Canada should not respond to potential U.S. tariffs with retaliatory tariffs, as this would primarily harm Canadian consumers by driving up prices. Instead, Canada should leverage its industrial and technological capabilities to undermine the monopolistic rent-seeking of American corporations by legalizing and promoting third-party modifications, repairs, and alternative marketplaces for technology, agriculture, and other industries. By dismantling restrictive intellectual property laws—many of which were imposed under the USMCA trade agreement—Canada could become a global hub for jailbreaks, independent app stores, and right-to-repair solutions, thereby reducing dependence on U.S. tech monopolies and fostering a new high-tech economy that directly benefits Canadian consumers and businesses.
As a first step, we could strengthen any of our our data protection and consumer protection laws that are lower then the EU laws/regulations to bring them up to the higher standard.
(also @m0darn@lemmy.ca)
I’d love to see either of those things happen if possible. I was just making my estimation of what seems the most realistic scenario, based on what I’ve heard and seen so far.
My guess is that this is probably about the massive amounts of energy they’ll need for Stargate, the massive AI initiative. They want a much, much sweeter deal on energy resources. This feels a lot like an equivalent of the time Trump badly screwed over at least one other country that needed Covid vaccines by outbidding them for supplies (that were already promised to them) at the last minute.