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https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/30/canadians-react-to-cancelling-digital-services-tax/
Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.
Welp big group, none of us are in it. Time to dig some infrastructure.
He needs to resign
Y'all are remembering that it's us Canadians that will be paying this tax, right? It's not going to affect any company's bottom line in the slightest.
That’s fine, it allows Canadian companies (that pay tax on money earned in Canada) to compete
It only applies to a few enormous corporations, that mostly generate revenue through ad sales.
Would Canadian companies really all have increased their Facebook ad budgets over this? I kinda doubt it, tbh
Then why would Trump object to it then?
Because it targets his buddies Zuck and Besos.
Does it target the billionaire tach bros or will Canadians pay it? Which one is it?? If Canadians are gonna pay it - why would Trump care? If it targets billionaire bros - big whoop! It’s so small it doesn’t even register.
Becuase it maaaaaaybe dissuades SOME people from buying the service so there's maaaaaaybe less revenue for the mega corps.
So yea... It maybe kinda sorta... Hurts mega corps, but it absolutely is a tax paid by Canadians.
Now you might say the tax is good because it funds shit for Canadians, but that's a separate argument.
So yea, this is maybe? good for Canadians, since Canadians are getting absolutely FUCKED by anything digital / mobile / internet related.
If anything I'd love to see the Canadian market forced open for US telecoms, because as shitty as telecom is in the US its far FAR worse in Canada.
Yep, I'm slightly upset. Does he actually think something worthwhile is going to come out of the negotiations?
I can't believe Carney was a spineless liberal moron all along! Who knew?
I mean.... On the things to cave on... Caving on a tax paid by CANADIANS is not the worst thing in the world.
But the bigger part here is that we finally stopped trade negotiations, and now we can assume this means they are starting again
Always remember who we voted against. We would need special instruments to measure how quickly Polyestre would have caved.
Yeah I know. PP is a Trump fluffer to the ultimate. He would have been an unmitigated catastrophe and it troubles me how close that fuckwhit came. And how he continues to try to remain. But unless Carney shows tangible results (which includes NOT capitulation to fash), his term as PM will be one and done.
Our choice was Nazi’s or standard conservatives disguised as liberals who are still just monarchists and kowtow to strongmen fantasies.
Either way we’re bound to regress.
Already sent an email to my MP, at least it’s something.
Me too - people are pissed. We do not capitulate to fash. Poland and Austria did and Germany still invaded them.
I’m curious to hear Charlie Angus’s response to this capitulation.
I would send an email to my MP but he is a do nothing back bencher who will take credit for Carney’s failures.
Why would the Conservatives bring this government down, when it's doing everything they want and taking the blame?
the conservatives are a joke and they wouldn't bring the gov down as you suggest, but the Block and the NDP may and either would get my vote at this point... Carney could not have been more backstabby to the people that gave him the PM seat at this point
This seems really premature. I dislike Carney's policies for a bunch of reasons, but it's premature to shit on him for this. We don't know what the final trade agreement will be.
The last time Trump threw one of these tantrums, NAFTA morphed into USMCA without much of a hit to our economy (afaiu). If our government can repeat that success while we're diversifying our economy away from the US then that's a win.
Well, there was this thing a couple of weeks ago when international law as well as agreed upon nuclear safeguards and processes were well and truly shredded by a genocidal maniac, then he came out tutting against the guys that got attacked out of the blue just like every other G7 lapdog. So far, unimpressed.
We don't know what the final trade agreement will be.
It doesn't matter since Trump can reneg on it at any moment as he did with the previous one
What Carney did here is signal trump that he will chicken out even faster than trump does at any tartrum he throws
CACO beats TACO.
You just said why it's a stupid, stupid thing to do: Trump would have caved anyway. All Carney had to do is wait.
That he would cave so quickly shows how little he values Canadian interests over American profits.
And to that I would just add - people are PISSED. People will literally self-deputize in a second if America rolls in with tanks or drones or whatever (they are already setting the stage for that with their relentless internal and external rhetoric about how “dangerous” Canada is with migrants and terrorists supposedly flooding in to their stupid country from the northern border). This is a very sketchy time. America can 🖕🖕🖕🇨🇦hates you
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