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   RM>> Trudeau, usually pretty polite to everyone, said today that for   
     >> such a smart man he was doing a really stupid thing..   
      
   MP>He is not wrong there.   
      
   No, it doesn't seem like it will benefit anyone but the government.   
   The Tariffs will raise prices and kill jobs on both sides of the   
   border. I somehow wonder if people down there realize that the   
   only difference tariffs will make to them is highe prices on   
   everything that comes from Canada and a lot of things manufactured   
   there using Canadian products like metals and lumber.   
      
   I mean, American companies are not stupid. They buy stuff from   
   Canada only when it is cheaper or there isn't enough of it in   
   the USA at the moment. Like, imagine all the aluminum that goes   
   into modern cars, engine blocks and such. The USA only produces   
   15% of the aluminum they use. Quebec alone supplies them with 60%   
   of the rest of it, and Trump wants to put a 25% tariff on it.   
      
   MP>I don't know that they all booed him for sure.  A lot of them held up signs   
     >that said things like "FALSE," "LIAR," and other more specific messages.   
      
   Yes, I saw that on the news. Probably a message in there that they had   
   those signs already made up..   B)   
      
   MP>Overall he most certainly did not win with a mandate.  However, if one   
     >looks at it by the states that actually decided the election... the swing   
     >states... I guess he sort of did.   
      
   I think the biggest problem is, whatever he promised, he didn't tell   
   your people he planned to do what he is doing.   
      
   Interesting side effect.. They said on the news the last couple   
   of days with the March School break coming up here that Canadians   
   booking trips to the USA has dropped by 40% and that literally   
   thousands of people who paid non-refundable deposits for flights   
   and hotels and cruises and such are actually walking away from   
   often thousands of dollars because of what's going on.   
      
   Another sad and unfair thing.. a couple in Canada where the wife   
   was Canadian and the husband is American had both a Canadian and   
   American flag outside of their house and they had 2 cars severely   
   vandalized last night because of that American flag.   
      
   It's not fair to blame the American people for this but it's hard   
   to find any place to take out your frustrations about it..   
      
   And we have to keep in mind that it hasn't really even started yet.   
      
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    * SLMR Rob  * I give up... What planet ARE you from?   
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