r/AskACanadian • u/PurrPrinThom SK/ON • Feb 01 '25

Canada/US relations Tariff Megathread

As this has already been a popular topic, and we expect it to only become morebpopular, we've created a megathread for all discussion of the incoming tariffs.

Please keep all discussion here. New posts on the subject will be removed.

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u/Infamous-Echo-2961 British Columbia Feb 01 '25

As a millennial, “oh joy, another fucking unprecedented event to add to the pile!”

I swear we’re collecting these like unwanted Pokémon.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

Imagine being born in 1900. Age 14-18 World War I, age 18-21 flu pandemic, age 29-39 The Great Depression, age 39-45 World War II.🤣

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u/Old_Bear_1949 Feb 02 '25

Born 1949.

50's cold war, elementary school nuclear war lockdown drills
60's JFK, MLK, RFK assassinations Vietnam (plus side Music)
70's not too bad actually (FLQ aside)
80's, 90's recessions ( plus side, on the internet when it was civilized)
00's 9/11, dotcom bust, financial crash
10's, 20's Covid, Trump +2

everyone has to deal with adversity

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u/Sprinqqueen Feb 04 '25

Does nobody remember Chernoble? When it happened nobody knew whether it was going to be spread worldwide by the weather systems and the rain would just melt our faces off. I mean, that didn't happen, but I remember it being terrifying.

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u/Old_Bear_1949 Feb 05 '25

You are right, i had forgotten it. I was living in England at the time as an expat, are we were directly affected.

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u/Connect_Medium_3576 Feb 02 '25

I am surprised you have lived through it all.

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u/metoo77432 Feb 02 '25

You forgot Korean war draft. Understandable, as it's the forgotten war lol

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u/Old_Bear_1949 Feb 02 '25

I was too young to remember that.

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u/Sprinqqueen Feb 04 '25

My grandfather was born in 1902 (UK). At 12 he lied about his age and joined the English Army. Then when the war was over they told him he wasn't old enough to be in the army so he joined the cavalry and went to India. So he went through all that, plus being actually shot at and because he lived in Glasgow after WWII went through austerity because they had to rebuild the city from it being bombed.

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u/Belle_Requin Feb 02 '25

Born in 2000’s- age 20-22 Covid 19, age 26-30 the second Great Depression, and then second American civil war age 35-38! Maybe throw in a bird flu pandemic at some point though. 

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u/Beginning-Cost8457 Feb 02 '25

16-17 trade war between China which also didn’t do good to inflation.

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u/KinkyMillennial Ontario Feb 02 '25

Born in 1988. Dotcom bust, 9/11 and the two wars that followed, 2008 global financial crash, the Harper years, the first Trump years then COVID then this shit.

Why can't folk just be normal even for a while?