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https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/02/canada-announces-155b-tariff-package-in-response-to-unjustified-us-tariffs.html It turns out that, the automotive industry will not be spared by Canada. EVs included. Minister LeBlanc also announced that the government intends to impose tariffs on an additional list of imported U.S. goods worth $125 billion. A full list of these goods will be made available for a 21-day public comment period prior to implementation, and will include products such as passenger vehicles and trucks, including electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products, certain fruits and vegetables, aerospace products, beef, pork, dairy, trucks and buses, recreational vehicles, and recreational boats.

Wont be good for GM or Ford. Not only did Trump put a tariff on products that COME from Canada or Mexico which means final assemblied products FROM Canada and Mexico which means the Ford F-150 and the Silverado are going to be tariffed 25% and many other models such as Equinoxes, Blazers and Mavericks and Broncos which are bread and butter vehicles BUT, Trump ALSO put a 25% tariff on Canadian steel and aluminium which is bought by Ford and GM to actually PRODUCE said vehicles. The auto industry is a MAJOR back bone industry for the US. If on Tuesday, American tariffs will actually take effect, Ford and GM production will most definitely close down in the coming weeks if not days. And I havent even discussed the retalitory tariffs that Canada will impose on American goods. To start, Canada hasnt discussed about the automotive industry as we know that is suicidal for us as well. But it WILL lead to that and we WILL impose tariffs on US branded automobiles. Irony is that Michigan JUST became a red state... And why I say that: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (and yes he is still our PM until a replacement has been found which the Liberal party has until March to find a replacement until election time in October) had over a week to disuss with the Provincial Premiers on how to deal with these tariffs and we are SURGICALLY putting MOST of our tariffs on RED STATES. The products that these Red States sell to Canada. We will increase our percentages accordingly to whatb Trump will counter, but we will also expand our products. Keeping this trade war talk in terms of the automotive industry as it pertains to GM and Ford...imagine if Trump further increases tariffs on our steel and aluminium? And imagine when we ourselves INCREASE our prices for steel and aluminium further? Imagine also when we will tariff automobiles coming from the Michigan area because Red State... Honda Civics and HRVs are already best sellers in Canada, but these are vehicles being built IN Canada. Ram trucks are part of Stellantis, headquartered in Michigan for Chryco but Stellantis is really not American. Therefore fullsized pick-up needs can and WILL go to Stellantis. So many scenarios to where Ford and GM really lose out. I have said this before and I will say it again, this trade war will NOT end good for the US. It WILL be WORSE for Americans than it will be for Canadians. In the short term, no citizen will win. In the long term, this will be very very bad for Americans. The BIGGER picture of the American automotive picture is that, Americans (and Canadians) will pay HIGHER price tags for their cars more than ANYWHERE else in the world and in history. Most vehicles that are sold in the US are built in Mexico. Some in Canada and some in China. Trump put a 25% tariff on those. Cars that are NOT built in Mexico or Canada to be sold in the US and in Canada are being built in RED STATES. Canada will be putting a tariff on those. Its notm only Michigan that cars are being built. Georgia and Alabama also have car plants that build cars for Canadians to buy. We could live without Mercedes Benzes but we do like our Hyundai/KIA EVs. Those are built in Georgia... Maga people and Trump have not thought this thing through. Maga people think that Trump is a saviour. Maga people think that Canada (and Mexico) amounts to nothing. The irony is that that those two things I said are the complete OPPPOSITE of what reality is. Trump is not their saviour. He is the destructor of the American Empire. And its them that really amount to nothing. Insignificant in this world.

The sad part is, and there are 2 sad parts, that Tesla after all these years still cant produce a profit on the production and selling of cars (sad part #1) and GM has finally begun making money on producing and selling their EVs... https://www.businessinsider.com/gm-electric-vehicles-evs-profitability-trump-2025-1 https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a63608612/gm-stops-losing-money-on-evs/?taid=679ab32bbd13980001f8c2dd&utm_campaign=trueanthemTWCD&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter But Trump is threatening the survival of GM. Making that thought, sad part #2. ThatbGM is finally making money on EVs but Trump taking it away.

