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Should be a wild four years.

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and reduces waste because it's repairable,
we'd need federal right to repair legislation before this is a thing. you can't repair electronics because oems wont sell you the part, they barely sell to branded repair companies too. and then we'd need a new radio shack for fuses and shit.
 
we'd need federal right to repair legislation before this is a thing. you can't repair electronics because oems wont sell you the part, they barely sell to branded repair companies too. and then we'd need a new radio shack for fuses and shit.
We're lucky to have what we have. Shout out to @larossmann and everything he does.
 
Importer eats cost.
Real world data shows middleman import companies pay the brunt of the cost increase.
Example:
America-made item $2 each.
$1 Chinese item sold at $1.90 each.
25% tariff makes Chinese item $1.25, but importer keeps selling at $1.90. Importer eats 25¢ increase.
this is true for tchotchkes that dont matter but i dont know if an apple or samsung will keep the prices same.
 
Voyager was based though
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This is actually one of my favorite episodes of Voyager. A Benkaran prisoner convinces Neelix that he’s only in prison because he’s a persecuted minority, and manipulates him into unknowingly helping him stage a prison break by sending a letter. When Neelix confronts him he suddenly says he actually has a brain abnormality (like the other featured prisoner in that episode) and thus isn’t responsible for what he did to end up in prison. Neelix walks away jaded realizing the Benkaran will say or do anything to get what he wants. The moral lesson basically is that some people, even if they are from a minority group, even a persecuted minority group, can still be evil.
Could you imagine a show doing that today?
 
Mexico is willing to work with Trump. Trudeau is grandstanding.
huh? So Canada is getting tariffed currently?

Canada got same relief.

But it will continue regardless.

Trump wants ALL the factories to return.

Ontario will be hit the most.

Quebec second.
So the bit about Mexico getting special treatment for cooperating is bullshit?
 
Didn't Trudeau resign? When is canadas next election?
He "resigned", but at the same time announced his resignation comes into effect when the Liberal Party has chosen a new leader, then he prorogued parliament, so the federal government is on ice until his successor is chosen. The next election is scheduled for October, but election dates in Canada are not set in stone and all the potential new Liberal leaders have said they won't necessarily stick to the date and may consider their swearing-in date as the start of a new mandate, which would give them potentially five years before calling one.

Yes, it is a total farce. Even worse, there is no way the people here can make a difference in the situation, as our constitution has an insane amending formula that basically amounts to saying "The constitution CAN be changed, but good fucking luck making it happen"
 
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Their next election is on the 9th. Trudeau did say he'd resign, but not until the next Prime Minister is in office.
That isn't an election, it is the Liberal Party leadership vote, but since the Liberals form the current government, whoever the Party votes in is automatically our new PM, even if they don't already have a seat in Parliament.
 
From what I'm seeing, no tariff currently for everything under the last free trade agreement, so basically everything. Steel/aluminum tariff still coming for the 12 barring change. I know trump want milk tarrifs at 250% ( matches current quebec ''gestion de l'offre'' system) tho there's really not much point anyway because the milk industry produces over the need easily so exportation is a tiny fraction

Crackhead Ford getting a bit too high on '''''canada strong'''' copium and saying he's still gonna push for electricity tariff. I heard that some PM's want to keep the tariff even tho Trump removed them because, again, retarded
 
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