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Fixing border won't stop Trump to impose those tariffs on Canada. He is in for business and there is been a huge trade in balance between America an Canada.

Trump is helping solve CANADIAN problems and BEFORE he even takes power, officially. That is incredible. \n\n\nNow we just have to pray that he doesn’t actually increase those tariffs, and it is very likely that he will. Trump has been very consistent over the years about wanting higher tariffs with all of his trading partners. Getting control over our borders and preventing terrorists from entering the country will help reduce them but not all the way I don’t think. \n\nWe’ll see if that prediction is correct.

He says he can't speak for president Trump. Charges and tariff hikes is what he says he can't provide an answer on.

I’ve held my tongue on this long enough, but the writing’s on the wall — Canada is cooked.\n\nOur finance minister calls it a “vibecession”, as if we’re imagining the economy sputtering. But here’s the reality: GDP growth at 0.1%, per capita GDP down 0.5%, and youth unemployment at 13.5%.\n\nThere’s the recent bait-and-switch $250 stimulus cheque — an ill-disguised vote buying grift. It was scrapped when the government realized it would add $4.6 billion to an already projected $60 billion deficit. \n\nThrow in a two-month sales tax holiday announced without thinking about the logistics, leaving businesses scrambling. Some aren’t even participating because it’s not worth the headache.\n\nHousing starts are at a 10-year low, the housing accelerator fund has delivered zero new homes, housing prices have left wage growth in the dust, and immigration has blown past what our infrastructure can handle. \n\nMeanwhile, the CBSA isn’t bothering to track expired international student visas. After all, someone has to keep the for-profit diploma mills thriving and the service industry fully staffed.\n\nCanada Post is falling apart under strikes, crippling small businesses, and 47% of job growth in the last five years has come from the public sector while our capital markets and innovation stagnate. \n\nThe $CAD is currently plummeting against the $USD, as the Bank of Canada scrambles to firefight the government’s incompetence with two jumbo 0.5% interest rate cuts.\n\nAnd let’s not ignore the trade war brewing with our historical ally, the U.S.. Trump has made it clear he’ll punish our abysmal border policies, which have allowed fentanyl to flood into America unchecked, with a 25% tariff on Canadian exports.\n\nIf you’re trying to get ahead — building jobs, working for yourself, pooling capital to invest, why bother?— the proposed 66% capital gains inclusion rate over $250,000 punishes you for taking risks and succeeding.\n\nAsk yourself: are you happy with the state of Canada right now? Honestly. Because it doesn’t feel like the same country I grew up in, went to school in, worked in, served in, and built a business in.\n\nI’m done. For once in my life, I don’t want to be Canadian anymore.

Proof that gringos do not respect Mexicans at all… that’s fine, hit the economy in the belt and relate to inflations! I hope Trump puts those Tariffs in motion! These prices are not going down! Be realistic.

Are you kidding me. Are you not in Canada right now. Canada is now the most poor country in the World. Immigration has gone to the roof. No housing. Rents and forget about buying a house in BC, AB, Quebec, Ontario. High unemployment, Inflation is high and going up more. We also do not have a military defense system and the U.S. is tired of Canada not spending money to meet their responsibility as a Nato country. Many Canadians are leaving the country permanent. Investors and businesses are pulling out. Canada is trillions in debt but keep printing more money (toilet paper). Canada has gone downhill significantly over the past ten years. Born Canadians and legit immigrants having to go through a rigorous immigration process are very unhappy and cause conflict. Besides all the different ethnicities cause unrest and are ungrateful, daring the burn the Canadian flag, uttering death to Canada, death the US and Israel. These trouble makers have not intentions to assimilate into Canada's culture and are disrespectful to the Canadian government and it's citizens. Our youth are very unhappy and do not see a future for themselves yet have to work very hard and pay unbelievable high taxes. The minimum wages are only 15 bucks an hour which cannot sustain life here in this country. Please stop making false promises to foreigners to come here and be disappointed. This is not a country of milk and honey any longer but poor and enormous homelessness. Hunger, terrible health care, incredible post secondary tuitions and books. Now that president Trump has won the election he is going to place tariffs on Canadian goods and rightfully so. Russia is very interested in the Antarctica and should they or anyone invade Canada we got 3 days of ammunition. The food in AB is very bad for your health. Everything has pesticides, hormones, and by the time fruit and vegies arrive here from the US all the nutrition have gone. A extremely high cancer rate, young and old, diabetes, depression and other mental disorders are rampant. Our children and grandchildren do not have a future so why bother going to school or work. Our kids live on the streets, shelters, camping in the woods and using fentanyl and meth all kinds of dangerous drugs. The cities and small towns are full of used needles, pipes, and more paraphelia just thrown on the trails everywhere. The US will not assist Canada when a possible War 3 will occur, and we the people of Canada and the land are easy prey. If you do not believe me, just come visit RED Deer shelters and walk around on the trails, go to Vancouver but becareful because random assaults are happening every day, people living in tents, using the streets as toilets, drugs galore, even the police is unable to act nor arrest criminal activities caused by desperate people who need to survive. Canada's economy is about to collapse and fall into a recession. We have too many people coming in our country without checking their back ground and many criminals and terrorist groups are entering declaring refugee status whether it is true or not, we do not know. The people of Canada who work and pay highest taxes are used to house these newcomers and education, jobs, food and money. Our government take better care of these illegal people than their own people especially our youth. So please let us not pretend Canada is a land of opportunity and great. We have to vote for the right leader who will have a very difficult time and challenges to overcome if at all possible and make Canada Great Again!

