shockedcanadian
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Our steel industry is basically collapsing and the government just gave $500M to the lumber industry to try and offset the 20% tariff. Now it will be closer to 35%.
Canada needs to open up its market so that citizens are not forced to get mortgages at excessive rates or pay the highest internet and telecom on planet earth. I'd also like cheese options and other benefits of free market competition.
Trump is just going to extract as much as he can until a deal is made or USMCA is ripped up. GM surely is going to move more shifts down south. With 100k homeless already in Ontario this number will skyrocket if we lose the auto industry.
Save some of us please, some of us have been persecuted and bullied for decades with no one fighting for us as we drown. You see how bold the S.I.C and politicians are against even the powerful here, imagine what they do to people like myself?
It was always dangerous to say publicly "I like America and I want Canada to be closer to them". It's worse now in some corners who want to divide and spread anti-Americanism instead of seeking to be MORE free like America.
The United States has increased countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber, bringing the total to 35.19 per cent.
The decision was announced on Friday by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Although the escalating fees were anticipated, they still drew swift condemnation and words of alarm from industry and political leaders in B.C. and Ontario, who say it is yet the latest example of unfair treatment of the industry from their largest and most important international partner.
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The issue of softwood lumber has long been a point of contention between Canada and the United States, predating the current presidential administration by several decades.
In Canada, lumber-producing provinces set so-called stumpage fees for timber harvested from Crown land, a system that U.S. producers — forced to pay market rates — consider an unfair subsidy.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has agreed and has imposed duties reflecting its belief that the Canadian product is being sold at less than fair value into the United States.
Escalating duties over the past decade have taken their toll on the industry in Canada, and especially in B.C., where hundreds of jobs have already been lost as mills have shuttered and scaled back, in part a response to a lack of access to U.S. markets.
Canada needs to open up its market so that citizens are not forced to get mortgages at excessive rates or pay the highest internet and telecom on planet earth. I'd also like cheese options and other benefits of free market competition.
Trump is just going to extract as much as he can until a deal is made or USMCA is ripped up. GM surely is going to move more shifts down south. With 100k homeless already in Ontario this number will skyrocket if we lose the auto industry.
Save some of us please, some of us have been persecuted and bullied for decades with no one fighting for us as we drown. You see how bold the S.I.C and politicians are against even the powerful here, imagine what they do to people like myself?
It was always dangerous to say publicly "I like America and I want Canada to be closer to them". It's worse now in some corners who want to divide and spread anti-Americanism instead of seeking to be MORE free like America.
The United States has increased countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber, bringing the total to 35.19 per cent.
The decision was announced on Friday by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Although the escalating fees were anticipated, they still drew swift condemnation and words of alarm from industry and political leaders in B.C. and Ontario, who say it is yet the latest example of unfair treatment of the industry from their largest and most important international partner.
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The issue of softwood lumber has long been a point of contention between Canada and the United States, predating the current presidential administration by several decades.
In Canada, lumber-producing provinces set so-called stumpage fees for timber harvested from Crown land, a system that U.S. producers — forced to pay market rates — consider an unfair subsidy.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has agreed and has imposed duties reflecting its belief that the Canadian product is being sold at less than fair value into the United States.
Escalating duties over the past decade have taken their toll on the industry in Canada, and especially in B.C., where hundreds of jobs have already been lost as mills have shuttered and scaled back, in part a response to a lack of access to U.S. markets.
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