US leading to its ultimate dismantling. The sub-300 year experiment has clearly failed, so there's zero reason for the US to exist in its current form.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago

    Yeah I kind of believe that NA would work better as a bunch of smaller countries in an agreement similar to the EU. I say that as a Canadian who’s politics aren’t as much a dumpster fire too

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Is this the country version of DARVO? We killed one of their citizens in an ICE concentration camp, so now instead of apologizing we're lashing out at them? Cool cool cool

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Canada should back out of the USMCA and stop respecting US IP

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    US already contravened it, thanks to Trump, CUSMA is pretty much meaningless now. That being said, Canada wont contravene our side, but we’ll humour the US in their bullshit just as we make better deals with reliable countries, leaving the US behind.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I bet you that the shell taste more like cheese then that pre-shredded shit on there.

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    Good. I was a bit worried that we'd make some concessions to end the tariffs. Once you've paid the Dane-geld you'll never get rid of the Dane. We have other partners to trade with.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That means nothing. He will taco. Then Canada will get even more pushed away from our once great partnership.

    Remember how Trump fucked up the election in Canada for the conservatives? They literally had it in the bag. But Taco showed up with his tiny mushroom dick.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    Thursday, Canada signs huge rare earth mineral mining deal with Iceland Greenland, humiliating Trump.

    Friday, Trump throws a tantrum.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Do you mean Greenland or did they do some deal with Iceland?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Ugh. No, you're right. Greenland.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Iceland = Bjork, Greenland != More ice-covered land than green.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I love Björk. She's small and angry.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    In the 90s UK Spitting Image did a whole sequence of "101 things to do with a Bjork" - she was living in England at the time being her awesome self. Go take a peek on youtube for it!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hex88k2fgAE

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's easy to remember which one is which, Iceland is green and Greenland is covered in ice.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    If I were say... Disney, I'd consider planning a Canada Disney Land due to all the missed non-American's avoiding tourism in Florida. Just Sayin'...

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