According to the people present, when former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump, his primary objective was to inform President Trump his public demands for U.S. trade reciprocity with Canada were unachievable.
Trudeau was not lying. In this outline we will explain a dynamic that is certain to surface this summer.
President Trump has deferred all North American trade negotiations with Canada and Mexico until later in the year, after the priority trade deals with other large trade partners are completed. The USMCA trade pact is due for review and renegotiation this year [BACK STORY]. We should expect an entirely different trade pact as an outcome, quite possibly the ending of the trilateral nature of the current agreement.
A few days ago, Politico noted that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had a reprieve from his prior campaign points about confronting President Trump on tariffs immediately. PM Carney is currently trying to align allies for what will likely be a major confrontation that he cannot win.
♦ BACKGROUND – 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, in addition to the NATO defense shortfall, 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 and meeting their NATO obligations, 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, in the emotional reaction to Trump’s statements, no-one looked at the core issues outlined by Trudeau that framed President Trump’s opinion.
Representing Canada, Justin Trudeau was not expressing an unwillingness to comply with fairness and reciprocity in trade with the USA, what Trudeau was expressing was an inability to comply. Quite simply, after decades of shifting priorities, Canada no longer has the internal economic capability to comply with a fair-trade agreement (FTA). Trudeau was not lying, and President Trump understood the argument; hence his 51st state remarks.
This is where it becomes important to understand the core reason why Trump, Ross and Lighthizer (2017) did not structurally want to replace the NAFTA agreement with another trilateral trade deal. Mexico and Canada are completely different as it pertains to trade with the USA. President Trump would rather have two separate bilateral agreements; one for Mexico and one for Canada.
♦ Firstly, Canada is a NATO partner, Mexico is not. As President Trump affirmed to Justin Trudeau during the meeting, it would be unfair of President Trump to discuss NATO funding with the European Union, while Canada is one of the worst offenders. Trump is leveraging favorable trade terms and tariff relief with the EU member states, as a carrot to get them into compliance with the 2.0 to 2.5% spending requirement for their military.
If the NATO member states contribute more to their own defense, the U.S. can pull back spending and save Americans money. However, Canada is currently 26th in NATO funding, spending only 1.37% of their GDP on defense (link).
Canada would have to spend at least another $15 billion/yr on their defense programs in order to reach 2.0%. Justin Trudeau told President Trump that was an impossible goal given the nature of the Canadian political system, and the current size of their economy ($2.25 trillion).
♦ Secondly, over the last 40 years Canada has deindustrialized their economy, Mexico has not. As the progressive political ideology of their politicians took control of Canada policy, the ‘climate change’ agenda and ‘green’ economy became their focus. The dirty industrialized systems were not compliant with the goals of the Canadian policy makers.
The dirty mining sector (coal, coking coal, ore) no longer exists at scale to support self-sufficient manufacturing. The dirty oil refineries do not exist to refine the crude oil they extract. Large industrial heavy industry no longer exists at a scale needed to be self-sufficient. Instead, Canada purchases forged and rolled steel component parts from overseas (mostly China). Making the issue more challenging, Canada doesn’t even have enough people skilled to do the dirty jobs within the heavy manufacturing; they would need a national apprenticeship program. Again, all points raised by Trudeau to explain why bilateral trade compliance was impossible.
♦ Thirdly, the trade between Canada/U. S and Mexico/U. S is entirely different. The main imports from Canada are energy, lumber and raw materials. The main imports from Mexico are agriculture, cars and finished industrial goods. Mexico refines its own oil; Canada ships their oil to the USA for refining. There are obviously some similar products from Mexico and Canada, but for the most part there is a big difference.
♦ Forth, USA banks are allowed to operate in Mexico, but USA banks are not allowed to operate in Canada. USA media organizations are allowed to broadcast in Mexico, but USA media organizations are regulated and not permitted to broadcast in Canada. The Canadian government has strong regulations and restrictions on information and Intellectual Property.
All of these points of difference highlight why a trilateral trade agreement like NAFTA and the USMCA just don’t work out for the USA.
Additionally, if President Trump levies a tariff on Chinese imports, it hits Canada much harder than Mexico because Canada has deindustrialized and now imports from China to assemble into finished goods destined to the USA. In a very direct way Canada is a passthrough for Chinese products. Canada is now more of an assembly economy, not a dirty job manufacturing economy.
