Canadian leftists have selected Mark Carney as their replacement for Justin Trudeau, Carney will be sworn in as Prime Minister shortly and complete the remaining segment of Trudeau’s term before new Canadian elections.
The only issue on the mind of voters in Canada is which candidate will fight U.S. President Donald Trump the hardest. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has vowed to fight Trump harder than Mark Carney, but the leftists in Canada are now back on the ascendency and will dispatch the pontificating Poilievere shortly.
During his acceptance speech at the Liberal Party convention, a beaming Mark Carney promised to defeat President Trump and the Americans in the upcoming trade war. Carney noted, a sense of national pride has swept across Canada as the people unite in their hatred for everything Trump and everything American associated with him. WATCH:
In addition to tariffs against Canadian goods and services, U.S. President Trump has massive economic arrows in his quiver that can be deployed against the Canadian economy. Measures including larger tariffs (tariff reciprocity), financial sanctions, restrictions on Canadian investment in the USA, revocation of visa-free border crossing, forced divestiture of American asset holdings for the Canadian people (banking reciprocity), all the way to a full-throated embargo of all goods and travel from Canada are potential.
If that sequence of events ever happened, the Canadian government led by Prime Minister Mark Carney has vowed to respond in kind to Trump with identical action blocking any/all USA products, services and American citizens from entry into Canada. This approach would enable us to finally determine which nationalistic outlook will survive, Canada or the USA.
(Via Politico) – […] One of Carney’s first decisions will be whether or not to call a snap election in the middle of a trade war. He has identified Trump’s rolling tariff threats as an “economic and sovereign crisis.”
“The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country,” Carney said. “Think about it. If they succeed, they will destroy our way of life.”
Carney campaigned for the top job on his reputation as a disaster manager, arguing that he is the right person to take on Trump. He ran for the leadership against former Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who has warned that how Canada deals with the president “will define us for a generation, and perhaps longer.”
Trump now tops the list of things Canadians are worried about, followed by jobs, inflation and the economy. About 90 percent of Canadians live within 150 miles of the U.S. border, and polls show the country of 40 million is increasingly angry at the U.S. president, who can’t seem to stop talking about annexing Canada. (read more)
These next few weeks and months could be very interesting.
Carney stole the elections, or I should say, the Liberals (Trudeau) decided ahead.
Carney won almost all ridings with almost exact percentages, including those of his opponents. About 85%…
Trudeau won with 85% back in the day, and that was because of latent loyalty to his father. It’s impossible Carney got same number of votes like Trudeau. Same as Biden beating Obama in votes, with Carney and Trudeau.
You can actually see it on Freeland’s face when the results were announced. She was supposed to get around 40%… instead, I think it was 8%… she knows the votes been cooked, but won’t say anything.
Oh, a banker. How nice. 😆
It’s not that the choices in their election are that great anyway. I actually feel sorry for the Canadians because they have been beaten into submission by their leaders. Past and present.
The score 🇨🇦 vs 🇺🇸
GDP CAN 🇨🇦
$2.75 TRILLION
GDP USA 🇺🇸
$29.65 TRILLION
the winner is USA 🇺🇸
Of all the people to replace the disaster that has been Justin Trudeau, the Liberal Party managed to choose the only one worse than him.
Correction: The Globalists selected the one to give Canada the coup de gras and finish it off entirely.
We can’t hate the Globalists enough, and the Liberal Party for helping them.
The United States has recently imposed tariffs on Canadian goods, explicitly tying these measures to demands for Canada to enhance border security, curb fentanyl trafficking, combat crime, and reduce illegal immigration into the U.S. These conditions reflect legitimate concerns for American national security and public health, rooted in a desire to address tangible cross-border issues. In response, the Canadian government has threatened retaliatory tariffs against the U.S., escalating the situation into a broader trade conflict. This reaction from Canada is misguided and arguably unjustified, given that the U.S. requests align with moral and practical imperatives that benefit both nations, rather than constituting an act of economic aggression warranting retaliation.
