How long will it take for U.S. aluminum tariffs to affect Canadians?

Canada plans to retaliate with $3.6 billion in countermeasures. McMaster University's Marvin Ryder weighs in on how it’ll impact Canadians.

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27 comments

    1. Australian and British news, actually, since they, not Canadians, own the aluminum companies, oh, American too, because they are the ones paying the tax.

  1. Mr. Trump, increase tariffs by 50% so Quebec gets a small idea of what it feels like for a federal government to crush their resource sector.

    1. You do realize the resources are those of Australia, don’t you, unless you consider the hydroelectricity a resource ? Bauxite is not a Canadian resource, the aussies bring it, and there are no Canadian owned aluminum companies. Quebec sells hydroelectricity to the foreigners who make aluminum in Canada, just like they sell it to the Eastern seaboard of the USA. If you increase the tariffs by 50%, you will be increasing the price to the American customers by that much. The USA does not make enough on their own, only a quarter of what they need, so every tariff gets paid by them. Judging by what you are saying, you seem to think that tariffs will somehow affect Quebec, which is rather silly, and the world demand for the product, will see to it that the workers will not likely lose hours, so no problem.

  2. Where was this similar outrage when our own federal government added regulation costs to Alberta’s oil and gas?

  3. Its funny seeing the comments about Trudeau standing up for workers, Trudeau….the most socialist Prime Minister that I am aware of. Trudeau has given more money then anyone to social programs for Canadians.

    1. Give money to…?
      Huh…?
      He did not open his personal wallet to do this..
      It is your children’s tax bill he is handing out.

  4. When television news anchors and university professors can no longer pronounce
    ‘aluminium’ correctly like educated Canadians, it’s absurd to hear them speaking of
    ”the Americans” as Other. Even Trudeau, the Prime Minister, and a former school teacher
    with degrees in Literature and Education, pronounces it no differently than the Antagonist-
    in-Chief whom he scorns. Shall we willingly follow suit seeing where such slackness leads?!

    1. The correct Canadian spelling and pronunciation has one i, for well over one hundred years, not two, as you have suggested with the British spelling. The British and Australian companies which own Alcan use the Canadian form as well. Just because you think we should use British words does not make other Canadians less educated, it just shows your unacceptance to a difference in spelling between countries….do you actually think there is a city in Italy named and spelled Florence ?

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