Talking about trade.....

[Jordy2323]

Absolutely guns coming into Canada is a big problem, agree, so is drugs . The coalition government has turned a blind eye to this for a decade . It’s caught up to them
But Trudeau more worried about a gun grab on law abiding Canadian gun owners than the illegal guns coming into this country.

All it took was for Trump to be in power, for our pathetic liberals to engage in partisan politics and admit that licensed hunters and gun owners aren't the problem in Canada.

And at the same time commit a self own, and admit that we have border issues.

[sumdumguy]

Canada has been a free-for-all. Our tax dollars have been frittered away.

[westernvicki]

Kind of sad that Trump has to take the veil of blindness off Canadians' faces revealing Canada's contribution to the drug problem in North America. Now do money laundering.

We all know people who have died from fentanyl overdose. Too many.

Canada needs a reset. We need an election.

[littledoggie]

Talking about tariffs - Canada has a 230% tariff on dairy from the UK.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Talking about tariffs - Canada has a 230% tariff on dairy from the UK.

I doubt that number was pulled out of thin air.
That is likely what was required to ensure UK dairy wasn't competitive with SM dairy. Are our artificially inflated dairy prices nearly 2.5 times more expensive than UK?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

U.S. retail data released today, a bust, down nearly 1% in January. This is huge as 70% of U.S. economy is consumer spending.

Except consumer spending doesn't make an economy. Especially when most of that consumer spending is on imported consumer goods contributing to the trade deficit.

If we take the long term view, falling consumer spending, being replaced by investment in domestic industries would be positive. But not when we measure GDP in the meaningless way we do now.

[Landdownunder]

Except consumer spending doesn't make an economy. If that spending is on locally made products it does. And not spent on imports.

Rational behind tariffs but mostly flawed theory we all agree

Once you have everything in place then apply tariffs hes put cart before the horse

[furrowtickler]

An excellent discussion on Sask Trade on Real Ag
//youtu.be/DHxaF_LMpms

[agstar77]

The U.S. economy is now failing rapidly. It’s now not just risk of a recession, it could be a depression. Unemployment skyrocketing.

Trump is a bull in a china shop and there is glass everywhere. How does this stimulate an economy with such stiff international competition? The U.S. is dead broke. 25% of its debt is maturing and rolling over right now. No wonder Trump wants interest rates to drop.

Apparently 45% of Russel (small cap) companies are now unprofitable . . . Zombie companies. Stock market / Crypto risk couldn’t be higher.

Ironically, the Cdn dollar and other currencies could rally through this U.S. mess. Asia and Europe could be the major benefactors when the dust eventually settles. Canada will also have realignments and may come out of this stronger with the right leadership in the long run.

Nobody wins a trade war as aggressors will find out . . . .

Trump touted bankruptcy as solution for America's s debt. He is an expert in declaring bankruptcy.

[sumdumguy]

United States doesn’t have GST either.