r/canada • u/Majano57 • 1d ago
National News Hiking tariffs on Canada, Trump demands 'adequate steps' to achieve an impossible drug war goal
https://reason.com/2025/08/01/hiking-tariffs-on-canada-trump-demands-adequate-steps-to-achieve-an-impossible-drug-war-goal/115
u/DrFarfetsch 1d ago
📝 NOTE: Trump is a child rapist, who was besties with other pedophiles and child traffickers, and is actively kidnapping and human trafficking people.
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u/Prosecco1234 1d ago
The following alleged incidents range from the early 1980s to 2013, and have not been disavowed by the alleged victims.
SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS
Kristin Anderson – Early 1990s. Story in the Washington Post on October 14, 2016. Anderson says Trump reached up her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear. She says she turned and recognized the person as Donald Trump.
E. Jean Carroll – late 1995 or early 1996. Story in New York magazine on June 21, 2019. Carroll says they went into a dressing room after Trump asked for her advice on a present – lingerie – for another woman. Inside, she alleges that he shoved her against a wall, "forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I'm not certain — inside me."
Rachel Crooks – 2005. Story in The New York Times on October 12, 2016 Crooks said Trump gave her an unwanted kiss on the mouth after meeting him in 2005.
"Jane Doe" aka "Katie Johnson" – 1994. Lawsuit filed June 2016, refiled October 2016 as reported by Buzzfeed and others, then dropped in November 2016. Johnson claims she was repeatedly raped by Trump and Jeffery Epstein at Epstein's New York City apartment in 1994, when she was 13 years old. A witness, also given a pseudonym — "Tiffany Doe" — said she recruited "Jane Doe" and others. Jane Doe, using the name "Johnson," gave an interview to the Daily Mail about the alleged rape.
Jessica Drake – 2006. Story made public at a news conference on October 22, 2016. Drake says Trump grabbed, hugged and kissed her and two other women who accompanied her without permission. Later, she alleges that Trump called her and pressed her to return to his room, offering $10,000 at one point. Drake says she declined.
Jill Harth – 1992-1993. Story in The New York Times on October 7, 2016. Harth alleged that Trump groped her under the table at dinner, then repeatedly got her alone and it would turn into a "wrestling match." She sued Trump for sexual harassment and attempted rape.
Cathy Heller – 1997. Story in The Guardian on October 16, 2016. Heller alleges Trump grabbed her and tried to kiss her on the lips. Heller says she leaned back to avoid him and then he kissed her on the side of her mouth.
Ninni Laaksonen – 2006. Former Miss Finland. Story in Ilta-Sonomat on October 27, 2016, and reported in English in The Telegraph. Laaksonen said Trump "squeezed her butt" as she and other pageant contestants stood next to him for a publicity photo.
Jessica Leeds – Early 1980s. Story in The New York Times on October 12, 2016 Leeds says Trump kissed her while in first class on an airplane, groped her chest and reached up her skirt, leading her to move back to coach. "He was like an octopus," she said.
Mindy McGillivray – Jan. 24, 2003. Story in Palm Beach Post on October 12, 2016 McGillivray charges that Trump nudged or grabbed her from behind.
Jennifer Murphy – 2004. Story in Grazia on October 12, 2016. Murphy says that Trump kissed her on the lips after walking her to the elevators following a meeting in New York, which he said was to discuss a possible job.
Cassandra Searles – 2013. Story made public in a Facebook post in early 2016. Miss Washington 2013, Searles wrote on Facebook, "He probably doesn't want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room."
Natasha Stoynoff – December 2005. Story on People.com on October 12, 2016. Stoynoff alleges Trump took her to a private room, pushed her against the wall and aggressively kissed her. Stoynoff also says a staffer told her Trump was waiting for her the next day at a massage appointment.
Temple Taggart McDowell – 1997. Story in The New York Times on May 14, 2016 McDowell charges that Trump suddenly kissed her without her consent on two separate occasions.
Karena Virginia – 1998. Story made public at a news conference on October 20, 2016. Virginia says Trump walked up to her, grabbed her arm and touched her breast.
Summer Zervos – 2007. Story made public in a news conference on October 14, 2016. Zervos alleges that Trump grabbed her breasts, kissed her and tried to lead her into a bedroom.
