Canada’s secret weapon in U.S. trade war? Trump's billionaire backers: Canada should be directly targeting American oligarchs with sanctions.
Canada’s secret weapon in U.S. trade war? Trump's billionaire backers: Canada should be directly targeting American oligarchs with sanctions.
Donald Trump’s first presidency was marked by an open-door policy for billionaires seeking favourable policies. His second term promises a deeper entrenchment of oligarchic power.
Anything Canada can do to directly impose sanctions on our own domestic (and foreign) oligarchical enemies is welcome.
We should also make CPP and the Ontario teachers union pension invest ethically in Canadian businesses.
100% tariff on Teslas for a start.
Tariff? Simply ban their import.
Yeah, let's not even screw around. Ban them all and take all their assets, IP, chargers, anything remotely valuable in this country.
Let's not even play around. They're trying to take over the country.
You know what, let's not let patriotism get in the way of common sense politics. We shouldn't be targeting them just because they back Trump.
We should be targeting them because they are billionaires. That's enough, regardless of who they support.
To quote Bill Burr: ‘These fucking billionaires. They need to be put down. You know, like fucking rabid dogs. They’re rabid with fucking greed and just going out and just dividing everybody.’
Make billionaires millionnaires again.
Sure, but targeting them because of their threat to our sovereignty is still a valid reason to do so.
What was the result of the announcement to rescind Musk's Canadian citizenship? I saw the first stories about it, but nothing since, I'd say that successfully removing the legal citizenship of someone directly and ardently working counter to Canada's national interests should count as sanction, no?
No legal pathway to revoke his Canadian citizenship without opening a way to disenfranchise Canadians.
This is true, which I'd assumed was the reason that I heard talk of limits to its scope, specifically concerning sedition or actions which ran counter to the national interest/security. Bit of a Pandora's Box though, absolutely.
I propose the 'forfeit your citizenship if you and your grandfather are nazis' bill.
certainly and sounds like they were doing that. I mean I hope when they kicked tesla out of incentives it did not aptera.