Only President Trump could get the Canadians to vote for an exit to the USMCA, and he did it brilliantly.
To understand President Trump’s position on Canada, you have to go back to the 2016 election and President Trump’s position on the NAFTA renegotiation. If you did not follow the subsequent USMCA process, this might be the ah-ha moment you need to understand Trump’s strategy.
During the 2016 election President Trump repeatedly said he wanted to renegotiate NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Both Canada and Mexico were reluctant to open the trade agreement to revision, but ultimately President Trump had the authority and support from an election victory to do exactly that.
In order to understand the issue, you must remember President Trump, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer each agreed the NAFTA agreement was fraught with problems and was best addressed by scrapping it and creating two seperate bilateral trade agreements. One between the USA and Mexico, and one between the USA and Canada.
In the decades that preceded the 2017 push to redo the trade pact, Canada had restructured their economy to: (1) align with progressive climate change; and (2) take advantage of the NAFTA loophole. The Canadian government did not want to reengage in a new trade agreement.
Canada has deindustrialized much of their manufacturing base to support the ‘environmental’ aspirations of their progressive politicians. Instead, Canada became an importer of component goods where companies then assembled those imports into finished products to enter the U.S. market without tariffs. Working with Chinese manufacturing companies, Canada exploited the NAFTA loophole.
Justin Trudeau was strongly against renegotiating NAFTA, and stated he and Chrystia Freeland would not support reopening the trade agreement. President Trump didn’t care about the position of Canada and was going forward. Trudeau said he would not support it. Trump focused on the first bilateral trade agreement with Mexico.
When the U.S. and Mexico had agreed to terms of the new trade deal and 80% of the agreement was finished, representatives from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce informed Trudeau that his position was weak and if the U.S. and Mexico inked their deal, Canada would be shut out.
The U.S Chamber of Commerce was upset because they were kept out of all the details of the agreement between the U.S. and Mexico. In actuality the U.S CoC was effectively blocked from any participation.
When they went to talk to the Canadians the CoC was warning them about what was likely to happen. NAFTA would end, the U.S. and Mexico would have a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), and then Trump was likely to turn to Trudeau and say NAFTA is dead, now we need to negotiate a separate deal for U.S-Canada.
Trudeau was told a direct bilateral trade agreement between the U.S and Canada was the worst possible scenario for the Canadian government. Canada would lose access to the NAFTA loophole and Canada’s entire economy was no longer in a position to negotiate against the size of the USA. Trump would win every demand.
Following the warning, Trudeau went to visit Nancy Pelosi to find out if congress was likely to ratify a new bilateral trade agreement between the U.S and Mexico. Pelosi warned Trudeau there was enough political support for the NAFTA elimination from both parties. Yes, the bilateral trade agreement was likely to find support.
Realizing what was about to happen, Prime Minister Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland quickly changed approach and began to request discussions and meetings with USTR Robert Lighthizer. Keep in mind more than 80 to 90% of the agreement was already done by the U.S. and Mexico teams. Both President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and President Trump were now openly talking about when it would be finalized and signed.
Nancy Pelosi stepped in to help Canada get back into the agreement by leveraging her Democrats. Trump agreed to let Canada engage, and Lighthizer agreed to hold discussions with Chrystia Freeland on a tri-lateral trade agreement that ultimately became the USMCA.
The key points to remember are: (1) Trump, Ross and Lighthizer would prefer two separate bilateral trade agreements because the U.S. import/export dynamic was entirely different between Mexico and Canada. And because of the loophole issue, (2) a five-year review was put into the finished USMCA trade agreement. The USMCA was signed on November 30, 2018, and came into effect on July 1, 2020.
TIMELINE: The USMCA is now up for review (2025) and renegotiation in 2026!
This timeline is the key to understanding where President Donald Trump stands today. The review and renegotiation is his goal.
President Trump said openly he was going to renegotiate the USMCA, leveraging border security (Mexico) and reciprocity (Canada) within it.
Following the 2024 presidential election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Mar-a-Lago and said if President Trump was to make the Canadian government face reciprocal tariffs, open the USMCA trade agreements to force reciprocity, and/or balance economic relations on non-tariff issues, then Canada would collapse upon itself economically and cease to exist.
In essence, Canada cannot survive as a free and independent north American nation, without receiving all the one-way benefits from the U.S. economy.
To wit, President Trump then said, if Canada cannot survive in a balanced rules environment, including putting together their own military and defenses (which it cannot), then Canada should become the 51st U.S state. It was following this meeting that President Trump started emphasizing this point and shocking everyone in the process.
However, what everyone missed was the strategy Trump began outlining when contrast against the USMCA review and renegotiation window.
