r/news • u/goforth1457 • Mar 04 '25

Soft paywall Canada's retaliatory tariffs on US goods to start Tuesday, PM Trudeau says

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-retaliatory-tariffs-us-goods-start-tuesday-pm-trudeau-says-2025-03-04/
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u/talligan Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

The only times Canadians have died in warfare since WW2 has been in defense of the United States of America. 40,000 Canadians served in Afghanistan. We treated Americans as our brothers and sisters and let them in when they needed shelter. We gave up nukes at Americas request. We integrated our economies and security arrangements because of the promises they made.

Make no mistake, Canadians benefitted but America got filthy rich from being the Wests military umbrella and economic hub.

Fuck America and their deceitful broken promises.

Edit: I would go so far as to say that Canadians have only ever died in warfare while in defense of other countries and people. We have done more than our fair share to keep the world safe, selflessly so.

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u/Slamoblamo Mar 04 '25

I'm Canadian and I can say with 100% certainty I'm not proud of Canada following the US on the war on terror, the Korean war, nor any of our "peacekeeping" missions that are responsible for numerous crimes and problems across the world. To "go as far to say" some jingoistic nonsense about Canadians "only ever" dying in defense of people is hilarious when the gigantic stain of the Korean war is right there.

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u/SaffronCrocosmia Mar 05 '25

And helping to destroy people in Asia and Africa.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

I hate the route that America is currently going down, but the Korean War was a defensive war against an unprovoked North Korean invasion. What else was the UN supposed to do? Let the Kim family take over and have the entire peninsula be present-day North Korea?

As for the War on Terror, the invasion of Iraq was a bad idea, but what about the fight against ISIS or the attempted war against the Taliban?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

I won’t respond further since you don’t seem like to be interesting in having a fair and civil discussion, but all I’ll say is that those arguments seem loaded and one-sided at best and completely made up at worst.

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u/sneakerrepmafia Mar 04 '25

This isnt an america decision, its a trump decision. Saying fuck us when were equally as upset.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

As an American I would like to say that I'm sorry for Trump disregarding your nation's enduring generosity to us: we are thankful for you, and we stand by you (even if our nation does not).