🇨🇦 CRA refunding $647 million collected from repealed digital service tax

Ottawa projected $7.2 billion over five years from taxing Big Tech. They collected $647 million, spent $30 million administering it, then folded the moment Trump raised his voice. The entire policy was repealed to keep trade talks alive, and now Canadian taxpayers are cutting refund cheques—with interest—to American tech giants who were never going to pay anyway.

This is sovereignty theater at its finest. Trudeau's Liberals posture as digital tax warriors, build an expensive bureaucracy, then capitulate within months when Washington objects. No backbone, no follow-through, just performative nationalism that costs us millions to administer and leaves us with nothing but the bill. Canada doesn't negotiate—it kneels, sends apologies, and hopes the empire doesn't notice.

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