The reactions to President Trump’s border security tariffs are not quite as funny from Canada, as they were Mexico, but they are still funny.
A subdued and despondent Justin Trudeau said he and President Trump spoke last night, and he stresses the importance of the bond and relationship; you know, the ‘feels’. WATCH:
PM Trudeau tells reporters he had a phone call with US President-elect Trump after Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on all Canadian products.
Trudeau says he has also been in touch with premiers to address this issue. pic.twitter.com/06boFKsEuv
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) November 26, 2024
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Meanwhile, in a far more funny and less politically correct reaction, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says, ‘hey, wait a minute, we aren’t Mexicans’. WATCH:
Ontario Premier Doug Ford criticized US President-elect Trump’s pledge to place 25% tariff on Canadian products, comparing Trump’s actions as being betrayed by a close relative. pic.twitter.com/tpalmxYGzg
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) November 26, 2024
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Oh snap, Dad’s home!
Heh, heh, heh….
“Hey we’re not Mexicans”
Years ago, one of my consulting partners from Canada called me about staffing one of my projects. His unforgettable pitch line was: “Hey, my guys are cheap … think of us as Mexicans with sweaters”. Really miss than guy … one of the few good guys in the cutthroat world of consulting.
That’s some funny stuff right there.
‘We are not Mexicans’ reminded me of a scene from the Godfather…
Everything I know I learned from The Godfather 🙂
“After all, we are not Communists.”
Damn Frostbacks…. Lol
The Real problem facing Trudope is that in order for Canada to secure the northern US border, Trudope will need to greatly reduce the million plus people it imports every year under Trudope’s open border policy.
Trudope, like Biden, doesn’t want to do this at all.
Trudope? Now that’s funny.
39 years have gone by and the Canadian RCMP still hasn’t found the Bomber that killed more than 300 people on Air India out of Vancouver/Toronto.
But not to worry, Sargeant Canuck is right on it.
They haven’t found him because they never looked!
Come on. Just kiss the ring and get it done
Just say “Yes, Donald” then bend the knee and it’s over. That wasn’t very hard was it?
While we wait for President Trump to be inaugurated, it would be nice if some of these other left-globalist governments fell, like Canada, The United Kingdom, And France, for example.
Justeen has always been a fruitcake. Rather then Canada falling, how about Canadians just get rid of their pathetic leftist WEF asshat Justeen
We tried but the even worse communists ( NDP) formed an ultra left alliance with Turd Doe.
Turdoe received something around 33% of the vote in the last election.
Cheers!
Meanwhile, this is what we are living with closer to home!
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mounties-in-b-c-raid-largest-and-most-sophisticated-drug-lab-in-canadian-history-1.7093939
That lab is one of many. “International Criminals”. You will find most of the perpetrators are Canadian Citizens.
Canada has legal and illegal dope farms everywhere. It is so bad that prices are down 70% since Trudeau legalized dope growing for Friends of the Liberal Party.
Wow!
Trudeau and Starmer. Losers, yet in control of Government.
Gosh, Dekester, it breaks my heart for y’all up there. You’re like California on a larger scale. Hope our changes here can have some effect on changes in your country. Bless you!!
A perfect example of, “FAFO” policies, and their consequences. It’s sad that Canadians haven’t been able to (or willing) to throw the lot of them out. The country has gone backward during Sparkle Socks’ reign.
LOL! PDJT definitely got under Doug Ford’s skin. As “insulted” as he was he, at least, got the message and sounds like he’s ready to do something about the issues.
If Canadians ain’t Mexicans then why a Justin Trudeau turning Canada into a third world socialist country.
We don’t even know what Trump actually told Trudeau, who then told Ford.
A bad case of telephone tag and misstatements based on heresay to discredit our President.
Can’t trust anything these politicians say, especially globalists loyal to the Crown.
Would love to read a transcript of the actual conversation that Trudeau initiated.
The socks don’t have the same sparkle now
It’s not Canadians Doug, it’s Castro Jr.
