Trump says he's ending 'all discussions on trade with Canada' effective immediately
Trump says he's ending 'all discussions on trade with Canada' effective immediately
Now's a pretty good time to end Microsoft licenses and other crap ass US platforms 🥰
Now is the time to introduce higher Digital Services Tax rate.
I will be so pissed if Carney or anyone negotiating folds on anything. The US started all of this shitstorm. We (Canada) are the aggrieved party in this situation, we were following CUSMA, the US broke that agreement. Fuck the USA. Fuck concessions to the USA. They can fuck off into the Sun. I don't want or need Netflix, amazon, airbnb, Uber, google, azure, microsoft, apple. I could care less if those companies pull out of Canada.
I've been petitioning the councillors of my rural municipality to do this. I've sent them articles of much larger governments doing the same worldwide ceaselessly. I've emailed, called and texted (small towns are beneficial sometimes) every councillor personally. I have given them the number of several local computer techs who specialize in Linux systems and Foss software.
I encourage you all to do the same. Municipal governments are a great place to start pushing this trend and saving them money and adding security in the process.
Yep! I was wondering when my work was gonna shift away from using Microsoft, azure and SharePoint .
I’ve been waiting thirty years
The government and a lot of other companies are absolutely incapable of not using Excel and Azure services. It's possible they could teach people new tools but databases, tables, excel files, VBA stuff, SQL etc... Is just not going to get changed. Alternatives are way too expensive and the sheer amount of work to make sure every single ETL rule is followed would be absolutely insane. The cybersecurity alone will make it a no go.
No AI will not solve this.
[Canada] has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country," Trump said.
Taxing Meta, Apple, and Amazon for business they do in Canada is an attack on the United States?
We didn't "just announce" it materialized three years ago and makes total sense to have in place from Canada's POV. Dumbass Trump is wrong and lying or both - yet again.
Not sure what applies o amazon. They do have advertising/sponsored listings, but don't know if tax applies on overall business.
Good. Fuck off.
Great news. But my Trump-BS-translator is going haywire: since this is a lie like everything Trump says, next week Carney is going to have some sort of deal with Trump.
Please don’t say that, I am scared Carney with bend over for him if it goes that fast! Luckily e do have a few agencies pushing for this.
No problem. The boycott continues. If they don’t pay tax then they are stealing from us, so torrent away.
Jokes on them. Been torrenting their shit for a couple decades now.
Great. The US can fuck right off and when it’s done fucking off, it can fuck off some more. Until the end of time.
We can't do "business" with an unstable idiot.
It's best we ignore him, and keep working with countries who aren't lead by a total shit stain.
As an individual, I'm happy continuing to rapidly cull any American ties I have with brands and services.
Try telling Carney, or your MP, that. My MP is a back bencher do nothing, Brad Rediccop, who has said that he has no plan on doing anything (in more professional words).
Ah yes, he's the only government allowed to collect taxes.
Enable, disable, enable, disable.
Best Canada Day gift we could get, I hope he doesn’t go back on it
"I'm taking my toys and going home!"
"You owe me some tariff taxes on those."
"AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!"
That's what they call a power move, Becky. "This conversation ends now" shows who's really in control, Becky. OMG, look at her butt.
I guess Carney was getting too much attention as "the Trump whisperer" for his ego to handle, so he wants to punish Canada and put Carney back in his place as he sees it.
I kind of suspected we would see something like this after seeing so much in media about Carney's success in managing the Trump relationship.
The part where "in 7 days we will tell Canada what they have to pay" is going to be interesting.
A TACO says what?
U.S. President Donald Trump says he's pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he's ending all trade discussions with Canada while signalling he may impose a blanket tariff to hit back at Ottawa for imposing a tax on web giants.
Gotta earn his bribes. As opposed to doing anything useful or competent.
The US has been really flaky lately. Have you tried rebooting it?
Thank God, he's finally shuttin' up
I've never wanted the Digital Services Tax more than right now, lol.
Orange baby having a tantrum! Wahhh!!!!
So US bond sell off predicted on Monday boys
Someone told him those bunker bombs were from Canada.
Bye Felicia
Not only are pig fucker mega tech profiting off Canadians tax free, and among the richest companies in the world, they are CIA/US empire militarist enablers/cooperators who will happily enslave Canadians to that empire. The fearmongering you are programmed about CCP allied companies, should be 1000x higher with US's declared war on Canada, and their tech companies.
Their profit extortion alone (not even revenues) is sufficient to overcome whatever small surpluses Canada has enjoyed over US in good trade. It is categorically treasonous and sickening that Canada's leadership continues military alignment with US.
Can we just ban them?