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U..S. social media platforms are a national security threat and a major attack vector against Canadian democracy
  • Is it time for an expanded digital services tax? Why not tax foreign social media like we tax sugar, alcohol, nicotine, and fast food? The imposition of minimum pricing rules per account or per post would be a huge disincentive. Maybe regulate them like traditional media. Ban foreign ownership?

    Edit: spelling

  • I’m Canadian And Love Visiting The U.S., But I Refuse To Travel There Again Until Trump Is Gone
  • Oh, I see. I hadn't considered that that could be used as a pretense for military action.

    Trump's stable genius trade advisor was just on one of their propaganda networks suggesting that Canada is also run by Mexican cartels. It's all a bit Monty Python, honestly. Just waiting to hear who he's nominating for Secretary of Silly Walks.

  • Canada must use all means to resist a Trump-led hostile US takeover.
  • After some quick interneting, apparently we have the technical and industrial capacity to do so, but lack intention, having committed to peaceful, civilian use of the technology through non-proliferation treaties, etc.

    I mean, in an ideal world, that's how it should be.

  • I’m Canadian And Love Visiting The U.S., But I Refuse To Travel There Again Until Trump Is Gone
  • I may have picked it up wrong, but I think i read somewhere that European and Canadian based travel providers are already reporting a 40% reduction in travel bookings to the US.

    That might require a fact check, but if true, that could be quite devastating for the US tourism industry. And we're only a few months into his presidency, so one might expect that to drop further.

    I also read that realtors in Florida specifically are being overwhelmed with requests for quick sales on foreigner owned properties.

    It's not nothing.

  • I’m Canadian And Love Visiting The U.S., But I Refuse To Travel There Again Until Trump Is Gone
  • Are you under the impression that the Ricans invented and own music, TV, movie theatres, and video games? You are literally on the internet right now. All of human knowledge is at your fingertips, and you could very easily go and confront some of your very perplexing assumptions.

  • I’m Canadian And Love Visiting The U.S., But I Refuse To Travel There Again Until Trump Is Gone
  • As far as I understand, Canada and the EUs' prospective counter tariffs are fairly surgical in that they will take aim disproportionately at red states.

    In terms of vacationing in the US. Your airlines, hotel chains, restaurant chains etc. all pay federal taxes. Therefore , spending money anywhere in the US, with few exceptions, is Canadian money in Trump's war chest. With that in mind, a general boycott makes logical sense.

    The same goes for Costco Canada, Walmart Canada etc, of course. Multinationals all more or less repatriate their profits or franchise/licencing fees back to Mordor.

  • I’m Canadian And Love Visiting The U.S., But I Refuse To Travel There Again Until Trump Is Gone
  • I am currently trying to convince my employer to ditch Google and all associated services, as well as the US-based cyber security suites that are currently tanking the performance of all of our workstations. It would be nice if there was an easy replacement for Windows. Linux is a no-go for our IT people.