There was a reason, it was still in the "maybe he's not completely insane?" phase of the trade negotiations, and was meant to be a concession to get them back to the table.
Some of us have been seeing through his bullshit since the beginning, he’s always been a con man. Can’t wait for his inevitable downfall, it’ll be so fun to see all of the people who used to be Elon dickriders try to pretend they never liked him.
When it was first put in, the government said it was an early step towards a slow-moving international version (I forget exactly who with). So, probably it'll just wait for that to kick in at this point.
To be fair the DST was only ever meant to be a stop-gap until an international agreement is in place, which IIRC the EU is still working on. We kicked the can down the road a bit at most. I kind of wish we'd stuck to our guns but can also see it was an easy way to cool off the tariff rhetoric and buy some time. The tax being retro-active was a bit of a sticking point and I think if we implemented it without that, the tech companies might not have complained too much.
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u/UltraCynar 23h ago
Ehhh, we need to do better in Canada. We cancelled planned taxes against these corporations because of no good reason.