Again, Trump doesn’t like the tri-lateral trade agreement. President Trump would rather have two separate bilateral agreements; one for Mexico and one for Canada. Multilateral trade agreements are difficult to manage and police.
How was President Trump going to get Canada to (a) willingly exit the USMCA; and (b) enter a bilateral trade agreement?
The answer was through trade and tariff provocations, while simultaneously hitting Canada with the shock and awe aspect of the 51st state.
The Canadian government and the Canadian people fell for it hook, line and sinker.
Trump’s position on the Canadian election outcome had nothing to do with geopolitical friendships and everything to do with America-First economics. When asked about the election in Canada President Trump said, “I don’t care. I think it’s easier to deal, actually, with a liberal and maybe they’re going to win, but I don’t really care.”
By voting emotionally, the Canadian electorate have fallen into President Trump’s USMCA exit trap. Prime Minister Carney will make the exit much easier. Carney now becomes the target of increased punitive coercion until such a time as the USMCA review is begun, and Canada is forced to a position of renegotiation.
Trump never wanted Canada as a 51st state.
Trump always wanted a U.S-Canada bilateral trade agreement.
Mark Carney said the era of U.S-Canadian economic ties “are officially declared severed.”
Canada has willingly exited the USMCA trade agreement at the perfect time for President Trump.
Why do you think Mexico stayed quiet?
Can you see it now?
Trump’s running through his bucket list.
Oh dear….
According to a Jack Posobiec tweet, bad mouthing President Trump got Poilievre booted from his parliamentary seat.
From Conservative hero leading the polling for PM until Carney was installed as Liberal Leader to zero…just like that.
There’s a lesson in there somewhere 😎
The people of Canada got ROYALLY screwed, they just don’t realize it yet.
It’ll sink in when they don’t get the kiss they were expecting.
But they also, willingly, participated in the Royal Screw…
The royal subjects of Canada
We have always known it..much like CTH supporters that knew Obama and Biden were evil.
However when one has unchecked power, all bets are off.
Cheers!
A fundamental AA observation:
Addicts must reach their ROCK BOTTOM; their realization that they must TOTALLY CHANGE or be TOTALLY DESTROYED.
Thats when an addict can find the motivation they’ll need to make those changes.
Which is why those who actually care about an addict are taught to be loving enough and tough enough to allow the addict to reach ROCK BOTTOM as quickly as possible
Yes we do! All of Alberta voted differently, but we do not have the numbers to overcome Ontario
Perhaps Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan need to go to the U.N. and demand a binding plebiscite on separation from the Peoples Indo-Chinese Republic of Canada.
Then they can petition the United States for admission to the Union and begin to live a prosperous life.
Good luck with that Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan
And most of BC
Some of us are abundantly aware of how badly we just got screwed.
The Trump curse.
Remember which social media nom de plume the publically pious, anti Trump Senator from Utah, Mitt Romney, famously used until he was unmasked then mercilessly mocked?
Pierre Delecto.
Could Pierre Polievre == Canada’s version of America’s Pierre Delecto?
After all, before President Trump, the 2 political partys in DC == a UniParty.
Two Wings. Same bird of prey.
Dumb and Dumber. Journey to hell. Quick or Quicker.
More like Pierre Deleted……..
He has pretty much disappeared from political discussions these days… has zero influence on the Republican electorate.
“If a politician speaks but no one hears him, does he actually exist?”
Jack got this backward.
Trump is a New York Liberal. Identifies with Banker Marx Carney.
Trump hates Bankers but he owned a lot of them…. insider joke, read art of the deal
Wow, I gotta say that’s pretty sharp…
I hope we see that same kind of strategy come to fruition between Putin and Trump.
Also, interesting to watch how Trump’s experience, in the art of deal making, with China. Just think “between a rock and a hard place” that’s where China’s selfish interests in exploiting the U.S. has brought them.
Add Putin and Trump vs Intelligence Community as another epic showdown where deep strategies play out. Good thing Trump is on our side.
“Good thing Trump is on our side”.
100% agree and thank God constantly for answering so many heartfelt prayers in such a gobsmackingly glorious way.
” Ask and you will receive” what you need.
Promise Made. Promise Kept. Again.
Watching the history transforming genius, PDJT, operate 24/7 on the worlds game board, then pondering and learning from him 24/I is endlessly fascinating.
Fwiw…. Canada’s political hireling class are aligned with Trump’s mortal foes. Fortunately they’re still useful idiots.
On the other hand, Trump and Putin share the same existential foes. They’ve understood this since at least 2016.
Art of War.
Real.WW3 moves includes Fake WWE kayfabe.
And most of the smaller pass-thru Asian countries that China has bullied into being trans-shipping points for Chinese goods, HATE China, and would be thrilled to have their own trade pact with us.