We know its not all the people of Canada, it’s just habit when people say Canadians.
The citizens of Canada have an uphill battle to oust Trudeau, that is obvious for many reasons.
All we can do is pray you are successful and even when you are, you have his supporters lurking about.
They are in schools, families, workplaces etc. and changing their minds will be a monumental task.
Good luck, we are rooting for all Canadians to get back on course.
….so Doug Ford just insulted the Mexicans, no?
……………someone should ask him to unpack his comments and explain precisely what he means when he repeatedly asserts, “We are not Mexicans/Mexico….”
And if he doesn’t answer, ask him again.
It’s not too tricky to know exactly what he was saying.
“Tricky” is not the reason he needs to unpack it.
True.
You know full well what Ford is saying. You just don’t want to face the facts before you.
Mexico is a Drug Den of Thieves. American Corporations are in Mexico for the cheap/slave labor.
Get real.
Yikes. I did not in any way indicate that I did not know what he is saying. I indicated that I thought he should say it plainly instead of using a throwaway line.
You’ve got two “yous” and an imperative directed at me in your analysis, your projection, and your instructions–.
Ain’t about me, kam. It’s about Doug Ford.
Oh, well.
That’s pretty much my thought as well. As bad as Canada is at present, at least we don’t yet have paramilitary pagan drug-runners executing people with chainsaws.
Let the negotiations begin! These fools don’t stand a chance against President Trump.
Let the charges by the left/IC/DS of Logan Act begin, too; you know they’re coming regardless of validity.
Trudeau called Trump, presumably to congratulate him on his victory.
If Trudeau initiated a conversation about tariffs, theoretically, that is not a violation on Trump’s part
Trudeau is the ultimate leftist beta boy.
Completely lacking in balls and backbone.
If I were Canadian I’d move just to get away from the embarrassment that is little Justin.
Trudeau will be gone. Canada, though wounded, will survive.
More useless eaters to remove though.
Threat, Doug? It’s a promise from PDJT.
“’Canada is essential to US domestic energy supply and last year 60 percent of US crude oil imports originated in Canada. We will of course continue to discuss these issues with the incoming administration.‘ read the statement issued by Trudeau, finance minister Chrystia Freeland and public safety minister Dominic LeBlanc.”
We have Liquid Gold here in the United States. Just because FJB slowed down production and bought crude from Canada will not stop Our Lion President Trump from ramping it back up.
“We have enough liquid gold under our feet to power the United States for hundreds of years and pay off our National Debt”
~ President Donald J. Trump
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/panic-ottawa-canadian-pm-trudeau-calls-trump-two/
Doesn’t appear Ford was involved in Canadian national politics during POTUS Trump’s first term and obviously unaware that we were energy independent to have made this statement as well as slamming Mexicans. Mistake. May come back to haunt Ford.
National self-reliance is an anathema to the globalists. With self-reliant nations, the tariffs don’t matter much. These trade conversations become less vitriolic and we have peace, and we dont have to pay the skim to the multinational cartels.
‘The punishment is the process’ MAGA style. 😉
So Trump is using the Deep Stink/Democrat process against him, to use on other countries?
No, it says MAGA style.
Implementation of a successful USA (MAGA) will be painful for Marxists/globalists/rolecons to live through AGAIN.
Most Americans are blissfully unaware that American Corporations are the Buyer and Seller on both sides of the cross-border transactions.
Deliberately hurting all Canadians, even those Canadians that support most of what America stands for, is not the very best idea ever presented.
Obviously you are unaware of what was accomplished during POTUS Trump term1 and the USMCA agreement that was forged. It was not acrimonious at all and mutually beneficial. All participants (Trudeau was involved) in the signage.
There is a solution.
Trump is going to MTMCGA.
Get it?
GET RID OF ALL THESE STUPID Multi-country trade agreements. Go back to Bilateral Trade.
NAFTA, USMCA are both lousy agreements because of Mexico.
