the president wants to eliminate income taxes and replace them with tariff revenues. it's a tax shift from income to consumption - highly regressive and broadly economically stupid according to most economists, but massively beneficial to the ultra-rich.

for that reason, these kinds of discussions will not be on the table. donald trump does not care about bringing back manufacturing jobs, he cares about reducing income taxes.

it is extremely unlikely that this policy will outlast donald trump. we will need to have this discussion when trump is gone, which will be soon, but which is not now.

it's consequently not clear what the purpose of mr polievre's announcement is, other than to try to confuse union voters with false promises and illusory policies.

these discussions will be necessary...with the next administration. right now, canada has to wait, and should probably avoid renegotiating nafta altogether, until a new administration comes in. this administration is not interested in trade or in jobs, it's interested in replacing income taxes with import taxes.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/unifor-reacts-to-conservative-auto-plan/