Canada is in recession and Please send them back ASAP to India. Canada has already become India 2.0. Oh Boy...Student's please go back to India because the young Canadins needs jobs too. Hope they speed up the process and Mr. Trump has already in the process of putting 25 % tariff unless we get our border secured. Game over folks, Please return.

If Mexico wants to impose tariff on Mexican products them Mexico should impose any tariff on products coming from South Countries Countries, and eventually, the smart Trump supporters will pay more, but still will be ok with them !

? MEXICO will also hit back to the USA with Tariffs and will affect more to the people in the USA than Mexico. I’m glad this ? (Trump) got back to the US presidency, he’ll complete the ruin of his country, he still thinking and reacting with the liver than brain. This senile dude thinks we still living in the 20’s - 90’s. Help your own junkies in the US with the drugs, ?? has the most consumers around the world. Stop selling weapons to the cartels and that would help to both sides. \n*Welcome MEXICO to the BRICS* ? ??

Trump's threat of 100% tariffs against BRICS if they dump the dollar reflects the escalating economic tensions in global trade. It highlights the U.S.'s reliance on the dollar's dominance and its willingness to use aggressive tactics to maintain it. However, such moves could backfire by accelerating the push for de-dollarization and strengthening alternatives like BRICS' proposed currency. This might be a turning point in the global financial order.

I don’t she realizes that anyone who has crossed into the United States without proper documentation permitting residency is barred from applying for US residency for a decade. As an aside, just wait until the Trump tariffs hit her gas tank, her groceries, most appliances and clothing. Then if she were to hire an helping hand, she will find the going rate well above $20 per hour. These rather ignorant People deserve the government they voted for.

Trump slapped tariff on China and said China was the one who would pay, the same as he would built wall and Mexico would pay. What's more bizarre is that Americans trusted him

Trump didn't make mistake on imposing high tariff on some countries because Americans are big consumers of those countries products in high quantity and they too knows that Trump is right and the fact is they prefer US as their main costumer.

Mexico can’t survive a tariff war. Her bosses (the Cartels) will need to give her a longer arm to work with Trump. There’s no way around it.

Let him put tariffs ? I live in the USA and I will have to foot the bill but nothing, absolutely NOTHING, will be more satisfying than to see Trumpsters pay more for taxes and groceries ????? ????? madam President Sheinbaum has the balls Trump hasn’t ?

Most of the vegetables and fruit imported by the US come from Mexico.\nA 25% tariff on Mexico should be good for junk-food companies like Trump's favourite - McDonalds - because Americans won't be able to afford fresh food any more.

Trump is bluffing he is not going to do tariffs it’s only to make the Biden economic system to fall so when he gets in he looks better.But we all know that he is just an

Tariffs would collapse Mexico's economy. Watch Trump slap 100% across the board on Mexico. The peso would drop like a rock. No one would buy ANYTHING from Mexico. American companies IN Mexico would leave Mexico due to the fact Trump is dropping regulations which killed their businesses under the democrats so they would return. Also ending the reliance on foreign oil will drop the prices for consumers even more so American made products would be cheaper and better made again. Most of the industry is automated as well but American jobs would return so China and Mexico who work together would be kicking rocks. Trump is winning and he isn't even in office yet ?

Trump wants to abuse his Tariffs, $ 100. For every tourist who wants to enter Mexico.