The Canadian/American AutoPact required both countries to manufacture the same number of vehicles as was sold in each country.
Now. Mexico makes cars and the U.S. and Canada close factories.
K Street is going to go nutz over this: Save us Mitch! Save us Chuck!
Just in time delivery for the Holidays!
Go big picture. The FED will slow rate drops not because politics per se’, but rather it is a tacit admission they know the MAGAeconomy is going to explode – red hot.
Trump’s policies create actual deflation. We’ve seen it before. We know it first-hand. Goods prices will drop. Food prices will drop. Gasoline prices will drop. The dollar will skyrocket. Service prices will go up, but only because demand increases.
As President Trump imports American wealth back into the USA, we benefit. The multinationals, and their pretending financial media have to pretend not to know this; but you can see it in reactionary data.
The FED knows the Trump economic plan leads to almost immediate dynamic growth. Yes, they suck, but they suck because they pretend not to know how good President Trump is for the USA economy. Nothing more.
Good!!! ZIRP, lower for longer, is partially responsible for the mess we’re in.
ZIRP and Printing/Spending unearned money has destroyed an entire generation.
neophyte question, not even sure if i’m wording this right:
is there a way for PT to KEEP rates high
(for all of us depending on supplemental interest income)
but make money so readily available that it would not slow growth?
is the fed move to slow rate drops a bonus side effect of PT’s pro-growth moves that will continue?
Saving is a virtue…or it used to be. Remember compound interest?
Some of us are not prepared to enter the Wall Street casino and would prefer to sleep at night knowing what we’ve been able to save is earning a decent, not extravagant, rate of return.
During the years of ZIRP, in essence negative rates, our savings, our seed corn as we call it, was eaten through by necessity. I know President Trump in his businessman’s guise loves low rates. They crucified us.
We’ve been playing catch up ever since those rates started rising to reasonable levels, and still haven’t recovered.
People screaming about how high they have been never lived through the truly exorbitant rates in the Carter years.
Want “high”?
Those were the days…
i remember 20% APR!!
(not that i had anything at the time to benefit from it!😂)
I had a little extra and got a year Certificate of Deposit @21% at a Savings and Loan Bank. Thought I was rich…
Spot on Betsy. When we moved from a nation of savers to a nation of debtors the focus went from how much I EARN on my savings to how much I PAY on my debt.
Makes Saving Great Again!
A slogan I wholeheartedly support 👍🏻
“Liberal” orthodoxy says “savings” are bad because that money isn’t being spent in the economy.
But that is just Political Diatribe.
Savings kept in your mattress is money taken out of the economy.
Savings in a Savings Account supports Investment which grows the economy.
To answer your question, if bank lending rates fall, hopefully Jumbo CD’s, annuities, some bonds, private lending and real estate income could offset any losses.
And yet the ridiculous media and their captive idiot audiences (including FOX, btw) continue to say how tariffs will increase prices, not reduce. The talking heads know that what audience they have left will promptly forget all of their lies when reality hits and the US economy takes off.
Fox/Murdoch work for the Monopoly Corporations who want to create jobs outside the country yet get Free Access to the American Market.
Too bad that without American Jobs, money must be borrowed to keep the economy functioning (sort of).
The Federal Reserve must keep interest rates higher than other countries to attract Foreign investment to pay the deficits/debt.
Good time for Americans to pay off debt, spend less and save more.
If lucky enough, within 5 years our quality of life will improve dramatically.
As the saying goes….”All boats rise, as the tide comes in…”or something like that.
This is super crazy reaction fallout to a man who has yet to be sworn into office.
👉Trump train 🚆is already rumbling through the various Countries railroad crossings. Time for them to get off the crossings or get run over👈
Yeah, don’cha love it!!!
I am sooo happy that I don’t have to wait for President Trump to get in office for the show to start. Let’s go.
Personally, I would like to see Trudeau reap the whirlwind of all his arrogant lefty policies full force along with his sidekick, Chrystia Freeland.
