Wow! For the first time in several months, I feel slightly hopeful.
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Wow! I don’t even know how to express how huge that is! Il Douche and co. will not be pleased that they cannot make this knowledge evaporate!
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Canadian officials are currently providing a background briefing on Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, and on Ottawa's response to them.
Officials say there was a strategic selection of what things to tariff, with an eye to create a bit of shock on the American side.
To put a finer point on that: Canada selected this list of things to tariff with a plan to mobilize Americans to express their frustration about the tariffs — particularly those who have the ear of the president.
For those who keep asking about Tesla/Starlink/etc
Tariffs are done by customs codes, which cover entire classes of things — not by specific company.
I am no trade law expert, but I believe putting penalties on a specific company would be a sanction, and would elicit some messy litigation.
Canadian officials say this step of the response is about showing we mean business, without escalating the trade war or hobbling any particular Canadian industry.
But Ottawa says it’s ready to keep scaling up a response — oil and gas may well be included in that.
Ah, officials are now responding to why Elon Musk’s companies are not being tariff’d.
Canadian officials are a bit cagey, but they say that the next round of tariffs will include other targeted goods and industries. They hint that this next round may hit Musk’s businesses.
(To be clear, if Ottawa does go after Musk’s companies, you’re likely to see entire classes of imports: Electric vehicles, aerospace equipment, etc., not company-specific measures.)
Canada had no idea what the actual Trump tariff levels would be until yesterday. So they’re still trying to model the damage likely to be inflicted by Trump’s economic warfare.
Canadian officials confirm that individual companies cannot be targeted by these tariffs. They hint there are other ways to target those companies, but are a bit vague as to how to do that.
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I am sure there are laws that Musk’s companies are not following.
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That’s wonderful!
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So if you were in Canada and wanted to target TESLA EVs there isnt a good way to do it. In the US you could target specifically HTSUS Code 8703.80.00.60 for new passenger EVs with a range over 250 miles. For Canada they would use code 8703.80 which is much broader and would target all EVs, not just TESLA.
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Not a chance in hell.
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Legally, he’s still innocent.
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Free Luigi!
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Gary Legum from Wonkette says that the elected officials at the rally, house members and senators, were blocked from entering the USAID building;
the elected officials tried to walk into USAID headquarters, only to have security turn them away, allegedly on Musk’s orders. This is the moment where we remind everyone that ELON MUSK IS NOT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL OR A (REAL) GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE. DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE HAS A “JOB” NOW, BUT FUCK YOU. AS SUCH HE HAS ABOUT AS MUCH LEGAL AUTHORITY TO DO WHAT HE’S DOING AS WE DO
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Then in a stirring show of solidarity, the Democratic lawmakers backed down in unison?
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That’s all I know at this point. The video cuts off before they come back out, but there was some shouting.
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That was quite a while ago and I haven’t heard anything about lawmakers being arrested, so…
On the other hand, the media probably wouldn’t report on it over all the tariff talk in any case.
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…Is this the same thing as the “sexual assault” accusations we’ve been hearing about? Because that sounds like a lot more than sexual assault. 
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