Elon also threatened to RAISE the price of ALL his Teslas in Canada. His Model 3 and Y, the models that sell the most in Canada by 9 000 Canadian dollars. And although the tariffs that Trump will impose will affect car prices here in Canada as well, Elon raising his prices on Teslas will only make Canadians NOT buy Teslas but to buy Hyundai/KIA and GM EVs instead. And in retaliation, our politicians will be tariffing Teslas in return most probably. So a DOUBLE and TRIPLE whammy for Elon and Tesla in Canada... https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/tesla-canada-price-hikes-tariff-ev-musk https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/autos/article/tesla-raising-prices-for-its-vehicles-in-canada-by-up-to-9000-starting-feb-1/ Self destruction at a whole other level GM and Ford stand not only to lose billons of dollars, but market share also...to Hyundai/KIA and the Chinese brands. Because either Mexico or Canada or both will surely allow them eventually to not only sell their cars here, but to build them here also. Push comes to shove, right? Elon is self harming himself in Canada and across the planet. Even if Donald helps him out in the US to overcome the EV rebates and subsidies that will end soon if that hasnt ended already, Americans wont buy EVs from him. And those from the lunatic right wing express that support him and Donald, well, they dont want EVs to begin with. But, the idea is that Donald is doing all this just to line his billionnaire friends and his own pockets with money belonging to Americans... Im afraid the American automobile industry is going to go extinct and that is one way on how and why these tariffs will hurt Americans more than Canadians. Also, Canadians are kinda used to paying more for gasoline and price of new cars. We dont like that fact, but we are kinda numb to it... Good luck to you folk though.

Buckle up dear American friends. These tariffs are going to cost the avg US household a whole lotta money. New car prices. Gasoline. Transportation on goods. Keep in mind that the US uses a LOT of Canadian oil. That is why the fat moron only wants to tariff oil at 10% rather than the 25% he keeps on heckling about. Housing. Plus, we Canadians are going to tariff US goods as well. Which wont be good but it will be necessary. A tariff war will not benefit either of us, but believe it or not, it will be a lot worse for you guys... Ontario and Quebec provide electricty to MILLIONS of Americans in the North East. THAT wont be good. It will be disatrous to the price of eggs if you will, to those shytheads that voted in Trump. And, this beautiful blonde lady that represents Donald's mouth, in this clip, she mentions fentanyl. But does she know that underground CIA operations have fostered fentanyl production in South American countries? Probably not, but I diont see her lasting too long at her job because she not only is dumber than Donald's previous mouth pieces such as Kayleigh McEnany and Sarah Huckabucks, she looks to be timid as well. At least the other two could lie with a straight face and believe the bullshyte, this one looks like she is going to break down. She seems to have moral standards... Which I kinda feel bad for her, because I have a feeling reporters this time around wont let the bullshyte fly like they did 2016-2020. And Fox news had to pay millions of dollars for bullshytting. The threat for punishment for false info still looms. I cant believe though, that Donald the duck administration had the balls to tell her to say that Justin Trudeau shoudnlt be threatening Donald with retalitory tariffs before talking to the duck first. Too bad this aint hockey, because Donald would have had his hockey jersey over his head and Justin be pounding on him. PS Justin is an amateur boxer. Donald is just a fat phoque.

ummmm yeah... Deep geological disposal... Away from where humans live deeeeeep down bee-low. Away from the top soil deep in the earth's core. Sealed in containers that wont leak, sealed in chambers that will contain the leakages, if there is a such a leakage to begin with, that themselves wont leak deeeeeeeeep down bee-low with nuclear waste that has been neutralized. All nice things when spoken but what IS the reality and the TRUTH about this storage? Colour me just a tad skeptical. And why? We cant seem to stop a freakin' faucet from leaking with attempts and trials and errors that span a millennia. We cant seem to stop ANY liquids from escaping their containment, again, a practice that we have tried to do spanning a millennia or two or three. Even four and five... So know, we wanna poison the earth from deeeep inside as we are NOT content of killing our planet from above. My my!!! We are quite the destructive little shytes we are!!!