I only feel white hot anger against President Trump. I could cry with rage. We have fought relentlessly and with great sacrifice for four years to rid ourselves of these loathsome liberals. All of that time and effort erased for a trade agreement or whatever Trump wanted out of this. I don’t care how you analyze it, Trump ensured we would never escape.
Liberal mass immigration will continue and in four years, the demographic will be such that libs will forever rule.
Enjoy your moment. I don’t care what happens to my God forsaken country.
DD
Bless your heart.
Hang in there. The liberals may actually have to change if they are to survive without all the US subsidies and you may end up with a less communist system yet.
It’s called tough love.
BINGO!!!
Don’t blame us for your country’s desire to be “Europe on the Atlantic” and breed only inferior politicians to lead–you elected them, not us!
The Canadian trucker protest was one of the boldest actions witnessed in opposition of the COVID mandates. For all we rib on Canadians as being soft, that took guts.
I doubt Trump wants a Chinese vassal state on our northern border, but I don’t know what the long game is here.
Its is a Crown Colony, not a Chinese vassal state.
We don’t want a monarchy on our border.
Beg to differ
The Royal Canadian Mounties are redcoats not coolies.
China is a British Crown Colony as well.
So was Hong Kong.
It is kinda both!
I was born in Scotland and well aware of the influence the “ British Crown” 🤮 has on its past colonies.
Remember 5 eyes U.K, Canada,New Zealand, Australia and the the U.S.A. all controlled by the “ golden mile “ in London.
Cheers!
The Governor General of Canada is appointed by the Crown and can dissolve parliament and dismiss an elected Prime minster on orders of the Crown.
Hence, the Crown has absolute veto power over election results and legislation. This is the same all throughout the so-called commonwealth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_General_of_Canada
It essentially uses a system called Diarchy to confuse the royal subjects into participation in the entirely theatrical production that are elections and parliament.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarchy
The same for the UK. It is called “the Crown in Parliament” and is represented by the unelected House of Lords.
The filthy royals don’t want you knowing this fact. They own the land (latifundia) Dominion, and you are their livestock.
The Crown can in theory. It can’t in practice.
Parliamentary supremacy is also a fundamental feature of the system. Cross it, and the crown well knows that absent truly odd circumstances, people would choose their Parliament. Didn’t end well for the first Charles. This is especially so in the colonies, which can more easily become republics. There have even been significant crises in the colonies (incl. Canada) when the Governor-General has made judgement calls rather than being strictly ceremonial. They weren’t even what you’d call major interference, but it was enough to establish where the lines are.
The Governor-General, or indeed the King, will not even venture close to blocking legislation. Try reading more than scattered Internet pieces before opining on other countries.
Yes and the US will be saved by the supreme court/s
Its hard enough to get commies to follow the law. Traditions are antithetical to communist.
Torches. Pitchforks. Guillotines. Firing squads. Need I say more?
I’m sympathetic to both you and even the libs in Canada. I’m deeply saddened by the situation. But consider this: people (or a country) in deep trouble is no help to anyone. Lately America is on the edge of disaster every election. If it fails, it won’t be strong enough to help anyone itself. A weak and self destructing America increases the weakness of the world.
Why do you think the globalists are so against the Tariffs? Because without them the U.S. is much weaker, which is exactly what they want.
The globalists and Rand Paul.
Of course.
Thank you, I posted similar thoughts before I read yours. Exactly. Atlas is shrugging to save himself!
I never thought the Canadians were very bright.
There are plenty of dumb Americans throughout our country.
I think it will take a few generations to purge them out.
Biology is not on their side.
Gotta radically change out entire education system ASAP. Run by Communists.
😂😂. Does the U.S.A. not have a Congressman that thinks Guam may tip over, and an A.O.C. that May one day be a Senator.
😉
👏 👍
Yup! Agree with you.
People who live in glass houses
Shouldn’t throw Rocks!
Truly, Dekester!! We have enough fools to sink this ship, and they almost did. We have a short time with our VSGPDJT to bail our sinking ship out.
Keep fighting God has not forgotten, it is impossible that God could forget.
We don’t forget ourselves that God is in control of all things.
While many boast in Trump’s expertise in deal making and 5D chess.
It is God actually does control everything for the sole purpose of bringing good to those who want Him.
You can’t blame President Trump. You must blame the citizens of your own country. Poilievre spoke common sense on economic matters and exposed Carney’s conflicts and flip-flopping. The Canadian people, as I understand, are suffering even worse economically than we have been. And yet, still they went back to same well Trudeau came out of. It seems your country and its citizens are determined to fall into the leftist embrace and will believe any lie told to them by liberal politicians.
I do wish we could bring Alberta and perhaps Saskatchewan and Manitoba into the US. I feel for those people like I feel for the conservatives stuck in rural Oregon and Washington.
