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Canada Drops Digital Tax That Infuriated Trump to Restart Trade Talks

www.canada.ca Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance broader trade negotiations with the United States - Canada.ca

The DST was announced in 2020 to address the fact that many large technology companies operating in Canada may not otherwise pay tax on revenues generated from Canadians. Canada’s preference has always been a multilateral agreement related to digital services taxation. While Canada was working with ...

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Canada Drops Digital Tax That Infuriated Trump to Restart Trade Talks

www.canada.ca /en/department-finance/news/2025/06/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-to-advance-broader-trade-negotiations-with-the-united-states.html

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Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance broader trade negotiations with the United States

www.canada.ca /en/department-finance/news/2025/06/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-to-advance-broader-trade-negotiations-with-the-united-states.html

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Elbows off the table.
- This is the second reference to elbows I’ve seen related to this topic, and I really don’t understand. Would you mind providing context?
  
  "Elbows up" is a saying/slang/expression in hockey to mean "get ready to fight" (hockey basically allows guys to throw fists between plays for some reason). It is currently being used in political ads and other pro Canada ads in reference to the current trade war.
  I was riffing off this, since (as a headline) this is just Canada rolling over for cry baby Trump. It's not elbows up. It's daddy Trump telling Carney off like a toddler and Carney cowering. "Elbows off the table!"
  
  It's a hockey term that Canadians have adopted to mean to stand up to American influence / Trump.

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