When Trudeau outlines the inability of Canada to agree to trade terms, simply because his country no longer has the capability of adhering to those trade terms, a frustrated President Trump says, “then become a state.”
There is no option to remain taking advantage of the USA on this level, and things are only getting worse. Thus, the point of irreconcilable conflict is identified.
Because the Canadian government became so dependent on their role as an assembly economy, they enmeshed with China in a way that made them dependent. The political issues of Chinese influence within Canada are a direct result of this dynamic. In fact, China was the big winner from the outcome of the recent election because all of their investments into Canada are grounded on retaining Liberal government dependency.
If Trump targets China with punitive tariffs, the Canadian economy will be collaterally damaged. Canada will end up paying a tariff rate because they use cheap Chinese component parts in their finished goods. Canada has structurally designed their economy to do this over multiple years.
Understanding the unique nature of the Canadian economic conundrum, the only way to address the issue is to break out the USMCA into two separate bilateral trade agreements. One set of trade terms for Mexico that leverages border security, and one set of trade terms for Canada that leverages NATO security and border security. The only substantive similarity between them will be in the auto and agriculture sector.
If you think the multinational corporations, political leftists and UniParty Republicans in the USA are strongly opposing Trump now, just wait until later this year when the Trump administration proposes the elimination of the trilateral North American trade agreement, USMCA.
According to the World Bank, the USA economy is $27.3 trillion. Canada is $2.1 trillion.
Do the math!
[…] The expectation, according to two people close to the White House, is that negotiations to permanently remove the threat of painful 25 percent tariffs on Canada — which Trump mostly rolled back earlier this month — and other sector-specific tariffs are likely to be folded into the upcoming review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. That review is due in 2026, but the Trump administration wants to accelerate to this calendar year.
“It makes sense to separate out Canada and Mexico from the rest because they are going to want to redo the USMCA,” said one of the people close to the White House, who were granted anonymity to discuss ongoing deliberations. “They’re going to have separate tariffs that focus specifically on Mexico and Canada, and they’re going to take some actions to squeeze them a little bit.” [LINK]
Goliath vs. David.
Not a good look.
But who cares about looks?
It’s more than that, It’s reality vs Pretend.
What is reality is China owning Canada and most Canadians don’t realize it. Maybe the Snow Mexicans prefer the Chinese language over French and English or the socialists who destroyed a once great nation will finally be outed by their own citizens.
Yep, China has the real money in British Columbia.
India too…the cultural change over the last fifty or so years has been astonishing.
Cheers!
i would love to see USMCA broken up. as of now each country has 1 vote. I never liked that part. the two could gang up on the USA.
The last time we were at Niagara Falls, which was 20 years ago now, we were *astonished* at the amount of foreigners there.. to say as white people, that we were in the minority there was quite an understatement.
I’d say we were the only white people in a sea of Indians and other brown people- whatever they were.
We felt like we were in India and were totally shocked and the Veteran men in our group felt a deep sense of unease.. We were just there as tourists, we had no idea that we were going to what felt like India.
I can’t even imagine what it’s all like now.
I don’t think the average American down here understands just how filled with foreigners that Canada really is.
Sounds like we need a northern wall!
Canadians get their news from state media still. So they are completely brainwashed and manipulated by the Canadian gvt. A shame. The conservatives in Canada should have blamed their liberal gvt instead of Trump for Canada´s situation, and more people would have woken up. But as of today, most of the Canadian population is blue pilled believing climate change nonsense and completely detached from understanding how incompetent their own gvt has been over the last decade, and absolutely content to argue everything bad in the Canadian economy for the last 20 years, is because of Trump. Sad to see smart people be lead to the political slaughter as their country gets poorer and more communist, as the Chinese amoeba slowly takes over its host.
Problem for Canada is that the USA will never let a 100% China-dominated-Canada, share its border, ignorance of the Canadians be damned.
Where are you getting your information that the Conservatives blamed TRUMP? It was the exact opposite. The Liberals led by PM Carney mounted a disinformation campaign with anti-Trump, anti-American hateful rhetoric as soon as Carney won the leadership race for the Liberal Party. Facebook and x was non-stop memes, videos, articles from commenters about ”Buy Canadian”, stop cross-border shopping, sell your American vacation homes, don’t travel to the USA, cut off the electricity to the northern states, etc.
