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| When did the US tariffs on Canada start being about trade unbalance? Anyone have that answer?
Yes, the USMCA was a renegotiated NAFTA to address trade and is not being revisited. And for the history lesson since people easily forget, Trump does not dislike Trudeau for Freeland for how they stood up for Canada during USMCA negotiations, infact Canada did not send anyone to the negotiations at all so never participated. Once US and Mexico had a deal done Canada was given 24 or 48 hours to put its 2 bits in and sign. If that is brilliant negotiating by Canada then I am at a loss to counter.
So no, the tariffs Trump is talking about is nothing about trade unless that is a recent development. Here is what I am going by:
https://nypost.com/2024/11/25/us-news/trump-promises-executive-order...
“On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,” Trump declared.
Perhaps the media as changed the narrative, but I am looking for a direct reference from the US representatives saying the tariff is now about trade imbalance.
Yes, if Canada's government can't enforce its own laws that it is sworn to do, then I have no issue with another country putting pressure on that same government. If your own government does not do its sworn duty then why should another country play nice. No shortage of information about Canadas government not providing the resources to enforce its own laws. Pretty sure Canada government even acknowledged this and said it will put $2B of funding towards following its own laws after Trump made the statements in late November.
A government is supposed to follow laws put in place by past legislators. If it does not like the existing laws, then it is not government's role to simply ignore them or claim lack of funding. Governments job is to follow the countries laws to the best of its ability, including funding to meet the requirements. If the government does not like the laws or claims it cannot follow the laws for whatever reason, then the government MUST change the laws with revised legislation. That is how democracy works. If it doesn't work that way then we have a Banana Republic.
I am positive the various US government entities all have many examples of ignoring their own laws as they see fit. And neither the government ignoring the laws nor the media whose job is to inform the public of how democracy works have any issue with the democratic process not existing.
I have no issue with tariffs being imposed on a Banana Republic by another country. | |
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Canada largest foriegn buyer of US Ethanol