The U.S. tariffs are not arbitrary; they are conditional responses to specific, well-documented problems. Fentanyl, a deadly opioid responsible for tens of thousands of American deaths annually, has been linked to growing production and trafficking networks in Canada, even if the majority still enters via Mexico. Illegal immigration, while less significant from Canada compared to the southern border, has increased in recent years, straining U.S. resources. Crime, including the activities of transnational drug cartels, further complicates the shared border dynamic. By framing tariffs as leverage to encourage Canadian cooperation, the U.S. is effectively asking for a partnership to address these shared challenges—issues that Canada, too, has a moral stake in resolving, given its own fentanyl crisis and interest in regional stability.
Canada’s decision to threaten retaliatory tariffs, however, shifts the focus from collaboration to confrontation. Rather than engaging constructively to meet these reasonable demands—such as bolstering border enforcement or cracking down on domestic fentanyl production—Canada appears to be deflecting responsibility. This escalation risks undermining the economic interdependence that defines the U.S.-Canada relationship, where over $700 billion in annual trade supports jobs and livelihoods on both sides. Retaliatory tariffs on sectors like energy or steel, as hinted by Canadian officials, would harm American consumers and businesses, but they would also boomerang, damaging Canadian exporters who rely heavily on the U.S. market. This tit-for-tat approach ignores the underlying moral weight of the U.S. requests, framing them instead as an attack to be countered rather than a problem to be solved together.
Moreover, Canada’s response overlooks the asymmetry of the situation. The U.S. has not imposed these tariffs out of spite or protectionism but as a tool to prompt action on issues Canada has been slow to address decisively. Data shows that while fentanyl seizures at the northern border are a fraction of those at the southern border, the presence of Mexican cartels operating synthesis labs in Canada signals a growing threat. Canada’s own labor shortages and economic incentives have also drawn migrants northward, some of whom cross illegally into the U.S. By threatening tariffs instead of doubling down on joint solutions—like the promised but under-delivered border security measures—Canada risks appearing indifferent to the human toll of these issues, prioritizing pride over pragmatism.
In short, the U.S. has asked Canada to uphold moral and mutual obligations: secure the border, stop the flow of a lethal drug, and curb illegal crossings. These are not unreasonable demands but calls for accountability and cooperation. Canada’s threat of retaliatory tariffs, rather than a commitment to address these concerns, mischaracterizes the U.S. position as hostile and justifies an unnecessary escalation. By choosing trade warfare over partnership, Canada not only undermines its own economic interests but also weakens the moral high ground it might claim in this dispute. The better path would be to meet the U.S. halfway, proving through action that tariffs need not define this relationship.
Truth Social post just pops up announcing tariffs on Canada & looking forward to them becoming our cherished 51st state. Hilarious.
Ha! Carney, you better pack a lunch; it’s gonna’ be a long day.
There is no half way with Canada with a Globalist leadership. That should be a given. Canada has already sold out to China, so Canada has to be treated as a china proxy at this point. When they allow Chinese troops to train in Canada, ref flags should be going off. The only approach is to make the US independent from all Canadian goods, and treat their border as they are now treating the southern border. Until the Canadian people get a government more populist in place. If a world war were to break out, most likely Canada would not be allied with the US under the present leadership.
Carney more effed up than Trudeau. After what Trudeau did to the truckers, can Canadian citizens have any comfort with this new leadership? Fireworks in the offing?
It appears the opening salvo has been fired. Canadian electricity vs steel and auto imports. We’ll now see whether left or the right policies will be successful and which country prevails. Any bets?
Meanwhile he’s at home practicing holding his hat in his hand and looking sheepish……
IMESHO, just close to the border to Canada, and don’t worry about tariffs. There isn’t anything from Canada that I need, the best whiskey still comes from Tennessee.
Most Canadians are good people. How do they get such characters in their gubermint???
Same way we do, and most of the other governments around the world!
“@POTUS announces that Ontario Premier Doug Ford will NOT be charging a surcharge on electricity to the U.S”….
https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1899538961107722624
Why is there a trade war? Didn’t Trump make the best deal of all time during his first term?