For the last 4 years we (US) were in the same boat. It took the reality of liberal control to wake up our citizens enough to throw the bums out. Many good Americans would not have given a plugged nickel for our chances of returning sanity to our government. And it’s not over yet by a long shot. My point is there is always hope. Never give up.
Don’t blame Trump. Canadians have reaped what they’ve sown for decades. Perhaps the economic horrors soon to come in Canada, will finally educate the liberal loser masses and force them to change their system.
Remember, we had to suffer through 8 years of Obama, 4 years of a kneecapped Trump, and the horrors of the Biden years. 16 years !
Embrace the pain; it’ll make you Stronger !
What country welcomed the US draft dodgers in the 60’s? You got what you deserve.
Turned out the draft dodgers were right. VietNam was not a legitimate war but a money-making machine just like all the wars that came after it. I would not have wanted my son to die so the powers that be could make more money.
So true!
Yes. Commie canucks have envied and despised the U.S. since at least the 60s.
While I completely understand your anger, my friend, I beg you to step back for a moment…and with the clear eyes and incisive thinking I have come to know you for…and most important, your strong faith…remember that it is globalism and its godless self styled “elites” which President Trump is attempting to destroy.
They have insinuated themselves everywhere and have inflicted their satanic agenda throughout the Western world.
President Trump has begun his mission within America as we would expect him to. We are infected as well with liberals who have tried, in fact are still trying on steroids, to derail and defeat us so that they can, as you say, rule forever here, too.
But consider, what begins in America won’t stay in America.
If you look across the pond towards Europe you will see the fires of rebellion, still in their early sparks, starting to catch and spread. I admit stories of these nascent uprisings are thin on the ground. I have been reading about them and seeing the photographs only through X posts by citizen journalists, actual stories no doubt beeing ignored or censored by mainstream publications for fear of giving the whole picture of what is occurring. Their thinking being, I assume, that what they do not report, is not happening…like toddlers who believe if they cover their eyes, they are invisible.
There has been so much discussion about a WWIII that might occur (Russia/Ukraine).
But I believe we are already embroiled in WWIII, just not in the way we consider wars to be prosecuted. This one is by far more existential. It is, in my opinion, one being conducted from heaven against forces which have aligned themselves against a living God. And they have not limited themselves to one part of this earth. Neither here, nor in your beloved Canada, nor anywhere else.
Please do not despair. Your election defeat is a bitter one, I know; but in the scheme of time and in the broadest possible definition of a war such as we all have been conscripted, it is but one battle. There will be many more to be fought.
Canada, I am grieved to say, does not yet have a voice or a persona within itself like President Trump, whom at this moment you focus your anger upon. It is not he who should be the subject of your fury. Forgive me for being so forthright…
He is simply a warrior, one man, who sees the entire panoramic view of those who for decades have attempted to destroy God’s creation….and is fighting as best as he can to upend them. He can’t fix what is wrong with Canada and there is no certainty that with the forces in this nation arraigned against his efforts that he will be able to do so here.
But, by God Almighty, someone has to step forward to at least begin to disassemble, to cripple, then route such evil as I never thought in my lifetime to see.
It may seem right now that President Trump’s sole focus is America, hang the other countries which are under the jackboots of oppression and despotism. And I can fully understand your emotions this morning. If that were so, that would define him as something we know he is not. I truly believe his vision is far broader, his love of others no matter where they may be so expansive that it is impossible for him to adopt an insular view.
America first for him is not America only.
And so your loss, reprehensible as it is (we all are sickened by it) is not the final battle, but just a skirmish within the war for the soul of your nation, one country among so many in the crosshairs of satanic forces. This war is spiritual and will not be a short one, with multiple battles being fought all at once everywhere.
Only God Himself is the Commander in Chief. He simply appoints men to fight this war between Good and hideous Evil. Whether it is possible for you to believe that President Trump is such a man, I can probably guess.
I simply think that he is the ember from which, I hope, the flames of overpowering rebellion will spread like a veritable wildfire…which all the malignant demons of the satanic globalists (of which Carney is only one) will be unable to extinguish.
My early, honest, heartfelt thoughts which I earnestly pray will go even a small way to easing your despair, dear Dan.
This ain’t over yet. Not by a long shot 🙏🏻
A magnificent reply. Thank you, thank you.
Betsy. Thanks for being a voice of reason. Every pay that I receive makes me want to give up. I’m drowning under an insane tax burden. I’m working sooo hard just to hand over half of my income over to govts at every level. It is soul sucking. Then to have some level reprieve snatched away from you is crushing. We plod on though. All that a man can do is to plod on through the muddy fields.