Trudeau is Dead Man Walking.
Freeland is the dirty socks in his boots.
Well said!
What yall gonna do Oh Canada? Huh?
Oh you gonna leverage oil?
That stuff we have under our feet all day every day? For the next, er, forever?
🤣😂😁🤣
What about Canadian bacon for Egg McMuffins, eh?
Pure pork sausage is much tastier than Canadian bacon, add a little mustard.
Such quick responses! Soooo….it is all about the economy (stupid), eh? 🙂
Claudia Sheinbaum, Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford are such foolish children. I’m embarrassed for them.
One piece of advice for all three of them:
Don’t make Dad mad. He’s not playing around.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Funny just thinking about how much PDJT haunts them. You know they wish they had half his intellect and popularity.
Their self esteem has dropped a few notches. He makes them so uncomfortable.
Close the MEX and CAN borders effectively and tariffs will be reduced.
Trouble is there are trillions at stake and governments are the top of the pyramid. Four examples:
Human traffic
Drug traffic
Gun traffic
Migration profiteering
Shut off all the NGO’s approved by the State Dept and their tax money flow and watch the borders close themselves to lack of illegals coming for all the freebies.
Stop all foreign aid as well. Charity begins at home. Time to put the citizen before the non citizen.
Let me suggest to you their are many Americans up to their eyeballs in Human/Child Trafficking, Drug Trafficking, Gun Trafficking.
Ukraine is a tool to pick the pocket of voiceless Americans so the wealthy War Mongers and Politicians can live high on the hog.
Canada can start by closing its border to their insipid wokeness.
Trudeau is down 30% in the polls.
I, among many others supported the Trucker Protest for freedom from the Jab and Freedom to Speak.
Woke? Only the dirty Canadian Socialists and Government Employees/Thugs are Woke. Nobody else.
Please. Our Canadian office is littered with loonies. Same with our London office. Moonbats almost every one.
Doug Ford, please pick up the white courtesy phone for a call from Mexico.
While we are negotiating,
The U.S. should negotiate land purchase from Canada for a highway and railroad connecting Alaska and lower 48.
The Alaska Highway exists mainly in Canada. A project made to protect Alaska from Japan, but beneficial to both countries.
B.C. Rail tried to build the Railway to Alaska through the Dease Lake Extension, but neither Alaska nor the United States Government was interested, and after spending hundreds of $millions, the project was abandoned.
And American Planes were flown through the Canadian Prairies, Yukon and Alaska on their way to Russian Siberia to assist Russia when the U.S., Canada and Russia were fighting the Nazis.
Trudeau and co didn’t complain when Pelosi called and told them to open Canadian borders to illegals, implement massive defecit spending, shut down the oil and gas industry, join the WEF, try to stall on USMAC …
Let me know when you plan to hang Nancy. I will attend the ceremony
Canada border crisis is Americans migration of fishermen in the spring.
My FIL was one of them! He called it the ‘pickerel run’ and tried to never miss–is that what you mean by fishermen migrating in the spring?
It doesn’t matter if you’re not Mexican, the Boss done told you what he expects. MAGA is back, get used to it.
Don’t know the details but the trade deficit with Canada is small. I’m OK with the tariffs regardless. If they can’t play fair then let the chips fall where they fall.
China and Mexico and Europe are abusing the USA.
Personally I would be OK with putting a 100% tariff on Canadian stuff bound for the U.S.
Just like a lot of Americans, this country needs a Wake Up call.
Both of these guys sound kinda……. racist?
Also, the idea that there’s no drug problem at the Canadian border is laughable.
Lived near the BC border for several years and there were numerous examples of hard, addictive, illegal drugs being smuggled across that border, along with arrests.
These two need to get over themselves.
True.
BUT LET’S BE CLEAR.
Cocaine moves north, B.C. Bud (marijuana) moves south. And more recently Mexican/South Asian factory made designer drugs are now moving south. And the H.A. is still active in everything.
