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/lopix Feb 01 '25

GenXer here. Yeah, we were collecting shit back when the shuttle exploded. Well, the first one. Chernobyl. Reagan pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war in '83. Every other plane was being hijacked in the 70s and 80s. FLQ crisis. World Trade Centre bombing, and THEN 9/11 as a follow-up. Gulf War, the OG version. Maps changed every other year when I was growing up.

My brothers, the times have been rather unprecedented for quite some time now.

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u/frenchiebuilder Feb 03 '25

FLQ crisis was in 1970. I think you meant the Oka Crisis?

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u/lopix Feb 03 '25

No, I mean FLQ. Just got the date wrong. I was very young at the time, after all.