U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he’s terminating all trade discussions with Canada effective immediately.
“We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period,” Trump said in a social media post.
He says he’s pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax (DST), which requires web giants pay a special tax.
Set to take effect on June 30, the DST requires U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay a three per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users — a policy enacted by former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government that the Parliamentary Budget Office projects will bring in billions of dollars in revenue.
How dare the Canadian government get American companies to pay their fair share for operating here [in Canada]
How dare they charge *checks notes* the same thing Visa and Mastercard charge everyone in our entire country for everything.
This is the equivalent of that obnoxious kid in the neighbourhood saying they’re taking their basketball home and no one can play basketball any more … then after he leaves, someone else brings another basketball anyway.
Canada should back out of the USMCA and stop respecting US IP
We will let Canada know the tarrif that US citizens will pay to get Canadian products. That’s what he means, though he is too much a dumbass to know it.
Set to take effect on June 30, the DST requires U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay a three per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users
Good.
It should be a lot higher, honestly. Encourage building Canadian services and using European services instead of relying on predatory American monopolies.
3% of revenue is a substantial number.
However, even better:
The tax, which will take effect on 30 June and be applied retroactively from 2022, will impact both domestic and international companies, meaning American giants Amazon, Google, Meta, Airbnb and Uber will have to start payments from Monday.
Lol Donald announced that he’s shutting up? Canada wins
And U.S. consumers lose because, if there’s still anyone unclear on this, we pay the goddamn tariff and not a single person in Canada.
Well there is counter tarrifs on some US goods we’d hypothetically pay… if we were still buying US products, that is.
As an embarrassed American, I would urge you to boycott any remaining goods until such time as we’re not a Nazi shithole. Might be a while.
Don’t worry… already on it.
Keep it the hell up and happy Canada Day!
“We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying…”
How has he still not learned that it is Americans and American businesses that pay the tariffs.
He knows, but he also knows that his base is too dumb to recognize it, so he lies because raising taxes on Americans is unpopular.
He also knows that if he just repeats things people will believe them, even in spite of evidence they can see, feel and touch.
