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Canada Might Sanction Trump By Going After His Administration Rather Than the American People

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An interesting turn of events.

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday that she is open to using a law normally reserved for leaders responsible for human rights violations to impose retaliatory sanctions on the Trump Administration. Those sanctions would target the administration itself rather than the American people.

The Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, also known as the Magnitsky law, would allow Ottowa (to impose travel bans and asset freezes on foreign leaders. Regina-Lewvan MP Erin Weir proposed the measure during a Question Period with Freeland earlier this week. Weir noted that the law might be particularly useful because Trump has "made himself vulnerable" by maintaining personal business interests.
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https://www.pluralist.com/posts/116...dministration-rather-than-the-american-people


Canada is playing for keeps
 
Based on how many children are being detained at the Mexican border by ICE and separated from their parents, the foreign minister would be justified.
 
Northern Light said:
Based on how many children are being detained at the Mexican border by ICE and separated from their parents, the foreign minister would be justified.
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Why not just send buses or plane tickets inviting them all to the great white ( oops, thats racist, right? ) north. Not like y'all dont have the space, right?
 
Barnacle said:
What a stupid gnome that Freeland is ... :lol:
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I am sure you would unhappy unless Canada replaced her with Gollum, Wormtongue or Renfield or whatever loathsome sycophant from fiction that would call Trump master.
 
Gaugingcatenate said:
Why not just send buses or plane tickets inviting them all to the great white ( oops, thats racist, right? ) north. Not like y'all dont have the space, right?
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What a gross comment. You should be ashamed.
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
An interesting turn of events.



https://www.pluralist.com/posts/116...dministration-rather-than-the-american-people


Canada is playing for keeps
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And as badass as all this sounds, here's another source, for perspective.

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/could-ottawa-slap-the-trump-organization-with-trade-sanctions/

It goes into a lot more detail about the discussion, and you'll see this is far from a done deal. Freeland is talking tough, because she has to be tough right now. I think this would represent an unnecessary escalation. I'm good with "Ok, fine, you don't like our terms, we'll do business elsewhere".

Canada may be playing for keeps, but I would be surprised if we went full psycho on this. Our best bet is to simply refuse to submit to Trump's demands, accept the tariffs, sell the goods to American companies in the short term anyway, passing along those costs to them, and build trade relationships with other markets so that we can easily shift our business from America to the rest of the world when either they run out of money, or manage to build enough manufacturing and raw material production infrastructure to get to the point where it's cheaper (and possible) to source solely from within the US. :shrug: Doing this without due cause would be a misstep, in what has been to date a pretty solid performance, Trump tantrums notwithstanding. I highly, highly doubt that we would actually pursue this.
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
I have seriously looked into moving to Canada ever since I first visited there in 2015. I wonder if I can apply for asylum :)
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Don't need to apply for asylum. Long as you have no criminal history, its real easy to get a work visa. They have more jobs than people. Turns out, if you pay people enough to live, it's better for the economy than having a few elites hoard all the wealth.

Go figure.

I was randomly offered a job yesterday, to paint lines in parking lots. Guy was just like, hey man you want a job.

Thing is, I don't need the money, but it's outside, and it looks like beautiful weather for the next couple weeks. And all the guys smoke weed. So, I'll prob just do it for free.
 
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Unitedwestand13 said:
An interesting turn of events.



https://www.pluralist.com/posts/116...dministration-rather-than-the-american-people


Canada is playing for keeps
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1. Seems the thread title and article title is incorrect. They aren't talking about going after the "Trump administration". Rather, they are talking about going after Trump's personal business interests...the companies he's created over the years BEFORE he became President. Just thought I'd point that out that error.

2. It appears to me that the Canadians don't mind being underhanded ******s. They think it's okay to mount a witch hunt against Trump's personal life since they don't have the power to combat the things he's doing as President.

3. This is akin to what the Trump haters in the US have been doing since he became the Republican nominee for President. Go after the personal life of him and everyone associated with him instead of actually trying to justify their opposition to his policies.

