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@MaryMarasKittenBakery @cryptadamist I, like over 3/4 of Canadians, fully support retaliatory tarrifs on all American imports in response to all the shenanigans States-side. They are really the only meaningful weapon in our aresenal that can be rapidly deployed in this economic war. However our economy has been made dependent on American trade for decades so we should immediately begin working on correcting this dependence by creating more durable countermeasures to future attacks that will actually help our economic well being rather than harm it.
Next step should be a comprehensive emergency plan of the scale (if nor nature of actions) deployed for the pandemic or Great Recession to counter the damage the tariff war will bring. Support for counter-tariffs will will evaporate quickly as prices and unemployment rise unless government *truly* has our backs.
Ultimately though we must codify #AdversarialInteroperability into law and policies as @pluralistic describes. This is The Way...