DD
My voice of reason comes and goes, my friend. Often it gets drowned out by the fury I feel at the injustice, thievery, and downright cruelty inflicted by those in positions of power upon people they never will be obliged to meet face to face so they can witness the rotten fruits of their self serving evil; those who profit off their immoral actions whatever they may be and rest easily in their beds, while those they torment suffer.
The way you phrase it…soul sucking…is in my view the greatest evil perpetrated by such mentally and spiritually vacuous monsters (yes, I use that word).
They stopped reading the Golden Rule after “Do unto others…”
Too often it is a struggle for me to rein in my thoughts and focus higher, which we are admonished to do.
I am confident that I speak for all of us in our Tree on this. It is truly a bless-ed place where somehow we have all been directed so we can explode, know none of us is alone, and feel the camaraderie of arms around us as we marshall our better selves. I know from experience how difficult it is to do. For myself, I am not always successful; but my practice makes increasing progress towards the perfect I can never hope to attain. Difficult…very.
All of the above just so you know that you are not alone, dearest sir, for whatever small help it may afford you to put that one foot in front of the other. Almighty God, our Help in ages past and our Hope in the years to come, is with you…and we are with you if not physically most definitely in spirit. B 💕
Thank you, dear Betsy, and love to you too, Dan.
Betsy, I have been brought to tears reading your gentle loving thoughts
. The disappointment in the election results has been devastating to us in Canada, as it was very hard to watch the damage the Globalists were doing to our rights and freedoms for years, and to be so close to a change, to a Conservative gov. if not a great victory like a landslide.
To see our hopes all dashed away in the very unexpected Liberal/Globalist victory was shattering. The Globalist rule will continue. Perhaps another nation will be destroyed from within.
So when I say ‘bless your heart’, Betsy, I mean it very sincerely as a Christian should always say it, for your wisdom and faith.
It is soul sucking. That’s what they want. I pray for our northern friends, that they will see liberation from that evil.
Beautifully spoken, Betsy and I wholeheartedly concur!
Dan Dale has been a valuable member of the Treehouse for many years and I have always appreciated his well thought out comments and insight. His faith in God and his love of country are obvious, but this
morning, his pain and disappointment are palpable and for that I am truly sorry.
But, I also do not believe that this is the final chapter in the story of Canada! Pollivere did himself no favors by attacking Donald Trump and in the end, the Leftist provinces were able to use fear and lies to swing the election away from him. However, as you pointed out, we had to go through eight years of George W Bush and eight years of Barack Obama before enough people woke up and got fed up enough to demand change!
Dan, I am just south of you, in the People’s Republic of Washington so I do understand your frustration but we can’t give up hope…
“LORD, we don’t know what to do. Our eyes are on You.” II Chronicles 20:12
Poilievre’s spine gave way, and he chose poorly, sis. If anyone thought he was a man of firm unwavering principle, character, and capable of deep analytical discernment, this was his test.
Well he failed, and now they know differently.
Best to get such men (or women) to the sidelines early.
We watch and pray for better days for Canada and all other countries in the grip of tyranny 🙏🏻
Nicely said.
Well said Betsy! Praise be to God for His Mercy on the American people by selecting President Trump as His instrument. Trump is the single candle in the darkness and with God’s help will light other candles to illuminate the world and extinguish the darkness of evil. Pray and repent so that more people convert and turn to God as only He can truly save us.
Beautiful, Betsy.
D.D.
While I enjoy and appreciate your fervour .
I too despise the Liberals, but this is all in Gods hands…
My personal disgust is with Maxine Bernier and P.P.
Bernier and P.P should have struck a deal.
P.P. and the Conservatives were naïve and politically foolish.
Canada as the Quebec politician stated is not a country…Natives, Quebecers, the Ottawa scum, the Maritimes, the Prairie Provinces are so very, very different.
Like you, I too was at numerous “ trucker events” we loved the passion.
However IMO until we as a country 😏. endure enough pain, we will continue to dissolve.
Many Americans likely are unaware that are Senate is unelected, and Senators are selected by the ruling Party..a Senate that literally rubber stamps any legislation.
Cheers!
Dekester. Politicians are the most selfish lot out there. When I ran provincially, we had THREE extremely amazing new political parties to take on Doug Ford.
The Ontario Party – of which I ran as a candidate.
New Blue
Populist Party
We pleaded with the leadership to unite under one strong candidate and really give Doug Ford a run for his money. They dug in their heals and refused to give up any position of power. I realized then that all these guys do is go from political party to party sucking off of donations to and essentially functioning without ever working. I was so disgusted. My riding probably would have gone to me if we had been able to present one unified option to the voters, but they correctly looked at the situation and knew that there was no point voting for a fractured right political mess, and instead opted for the safe Doug Ford as a conservative choice.
