When asked about a statement this week where Stelco Holdings Inc. announced they were laying off 500 workers from their steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario, immediately Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney blamed the United States.
He’s lying. It’s ridiculous. However, that’s all Carney can do at this point.
In reality it is (1) Canadian energy, climate and manufacturing policy; in combination with (2) the specific decision to allow the import of cheap steel from China; in combination with the decision to (3) rebuke U.S requests to stop purchasing that Chinese steel; that has driven out Canadian steel manufacturing.
(1) Canada carbon emission policy changes steel manufacturing. (2) Canada admits to lying about the import of Chinese Steel. (3) Canadian steel manufacturers warn Canada of pending exit. Mark Carney denied all three points. The receipts are in the links right there.
WATCH Prime Minister Carney blatantly lie on camera:
This announcement by Stelco happened on the exact same day that President Trump announced a new $18billion investment in U.S. steel manufacturing in Iowa. {SOURCE}
In fact, in a world full of irony, during a media segment discussing the closure of the Canadian steel plant, CBC cut away to live feed of President Trump who was making the Iowa steel plant announcement. The timing was rather remarkable.
🇺🇸🇨🇦 Hamilton just got the bill for Carney’s trade war.
Stelco is indefinitely idling its cold-rolled and coated lines at Hamilton Works. Up to 500 jobs. Winding down around October 9. That plant feeds auto, agriculture, and infrastructure, and it is one of only three Canadian…
— John Nelson (@WIgeopolitical) September 28, 2026
This isn’t quite off-topic because I’d simply like to understand better. What is ‘cheap steel’? What are the grades and qualities and why is Chinese steel crap?
Basically, there are many different kinds and grades of steel. Steel is a blend of different minerals added to iron.
Google: how is steel made…..it is called metallurgy.
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this article might go toward answering that question even though it is limited to the steel in gun safes it talks about the quality differences:
https://www.championsafe.com/5-differences-between-china-steel-and-american-steel-in-gun-safes
and this article goes into the different metallurgical standards comparing Chinese to U.S. steel:
https://www.ellermannsteels.com/Comparison-of-Steel-Material-Standards-n.html
Macro economically, these changes were obvious and they were coming for a long time. The fact that Kearney needs to blame the US should not be surprising.. The post global list world is forming up, and those who were caught with their shorts hanging out, well sorry.