4. I wouldn't be surprised if these disgusting, pathetic Canadians started stalking Barron...waiting for the boy to do something they can blow up into an international incident. Anything to "get Trump".
 
i like presidents who don't engage in pointless conflicts with our closest allies.
 
Mycroft said:
1. Seems the thread title and article title is incorrect. They aren't talking about going after the "Trump administration". Rather, they are talking about going after Trump's personal business interests...the companies he's created over the years BEFORE he became President. Just thought I'd point that out that error.

2. It appears to me that the Canadians don't mind being underhanded ******s. They think it's okay to mount a witch hunt against Trump's personal life since they don't have the power to combat the things he's doing as President.

3. This is akin to what the Trump haters in the US have been doing since he became the Republican nominee for President. Go after the personal life of him and everyone associated with him instead of actually trying to justify their opposition to his policies.

4. I wouldn't be surprised if these disgusting, pathetic Canadians started stalking Barron...waiting for the boy to do something they can blow up into an international incident. Anything to "get Trump".
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I would hope that if a foreign country attacks the US President personally, the whole of the country would back the President to retaliate.

What kind of brainless idiot equates human rights violations to tariffs?
 
Can America's allies target Trump's businesses in response to tariffs? - Business Insider

"It's something that certainly would be out of the mainstream in terms of what's been done before," DeBusk said.

But DeBusk said such a move would not be "totally unprecedented." She pointed to the Treasury Department's recent sanctions of powerful Russian oligarchs as evidence it could be legally justified.
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"I see it as last resort," Goldman said.

Even Weir, the Canadian MP who posed the idea to Freeland, admitted it would be uncomfortable. But he said it could be necessary if economic pressure from the tariffs starts to build.
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"I can see how it would be seen as a radical measure, but we are confronted with a radical reality from the Trump administration," Weir told Maclean's.
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Trump doesn't care about who he hurts or what lies he tells to justify his hurtful actions. He only cares about what he and his empire get from any transaction. He wants money and attention, preferably praise but he'll take any attention.


If what he is doing gets bad enough, I support the countries who take creative measures to protect themselves from our corrupt and destructive president.
 
Somebody has been watching The Mouse That Roared.:lol:
 
Mycroft said:
1. Seems the thread title and article title is incorrect. They aren't talking about going after the "Trump administration". Rather, they are talking about going after Trump's personal business interests...the companies he's created over the years BEFORE he became President. Just thought I'd point that out that error.

2. It appears to me that the Canadians don't mind being underhanded ******s. They think it's okay to mount a witch hunt against Trump's personal life since they don't have the power to combat the things he's doing as President.

3. This is akin to what the Trump haters in the US have been doing since he became the Republican nominee for President. Go after the personal life of him and everyone associated with him instead of actually trying to justify their opposition to his policies.

4. I wouldn't be surprised if these disgusting, pathetic Canadians started stalking Barron...waiting for the boy to do something they can blow up into an international incident. Anything to "get Trump".
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Trump supporters seem to think anything goes when it comes to the US pursuing its national interests, why shouldn't the same apply to Canada?

Trump did not divest himself of his company after becoming President, making him vulnerable. If the Canadian government thinks Trump is not being fair to Canada, why shouldn't the Canadian government mess with Trump's company in Canada in response?
 
Mason66 said:
I would hope that if a foreign country attacks the US President personally, the whole of the country would back the President to retaliate.

What kind of brainless idiot equates human rights violations to tariffs?
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Trump used national security as the reason for tariffs against Canada, seems like turn about is fair play here.
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
I have seriously looked into moving to Canada ever since I first visited there in 2015. I wonder if I can apply for asylum :)
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As we Americans continue to devolve into a corrupt third world dictatorship, the Canadians are going to need to build a wall pretty soon to keep all those Americans escaping from their sh—hole country into theirs.
 
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