He is right. It is unfair that we are imposing a 25 percent tax. It is uncalled for. What is called for is a 50 percent tax.
Does he think that we are stupid? The Canadians brought in Chinese parts, did a little something with it, and shipped those components to us like it was Canadian thus have low taxes because of nafta.
That is just one of many issues. They talk to us like we are children. Plus, he whines like a little girl and that alone is worth at least 5 % in taxes alone.
Again. TRUE. But how does the U.S. Government not enforce your own Laws?
Chinese steel, Chinese parts, including bearings, etc are a major component of “Made in Canada” exports to the U.S.A.
Just the same as Made in China pharmaceutical drugs are not labelled in consumer products. Most Canadian Pharmaceutical Drugs are Made in China in Bulk and repackaged in Canada.
Just as the misleading “Ships from the USA.”, “Ships from Canada” is sleight-of-hand for Made in China.
The U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is the hub around which all this DECEIT turns.
You are completely tight. We will deal with them, too.
Right, I meant to say right.
My country is an embarrassment
It’s O.K. so was ours for the last four years but we are fixing to turn it around and so can you start by getting rid of commy’s running your government
Again. Let’s be honest. Other than the one 4 year first (hobbled) term of Trump, you have not had an honest government working for the American People for more than a generation.
The problem is that after Donald Trump was cheated out of the 2020 election the Canadians told us ‘it sucks to be you’, remember that? Look how they treated their truckers for exercising speech during the plandemic. Now all of a sudden we are best friends. Like maybe now with Joebama in the White House who doesn’t exactly act like a friend to the US himself.
Dont talk about Canadians as “they”.
“They” are the same corrupt, dirty, backroom dealers that run D.C.
Canadian citizens, like American citizens have been elbowed to the side, kicked, threatened, silenced. For Americans, let’s hope this has ended.
For Canadians the struggle is still on. “The Truckers” weren’t just truckers. But that was the Catalyst that turned the tide against Trudeau. I noticed the American “Truckers” protest fizzled as American Media and the Internet smothered the babe in the cradle.
Yes.The Canadian elites. Just like us here in the US.Hopefully there will be a populist government in Canada like Mulroney after Reagon in the 80s with conservatism. I stand corrected.
You are correct, the people of both nations are being abused by their political class. Seems Canadian laws make it harder to remove political leaders. No free speech, no freedom of the press, no 2nd amendment leave citizens somewhat powerless.
That said, we have hundreds of J6 political protesters rotting in prisons for peacefully addressing the 2020 election malfeasance. After they agent provocateurs caused a riot, hundreds were arrested and prosecuted by the Justice dept and their lackeys, who are now destroying lives. So although our truckers did not get the “traction” as the famous Canadian ones, we have patriots and soldiers paying with blood and money, who rose up against the WEF American mafia. Justifiably, we are quite angry, a bit sensitive and fed up with the whole lot of them and their supporters.
It seems we all understand exactly what is going on in both countries.
Amen. When I was young, we thought of Vanadians as sisters & brothers. Detroiters regularly drove to Windsor & Hamilton without passports.
Many Michiganders had ancestors who first immigrated to Canada & then moved to the US for jobs.
Snow Mexicans crying saltcicles.
Snow Mexicans. LOL.
I wish peace and prosperity for our Canadian neighbors.
Having said that, I’m stealing Snow Mexicans.
Some one upthread came out with “frostbacks”.
Did Doug Ford just insinuate that Mexico is a s***hole country? It sure sounded like it.
I’m sure he will be viciously criticized by the Elite Wokedom for being so insensitive.
Waiting with bated breath…
Leftists get a pass.
Mexico is not a s***hole country?
Biggest threats to Canada? Well you idiots allow real and ACTUAL threats to come into our nation. But just threats, but ACTUAL crime committed against us!!
Beautiful
LMFAO. “To compare us to Mexico is the most insulting …” I wonder how Mexico feels about his comments.
