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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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31%
Yes
69%
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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 @B244VCMfrom Ontario  answered…2wks2W

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…2mos2MO

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…2mos2MO

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.

 @9WK3LGVfrom British Columbia  answered…2mos2MO

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

 @9WBTJ7Sfrom Ontario  answered…2mos2MO

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

 @9RQNPMRfrom Nova Scotia  answered…5mos5MO

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

 @9RGCB9Pfrom Alberta  answered…5mos5MO

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

 @9GPTJ2Dfrom British Columbia  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, but it should occur in conjunction with the creation of a robust system that provides a balance between reducing the cost to businesses who must access items not available in the current domestic market AND incentivize consumers to prioritize purchasing products from domestic manufacturers

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…3wks3W

Mexican Shuts Down 2 Migrant Caravans After Trump Threat

Mexican immigration authorities have broken up two small migrant caravans headed to the U.S. border, activists said Saturday.Some migrants were bused to cities in southern Mexico, and others were offered transit papers.The action comes a week after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to slap 25% tariffs on Mexican products unless the country does more to stem the flow of migrants to the U.S. border.On Wednesday, Trump wrote that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had agreed to stop unauthorized migration across the border into the United States. Sheinbaum wrote on her social media accounts the same day that “migrants and caravans are taken care of before they reach the border.”Migrant rights activist Luis García Villagrán said the breaking-up of the two caravans appeared to be part of “an agreement between the president of Mexico and the president of the United States.”The first of the caravans started out from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, on Nov. 5, the day Trump was elected. At its height it had about 2,500 people. In almost four weeks of walking, it had gone about 270 miles (430 kilometers) to Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca.In Tehuantepec, Mexican immigration officials offered the tired migrants free bus rides to other cities in southern or central Mexico.“They took some of us to Acapulco, others to Morelia, and others from our group to Oaxaca city,” said Bárbara Rodríguez, an opposition supporter who left her native Venezuela after that country's contested presidential elections earlier this year.Rodríguez said by telephone she later caught a bus on her own to Mexico City.In a statement Saturday, the National Immigration Institute said the migrants voluntary accepted bus rides “to various areas where there is medical assistance and where their migratory status will be reviewed,” and said “upon accepting (the rides), they said they no longer wanted to face the risks along their way.”

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