Its tastefully done visually on the outside. My fear was all for nothing as I was envisioning aggressive spoilers and aero body kits. Although the Lyriq V does have different body work making it look like its slightly lower to the ground than the standard Lyriq and that extra body work is more sporty in nature, its not aggressive at all. And the extra body work is very minimal. In fact, nobody would notice the design cues as a sport oriented model let alone a V model. The V Lyriq just looks like a refreshed model for the new year. And that is how I prefer the Lyriq V to be styled. In my neighborhood, Chevrolet Equinox EVs and Lyriqs are ubiquitous. The Blazer EV slightly less so. Its too expensive. The Equinox EV hits the spot at the cheaper end of the Ultium platfrom spectrum while the Lyriq hits the spot and the higher priced spectrum of this platform. I saw up close and personal at the Montreal auto show, the Optiq, and the Optiq renders the Blazer EV uselessly obsolete. The Optiq has the same shape and silhouette as the Blazer, the interior is more luxurious as its a Cadillac all the while being slightly more expensive than the Blazer rendering the Blazer unneccesary. I predict the Optiq will also be a sales success going forward while the Blazer not so much.

This is an intriguing future that KIA is envisioning with the different modules that they propose their PBV vans be capable of transforming into and modules that be offered to be used. Pretty impressive thought process and engineering. I visited the Montreal auto show 2 weekends ago and saw Chevy's Bright Drop and was quite impressed with that family of EV vans, but if KIA succeeds with this idea and gives us this future, Id say this would be a far better design. I also saw VW's ID Buzz up close as well. Sat in the driver's seat, passenger seat up front and back. And although the discussion between a constant whining poster and David was that the VW's ID Buzz's exterior design is cuter, to which Id agree, and the interior is quite nicely done as well, the over all vision is bested by KIA. VW is relying on nostalgia to succeed. Like how it was discussed byn this very whiny poster. But...with a subpar EV powertrain to even GM's comparison of let alone Tesla, and although w Tesla has failed to advance its superiority in EV technology over its competiton, KIA, if they bring this future to reality, Id say KIA is killing it. KIA is looking to the future not only to survive, but to take no prisoners and rule the EV world. Id take future progress over nostalgic mediocrity any day of the week. And athough Id buy an ID Buzz and proudly drive it even with the subpar EV powertrain as compared to its competiton, because the ID Buzz is that cute and fun to be seen in, its KIA that really desereves my tip of the hat with this concept. Well done KIA!!!

Im trying sooooo hard to ignore myself. I cant. Its impossible to do as he mocks Canada. Threatens Canada. We Canadians are taking his insults and threats very seriously and its impossible just to let it go. Our relationship with our American brothers and sisters are put to a test and we do not like it one bit. I havent been so proud to be Canadian like this in a very long while. Enough that I have started cheering for the Montreal Canadiens in hockey. Havent done so since 1984. I havent started loathing the US quite yet, but Im awfully close in doing so. I have started with that thought process though... and Im easing into the hatred.

Thank you for allowing me to express my sadness and anger towards DJT. Its not easy listening to Trump's hurtfull speeches towards Canada. Hence these posts. Agreed. But...that does not mean because some women and visible minorites voted for him that Trump needs to take away their rights... DEI is such a bad thing that the Tuskagee Airmen actually were never a force to be reckoned with in the US airforce back in Double U Double U Two. (sarcasm) Regarding women, yeah, I suppose DEI is a bad thing as women belong in the kitchen and bedroom. Its my duty as a human being to defend anything and everything shytty that comes out of Trump's shytty mouth. And it dont matter if uneducated and brainwashed idiots voted for Trump, it is still my duty to defend these people from the tyranny of this man named Trump. I understand. I will comply with the language thing. No need for vulgarity. I agree.

