An interesting article in Japan Times reinforces several insider trade discussions that have been taking place over the past eighteen months. Essentially, all trade deals with Canada are contingent upon their access to the USA market. Lose the USMCA trade deal, and any trade terms between Asian and Canadian counterparts are null and void.
This is not the first time this background from key trade nations has been shared with Canada. Japan told Canada last year that most sector trade, specifically the auto industry, was contingent upon tariff-free access to the U.S. market. If Canada loses the USMCA, the terms of trade change completely.
This reality is now surfacing in comments directly from the Canadian trade teams and business insiders within Canada. They are now admitting without the USMCA their leverage for trade with other countries disappears. This is a considerable admission from within Canada government that has not yet become part of the average Canadian understanding.
If Canada loses their trade agreement with the USA, all other countries will modify their trade agreements with Canada. Think about the leverage within that reality, overlay the Canadian government’s severe anti-Trump mindset, and you quickly realize just how dangerous Mark Carney is for Canada.
JAPAN TIMES – […] Carney’s push to lessen dependence on the U.S. is colliding with a stubborn reality: access to American markets remains a crucial part of Canada’s appeal to prospective trading partners, according to interviews with a dozen government officials and business leaders.
[…] Canadian officials acknowledge that the main draw for many potential trading partners is the prospect of gaining tariff-free access to the world’s largest market through Canada’s participation in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.
Carney regularly touts Canada’s preferential access to the U.S. market, noting that more than 85% of bilateral trade remains tariff-free.
“That (USMCA deal) has been kind of a baseline of our investment attraction message,” said a top Canadian government official who requested anonymity to speak frankly.
[…] The auto sector — dominated by Japanese automakers Toyota and Honda — is a prime example. […] Together the two companies account for over 75% of vehicles made in Canada.
[…] “For many of the Japanese companies investing here, one of the reasons for their investment is definitely the special access Canada has enjoyed over the long years,” said Ishii Hideaki, minister and deputy head of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Ottawa.
[…] Goldy Hyder, CEO of the Business Council of Canada, which represents large companies, praised the government’s efforts to attract investment into critical minerals and energy. But he also sounded a note of caution.
“For large investors from Asia or Europe looking at Canada, any decision to deploy capital would necessarily take into account not only our national investment climate but also our connections to the North American continental economy as a whole.” (read more)
Last year we noted an insider trade report from Toyota warning that if the U.S. cancelled the USMCA, Toyota would move all production out of Canada. The U.S. market is the majority reason Toyota operates in Canada.
As noted in the Japan Times article, this is the first time the Canadian trade and business community have openly stated their trade strategy is contingent upon selling access to the U.S. market. If Canada loses that access, everything within the economy of Canada will dramatically change.
There are trillions at stake.
Yesterday, yet again, President Trump affirmed he has no intention of continuing the USMCA and will instead prefer two separate bilateral trade agreements, one with Mexico and one with Canada.
Things are going to get spicy very quickly.
Most Canadians have no idea just how consequential that shift will be.
This is a recap video highlighting the damage Mark Carney has done.
Highlight reel of @MarkJCarney torching the Canada-U.S. relationship every chance he gets.
cc: @RMC19861987 pic.twitter.com/oJeyglnAB6
— Michael Lucci (@Michael7ucci) June 10, 2026
Canadian general population ignorance is bliss.
IfWhen Canada loses their trade agreement with the USA, all other countries will modify their trade agreements with Canada.FIFY…
This isn’t just now the case. Access to the US market has driven CAN trade at least since NAFTA if not long before. Think of the trillions that have been exfiltrated from our domestic wealth on this issue alone.
Serious question: Why would Carney destroy all CA/USA trade and other relationships, including trade with all stipulations of embedded USA trade agreements? Is it really just TDS? Same for EU shooting themselves in the foot by refusing to buy RUS oil. Same when Merkle opened the EU borders.
We really are going to need a snow-Mexican border wall when CA economy plummets.
They thought the trucker movement was bad. Just wait….
Maaaark…Carney is a Wanker!
(Who knows, maybe it will catch on?)
Does Carney not read his international trade agreements? The level of ignorance and outright stupidity unfolding in western governments is astonishing.
Carney, like Starmer, Acern and von der Leyen, is a WEF twit who does not care one whit about the citizens in his country. I do not believe having Canada become a failed state would be in our interest, but the transition for Canada back to a functioning partner will not be an easy one for them. Our POTUS knows full well the leverage he has and will make a deal that is best for our country which will throw the Canadian people a lifeline. They need to rid themselves of this pest, Carney.
100%
Very interesting pic.
Are the two on the right supposed to represent the distaff side?
“The auto sector — dominated by Japanese automakers Toyota and Honda — is a prime example. […] Together the two companies account for over 75% of vehicles made in Canada.“
And the vast majority of those vehicles are sold in the US.
Canada has been riding on the back of the US for decades. It’s time for them to get off.
Point of clarification/inquiry…
Why doesn’t Carney just attempt to wait Trump out and delay delay delay? Maybe that is what their strategy is?
Trump has two + years left. Perhaps they are hoping on a new administration that will keep the status quo?
Even if the current deal is nixed any new deal can be amended/altered correct?
The Canadian business environment has been bad for the last decade and things are about to get worse. Article posted on Canada Free Press entitled “Business investment in Canada still below pre-2015 levels: down to 11.1% in 2025Recent Capital Investment Not a Signal that Canada’s Business Investment Emergency Is Over;”
FTA: VANCOUVER—Investment in productivity-enhancing assets such as factories, machinery, equipment, and intellectual property (e.g. computer software) in Canada remains below pre-2015 levels, finds a new study released by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
“When businesses invest in new factories, new equipment and new machinery, workers become more productive, and when workers are more productive, their standards of living increase,” said Steven Globerman, senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and author of Recent Capital Investment Not a Signal that Canada’s Business Investment Emergency Is Over.
”Unfortunately for Canadians, business investment is still below 2015 levels, which means worker living standards have been stagnating for the past decade.”
The study finds that private business investment in factories, machinery, equipment, and intellectual property (including computer software)—all of which help make workers more productive—has declined as a share of the overall economy over the last decade.
In 2014, such investments were nearly 14 per cent of the economy, whereas in 2025, they were just 11.1 per cent.
Crucially, the rapid growth rate of Canada’s labour force from 2022 to 2025, combined with the sluggish rate of capital investment has resulted in a decrease in the amount of investment per worker, which will prolong Canada’s productivity crisis.
“Increasing the rate of business investment is critically important for improving worker productivity, which in turn raises living standards for Canadians,” Globerman said.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/business-investment-in-canada-still-below-pre-2015-levels-down-to-11.1-in-2025
We sure would like to know what was being schemed when Obama and the globalist cabal met with Carney a few weeks ago. What was Carney promised to continue this doomed course of action?
Carney was hired by wef as their “corporate raider” masquerading as a prime minister.