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Trudeau says Trump's 'dumb' trade war is designed to collapse the Canadian economy (www.cbc.ca)
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*PM says Trump is trying to make it easier to annex Canada β€” but it won't work *

An unbowed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada will hit back hard at the U.S. after President Donald Trump launched a North American trade war by slapping devastating 25 per cent tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said Trump is trying to prompt "a total collapse of the Canadian economy" because he thinks that will "make it easier to annex us."

But Trudeau said that will never happen because "when it comes to defending our great nation, there is no price we all aren't willing to pay."

Trudeau said Canada will not back down from a fight in the face of "completely bogus and completely unjustified" trade action that has the potential to ruin bilateral relations and prompt job losses, economic devastation and higher inflation on both sides of the border.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 33 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Decriminalize C-42 41.1.

If Canada signed NAFTA and then USMCA to get unrestricted access to US markets, and part of the price was that Canada had to add obscene laws that made it illegal to fix your own farm equipment, then just drop the enforcement of those laws.

Make it so a Canadian can set up a shop where they remove the DRM from HP printers and let users use any ink they want. Let someone set up a kiosk in the mall where they jailbreak your phone so you don't have to pay Apple 30% of every dollar you spend on your iphone. Then if some Canadian wants to sell an ad-blocker for your iPhone that Apple would never allow into the app store, let them do it.

It doesn't even have to involve passing new copyright laws. Just treat anti-circumvention the way marijuana was treated about a decade ago: something that's not yet legal, but that the justice system is no longer prosecuting.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's maddening that this isn't being discussed in a more official capacity. Doctorow pitched this at least a month ago.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, well, echo chambers and all that. I've done what I could to try to nudge it outside my echo chamber, but sometimes these things take time to spread