https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/30/canadians-react-to-cancelling-digital-services-tax/
Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/30/canadians-react-to-cancelling-digital-services-tax/
Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.
Out of curiousity, how many workers should lose their jobs to appease your sense of righteousness?
A trade negotiation is not the same as bowing to fascism.
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It’s a trade negotiation, it’s literally all about the jobs.
I get that you aren’t affected but thousands are.
By your logic, we should just not do anything with our largest trading partner and I dunno, just wait for almost half a decade until we like the administration?
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The cavalier attitude is a big give away. Usually folks worried about their kids and mortgages understand the costs.
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No, I guess being well read and having empathy kind of allow me to consider how things affect other Canadians who are not me?
Oh God you’re insufferable.
And correct.
So far, the replies have been “everyone should just drop all American services, that’s a minor detail for IT” and “a trillion dollar trade negotiation isn’t actually about jobs.”
I get the kneejerk reaction but damn, this is silly bordering on depressing.
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Nope, re-read what I wrote. What in there says you can’t come up with a valid opinion?
It’s more “your opinion doesn’t seem to give any weight, relief or aid to those who are affected in any way shape or form.”
Uhhhh in case you didn’t notice - when Amazon in QC unionized, Amazon pulled out of Quebec. We don’t need US digital services, it’s one of the easiest things we can replace. Might be a headache for some workplaces to get off Microsoft, SharePoint, or azure but ultimately - it’s not that hard. IT can do it. We have server farms and digital services in Canada. It’s easy to replace as opposed to say, re-tooling a car factory.
Do you really need Facebook, X, Apple, Netflix, Disney+ shitmaganda!? Or can you grab what you want from Crave or the high Cs. Our newspapers are largely already owned by US hedge fund billionaire massive global corporations - so taxing them at a minuscule rate is nothing to them. And they are free to fuck off doing business in our country if they don’t like the DST. This was a cowardly and weak capitulation on the part of Carney - unless we are infact joining the EU and OECD on a digital service tax as part of a bloc of countries (which could track).
https://pro.bloombergtax.com/insights/international-tax/understanding-digital-services-taxes-the-oecd/#oecd-and-taxation
But right now, we don’t know - so am skeptical about what Carney just gave up.
Lol, A) it’s pretty clear you have no idea what the DST is and what it does.
B) Jesus lord, for most offices, converting off Microsoft would be an insane task and a huge IT cost.
I know Lemmy skews young but this is nonsensical.
Yeah, as someone who works in Enterprise environments, I don’t understand where this attitude that it would be easy is coming from.
Fully migrating off those services could take years for some organizations, just like it took years to get them to the level of functionality and interconnectivity they are at today.
The attitude is coming from wishful thinking untempered by knowledge or experience.