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You may have misunderstood the article.
There's a trade agreement that says no tarrifs in exchange for respecting IP which includes not breaking digital locks.
If the agreement is out then there's nothing preventing Canada from allowing their citizens to circumvent restrictions against repairing their own tractors for example.
Do you honestly think that reducing the cost of fixing a tractor will reduce the cost of agricultural production by 25% across the board?
Probably not, but it could open up a whole new set of business possibilities for creative Canadians. As the article points out, building repair kits for cars & tractors to sell world wide or selling printer ink bypass kits or mandating in country app stores.
I'm no economist, but I don't think this will offset the cost of the US tariffs to everyday Canadians, but it will steal profits from US companies who will cry to uncle trump that Canada's stealing their lunch money. He may reconsider the tariffs.
If I had my way, Canada would also make a statement that US copyright works are not copywritable in Canada, so copy & distribute to the world. Worst case, Canadians get free US music, movies & software. Best case, concerned US companies establish a presence in Canada and pay taxes, bring jobs, etc.
Canada deciding to not follow IP laws doesn't mean the rest of the world no longer follows IP laws. These ideas would be for products that could only be sold in Canada and they'd have to compete with US products in the Canadian market. because under this proposal there would be no tariffs on US products.
This is one of those ideas that people in a single issue frame of mind come up with. Don't like IP laws? Every single problem is an opportunity to get rid of IP laws and getting rid of IP laws will solve every problem.
Everyone so god damn snarky on Lemmy.
I don't "honestly think" that. I don't really have an opinion. I'm just explaining the article to you.
I dunno, maybe something to do with the possibility of millions of people in my country losing their jobs because some dumbass in the US is pushing an agenda has made me snarky towards people exploiting it as an opportunity to push their own bullshit agenda.