Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Thu Mar 20 2025 12:21:54

 RM> I think there's a lot of that going on down there. I think people would
 RM> be much more against what is going on if they know how much their bills
 RM> will go up and how many will lose their jobs if Trump does half of what
 RM> he wants to do.  He has stopped saying he will put tariffs on Canada
 RM> and Mexico and is now saying he will put it on everything that enters
 RM> the USA from any other country in the world. So everything you buy not
 RM> made in the USA will go up 25% or so, and all that tariff money will
 RM> just go into the gov't coffers. It's like a huge tax on all consumers
 RM> in your country and he's trying to convince you it is a good thing.

I'm convinced that everything Trump does is a good thing. I keep hearing all these warnings about him, but nothing he does ever seems to hurt.

 RM> It is already costing your small businesses Billions of dollars.
 RM> Canadians have already cut vacations and shopping trips down there
 RM> by 500,000 fewer than normal for this time of year. How much money
 RM> would half a million tourists spend there in a month and what is
 RM> that doing to hotels and restaurants and retailers?

These numbers sound like they are highly manipulatable. It could all be based on a survey that was taken on 10 Canadians from the streets of Vancouver.

 RM> I feel bad when I see American tourists up here who, almost the
 RM> first thing they say is they are sorry for what Trump is doing
 RM> to us. It's not the American people's fault and we know that but
 RM> to fight back we can really only do the small stuff that hurts
 RM> the ordinary people down there. Thousands of American products
 RM> have been removed from the store shelves here and a lot of people
 RM> refuse to buy the ones that are still left.

I don't understand why they would act that way. I don't think anyone here is refusing to buy Canadian stuff. I know for a fact that I'm buying Canadian electric every month. Some people get way too stirred-up from things they've seen or heard on TV. All the "problems" with Trump's tariffs are still just predictions (as far as I can see.)

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