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“There was a story two days ago, in a major newspaper, talking about people living in Canada, coming into the United States, and smuggling things back into Canada because the tariffs are so massive. The tariffs to get common items back into Canada are so high that they have to smuggle them in. They buy shoes, then they wear them. They scuff them up. They make them sound old or look old.”
Trump is almost certainly referring to — and distorting — an opinion piece by Isabel Vincent, a Canadian journalist, that was published last week in The New York Post about how she and her relatives skirted duties by sneaking jeans, shoes and other goods across the border from the United States.
Distorting the truth.
Say it ain't so Joe.
Say it ain't so.
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Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
originally posted by: MetalThunder
Living in a border city with Canada,
Living in a border city with Canada, In the parking lots, there are always empty shoe boxes with old shoes thrown around, and clothing labels and hangers left in carts, packaging from all sorts of other products from Canadians wearing their purchases to escape duties.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: MetalThunder
Man I stopped using Canadian products when they claimed that little ham rounds are bacon.