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Jack Valentino

(1,799 posts)
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 06:45 PM Feb 2

Canada Should Place 100% Tariff on TESLA, says Liberal Party PM candidate Freeland

Tesla should face 100% tariffs in Canada to counter Trump: minister

A former Canadian Minister and Liberal Party candidate has released a statement on U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to establish tariffs on products imported from Canada, saying that the country should respond by imposing a 100-percent tariff on Tesla’s vehicles and other products.

After the White House confirmed plans on Friday to launch 25 percent tariffs against Mexico and Canada over the weekend, former Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland shared a statement suggesting counter-tariffs that would include Teslas. The minister says Canada should release a “targeted list of potential retaliatory tariffs” that would represent $200 billion worth of American imports, in order to counter the Trump administration’s plans.

“Canada must threaten to impose a 100 per cent tariff on all Tesla vehicles and a 100 per cent tariff on U.S. wine, beer, and spirits if unfair tariffs are imposed on Canadians tomorrow,” Freeland said on Friday.

She also suggests that Canada work with a number of other countries to develop a joint response to the tariffs, with plans to create a summit if she is sworn in as Prime Minister. Freeland has been running to lead Canada’s Liberal Party and aims to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following his announcement of plans to step down.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-100-tariffs-canada-trump-minister/


AGREED "100%" !

Musk needs to suffer more pain for what he has done to this country---
pain that he can understand.... Loss of MONEY.

(I would think that a 100% tariff on Tesla in Canada would nearly put them 100% out of business entirely in that country-- except among the uber-rich who just can't live without Musk's overpriced junk...)

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Canada Should Place 100% Tariff on TESLA, says Liberal Party PM candidate Freeland (Original Post) Jack Valentino Feb 2 OP
Absofuckingloutely! SheltieLover Feb 2 #1
Indeed. FUCK Test-la. B.See Feb 2 #2
The "Swasticar". CentralMass Feb 2 #3
And not just the truck SheltieLover Feb 2 #4
Some owners B.See Feb 2 #5
If they could be honest for 5 seconds, they would admit they are rattly junk with no customer support or warranty servic SheltieLover Feb 2 #6
I have a very hard time recognizing modern cars after the mid-1980s, Jack Valentino Feb 3 #9
Same here, Jack! SheltieLover Feb 3 #10
Don't you just love the new colors? SheltieLover Feb 3 #12
Just ban them and buy Chinese cars instead. Johonny Feb 2 #7
Canada already has a 100% tariff on Chinese EV MichMan Feb 2 #8
Good for Canada! SheltieLover Feb 3 #11
This is what Trump didn't take into the calculus. Mountainguy Feb 3 #13

B.See

(5,128 posts)
2. Indeed. FUCK Test-la.
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 06:49 PM
Feb 2

A more unimpressive looking piece of shit has SELDOM breached the highways, imo.

SheltieLover

(66,246 posts)
4. And not just the truck
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 06:53 PM
Feb 2

They are ALL JUNK. (No offense to anyone here who has one.)

But they are literally rattly, unreliable junk. For those who want to drive a video game controller. ZERO customer service or warranty support...

My gs tells me when I look at buying a car, I'm thinking about it "all wrong." Because now cars are made like throw-away wal-hell toasters. Fuck that.

I love my old 2005 Honda Civic. 50 mpg consistently.

B.See

(5,128 posts)
5. Some owners
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 07:11 PM
Feb 2

swear by them. But if someone hadn't pointed one out to me on the highway, I would've NEVER noticed them. To quote a line from my fav movie, they're "plain as paper."

(But apparently, "pretty as any picture" to SOME).

SheltieLover

(66,246 posts)
6. If they could be honest for 5 seconds, they would admit they are rattly junk with no customer support or warranty servic
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 07:13 PM
Feb 2

We have a few friends who own them and they readily admit they're junk, "but they're so cool." WTF ever.

Jack Valentino

(1,799 posts)
9. I have a very hard time recognizing modern cars after the mid-1980s,
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 01:18 AM
Feb 3

except for the 21st century camaros, and the Hyundai and KIA which I owned later...

otherwise, they all kind of look the same to me....
and certainly can't tell one SUV from another.


Give me back my 1973 Nova or my 1981 Camaro!!!
(but with better gas mileage, lol)



SheltieLover

(66,246 posts)
10. Same here, Jack!
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 03:11 AM
Feb 3

It's almost as if mfrs don't want their vehicles to be distinctive.

More likely they just don't care...

SheltieLover

(66,246 posts)
12. Don't you just love the new colors?
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 03:17 AM
Feb 3

No flake in the paint & pukey colors like wet concrete, dry concrete, & road gray.

MichMan

(14,807 posts)
8. Canada already has a 100% tariff on Chinese EV
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 07:32 PM
Feb 2

October 1 2024

Canada's new tariff on electric vehicles from China will reverberate through a multitude of industries and could lead to repercussions well beyond the electric vehicle market, according to analysts.

The 100 per cent tariff on imports of Chinese-made EVs (and some hybrids), including cars, buses, trucks and delivery vehicles, takes effect on Tuesday after a 30-day consultation period over the summer. A 25 per cent surtax on steel and aluminum imports from China will kick in on Oct. 15.

While the move is meant to keep cheap, well-made electric cars from China at bay in order to grow and protect Canada's nascent EV sector, critics warn there could be a number of consequences, including to environmental goals and other Canadian sectors as a trade war looms.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/china-electric-vehicles-tariff-trade-canada-1.7338087

Mountainguy

(1,698 posts)
13. This is what Trump didn't take into the calculus.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 03:51 AM
Feb 3

Canada is in the middle of an election. The tariffs issue has been a rally event in Canada, and every candidate there is trying to take a strong stance against Trump. Nobody up there is going to say we need to negotiate and work with him.

Trump probably thought he could put on the tariffs and it would hurt the Liberal party, but there liberals and conservatives are all taking the same positions against it

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