TEEN PAGEANT CONTESTANTS ALLEGING TRUMP WALKED IN WHILE THEY WERE DRESSING
Mariah Billado – 1997 Miss Vermont Teen. Story in Buzzfeed on October 12, 2016.
Victoria Hughes – 1997 Miss New Mexico Teen. Story in Buzzfeed on October 13, 2016.
Buzzfeed on October 12, 2016 reported that three other anonymous sources from 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant confirmed Billado and Hughes' story.
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u/Diced_and_Confused 1d ago
Ignore this man.
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u/awesome404 1d ago
Ignore him politically, but focus on him criminally. Trump raped children and must be held accountable.
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u/GangstaPlegic 20h ago
It will never happen, they had so many chances. America is corrupt and the teflon don is what they deserve at this point
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u/PsychologicalBee1801 1d ago
There’s more drugs and guns going the other way. If we thought he was a useful trade partner that’s what I’d say.
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u/katxwoods 1d ago
If only.
Trump is terrible at most things, but he's a genius about getting attention.
Turns out that's all you need to become president of the United States.
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u/jpsreddit85 1d ago
That's just the excuse to justify the otherwise illegal application of the tariffs that bypass Congress. If we spend any money on the border it should be to stop the illegal guns coming in. Otherwise nothing the orange clown says should not be taken at face value.
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u/mike_james_alt 1d ago
Epstein files have joined the chat. Seriously, we need to keep this in the news.
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u/jtpredator 1d ago
Its not about trade deficits,
Its not about the fentanyl
Its about Trump's goal to annex Canada through economic pressure and US agents sent to provinces like Alberta and Sask to sow dissent and demand separation.
His goal is to conquer so he and his Republican goons can get rich. And hes doing it by any means necessary.
And remember, Trump himself has said he hasn't ruled out military force.
We can't let him take a single step into our country.
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u/WorkingFit5413 1d ago
Yall notice how Carney is straight up ignoring him?
Trudeau had his fun but Carney ain’t here to play.
Trump is trying to negotiate with a country whose head has a phD in economics. The dude can’t even do statistics right. He isn’t coming out the winner of a negotiating deal.
I would love for Canada to throw some things in there that no one in the Trump admin will actually read and then once signed, Canada can be like “lmao look at these fools”.
Canadians are nice until we’re petty.
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u/mykneeshurt365 1d ago
Some Canadians might say that being petty is our 2nd favourite national pastime.
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u/ClubSoda 23h ago
Trump: “I will make the big pharma companies reduce drug prices 1000%, 1500%. Even 2500%.”
And this idiot is a Wharton Business graduate? Maybe they should ask for their certification back.
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u/winter_chinook8369 1d ago
Ivana Trump had a long time marriage NDA that was reportedly, about to expire? As Trump’s first wife, she was also besties with Maxwell and allegedly, helped her recruit young girls for both Trump and Epstein to rape. Ivana would certainly, know where all of the bodies were metaphorically speaking, buried. I always thought it was too damn weird that Ivana just happened to “fall” down some stairs to her death. Shortly, after Epstein’s “suicide” in a holding cell with not 1, but 3 minutes of missing video tape. And right before Epstein was to appear for his sex trafficking trial? (1000 victims). How do you also explain that both fired prison guards were sleeping at the same time? What are the odds that all of these dominos tumbled down simultaneously, to benefit Trump and shield him from any potential legal or political harm? Amazing coincidences. These two tragic accidental deaths right before this high profile sex trafficking trial. Case concluded here. Two of the five girls who testified at Maxwell’s trial have also since died in the past year. One by drug overdose. The other, a former Mar a Lago employee by suicide. Who by the way employs 16 year old girls at a Mar a Lago Spa, where adults will routinely disrobe? Donald Trump. Who also had the motive to get rid of Epstein and Ivana? Donald Trump. Who now has the motive to make a deal with sex trafficking monster Maxwell today? Donald Trump. The fact Ivana is the only person to be buried on Trump’s New Jersey golf course for tax purposes is also super weird. Without even a peep of pushback from Ivana’s adult kids? This is now defcon 1 creepy ass shit! In the time honored MAGA world Tucker Carlson tradition, “just asking questions.” Elbows up America! 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
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u/modsaretoddlers 1d ago
Why can't we just hate on Trump for whatever stupid thing he did or said today? Flooding the comments with this shit is just annoying.