Make enemies on our borders thru tariffs on Mexico and Canada. They respond by turning to China and Russia both of whom will give those countries sweetheart deals and make them allies. Meanwhile our prices rise and only minimum wage jobs become available to American citizens. Now I see how Trump could bankrupt six casinos. His brains are stuck.

Americans don't want to pay higher prices for anything. And corporations don't want to pay $15 when they can pay $2 to a worker overseas. Manufacturing is not coming back the the US no matter the tariffs Trump imposes. America has to concentrate on the manufacturing that we lead which is High Technologies, Fuel, and Agriculture. Trump wants to destroy the Department of Education when what we should be doing is making education a priority, even in higher education. Making it easier and less expensive for Americans to get higher education. Trump's policies are going to completely destroy the world economy and in doing so cause a massive recession in the US.

why is she talking hear mexican presidents response to trump's tariff threat

TARIFFS ARE GOOD FOR THE AMERICAN WORKERS!!! THEY ARE BAD FOR THE DEEP STATE AND THE GLOBALISTS THAT HATE THE AMERICAN WORKER. THANK YOU DONALD J. TRUMP FOR REPRESENTING US THE AMERICAN WORKER...

TRUMP HAS AN AGENDA, FUCK THE COUNTRY OVER,HE HAS TO BLAME IMMAGRINTS, THE TARIFFS, WE WILL ALL SUFFER FOR THE STUPIDITY OF TRUMP. HE'S NOT DOING ANYTHING FOR THE COUNTRY,WE THE PEOPLE WILL PAY, MAGA WILL ALSO PAY, THAT'S THEIR OLD MAN THAT THEY VOTED FOR, WELCOME TOTRUMPS HELL WERE ALL GOING TO PAY, FOR THE STUPIDITY OF MAGA VOTERS, FULL OF VENOM AND POISON RACE HATERS. THE DEMON IN THE WHITE HOUSE 666.THIS WILL BE HELL????????????

Lets be clear: American importers pay the tariffs and Pass The\nCost into the American taxpayers through higher prices. (Does this sound anti-inflationary, MAGA & other 2024 Trump voters??).\nAnd what are Trumps olans for this windfall of cash?: reduce the deficit? Universal healthcare? Stabilize the social\nSecurity trust fund?\nOf course not, that huge oile of working Americans-cash will be given to the rich in the form of anhuge tax cut; both corporate and individuals.\n\nCongratulations\nMAGA & Trump voters !!!

The Mexican President schools Donald Trump on the issue of imposing tariffs to solve complex problems.

AHHHH, now it all makes sense, if you are LOYAL to TRump and his agenda of hate you may avoid paying the tariffs. So, this is how this dictator is going to sway companies to kiss his ring and bend to his whims. I guess it is all about loyalty and doing the biding of this new American dictator. A huge step in his total take over of America.

Trump loves tariffs because the money goes to the federal gov't.

A tariff from Mexico to the US, will skyrocket the price of millions of products such as tomatoes, avocados, strawberries, onions, garlic, ginger, bananas, pineapples, mushrooms, potatoes, and more fruits, vegetables, tortillas, and more products that are products from Mexico. Those tariffs guess who’s going to end up paying for that? Of course us. I voted for Trump but that would be such a stupid movement from Trump’s administration. Why can’t we spend more money to protect our borders instead of financing Israel’s and other countries’ wars at the expense of us American taxpayers?

MEXICO AND CANADA ARE WELCOMMED TO TRADE WITH 750 000 000 EUROPEANS! \n\nWE 750 000 000 EUROPEANS HAVE NO TARIFFS! \n\nWE 750 000 000 EUROPEANS WILL BOYCOTT TRUMPS USA!

They said Trump believe that China, Canada and Mexico will definitely pay for tariffs but it will be the American people that see the price hike on everything

DNC imposes tariffs to tax more, spend more. Trump proposes conditional tariffs to strategically accomplish policy objectives. The Art of the Deal.

Why did Biden keep Trumps China tariffs ? Why is he adding more before he leaves office? Can anyone answer that question?

JVL of the Bulwark pointed out that tariffs are the fastest way for a dictator to take over a nation's entire business community. Trump gets every CEO on bended knee, starting with Bezos. And in addition, tariffs are a huge personal revenue source for Trump, and don't imagine that he won't find a way to lay hold of that stream. Michael Cohen has pointed out how MBS modeled for Trump how to turn a national wealth fund into a personal income account, and tariffs check all the boxes for massive grift.\nFinally, tariffs rationalize the catastrophic tax cuts Trump is financing for himself and his friends, so they look good on paper. They ruin nationa and trade relationships, but hey. It's a win win win for Donald Trump, who won the election.

