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Will Canada survive President Trump?

In Ottawa, Tuesday, during the 158e Anniversary of the Confederation, the enthusiasm of spectators and Prime Minister Mark Carney sounded a little false.

CBC/Radio-Canada had nevertheless found his bilingualism of special occasions with Isabelle Racicot at the microphone. We had even achieved an exact distribution of the stars of our two official languages. But everyone’s repeated calls for the pride of being Canadian had something suspect. They even made me think of the love tsunami which had swept the Quebec the day before the 1995 referendum … without leaving traces afterwards.

The party had started badly. Friday, the day before the cheerful week-endDonald Trump broke talks with Canada. Our country owed the 1is July perceive for the first time its new digital tax. Some 2.7 billion were going to enter the chests! On Sunday, to everyone’s surprise, Mark Carney was giving up this windfall.

Decreed to wait until the OECD countries (the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) agree on the principle of a global tax on multinationals, the Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland had, like a few European countries, including France and England, imposed a 3%tax, retroactive on 1is January 2022. The OECD has discussed a global tax on digital companies since 2016 …

Surprise in Kananaskis

Stroke in Kananaskis in Alberta in mid-June: behind closed doors, the G7 countries discussed 15% tax on the profits of digital companies on which the OECD had finally got along, however without China and the United States ratifying the agreement.

Last Saturday, the G7 discreetly exempt the American multinationals from this tax on the pretext that they were already taxed in the United States. By giving up the tax imposed by Mrs. Freeland, Mark Carney therefore only enhanced a decision already made in the G7. A real sleight of hand!

The worst may be to come

If after only six months, President Donald Trump managed to make G7 countries give up the principle of a minimum world tax, how can we hope that he does not end up being right with our economy with an avalanche of prices?

How can we believe that digital giants will come to contribute to the creation of Canadian content as our cable people have been doing for years, even if a judgment of the Federal Court, before which they dispute this obligation, is unfavorable to them? How can we imagine that they will comply with the obligations of discovering the French -speaking content that Minister Mathieu Lacombe wants to impose on them?

Finally, how can we hope that these giants will respect the cultural exceptional agreements won in the negotiation of the free trade agreements between Canada, Mexico and the United States?

Will Canada and Quebec survive Donald Trump, who will still be president of three and a half years? If it’s not more …?

abigail.wright
abigail.wright
Abigail covers health and lifestyle topics, emphasizing the importance of fitness, nutrition, and mental well-being for a holistic approach to life.
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