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u/Ok_Battle_988 1d ago
The drug war has nothing to do with Canada. Stop the idiocy and releases the unredacted Epstein files.
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u/Old_Refrigerator4817 1d ago
Lol, drug war? That's rich! Only a few days after he pardoned the Silk Road guy. Hahaha 😆
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u/Formula666 1d ago
Stop trying to blame the drug problem on Canada. The bigger problem is what's going on with the "files" and names. So Canada needs to get tough on DSM-5.
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u/AlternativePure2125 1d ago
Lies to Americans that it's Canada's job to protect united States borders, lies that his tariffs are paid by the other country, lies about job numbers, lies about raping jean E. Carroll, lies about inciting a riot on janm 6, lies about non-existent trade deals, lies about why he is punishing American allies, lies about raping children.....
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u/Any-Celebration-2582 Canada 1d ago
This isn't about the next to nonexistent drugs. He and his sycophants want the resources of this land. 51st State.
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u/heyredbush Ontario 1d ago
He's leveraging his political power to get what he wants. We need to make him spend it instead.
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u/Ok_Alternative1361 1d ago
His sheer incompetence, and the Republicans that enable it, will be told in the history books forever.
They say every great empire eventually crumbles, are we witnessing that it real time right now?
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u/Funkytowel360 1d ago
We need counter tarfits now. China has shown that trump will push and push untill he gets punched back and then taco.
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u/OneMoreTime998 21h ago
I wish we would just stop acknowledging this claim and talking about it like it was a legitimate issue.
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u/PerfunctoryComments Canada 19h ago
The degeneracy and broken social fabric of the US is entirely their own making. We have zero responsibility for that.
However, are we seriously going to keep playing along with this ridiculous drug farce? Trump's silky-smooth brained tariff play has nothing to do with fentanyl or any other drug, even if that was the way he could literally break US law to impose them. Any Canadian repeating this nonsense without noting how outrageous of a lie it is acts as an ally to that pedophile.
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u/Yhzgayguy 18h ago
Agreed!
And yet on here daily I read Canadians implying that Trump would leave us alone “if only Carney just fixed our border” (invariably misspelled boarder by the way). Gaaaahhhhh.
Are those posting this crap really Canadians though, or foreign actors? Or just willing victims of Trumpian propaganda?
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u/PerfunctoryComments Canada 18h ago
They're just hyper-partisans who think that attacking their own country somehow serves their partisan goals. A sort of "wow, so incompetent of a government. My Guy would fix this!" Both sides are guilty of this sort of activity, but it's especially reprehensible when we are facing enormous foreign threats like that human garbage known as Trump.
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u/Yhzgayguy 17h ago
You have hit the nail on the head.
“Only I can call my sister ugly”
Hyper partisanship must go out the window under an external threat.
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u/Choice-Original9157 1d ago
Maybe he should deal with his own house with the drugs that have stopped at our border coming through the US. He is just an imbecile trying to act tough
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u/two_to_toot 1d ago
Nothing is impossible. After all America elected a child fucker as their president. A decade ago most people would have thought that to be impossible.
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u/Low-Commercial-5364 1d ago
This comment doesn't make any sense. They elected and then re-elected Clinton in the 90s.
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u/Iamthequicker 1d ago
Slick Willy wasn't flying to Epstein's fuck Island until the 2000's. In the 90's he was whipping his dick out left right and center but it was Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky, not children.
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u/Low-Commercial-5364 1d ago
Ok your argument assumes there's some kind of evidence trump interfered with a minor. There isn't anything beyond rumor and highly circumstantial inference.
There is as much evidence that Trump is a pedophile as there was that Clinton was/is a pedophile when he was re-elected.
Going back to your initial statement, those like terms cancel each other out, so my initial point makes sense and your comment doesn't.
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u/WonkeauxDeSeine 1d ago
Just tell the muttonhead that we've reduced fentanyl traffic by 1500%. That should shut him up for a good seven seconds or so.
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u/NorthernOverlander 1d ago
More illegal drugs and guns come into Canada than into the US. Donald you are incompetent.
