The head of Ottawa-based Shopify says it is “simply the wrong choice” for the federal government to impose counter tariffs on U.S. items, as a trade war begins between Canada and the United States.
In case you weren’t aware of where Tobias (Tobi) Lutke’s views lay.
Replies to a challenge that he’s just looking out for his bottom line with this:
Shopify is unaffected by all this.
The Canadian small businesses that run on Shopify are the ones that are not so lucky. They are the bedrock of our economy providing 70% of all jobs. We all ought to fight for them.
I’m dumbfounded. He must think Canadians are so stupid they can’t see the contradiction in this statement.
Canadian small businesses that are not simply resellers of US products, actually gain from tariffs on US competition. The US tariffs on Canada hurt them, but the retaliation directly helps them.
I wasn’t aware of this guy at all. ty. We should assume he’ll be bitching about our banking systems next (Trump’s next nonsense goalpost). Looking at his wiki page - absolutely sickening he was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross for his tech work in Canada.
tl;dr - A German-born white billionaire douchebag techbro doesn’t approve of Canada defending it’s sovereignty and has no idea what the country has already done or is doing about the drug killing people addicted to painkillers, but has decided to loudly support whatever Trump says he wants, and to repeat the version of reality Trump claims.
Scrolling Lütke’s Twitter feed, you’re likely to find a bunch of Shopify boosterism mixed with an embrace of far right-wing political ideas.
In recent weeks, he’s called for Canada Post to be gutted, positioned himself as “anti unions” that threaten his customers’ livelihoods, and opposed the right to strike.
He has also praised Trump’s threat to enact 25 per cent tariffs on Canada, stating that the U.S. is “within its rights” to do so. He has retweeted posts calling for social support programs to be cut because “Canada spends billions on illegals, asylum and refugees.” And he’s generally spread right-wing misinformation about the state of Canada and the world.
Reminder and PSA: it’s never been about race, or about American versus Canadian, or about poor vs middle class - it’s always ever been the Uber rich governing class vs the 99%
American here, yeah trade wars never lead to anything good, but neither does laying down and taking it. I’m more of the mindset of I will absolutely fuck myself over just to spite you if you wrong me, so I am 100% for Canada’s response because what trump(read Dump) is trying to do is wrong and I am 100% against it.
It’s not just about spite or fighting. If we don’t tariff back, our firms get fucked by American tariffs, unemployment increases, our society pays for a part of those tariffs. Adding Canadian import tariffs transfers reciprocate some of this to the other side of the border, and we then can use the revenue to negate the social cost of the American tariffs. Otherwise we’d end up in part subsidizing them.
These are things that every Canadian wants its government to do, too. These are not crazy demands, even if they came from an unpopular source.”
They are 100% “crazy demands” in that a fake national emergency is declared in order to rip up trade agreements. The amounts of drugs from Canada are extremely small, and more illegal immigrants enter Canada from US rather than other way around. If Fentanyl is a problem, the US can do a lot more to curb US production, and hospital use. Another approach would be to simply eliminate heroin, since all deaths occur as a result of mistaken contamination/substitute of heroin, and fentanyl is “cheaper per dose” as reason for hospital use. Making opiate pills “highly available” would also remove fear/events of overdoses.
A fake national emergency, with other pretexts for tariffs. “small trade imbalance, and opportunity to extort Canada by destroying its economy” makes it a declaration of war. That Shopify would have more sales if Canada just surrendered, is an overly selfish perspective to say out loud, and in my opinion, treason for both him, and media that doesn’t shout it down as treason, instead of being CIA funded mind control of Canada as a US colony.
The “crazy demands” disqualifies the US from being a trusted military partner. Canada needs to stop adopting US enemies as its own, and instead realize that the US is its enemy, and it needs new friends that are powerful enough to stand up to US.
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Shopify can go toss a salad.
Tossify my fuckin butthole
No jelly or syrup for them
Ok so fuck Shopify too then?
Something like that.
Replies to a challenge that he’s just looking out for his bottom line with this:
I’m dumbfounded. He must think Canadians are so stupid they can’t see the contradiction in this statement.