Trump signed USMCA. Who’s not in the original USMCA agreement is China. I think he mentioned Mexico because it puts a spotlight on the New Mexico President, and it takes some of the Tariff politics down a notch with China by compiling the different Countries together. He just mentioned today that he and the Mexico leader had a great conversation today.

What a massive destructive decision. It has ?% cause you to lose your re election. Donald Trump had to remind you to stop, or face tariff consequences? Open wide borders to illegals , open US/Canada Border to fentanyl killing our kids, destroying our country

All this talk about tariffs is just King Trump's banter in an effort to create a chaotic narrative based on falsities to some self-serving end - stoke up the emotions of his base. Should he carry out his threats, American companies will get the comeuppance they deserve, as will all those low-income Trump supporters who helped elect our criminal President.

China tried to play the tik tack tariffs game in 2016, and it failed miserably. You can find old 2016 artciles saying Trump tarriffs would destroy the economy. ?? stock market all time high. Consumer confidence all time high ? Looks like he did so well he was invited back to the White house ?? Trump is gojng to smoke this president

How far did trump get bullying and threatening tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China in 2016-2020? Didley squat, good luck.

México will put tariffs no doubt. Mexican President is intelligent and rational vs Trump is the opposite. \n\nAll countries are tired of USA manipulation. They are starting to walk away and showing to prefer to deal with the rest of the world. Avoid the headaches. \nT might end up isolated.

theyre all now scared of Trumps tariffs, scared

US trade with China is now only 16% of Chinese exports. Trump no longer has the leverage he had in his first term, and China has learned not to trust any agreements wth the USA because the US always breaks them, particularly Trump. From this point forward, every agreement will be transactional. If Trump goes over the top with tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada it will trigger an inflationary spiral that harms US consumers and an economy already in debt. Voter remorse will be swift.

Mexico or Canada's response to Trump tariffs mean nothing. Mexico and Canada will do what they're told or be completely cut out of the American economy. Mexico and Canada take orders they do not give them. Dollar for dollar free trade, after that 100% tariffs.

lol why do the brainless sheep believe trump when he says China is paying for the tariffs?? - nothing could be further from the truth - it is the usa importers who pay the tariffs and they in turn pass on those increased costs to the american consumers. So when trump says he will put 60% tariffs on Chinese goods, it means that the american consumers will have to pay at least 60% more for those goods.

But i thought trump was going to be the new Hitler? Now its just tariffs with mexico? That doesn't sound so bad. Make up your minds

THE TARIFF TRUMP WANT TO PUT ON MÉXICO IS NOT EVEN FOR ABOCADOS OR FRUITS THE TARIFF ARE FOR AMERICAN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES THAT ARE IN MÉXICO BECAUSE THEY WANT TO PAY VERY CHEAP SALARIES TO MEXICAN WORKERS AND CELL THEIR TRUCKS AND CARS LIKE IF THEY PAY USA SALARIES VERY EXPENSIVE CARS AND TRUCKS VERY LOW WAGES FOR MEXICAN WORKERS THE TARIFF ARE NOT FOR THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT IS FOR AMERICAN COMPANIES SO THEY CAN AND WILL COME BACK TO THE USA AND THE SAME TARIFF WILL BE APPLIED TO CHINA SO THAT AMERICAN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES CAN AND WILL COME BACK TO THE USA CAN CNN UNDERSTAND THAT OF COURSE NOT THEY HATES OUR COUNTRY

Mark my words: mass deportations and tariffs are going to hurt us more than anyone. Trump’s antagonistic policies will not serve American in any way other than to keep us from moving forward. Drugs will continue to come in because demand won’t be solved. Inequality will increase because the poor will carry the expense of increased cost of goods. Infrastructure won’t get built and farms will lack labor because of lack of migration. People will remain undocumented because our immigration system sucks. Hateful people will become more hateful because they believed in lies and will seek a scapegoat.

The fact that Trump is gonna enforce tariffs was not a threat. So stop with your nonsense!

Trump will make America forget they wanted lower prices, yet tariffs are exactly the opposite of that. Used car salesman tactics.

Lol you people don't realize Trump added tariffs in 2016 just like all the other lies and look no inflation! Take classes on economics