Trudeau will be hearing from the Mexican consulate very soon.
Ford provoked an international crisis by insulting a USMCA member.
He emphatically stated it more than once, so appears there is animus toward Mexico.
Trudeau will make him publicly apologize and restate his message.
Come on man. He was looking for a new wife.
I couldn’t help noticing that Canada enjoys a $40 Billion trade deficit at present (to the detriment of the US). I, also, couldn’t help noticing that Argentina has the ability to provide quite a few of the same exports that Canada does. And, Argentina is looking to expand and develop their economy. It doesn’t hurt that Milei is very supportive of the Trump administration. Well, it doesn’t hurt the US or Argentina. Canada on the other hand…
China trade deficit 2023 at $280 billion, totally $Trillions over the past 2 decades.
Mexico trade deficit 2023 at $152 billion.
And you are whining about the deficit with Canada?
Great point along with many nations who we ALLOw to trade with us at huge deficit.
I’m sure the visit to Mar A Lago with PDJT was productive on those fronts. We indeed should look to Argentina, S. America and the Caribbean for economic growth. Canada needs to wake up about economic issues and stop playing footsie with the Progressives. The focus on DEI, sex, skin color and physical traits is absurd to put it mildly. Certainly not a function of any sane government. Trans teachers promoting lifestyle choices and govt forcing children into mutilation is evil.
The Canadian dollar is at risk of devaluation against the US dollar, so they are indeed worried.
Time to wake up, smell the Tim Horton’s and sweep out these knuckleheads in Ottawa and across Canada.
Get to it Canada and MCGA!
Even as they poke the Russian bear, I can’t help but feel the levity of these moments. The Tom Homan v. Denver Mayor is pretty funny, too! Enjoy!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/after_promising_a_tiananmen_square_moment_if_deportations_commence_denver_mayor_slinks_away_from_his_defiant_stance.html
Trudeau and Ford welcome this distraction right now. They would rather talk about anything other than the mayhem that Hamas, Hamas sympathizers, and Antifa are causing in Montreal, Toronto, and other major cities in Canada.
Many of my Canadian friends and family barely recognize the place.
Ezra Levant was arrested in Toronto on the weekend for taking pictures at a pro-Palestinian rally.
Good point. Perhaps that is exactly why Trudeau called Pres. Trump to start this controversy as a distraction.
Trump probably thought it was a congratulatory call and picked up the phone.
Then afterwards Trudeau started the tariff conversation.
The press was called to interview Trudeau and Ford to bolster their plot as a USMCA issue.
Uh huh…..What’s the matter Castro, you feeling in a pinch there? COMMUNIST…..
“Justin. This is not a negotiation. I’m busy. You know what to do. Handle it.”
Dial tone.
More popcorn please
correct you not Mexicans, but you are hosers, Eh.
Winnamin eh?
Beyond awesome. I always wondered why Canada wasn’t’ talked about like Mexico was for Illegals. Canada the ruse is up! Sun light on Canada bout time.
The same best friend that threatened to confiscate money and prosecute Americans donating to the trucker protests?
I did laugh at how he basically interpreted the comparison to Mexico as if he had been called a skank…
Anybody who had doubts that Trump is serious better reconsider…
Don’t confuse Turdeau and fake Conservative Fat Ford with the rest of Canadians.
It is Turdeau, Freelard and Ford that confiscated donations to GoFundMe (with the help of their compadres in California). Most of those confiscated funds came from Canadians.
And it was only a RUN ON THE CANADIAN BANKS as Canadians said Eff you Turdeau and started pulling funds out of their bank accounts, when Turdeau, Freelard and the other Totalitarians got spanked by the Canadian Banks.
Don’t worry. I never confuse freedom-loving Canadians with the communist overlords that rule over them.
Hey Dog – I don’t care you feel insulted – ok … now shut up and act responsibly … or you’ll never get the Stanley Cup back … Ever…
1993 (Montreal Canadiens) and still counting…