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That would be passive aggresiveness that passes off as Canadian friendliness. LOL. Although on the East Coast, Canadians there are truly friendly and sincere, the rest of the country runs on passive aggressive friendliness. And I would guess that is where the great Canadian humour that Hollywood gets to enjoy via comedians like John Candy, Jim Carrey, Dave Foley, Mike Myers, Martin Short, Ryan Reynolds, and others stems from. LOL I cannot defend what happens in France with this language thing, but I will defend the French language thing in Canada for French Canadians in Quebec to the bone. There are MANY reasons for this. And the British Anglos and the English Canadian Anglos are the culprit for this political issue Quebec always faces and will continue to face. Although there isnt any problems amongst fellow Canadians regarding the French language in Canada anymore, the wounds run VERY deep from past Anglo supremacy forced upon French Canadians in the past. I would share the same sentiments from your post Mr. David Felt.

I understand. And in some parts of Canada, the shytty extreme right ideologies have also krept in making Canada unrecognizable in those areas... And ironically, those folk believe to be purely Canadian in thought and soul. But in reality, I have a suspicion its those British loyalist phoques from the US when the US became its own country that fled to live up north up here in Canada and they retained their shytty uptight British ways... And speaking of uptight... You are not wrong about British Columbia. Victoria and Vancouver would be very loosey goosey and liberal, but some other parts of British Columbia would be stiff upper lipped. But I am curious to know what you mean by that. Where in the East Coast of Canada are you referring to because the stereotype of friendly Canadians is BECAUSE of the East Coast of Canada. The most friendliest of people ANYWHERE in the world... I would find your statement a little bit more bizarre that @trinacriabob's statement regarding British Columbia. If you are referring to Quebecois, well, I could see it because the French culture could be offensive to some, but...the Quebec people are SUPER friendly and probably the MOST liberal of ALL of North America. OK...in the rural parts of Quebec, they could be rude because they would probably view somebody from the outside as an...outsider and they are known not to accept too easily. But an outsider to them would also mean other French Quebecois from another part of Quebec, let alone an Anglo that doesnt speak French. British Columbia is kinda like our California mixed in with Colorado. Per my observations. I dont see Florida but Id like to see why you would think that @trinacriabob. Im curious. Id like to see your point of view. Now...Alberta would be hands down our Texas. Same kind of friendliness but in a Canadiana kinda way of course. But just as red-necky regarding many things. And that British loyalty thing, yeah, Id like to believe its still strong in that province. Although British Columbian Anglos would also have an affinitiy for that British Royals thing too. Id like to know if you see it the same way I do regarding Alberta and British Columbia.

Reason # xxx as to why I love hockey and the players From the bruising hit that takes the opponent outside the rink and into the player's bench. To the player saying to his teammate to 'hit him' just before the hit happens. To that same player saying that he has got him by calling him chubby but helping him out of the bench area and back unto the ice to the player that got hit laughing it off and skating off to continue on playing as if it was just a minor inconvenience and finally to the athletic trainer just looking at the hit, the player that got hit and visually seeing on his face his thoughts: "yup dude, you just got plastered!" and casually puts the bench back to its place. The sportsmanship from all sides is incredible. Love it!!!

I got a better idea for Trump: Instead of Canada becoming the 51st state, Id prefer for the US to become Canada's 4rth Territory. Not even province status. In order for the United Stated Territories of America to become a full blown province, Americans would have to prove their allegiance and loyalty to the Royalty of King Charles the Third since Canada is a Federal Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy of the British Commonwealth realm. Trump's job and title would be a perfect revival for an old tradition. King Charles the Third's court jester. And we could throw him a bone...and have a playing card named after him since he likes those kinds of things

