UN Trudeau announces 25% tariffs on US goods will take effect at midnight in response to Trump’s on Canadian products - Why does Trudeau hate Canada? Doesn't he know that tariffs only harm the country that enacts them?

By David Propper
Published March 3, 2025, 9:42 p.m. ET

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday he’s ready to start a trade war with President Trump if the US leader moves forward with 25% tariffs on products from the northern nation at midnight.

Trudeau called America’s impending action against Canada “unjustified” and vowed to not let it go “unanswered.”

“Should American tariffs come into effect tonight, Canada will, effective 12:01 a.m. EST tomorrow, respond with 25 per cent tariffs against $155 billion of American goods – starting with tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods immediately, and tariffs on the remaining $125 billion on American products in 21 days’ time,” he said in a statement.


Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announced 25% tariffs on US goods in response to President Trump on Monday. Ukrinform/Shutterstock

“Our tariffs will remain in place until the U.S. trade action is withdrawn, and should U.S. tariffs not cease, we are in active and ongoing discussions with provinces and territories to pursue several non-tariff measures.”

Trump told reporters at the White House earlier Monday 25% tariffs would be slapped on products from Canada and Mexico at midnight following a 30-day pause on the action.


Trump announced 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico will take effect at midnight. AFP via Getty Images

He claimed the tariffs were a way to force the two nations to better combat the flow of fentanyl into the US and stop illegal immigration.

Trump, 78, has also said he wants to wipe away the trade imbalance between the US and the other two countries while pushing for more factories to relocate to the US.

Trudeau warned if the tariffs go into effect, Americans would need to cough up more cash for everyday products.


US imports and exports under Trump’s tarrifs. Mike Guillen/NY Post Design

“Americans will pay more for groceries, gas, and cars, and potentially lose thousands of jobs. Tariffs will disrupt an incredibly successful trading relationship,” he said.

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[NETTO]

But I don't understand that Canada being a tenth of the size of the US in population while being its main trading partner, could be expected to have a neutral trade balance when one export market is 900% larger.

We did have the Brexit thing happen and it is a pretty good indicator of what can happen to Canada if they just roll over onto their backs like the UK ended up doing; Total economic stagnation, people and businesses emmigrating elsewhere.

And business flight will likely benefit the US job sector and industry, a company manufacturing in Canada will likely try to relocate to the US much like UK businesses went to the EU.

But what does this mean for you as a person?

Spoiler: Sperging

1; Canadians are encouraged to migrate south, this includes a shitload of pajeets that will likely just sneak across the border.
2;Increased demand for housing which was not planned for, your cost of living will increase.
3;Increased labour supply push real-wage down, there is a real risk of a race towards the bottom in a lot of sectors and illegal labour/wages will become even more incentivized.

The US is gonna get hit hard over the next 30 years, business is, as we know it in the western world, rooted in old middle age merchants reliant on high degrees of trust and cooporation, and the culture does not like unpredictability, and will assume tariffs are a genuine reality they have to consider, thus the business will likely ask a higher price, offsetting any cost onto the consumer.

Past a point, economics are a matter of perception of reality. A US Dollar is only unique in its status as the worlds reserve currency, because enough people, and their financial institutions, say it is.

Engaging in this aggressive a trade-war is a strategic blunder that can quickly cause emotional responses like that Norwegian Bunker company had towards the US navy, if that sentiment is strong enough and you suddenly see an EU eyeing the middle east and China...well...just imagine if a new world reserve currency came about in 6 years from now, 2031.
Just entertain me on this nonsense, just play with the idea that Canada and the EU are so pissy with the Trump presidency that the EU pretty much gives Russia a pass on Ukraine, restores Nord Stream 1 and 2, and otherwise engages with China and even the Indian Menace in emotional retardation.
I do not think the US holds all the cards in this matter, if anyone is the winner from this breakdown of western unity, it is China, they can literally just buck-break the pajeets in their labour camps and have no fucking issues doing so either, they can nullify their demographic collapse by effectively just importing slave labour, the state will survive and the people pay the price, the Chinese culture that allowed for the toppling of the state and fragmentation just do not exist anymore, assuming that it will fragment again is a very dangerous assumption.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

We did have the Brexit thing happen and it is a pretty good indicator of what can happen to Canada if they just roll over onto their backs like the UK ended up doing; Total economic stagnation, people and businesses emmigrating elsewhere.

And business flight will likely benefit the US job sector and industry, a company manufacturing in Canada will likely try to relocate to the US much like UK businesses went to the EU.

But what does this mean for you as a person?

Shhh...Orange Man Good Tariffs Good

 

[I Shidded I Farded I Came]

1; Canadians are encouraged to migrate south, this includes a shitload of pajeets that will likely just sneak across the border.
2;Increased demand for housing which was not planned for, your cost of living will increase.
3;Increased labour supply push real-wage down, there is a real risk of a race towards the bottom in a lot of sectors and illegal labour/wages will become even more incentivized.

And they will be allowed to do this because...?

