@brettcannon Presumably more for Americans than the other way around, right? I don't follow the news, but I would hope that the incredibly self-destructive act of imposing tariffs is not catching on...

@brettcannon Oof, I just looked it up, seems like Canada saw the US jumping off a bridge and wanted to get in on the action.

@pganssle @brettcannon yeah, it's not pretty

@pganssle It doesn't go beyond Chinese EVs, and even the EU got in on that one (basically the places where cars are made).

And considering what the US is doing to us, we most definitely did not "get in on the action".

@brettcannon I feel like you may have misunderstood what I was saying there. I largely consider tariffs to be primarily harmful to the citizens of the country that imposes the tariff, because (among other things) it means they have to give away more of their stuff and labor.

Canada "getting in on the action" (of jumping off a bridge) is when they decided to harm their own citizens by imposing retaliatory tariffs on the US.

The weird thing to me is the way 17th century merchantilist thinking is so prevalent today that people don't realize that the dominant strategy in a trade war is to remove all tariffs unilaterally.

@brettcannon In any case, I'm sorry that your government is doing that to you, and I'm also very sad that my government is doing the same to me.

@pganssle I'm going to stop engaging on this topic with you as I'm worried it's going to upset me too much and I would rather keep talking with you overall (Canadians are not taking the US tariffs opposed upon us well, and I support what our government is doing to defend ourselves).