Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province plans on moving ahead with a tax on electricity sent to several U.S. states starting early next week.
Ford said the 25 per cent tax will be announced on Monday, with it likely being enacted on Tuesday.
“We are moving forward with it. I feel terrible for the American people because it’s not the American people, and it’s not even the elected officials, it’s one person and that’s President (Donald) Trump.” Ford told 640Toronto radio host Ben Mulroney on Thursday.
“It’s totally unacceptable, but he’s coming after his closest friends, closest allies in the world and it’s going to absolutely devastate both economies.”
I find it so odd the U.S. thought the nicest people on the planet were simply going to lie down and get steamrolled by a snake oil rapist felon into submission.
As a Canadian, I’m now running low on sorries, and that’s scary.
I think what people don’t understand is how incredibly petty Canadians can be.
The Canadian population will accept things getting 25% worse for themselves personally if it means things get 5% worse for the people that inflicted it. With these terriffs, there is an asymmetry of effect… But there is also an asymmetry in the amount of pain that can be stomached by the populations as well.
If the two countries find themselves dragged into an “economic winter”, there is one population significantly more familiar and comfortable with the idea of riding out the winter.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war
The English poet Robert Graves was less charitable. In his 1929 bestseller Good-Bye to All That, he wrote “the troops that had the worst reputation for acts of violence against prisoners were the Canadians.”
As Canadian Corps commander Arthur Currie would often boast after the war, his troops prided themselves on killing the enemy wherever and whenever they could.
Beware the wrath of a gentle man.
The meek are not to be fucked with.
Alas, this is the correct path forward. FAFO, IF #47 can learn, the US might be saved by these sorts of actions, “Gentle discipline” from our long time friends and neighbors.
Canada needs to cut oil/electricity and keep it cut for 2 years until elections. Americans have no memory. Trump will backtrack in a couple of months and go on a victory tour before the next election. (That things will not be improved won’t stop him from claiming victory.) Americans need to be hurting right before the election.
We could do the full cut, or we could flick the lights on and off like your annoying sibling, 5 minutes of blackouts a couple of times a day could send that message fairly well.
I was really hoping that was going to happen during the Superbowl. Maybe there are some other events we could mess with.
That’s a great way to get invaded.
Edit: cmon. Don already said lumber supply is somehow a national security concern, and that’s the label they’ve used to invade for oil in the past.
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Fuck around and find out!
Good move by Doug Ford.