 

[$5.3 Million Dollars]

I can only see this working if he tries to disrupt the oil from Alaska. Which the pipelines run through Canada. I could be wrong, they may be under seas.

https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2021-11-15/united-states-canadian-government-invokes-1977-pipeline-treaty-in-ongoing-line-5-pipeline-dispute/

Tl;dr - The U.S. State of Michigan has been having an almost decade long battle with the federal Canadian government over the shutdown of a pipeline, with the state having to sue multiple times and Canada each time bringing up this specific treaty regarding transit pipelines between the two nations. Michigan is a state that voted for Trump and it would be poetic to uno reverse this treaty if Trudeau attempts something like that.

 

[NETTO]

And they will be allowed to do this because...?

Money.

 

[quaawaa]

But what does this mean for you as a person?

The trade war has been going on for years. Trump is just the first American to fight back.

That’s why he faces no resistance from Asian countries. TSMC and Honda had no issues quietly setting up factories in the US, because while they may not like tariffs, they’re honest and know that their countries levy them as well. Since every single prosperous Asian country (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, etc.) went from poverty to first/near first world conditions in living memory by encouraging foreign investment and protecting domestic industry, why would any Asian leader complain about Trump doing the same thing as them?

The only countries throwing a fit are those that been rich forever like the EU, Canada, and Australia because despite being incredibly restrictive on trade, they believe that they have a free market.

 

[God of Nothing]

Day of the rake has come.
Canuckacucks remain as their namesake: cucks

 

[Rogue AI]

So is the CIA going to start funding Qubecois separatists and destabilize the country to retaliate against their retaliation? Does Canada have an equivalent to the CIA?

 

[BulkForceFive]

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From that same article.

I understand that shitting on and bullying Leafs is trendy right now.

But I don't understand that Canada being a tenth of the size of the US in population while being its main trading partner, could be expected to have a neutral trade balance when one export market is 900% larger.

Last time the US levied tariffs on our steel and aluminum exports, they... lost 10k jobs. Might as well just buy finished products from a factory in China (or now Vietnam, the New China) instead of buying expensive Canadian billet for your US plant.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

America can stay retarded longer than Canada can stay solvent so good luck.

Canadians aren't as fat and live in the cold wilderness.

 

[RybenZ999]

Canadians aren't as fat and live in the cold wilderness.

70% of Canada lives south of Montana.

 

[MadStan]

The redest state - West Virginia - has the largest trading partnership with Canada for its GDP export market. It is also a state that takes $3 for every federal dollar paid and has 35% of the state on welfare.

They will be hit very hard by the Tradewar and perhaps more so if Trump enacts the planned cuts to social benefits (I don’t see it happening, but…).

Coal exports just got hit too with China imposing tariffs.

The plan Canada, Mexico and EU have is to plan for a recession. We should be planning on that too. The Fed will cut rates (Trump will claim this as a win but rates are cut because inflation is under control Or you have an economic emergency unfolding) to help investment but costs will continue to rise and we will have stagflation.

The USA leads and I think 2025 is going to be a shit year.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

70% of Canada lives south of Montana.

What about second breakfast?
How many exclusively fat, lazy, barely literate yanks live in anywhere in the US?

 

[Yamaha YM2612]

“Americans will pay more for groceries, gas, and cars, and potentially lose thousands of jobs

how. explain how faggot

. Tariffs will disrupt an incredibly successful trading relationship,” he said.

It's not a successful trade relationship. The US gets ripped off and ends up roundabout funding literal faggots and pedos in canada

 

[EepEep]

I am retarded, so I'm still not understanding how the US imposing tariffs will kill its economy, but retaliatory tariffs are somehow brave and good for the other country's economy. Especially when the other country's buying power is not even a fraction of the US.

As for the oil pipeline situation, might as well have a real war for oil instead of that fucking around we did in the ME.

 

[BulkForceFive]

how. explain how faggot

The point of the tariffs is to raise the price of imports to make domestic products more attractive to the consumer. Modern globalized supply chains mean that you often don't have a domestic product, or you don't have one that isn't dependant on foreign components.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I am retarded, so I'm still not understanding how the US imposing tariffs will kill its economy, but retaliatory tariffs are somehow brave and good for the other country's economy. Especially when the other country's buying power is not even a fraction of the US.

As for the oil pipeline situation, might as well have a real war for oil instead of that fucking around we did in the ME.

The US will have domestic substitutions for Canadian products while the same won't be true for Canada. All Trudeau had to do was not be an ungrateful little bitch.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Canada is cooked. We have no domestic industry. We have no investors lining up to build factories.

 

[Harvey Danger]

But I don't understand that Canada being a tenth of the size of the US in population while being its main trading partner, could be expected to have a neutral trade balance when one export market is 900% larger.

That's a fair point. Most of that ex-energy US surplus is from selling services though, especially financial services. For manufacturing it's in deficit, breaking even in the best years. Trump has always been heavily focused on manufacturing, I bet he doesn't even know what services we're "exporting" in any trade numbers.

 

[God of Nothing]

It’s all performative protesting. But this is going to hurt good Canadians who are already barely getting by. And you know what? They won’t blame Trudeau, they will just blame the bad king in orange.

canucks are retarded like that