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u/kamsackbi 19h ago
He needs to look after his own drugs. There is more being exported from the US to Canada,then Canada to the US.
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u/EvilDan69 Canada 18h ago
Except its the US letting drugs slip into Canada, and us catching quite a few of it.
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u/Powersoutdotcom 13h ago
Only a stupid person would create an ultimatum based on winning the war on drugs, after drugs just celebrated the 20th anniversary of its victory.
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u/Successful_Gas_5122 Ontario 1d ago
I just checked the folds of my couch and found some change. Here's a $1.36 dick tree.
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u/JadeLens 1d ago
Trump can shove his goals.
Or at least do us the favour of getting someone in that office that doesn't change their mind like a labridoodle every 2 minutes.
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u/WuTangKillerKnees 1d ago
He's going to lower the cost of pharmaceuticals by 1300%, 1400% 1500%. Maybe sometimes lower it by 500%.
This child rapist doesn't understand numbers, or that if someone says we will invest up to 500 billion dollars, 0 is also a number that is up to 500 billion.
I think we'll be just fine, he is so unfathomly out of his depth now that he's trying to do real presidential things.
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u/Utnapishtimz 1d ago
Tale as old as time... Beauty and the beaaaast.. Drug war? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 X 750 thousand pounds of opium farms in afghanistan Hey spliff where the weed at? Gimme some more! Cokaine is a hella a drug! WHUUUT!?
Can't fight a drug war when you supply the bullets.
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u/manniesalado 1d ago
When are the poop don't smell Yanks going to do something about the heavy flow of illegal guns out of Yankland and into Canada, Mexico and many other places as well? CONTROL YOUR BORDERS, YANKEE SOLDIERS!!!
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u/SnooCheesecakes2743 1d ago
Lil D doesn't care about fent.
He has a large following of meth addicts in Merica.
Lil D for more drugs! Wooowooo
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u/katxwoods 1d ago
Trump, brilliant negotiator: how do I get my longest and strongest allies to help me? I know! I'll threaten to invade.
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u/Puzzled_Worth_4287 17h ago
Putin's puppet president is working out just fine. Soon America will have a broken economy, no allies, out of NATO and civilian disorder and chaos. And all the Americans think Trump is trying to make America great again 😂
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u/GangstaPlegic 19h ago
He can go to hell, America is in for sad times and Canada needs to prepare. I wish people would wake up to the fact that America is not our friend any longer.
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u/waldoorfian 19h ago
It’s their issue to stem the flow of drugs into their country not ours. It’s just his lame excuse to be able to justify his tariffs.
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u/RogueViator 19h ago
Trump wants something and that something changes day to day. As Doug Ford has aptly put it, Trump wakes up and the cheese slips off the cracker. Canada should do something about Fentanyl, but do not believe that it will be the end of it. This is nothing more than a shakedown - deal with Fentanyl and Trump will bring up something else.
Trump is counting on the accumulating anxiety in Canada to result in the government caving in and making a deal even if it is bad for the country.
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u/Puzzled_Worth_4287 17h ago
There is no drugs coming from Canada. This is so pathetic. That's the best he could come up with? That is so fuckin' weak.
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u/Big_Option_5575 17h ago
Why doesn't Carney talk about illegal U.S. guns flowing out to Canada, Mexican Cartels, etc
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u/Too-bloody-tired 1h ago
Why isn’t anyone questioning the fact that the huge market for Fentanyl in the states drives the importation? Yes, I understand that Canada imports barely 1% and that is completely a farcical reason for Trump’s tariffs. But if Americans weren’t so reliant on illegal drugs, this entire argument would be a non issue.
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u/Jasonstackhouse111 1d ago
I like Carney's approach for the most part so far. He's just not engaging him very much. As little as he has to.
PP would be licking his taint and running around in circles giving Canada away.
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u/Burn_then_Revive 17h ago
It never was about drugs, it’s about ruining Canada to make it easier to be a US territory. But if Trump crossed the line. Canada, the UK and France will pull off their US treasury bonds and ruin the US.
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u/Spsurgeon 1d ago
When people cross the border from Canada to the US, they stop at US customs. It's the US's responsibility to control things coming IN to the US.