They are all the same. Selfish.
At any rate. Here we are. Another 4 years of insanity.
DD
God has this D.D.
How is it humanly possible that President Trump is with us for the better part of four years.
The forces of darkness that he has flowing spite of, cannot be put down simply to Luck.
Cheers!
💪
Didn’t know that! OUCH!
Understandable
Blaming Trump for your electoral choices is a special level of TDS stupidity
That was not helpful. Nor kind.
Don’t give up. President Trump is trying to save this country but the globullust forces against us are strong. Canada faces the same forces. If the US is taken over, Canada automatically sinks.
The surest path for Canada now is to ally with President Trump in whatever way you can. Fight for that. We need a strong and free Canada on our border. Canadians need a strong and free US.
We have the same enemy and goals.
Work to find ways where Canada can align with the US. This may seem impossible, but the truckers proved people can band together. What a boost they gave to freedom loving people everywhere! True, the truckers didn’t reach their aims, but like us with the Tea Party, many people learned new ways of addressing government and many in the country woke up.
We freedom loving Americans and Canadians are in a war for our civilization and this election is one battle. It is a set back, but keep your eye on the goal and get back in the fight. President Trump didn’t give up after the 2020 election was stolen. Be like him and keep fighting.
Do you believe that by his trolling President Trump had the power to influence the majority vote?
If the conservative lead was indeed 30% until PDJT made what some might perceive as an inflammatory comment about becoming the 51st state, where were the critical thinkers among them?
Would a clear thinking person say, yeah the globalist bankster is what we are looking for? I find that hard to believe.
Could this be Canada’s version of our 2020 election?
Hang tough Dan.
All your hard work, sacrifice, etc., must have been behind closed doors, I never heard anything about it. You just keep right on re-electing the same old useless libs.
“I only feel white hot anger against Trump”.
In 2025, 2016 Hillary cope is still being used by a Leaf?
“OMG its not my fault. Its not our fault. Its the evil foreign guys fault” for Canadas election.
When emotional sobriety returns so will the ability to figure out that
2025’s Libs/Carney “victory” == Canada’s version of 2020’s Dems/Biden “victory”
The 2020 victory was, in hindsight, a pyrrhic BECAUSE President Trump and enough Americans refused to lose heart and give up after their soul shaking loss. In fact, their 2020 loss ultimately hardened their resolve to “never, ever give in or give up” but to instead “Fight! Fight! Fight”.
Now its each Canadians turn to have their souls, grit and hearts tested.
Will enough of ” The Right Stuff” be found in Leafland to make this win a pyrrhic one too?
Hope so.
Dan Dale; Your “White hot anger against Trump” is miss guided and unfounded. If you had been following along and read a bit more you would realize that Trump had NO intentions of annexing or taking over Canada. He has said on quite a few occasions all he wants is Canada to stop being a freeloader and sucking off the teat of the US, and put on their Big Boy pant. It’s like a big brother being forced to protect his little brother and getting fed up with it. The fact that you got sucked in by the mantra of “orange man bad” by Carnage is your fault and no one else. You can cry with rage but quite frankly no one cares! Steve O
Dan, I understand you’re angry.
But IF Canadians understood what is at stake… and saw how Mr Carney is just a more polished Mr Trudeau…
Then they would have voted differently.
My Maternal Grandfather fought for Canada in the trenches of WW1 France.
After the war, he left Canada and became a US citizen.
Over 100 years ago, he saw where his best future lay.
IF Canadian voters have chosen this course of self-destruction… it is
Their Choice.
The President of the United States didn’t
‘make’ them vote 🗳 for self-destruction (if that is what it will be).
The voters – of their own
free
will
Voted for the government of suicide.
Canada 🇨🇦 already has
MAiD –
Medical
Assistance
in
Dying.
Now, with this election,
Voters have also chosen
PAiD –
Political
Assistance
in
Dying.
As another commenter said,
Perhaps Canada has to hit
Rock 🪨
Bottom
Before it can start to rise again.
Best wishes to you and all your fellow Canadian citizens who see clearly what lies ahead… and may have most difficult choices to make.
Dan, I truly feel for you. We suffered greatly over the years, especially the last four. We didn’t know if our country was over or not. We were shocked — but we watched the Left do their worst, and we fought it. Luckily, we had our leader. Maybe you’re the leader your country needs. I will add Canadians and your country to my prayer list.
Our President is fighting to save our country. It’s like on the airplane when the flight attendant reminds you that you must put your mask on first in order to save your child. That’s what Trump is doing, and he’s doing it for us and the West. The West in general needs to learn to do for themselves. We will help when/if we can. Prayers up.