I mean you literally have Trump supporters there, including your premier in Ontario so…
Sorry?
Never underestimate the stupidity of greed at any level, though like floating shit logs the special ones stand out.
Canadian small businesses that are not simply resellers of US products, actually gain from tariffs on US competition. The US tariffs on Canada hurt them, but the retaliation directly helps them.
Basically speaking for PP here.
Yeah, stupid me, hitting first is the action actually leading to a good outcome. Duh!
I wasn’t aware of this guy at all. ty. We should assume he’ll be bitching about our banking systems next (Trump’s next nonsense goalpost). Looking at his wiki page - absolutely sickening he was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross for his tech work in Canada.
tl;dr - A German-born white billionaire douchebag techbro doesn’t approve of Canada defending it’s sovereignty and has no idea what the country has already done or is doing about the drug killing people addicted to painkillers, but has decided to loudly support whatever Trump says he wants, and to repeat the version of reality Trump claims.
It gets worse if you look into the their execs further. One in particular stands out…
https://pressprogress.ca/shopify-executives-right-wing-media-website-rails-against-immigrants-while-defending-a-legally-designated-terrorist-group/
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https://breachmedia.ca/canada-far-right-tech-billionaires-pierre-poilievre/
This is so bitterly disappointing, can one billionaire not turn into a complete fucktard please :(
Can’t become a billionaire without being a complete fucktard first.
And citytv news didn’t think any of that was relevant I guess… jfc.
Aaaand down another rabbit hole we go. ty.
Canadian oligarch siding with american oligarchy?
Hm
Reminder and PSA: it’s never been about race, or about American versus Canadian, or about poor vs middle class - it’s always ever been the Uber rich governing class vs the 99%
PSA: Remember, oligarchs are not bulletproof.
True but in America it is the school kids that always end up getting the bullets :/
Except on December 4th 2024. There is hope it was not a one-off.
So… Are we supposed to just bend over and take it?
The fuck?
I can’t say I’m surprised though. Some corpo advocating for something that will help them profit? What a surprise.
The profits must flow
The line goes up
American here, yeah trade wars never lead to anything good, but neither does laying down and taking it. I’m more of the mindset of I will absolutely fuck myself over just to spite you if you wrong me, so I am 100% for Canada’s response because what trump(read Dump) is trying to do is wrong and I am 100% against it.
It’s not just about spite or fighting. If we don’t tariff back, our firms get fucked by American tariffs, unemployment increases, our society pays for a part of those tariffs. Adding Canadian import tariffs transfers reciprocate some of this to the other side of the border, and we then can use the revenue to negate the social cost of the American tariffs. Otherwise we’d end up in part subsidizing them.
Russia was upset Ukraine fought… It sucks what else a weaker country supposed to do? Take it?
Make another fake deal?
Too Many similarities and it is uncomfortable
I mean, shopify’s entire business model is drop shipping overseas crap.
The Shopify CEO was sucking up to Trump and his regime so Tobi can seriously fuck off
Oh man, a CEO thinking this is a bad idea? That’s all the endorsement I need!
Piss off you greedy fucks.
They are 100% “crazy demands” in that a fake national emergency is declared in order to rip up trade agreements. The amounts of drugs from Canada are extremely small, and more illegal immigrants enter Canada from US rather than other way around. If Fentanyl is a problem, the US can do a lot more to curb US production, and hospital use. Another approach would be to simply eliminate heroin, since all deaths occur as a result of mistaken contamination/substitute of heroin, and fentanyl is “cheaper per dose” as reason for hospital use. Making opiate pills “highly available” would also remove fear/events of overdoses.
A fake national emergency, with other pretexts for tariffs. “small trade imbalance, and opportunity to extort Canada by destroying its economy” makes it a declaration of war. That Shopify would have more sales if Canada just surrendered, is an overly selfish perspective to say out loud, and in my opinion, treason for both him, and media that doesn’t shout it down as treason, instead of being CIA funded mind control of Canada as a US colony.
The “crazy demands” disqualifies the US from being a trusted military partner. Canada needs to stop adopting US enemies as its own, and instead realize that the US is its enemy, and it needs new friends that are powerful enough to stand up to US.