Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday U.S. President Donald Trump will hold off on levying tariffs on Canada for at least 30 days after Canada made a series of commitments to improve security along the border.

The country can let out a collective sigh of relief — at least for now.

To get Trump to shelve his punishing tariffs, Trudeau said Canada is reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel and stepping up its co-ordination with American officials to stop the flow of fentanyl.

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    133·
    15 hours ago

    No, we gave the bully exactly what he demanded. They didn’t give in. We did. And all it bought us was a 30 day delay.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      26·
      14 hours ago

      These are lip service concessions to Trump that technically meet what he was asking for while denying him significant economic leverage. From Canada, into the US, a total of 43 lbs of fentanyl entered - compare that to the 21,148 lbs entering through Mexico.

      Trump used the fentanyl bullshit as a pretext to enforce tariffs while not violating the letter of the law of the trade agreement he negotiated. He literally doesn’t give a shit about fentanyl and instead wanted economic leverage.

      Trudeau has paid lip service to the dumbass fake reason everyone knows doesn’t mean shit and said “You still wanna go bro” to which Trump declined to elevate it to a tariff exchange in violation of the treaty.

      This was a huge loss to Trump but nobody tell him that to his face or his whiney little bitchass will be embarrassed and start lashing out even more to look like a strongboi.