Dan, I feel for you. I was really hoping that Pierre would manage to pull out a win. I liked a lot of what he had to say, and felt it would be a major improvement over Carney, Trudeau, and the Libs, and hopefully set Canada on a better track. It warmed my heart to see PP out in the streets with the truckers, and he really seemed to pinpoint a lot of the problems facing the working class.
And it seemed like the momentum was with him and the conservatives until recently. President Trump’s jabs at Canada made me uncomfortable, and I felt like it sort of backed PP against a wall as to how to respond. If he identified w PT or reached out to him, he would be condemned by the liberal media, and condemned for not standing up for Canada. Maybe it was part of a grand America First plan on PT’s part, but I have some dear conservative friends up north, as well as some Canadian heritage on my dad’s side, so I do care what happens.
And I really thought that PT had more common ground with PP than with Carney on many other important issues, and that they could have formed a good partnership, as I have heard PP say many things similar to PT on the border, drug flow, the economy, affordable housing, lower taxes, globalism, etc. Personally, I felt like it would have been more beneficial to have an ideological ally north of us to tackle problems affecting both nations, than to just be focused on a trade deal, which also could have been worked out.
Bottom line is that I think PP really cared about quality of life for Canadians and had some good strategies for getting out from under the liberal oppression, and I’m sad that he did not have a chance to put his ideas into action.
P.S. I felt the same kind of heartsickness when Biden and his minions stole our election in 2020, and would have felt even more hopeless had Harris/Walz and the Dems prevailed in 2024.
Dan no reason to despair, a better solution is to rid yourself of the liberals forever
Separate from them, the conservatives have been subsiding them, let’s see if they can survive on their own. Good luck
Why do you feel such rage at him?
Wow. Thx SD. Forgot half the details of the badger trade team. Grateful to Wilbur & Co.
I didn’t know the USMCA was up for review after 5 years. You’re right; that was my “ah-ha” moment. It’ll be interesting to see what hijinks the Canadians get up to in the next couple of years as they try to remain both financially solvent AND a wokester greenie utopia at the same time. I wonder who will overrun them first: Chinese commies or third world s**t-holers? (Ah, but I repeat myself.)
From the boy king Trudeau to the WEF proxy, Oh Canada what has become of you and what will be? A failed mirror image of Europe? I hope not.
Thanks, Sundance. It’s amazing just how MUCH WE ARE NEVER TOLD BY the bought-and-paid-for-meticulously-indoctrinated-at-university-whitebread “journalists” of U.S. media.
As individuals there are some sho’nuff great Canadians. But as a national concern, I’m like President Trump: I don’t much care what happens in Canada one way or another.
CYNTHIA CHUNG is a great Canadian. She and her husband, Matthew Ehret, are doing a lot to uncover important facts of history that have been kept under wraps for a long, long time. Here is an example of her work: https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/the-vatican-bank-the-worlds-largest-8d2
Crown + Vatican = Roman Empire = Mystery Babylon
Vapor.
City Of London + Vatican City = Sovereign States
Until I came across MizChung’s work, I’d believed that Vatican City had been so for hundreds of years. Not so. It didn’t happen until 1939. Wowza. What a world!
UPDATE in nomenclature:
JOURN-O-LISTAS meticulously indoctrinated at whitebread communist universities…sicko-flakey upper crust.
Elite not, it is bad for your health.
4D chess? I think we’re witnessing 5D chess with this issue!
We are going to need a border wall on our northern border STAT!!!
All you hear from the MSM is that they have no proof that Trudeau actually said that Canada would collapse.
That’s all they have to push back on the pure magnificence of this ruse.
My favorite thing that our President says – often – is “we’ll see what happens.” I have begun to navigate
my life with that saying, as it causes me to have patience and not to force things head on.
I do feel bad that Canadians will suffer b/c of their choice in leaders, but I don’t think you can lay that blame
at the feet of Trump as Dan Dale does on here.
So I see a process by which US auto assembly lines first take direct delivery of Chinese-produced auto parts, with limited tariffs cutting Canada out of the deal. But these tariffs will be progressively increased to give time and encourage US automakers to progressively bring these assemblies back into domestic production as well. The same will be true of foreign car manufacturers if they want to avoid the tariffs.
This same model of steady and progressive reshoring could be applied to many other industries; appliances, heavy equipment, steel, shipbuilding, etc.
That’s not to say the US needs to make 100% of anything, but to have nearly zero capability in strategic industries and products is a very bad idea. In addition, I could see products like Christmas ornaments being wherever it makes sense, but to depend on hostile nations for nearly 100% of strategic products is foolish in the extreme.
Excellent article.
Easily read.
This is going to be interesting to watch.
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Thx Sundance.
If only we had a Congress that supported the Trump agenda, too.
Isn’t our VSDJT awesome!!!!!!
