Because Shopify leadership supports Trump, and it's CEO specifically stated that Canada should have "de-escalated and not retaliated" on tariffs that are being

Because Shopify leadership supports Trump, and it's CEO specifically stated that Canada should have "de-escalated and not retaliated" on tariffs that are being imposed arbitrarily. https://x.com/tobi/status/1885906286950363546 https://x.com/tobi/status/1885906286950363546 Shopify has been very vocal of it's defense of free speech, most specifically when supporting the decision to platform some pretty awful organizations. There is a long history of this, but this recent article notes that they specifically removed restrictions on hateful content from their TOS. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/holocaust-denial-merchandise-tests-shopify-140619091.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/holocaust-denial-merchandise-... Lutke had previously denounced concerns about 'woke' ideology as destructive to teams, so it's pretty easy (for me at least) to see that Shopify would be eager to use the political cover of Trump's DOJ crackdown on businesses with DEI practices as cover to eliminate those teams.