Just over 48 hours after President Trump put a halt to trade talks between Canada and the United States over the implementation of the Digital Services Tax (DST), the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney dropped the tax.
Well, so much for elbows up.
Trump basically told Carney to jump, and Carney asked him, "How high?"
I mean Carney did not even put up a fight. One would think they might have dropped the tax's retroactivity. But no. Trump got what he wanted and because of it Trump smells blood in the water and will ask for more. A lot more up to and including the abolition of Canada's supply management system for dairy, egg and poultry farmers. At the very minimum, Canada now needs to ask Trump's permission when it comes to fiscal and taxation policy.
Prime Minister Carney has shown himself to be a paper tiger. Now that the election is over, Carney has shown that he was all talk and no action.
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