9secondkox2 said:

Now is the time to buy. 

mike1 said:

Scot1 said:

rob53 said:

Maybe it's about time the USA starts charging Canadian "visitors" every time they come across the border to buy gas and groceries at a big discount over Canadian prices. Check the Costco gas station in Bellingham, WA, and see how many cars with BC plates are there. Let's also start charging taxes or tariffs on semi truck trailers having free rein on USA highways. 

As a Canadian who lives in White Rock BC, (next to the US boarder), you are correct, many Canadians on this side dodge the expensive gas by driving across the border. I won’t. You see, that expensive gas has a large carbon tax included to fight global warming and also includes a large transit tax that helps pay for the skytrain and hydrogen busses that move is around the Vancouver lower mainland. I have a few shares in Apple and am a bit of a fanboy. The digital tax, in my opinion, is reasonable. What the article doesn’t point out is that several other countries also have a similar tax and that there is a global agreement being negotiated that includes the US, but no consensus has been reached to date. Canada, with a population of 41 million, one tenth of the US decided to take a stand and acted unilaterally after several years of delay. 

And by the way, the gas some of my neighbours purchase south of the boarder comes from Canadian oil which is then refined at Arco BP refinery near Birch Bay, WA. and then shipped north to sell back to us. 

Canadians are America’s’ best friends. Sorry we hurt your feelings. 

The US can and should then simply tariff the hell out of Canadian lumber, oil/natural gas as well as the automobiles manufactured there. These will harm Canadians a lot more than the American consumers. Same goes for all the EU countries.