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Should the government add or increase tariffs on products imported into the country?

A tariff is a tax on imports or exports between countries.

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Yes
70%
No
25%
Yes
58%
No
3%
Yes, this will help create and save more jobs
8%
No, a global free trade system is better for our businesses and consumers
3%
Yes, our country has been on the losing side of trade deals for too long
3%
No, this will hurt our manufacturing businesses that rely on importing cheap resources to make their products

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 @B35PD2Qfrom Ontario  answered…3wks3W

Yes but a proportional and strategic way to get other nations to reduce or eliminate tariffs against Canada

 @9WK3LGVfrom British Columbia  answered…5mos5MO

This is not an all question there are times when tariffs are necessary this is a case by case situation.

 @9WBTJ7Sfrom Ontario  answered…5mos5MO

Yes.It needs to be 100% tarrifs. Our country should become selfsustaining again and not rely on the global market.

 @B244VCMfrom Ontario  answered…3mos3MO

I think this should be done on a case to case basis. If the states adds the 25% tariffs then yes we should counter

 @9YNBMP4from Alberta  answered…4mos4MO

Tariffs should only be used in the case of national security related items/industries or when foreign governments subsidize their exports or tariff our imports.

 @9XJDXXWfrom Nova Scotia  answered…4mos4MO

The money made from for global free trade instead of local labour/resources, goes to executives and large corporations which have lackluster effects on benefiting Canada. Increasing tariffs would hurt our economy because corporations would then offload the increase of manufacturing and resources to the consumer or the employee.

 @9RGCB9Pfrom Alberta  answered…8mos8MO

No, not on materials, but should on direct to consumer products and provide more subsidies for manufacturing and production of Canadian-made goods.

 @9RQNPMRfrom Nova Scotia  answered…7mos7MO

Yes if we have the same product available here. Or better yet help the Canadian companies become competitive with the imports.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

Peace Over Party: Arab American Leaders Stun Democrats with Mass Trump Endorsement

Former President Trump earned endorsements from "highly respected" Muslim leaders and Imams during a campaign rally in the battleground state of Michigan. Trump, speaking to a crowd in Novi, Michigan, on Saturday afternoon, called the group of Muslim leaders "highly respected," before bringing them onstage."I’m thrilled to accept the endorsement of these highly respected leaders," Trump told the thundering crowd.The group of leaders cited Trump’s commitment to ending wars and ensuring global peace as a primary reason for their support, describing him as a leader who "promises peace, not war.""We, as Muslims, stand with President Trump because he promises peace, not war!" Imam Belal Alzuhairi said. "We are supporting Donald Trump because he promised to end war in the Middle East and Ukraine," Alzuhairi said. "The bloodshed has to stop all over the world, and I think this man can make that happen. I personally believe that God saved his life twice for a reason.""We're going to stop the wars, we're going to make the United States safe again, and we're going to make the world safe," Bazzi said."What a nice endorsement," Trump said after Bazzi’s speech. "These are great people."The Muslim leaders official endorsement came after Amer Ghalib, the mayor of the Detroit-area suburb Hamtramck, announced his support of Trump in a Facebook post on Oct. 20."Though it’s looking good, he may or may not win the election and be the 47th president of the United States, but I believe he is the right choice for this critical time," Ghalib wrote in Arabic on his Facebook page. "I’ll not regret my decision no matter what the outcome would be, and I’m ready to face the consequences. For this, and for many other reasons, I announce my support and endorsement for the former, and hopefully, the next President of the United States, Donald Trump."Ghalib’s endorsement of Trump comes after the two met in Flint earlier this week for a private 20-minute conversation. Ghalib told The Detroit News that Trump "knew a lot about me before the meeting." "We talked about various topics including the debates, the polls updates, the statistics of votes in Michigan and Wayne County, the Arab American concerns and the Yemeni Americans in particular. We also talked about the situation in Yemen," Ghalib said.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…3mos3MO

Defense Bill Blocks Transgender Care To Minors

The Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a defense policy bill directing $895 billion toward the Pentagon and other military activities, moving over the objections of some Democrats who opposed a provision added late in the negotiations that would deny coverage for transgender health procedures for minors.The 85-to-14 vote, coming a week after a divided House passed the same measure, cleared the bill for President Biden’s signature.Most Republicans and many Democrats supported the measure, which provides a 14.5 percent pay raise to junior enlisted service members and a 4.5 percent pay raise for all other service members. It also expands access to meal assistance, housing and child care programs that benefit those in uniform.But several Democrats withheld their backing in protest of a provision preventing TRICARE, the military’s health care plan for service members, from covering “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization” for children under 18.The language, which would affect the gender-transitioning children of service members, was recently added to the measure at the insistence of Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who refused to bring a defense bill to the House floor without it, according to aides familiar with the negotiations.Twenty-one Democrats, led by Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, proposed an amendment to strip the provision from the bill, but the matter was never brought to a vote. Several of them took to the floor on Tuesday to lodge their objections.“It’s flat-out wrong to put this provision in this bill and take away a service member’s freedom to make that decision for their families,” Ms. Baldwin said, estimating that the provision could negatively affect as many as 6,000 to 7,000 military families.

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