Im glad to get that off my chest

This is what Andy Palmer said, the dude of what the article in the link is about. "Hybrids are a road to hell. They are a transition strategy, and the longer you stay on that transition, the less quickly you ramp up into the new world," Palmer said. "If you just delay transitioning to EVs by diluting it with hybrids then you are more uncompetitive for longer, and you allow the Chinese to continue to develop their market and their leadership. I honestly think it's a fool's errand," he added. And him being the dude that helped engineer the Nissan Leaf and was later the dude in charge of Nissan's EV department, I am 100% in agreement with him. And I would also like to add: The Chinese government pushed and pushed hard for EVs. Pushed hard not only on the global stage but MOSTLY got ALL Chinese people ON BOARD with EVs. They had several reasons to do so. China has lots and lots of minerals and important ingredients to make said batteries. An essential part of EV transition. But most IMPORTANTLY, China WANTS to REPLACE the USA for being the defacto country in political, social, economical influence in the world that the USA enjoyed since the end of WW2 in 1945. And since they knew they lacked behind in ebery metric that would push them to that status, they had only one move to make. It was a Hail Mary pass, but kit was to dominate in the the tech world and it happened to be in the automobile realm. EVs. And while China was seeking to dominate in this arena, and CAREFULLY nurtured it, the USA phoqued themselves over. Idiot Americans were fooled to believe ALL the negative commentary on EVs. Uneducated morons liked the drill baby drill commentary. Smart but greedy fools failed to see what was coming next and failed even further to see the threat that is China and ITS technological breakthroughs. ALL from morons that had biased reasons to be anti-EV. From the Joe Rogans and Alex Jones of the world that thrive from clicks for the podcast youtube and other shytty platforms to anti-EV biases from Big Oil. And lastly, stupid politicians that failed American citizens in different decades from keeping Americans poor and stupid by not giving them educations. By PURPOSELY DEFUNDING the American school system, by PURPOSELY lying to them on DIFFERENT subjects and while these American politicians were greedily looking to make America into a fascist, oligarch world, they failed to see and acknowledge the OTHER threats the world was giving to the US OTHER than the war threats. The technological warfare. Exactly the OPPOSITE of what the Chinese regimes were on about EVs. And if Trump decides to cut EV subsidies, even of only to allow Tesla to sell, the Chinese are building European factories to build EVs there. Slowly. They are FLOODING the market with Chinese EVs as we speak in Europe. The next step is to flood North America with Chinese EVs. The starting point IS Mexico. If one is educated, one could see the disaster that is to come for GM, Ford. Stellantis is going to get the disaster first in Europe. Chinese EVs are going to flood Mexico. INEXPENSIVE Chinese EVs. Then WILL come the factories in Mexico. So much for the "NOBODY WANTS EVs" rhetoric that the uneducated, wrongfully informed Americans (and Canadians to some degree) keep on spewing... Its really IS a big deal. I SEE that rhetoric play about the failure of VW and Stellantis and even GM when these fools squeal about how they are failing because they have put all their monies on EVs. The thing is, they didnt put their monies FAST enough on EVs and also concetrated on producing ICEVs when they should have just NIXED them waaaay before. Of course that is Monday morning quarterbacking from me as I say that, but I ALSO saw the writing on the wall about EVs being THE future. Had Americans NOT been LIED to about this whole thing about scare tactics about EVs, GM and Ford would have ALL the working EVs RIGHT NOW not ONLY to shut down Tesla, but to even shut down Chinese EVs. Elon Musk could have TAKEN China ALL to himself if he was 5% the visionary he thinks he is. But he was too busy STILL selling us on colonizing Mars... Whatever happened to that super loop thing anyway? Yeah...a billion dollar boondoggle that had everybody fooled. Chinese politicians, engineers and all around smart folk must be STILL laughing at all the gullible Americans and greedy fools that the US has churned out the last 15 years... But hey... Now lets keep on shopping because its the Christmas season and we should all consume because its good for the economy while we wait for tariffs to hit us because Canada and Mexico reasons, because our eggs are expensive while we get fleeced by insurance companies but we dont want healthcare because communism and education education education but Ivy Leaguers they too smart so they elitist but Democrats wanting to forgive student debt no good but keep on having insanely expensive school tuitions while other areas in the country and young folk not having ACCESS to an education while calling some countries of the world as shytehole countries while ALSO keep on having school shootings because teachers arent packing but also those shytehole country folk are eating the dogs and they are eating the cats.

She was on the BBC Oh..stop that!!! The British Broadcasting Corporation is what I meant and she had fame. He had fame and that means both were meant to be at that fame crossroad. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g4wl6 You guys have a dirty mind Maybe that song of his, super freakay, was a reference to her

Nothing really wrong with the religion itself honestly. Its the practitioners that are the problem. Its them that need to reevaluate their belief and value system... It is phrased wrong is all Im saying.