A big thank you to the dimmocrats for making this easier by screwing us out of the 2020 elections. Now President Trump can wrap up the long game and secure a more complete free trade environment.
Funny how some of these things work out in the end.
How do I get rid of all the pop ups and ads when viewing the Treehouse?
Use the Brave browser.
Just FYI, Brave also gets rid of ads on Rumble broadcasts.
firefox with ghostery ad blocker, works for me.
ROFLOL! Genius!
Canada has to go through the fire to emerge cleansed. This is just the beginning of that process.
OMG! I guarantee you TPTB never imagined in a million years that POTUS Trump would be the one reviewing and renegotiating USMCA!!
Is this worth having a failed state on our northern border?
Hitting rock bottom leaves no where to go but up.
They haven’t been looking UP for a long time now.
That’s how Heaven saves souls and lands.
American citizen married to a Canadian citizen and living in the USA. We will visit her family and friends in late July. It will be interesting to see how they react and thank you so much for sharing this information. It will serve us well. What is the over/under on when they realize they have been had??? Before or after July 1 of this year. How long before PDJT uses an agreement with Mexico to shut Canada out of many of the current deals they have that allow them to enjoy a $60 billion trade surplus. That giant scraping sound will be our friends north of the border crawling to the negotiating table.
Let’s see where we are in say, 6 months.
Mark it as
November 1st, 2025.
Will a real and serious secessionist movement appear in Alberta?
Will Quebec want to go its own way?
Will the Maritimes band together, and seek entry to their Southern neighbor… or reach out to the EU?
How can Carney Say he’s Canadian –
With THREE passports????? 🇮🇪
🇬🇧
🇨🇦
And he’s already said military and economic ties with the USA 🇺🇸 are ‘severed’ – just campaign ‘trash talk’?
Like FDR’s pledge in 1940:
“Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars”
Yeah, right.
Mr WEF is going to be eating a whole lot of crow for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Let’s see: 11/1/25.
Sundance has skipped the alleged invasion of CCP China and Asian Triads into Vancouver, spearheading money laundering and the drug and human trade.
We’ll see with the first few trade deals if we really cut off China. Will the deals have teeth?
Meanwhile, California- the fourth largest economy in the world – continues to be hammered by incompetent leaders.
1. No, POTUS didn’t turn on the water, and no, it doesn’t come from the Pacific Northwest.
Third year of bumper crop rain, but 95% flows out the Golden Gate! Central Valley farmers now only allocated 50% of their water allotment but pays 100% of their bill!
2. Two more oil refineries to close – an impending catastrophe – and gas may climb to over $7 a gallon. Airfares will rise, too.
Valero Benicia (NorCal) and Phillips 66 (SoCal) to close. Over 1500 well-paying jobs, and over 25% of refining production closed within a few years. Disaster. Nothing from the White House.
FWIW, Valero Benicia supplies Vandenberg Air Forse base via pipeline with fuel supplies.
It looks like California like Canada is being made to feel the pain of their political decisions.
I wonder if Alberta will take the Quebec option, except follow through and leave Canada?
It seems like the best thing for their future.
Most people who have learned Trump knew that he didn’t want Canada as a state but wanted a conservative government in place who understood business and trade and this fall, he will get that. Like the rest of the world Mexico and Canada cannot survive a trade war with the US only China thinks that they can but are sadly mistaken.
Sundance, thank you for explaining is so well and in such detail.
I freely admit I did not understand so much of what was happening. This makes it very clear and I will send this on to others so they too can understand.
This is brilliant analyses.
Brilliant Sundance!
“Canada cannot survive as a free and independent north American nation, without receiving all the one-way benefits from the U.S. economy.”
Wrong.
Most “Defense” spending is wasted on Political funding of insiders. US weaponry is priced at 10 times the real cost. Feather-bedded, unchecked overhead, costly hype.
Canada once produced nearly everything she consumed and it can happen again.
Sad, really. Much of what Canada exports into the USA are raw resources that support American jobs.
Canada is not China.
But we will welcome you back once you finish your sugar high.
Thank you to Sundance for showing the connection between President Trump’s statements about Canada becoming the 51st state and his intention to renegotiate the USMCA. It makes perfect sense that he would be willing to be verbally provocative to get Canada to the table.
But I’m not so sure Sundance is correct that Trump’s ribbing about becoming the 51 state is aimed solely at the trade deal. I think his offer to Canada to join the US may be genuine. Once Canadians have suffered enough that renegotiation is widely seen as imperative for Canada’s survival, it may also be obvious that Canada really cannot survive on its own, and that the best way forward for Canada would be to join the US.
The President is not serious. He knows this information. A territory yes, statehood, no. Statehood would be the Left’s dream come true.