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American alcohol is on the list of immediate tarrifs as well as orange juice, peanut butter, clothing, and cosmetics. There will be further tarrifs on dairy, beef, poultry, fruits and vegetables, steel, aluminum, cars, trucks, busses, and boats after a 21 day delay to give time for Canadian companies to adjust supply chains.
Tarrifs are simple, easy, and can be implemented immediately by the Prime Minister alone. All the other things listed in that comment are fine ideas, but require parliment pass laws, which is going to take time since we're approaching an election. I don't think it's appropriate to wait months before even starting the debate in parliment about what we should do.
There's also no guarantee any of those ideas would even pass into law. I doubt many politicians are keen on tearing up patent and copyright protection so Canadian companies can rip off American innovations.
Tim Hortons isn't Canadian but New York Fries is. What a country!
The government has also put out a press release on their website.
The first phase of our response will include tariffs on $30 billion in goods imported from the U.S., effective February 4, 2025, when the U.S tariffs are applied. The list includes products such as orange juice, peanut butter, wine, spirits, beer, coffee, appliances, apparel, footwear, motorcycles, cosmetics, and pulp and paper. A detailed list of these goods will be made available shortly.
Minister LeBlanc also announced that the government intends to impose tariffs on an additional list of imported U.S. goods worth $125 billion. A full list of these goods will be made available for a 21-day public comment period prior to implementation, and will include products such as passenger vehicles and trucks, including electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products, certain fruits and vegetables, aerospace products, beef, pork, dairy, trucks and buses, recreational vehicles, and recreational boats.
Well he won't undergo a background check to get security clearance so I guess we'll never know who is pulling his strings!
Ah, remember when you could buy computer parts without them being covered in RGB glowing lights?
The question is why do laws that aren't enforced exist. Gambling and porn bans are rarely enforced but exist mostly for virtue signaling. I wasn't talking about speed limits.
The play's the thing, wherein I'll catch the ~~conscience~~ eye of the king!
always read the contract. No matter what they tell you, what's written there is what can be enforced
My friend signed with a publisher when he released his game. The reason he did it was because they offered to port his game to consoles as well as localize it to several languages. They said the fees for those services would be taken out of sales. My friend agreed because he though it gave him far more reach than if he just put the game up on Steam himself.
They charged him $50,000 for the porting and localization. The game hasn't sold anywhere near that amount and he doesn't expect it ever will. They will continue to take 70% of revenue (after Steam takes their cut!) until he makes up that debt. He's lucky he asked for a cut because originally the contract read 100% to publisher until he pays off the debt. He wouldn't have made any money at all!
On top of what others said there's also just virtue signaling, like banning pornography or gambling.
Content creators live to serve the algorithms of their respective platforms and will do anything to be promoted by it. It's thought that images with anything "offensive" in it will be ignored by the algorithm so content creators have started censoring themselves just in case. I'm not sure if there's any hard evidence, but it's not totally unfounded. YouTube announced they scan the audio of content and determine what level of monetization it's allowed to have based on the severity of cursing in it.