4d ago

United States escalates trade war with Canada following Palestine stance

www.reuters.com

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Canadians are playing defensive. They really need to go on the offensive.

Get all Government departments and Crown Corporations to cancel Microsoft Office. Use LibreOffice.
Get all Government departments and Crown Corporations to cancel Microsoft Windows. Use Linux.
Ban all foreign linked consulting firms (McKinsey, Bain) from obtaining any government contract.
Announce a $100 million Canadian fund to support opensource software like Krita, Gimp, Kdenlive, Inkscape. Time to take down Adobe.
Cancel the F-35. Buy old F-16s instead. It's better to have 5 planes that fly than one expensive plane that doesn't work.

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4d ago

Trump escalates trade war with Canada following Palestine stance

www.reuters.com /world/americas/trump-escalates-trade-war-with-canada-following-palestine-stance-2025-07-31/

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4d ago

United States escalates trade war with Canada following Palestine stance

www.reuters.com /world/americas/trump-escalates-trade-war-with-canada-following-palestine-stance-2025-07-31/

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"Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them," Trump said on Truth Social.
It has become obvious that Carney doesn't put much value in a "deal" with Trump's US anymore.
- canada actively aids the genocide in the same way that the united states and the united kingdom do; this is little more than political copycat of the french and british gov'ts so that the canadian gov't can also insist that they were always on the right side of history when the next few generations read their history books in school.
  
  One can praise a step in the right direction while acknowledging there are many steps to go.
  
  Exactly. Demanding that Palestine give up its arms in the face of a massive nuclear power that has already turned Gaza to rubble. Is an absurd demand.
This is just a stupid headline. I mean, not that Reuters is wrong, just that the world is stupid right now.
Get fucked Donnie, sincerely all of rational Canada.
- Heyyy relax guy!
"Canada condemns the fact that the Israeli government has allowed a catastrophe to unfold in Gaza"
Right, like Canada condemns the fact that the German government has allowed a catastrophe to unfold in concentration camps.
Okay.
- And then they sent troops to help liberate Europe from the nazis.
  I'd say they have a pretty good track record.
  
  The point of this talkie talkie from the Canadian PM now is exactly to delay effective actions like that until it's too late, by which point he'll pivot to "it's too late to do anything now".
  One thing is the Canadian people, a totally different thing are Canadian politicians in this era: this kind of talkie-talkie delaying technique is exactly because the government doesn't want to do what the people want, so they do "promises of near meaningless action in the future" instead to look like they're "doing something" whilst avoiding like the Plague actual effective action (which in this case means immediate Sanctions on Israel).
  I'm intimatelly familiar with this kind of shit because I lived in Britain and this delaying technique was frequently used there (though doing it to allow a nation to keep on mass starving children to death is a new low, even for British politicians).
  (Unsurprisingly, if you read the articles about it, you'll see that this latest political move was started by the British PM).
- What will we say about what happens in American concentration camps?
I DEMAND Trump be removed from office and imprisoned. Who do I call to report the rapist insurectionist who has infiltrated the Whitehouse?
Trump, supporters and the US can gargle my balls.
C'mon you Canadian IT guys. Put a package together with solid plan to switch over. That's the hardest part. Once done, selling it will be easy, based on the license fee money saved. Don't forget to make some profit, but don't get greedy like the big boys. Let's go!
Fuck these Nazis
Cancel all Microsoft Office contracts. Cancel all Microsoft Windows contracts. Switch all government departments and Crown corporations to Linux.
Yeah, this is the national government that can't even hire someone else to make an app effectively. Decades of cutting "wasteful bureaucracy" in the IT field has left them a sitting duck. They need to build that back, and then maybe we can discuss it in 10 years.
Announce $100 million fund to support Open Source software such as Krita, Gimp, Inkscape. Time to assassinate Adobe.
Bruh, we don't even know how we're going to pay for the things we already have as the US implodes our economy. And we have a housing crisis.
Ban all government departments from using foreign consulting firms. No more McKinsey or Bain.
More doable, although I'd go for more avoid than totally ban. Absolutes like that tend to run up against the nuance of whatever small procurement.
Cancel all F-35 jet orders. It’s better to have 5 F-16 than 1 plane that can’t fly.
We already paid.
Put all the top 50 executives from Fox News on a no-travel list. Put their spouses on the list.
A bit arbitrary (why not the Trumps themselves?) but sure.
Do they even have 50 top-level executives, though?
- Where did you read all of that? Its not in the article?

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