Mr. Poilievre, on the other hand, was quite muted in his response. He stated that Canada would remain a sovereign nation and not a 51st state. He told Canadians he would negotiate an agreement. In fact, many are stating the reason the Conservatives lost the election was because he was NOT forceful enough in his statements about the tariffs.
You just need to look at that Time Magazine meme of PM Carney giving the middle finger to President Trump and Americans to come to the RIGHT conclusion that it was Carney and the Liberals, NOT the Conservatives who stirred up Canadians against the USA.
Good Morning,
Odd how so many individuals attack “ Canadians “ millions of us supported our truckers, despised Trudeau etc.
Trudeau was a “ dead man” walking then the Globalists attacked.
We do not have a President Donald J. Trump.
Our political system has been perfected by globalists.
Our media is government funded.
No excuses..just an explanation.
Cheers!
Move to the USA!
No! Take back Canada!!!
We can’t keep losing ground to the globalist communists.
Hopefully most here recognize there are millions of freedom loving Canadians. There’s no reason to believe you have honest elections any more than we in the US have recently experienced. Just last night in a discussion with one of my adult children I brought up the Canadian truckers and how the freedom loving people of the world owe them a debt for breaking the will of the totalitarians on the covid issue.
This happened because the people are not smart enough to know the difference.
We don’t want any part of Canada as a new American territory or state for the same reason we don’t want massive immigration: cultural assimilation will not happen.
PDJT is exercising economic power (as well as some sidebar mutual defense requirements) to force concessions that are inevitable; or, the Canadian gov’t inevitably falls. They (i.e., Canadian leadership) will contest to the penultimate stage – and then throw in the towel because it’s in their survival interest to do so. What isn’t so clear is how the intent of disassociating Canadian economy from China will be achieved – the Chinese will obviously respond. A turn to EU is a hand already being played – one that does not seem likely to deliver long-run gains given the precarious state of EU economy and security.
“You can ignore reality. But you can not ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Ayn Rand
Love the quote, but don’t think it is a real Ayn Rand quote. It is kind of a condensed idea of her thoughts, but not a direct quote. More info here: The Quotable Ayn Rand: ‘You Can Avoid Reality, But …’
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Professional Operative from a hostile foreign land, sniping at Sundance is his principal stock in trade.
Lost count of how many times he’s been banned.
This iteration seems to have staying power for some reason; maybe somebody likes him.
Goliath usually wins. When David wins (US revolution?), it remains a story for the ages. When Goliath wins, no one notices or remembers.
The obsession with appearances at the expense of results is the precise reason why the West is deteriorating faster than the wreck of the Titanic, a ship sharing more than one commonality with the globalist-oriented world order.
Perhaps if the interests you advocate on behalf of prioritized outcomes over feelings, those interests would not find themselves steaming directly into the Iceberg. Then again, prioritizing feelings over outcomes creates the type of crises which those interests love to manipulate to their advantage, so hitting the Iceberg has its upsides if your cabin is on the right deck.
Unfortunately, even the First Class passengers aren’t guaranteed a seat in a Lifeboat, something which should probably be kept in mind next time the strains of the band drift over the clinking of Champaign glasses and French silverware at dinner.
Form over function creates garbage in every application.
Using biblical imagery is cute, but then that story is usually taught to pre-school kids while omitting large parts of the story.
Bring it on.
“Justin Trudeau told President Trump that was an impossible goal given the nature of the Canadian political system, and the current size of their economy ($2.25 trillion).”
IMO Canada politicians are clear-eyed the current “political system” is now an inflexible liability but fully intend to stay the course and exploit ‘crisis’ with Trump to tighten administration’s authoritarian grip on power over its citizens. God speed Canadians.
Thank you for ”getting” the political system in Canada being in inflexible liability and that the Liberals will continue to exploit the ”crisis” with Trump to tighten their totalitarian grip on power over us.
So IOW, those Canadian politicians fully intend to lead the national suicide; the arguments favoring a sensible self-preserving realignment of national priorities be damned?
SMH. I hope our Canadian Treeper friends can relocate to the USA before it all goes to hell.
Hi, This British Columbian is ever so pleased that Carnage will be taken to task.
Sure many here will be in for a rude awakening.
Many though that have
little or no debt, mortgage free homes a financial cushion will be able to ride the financial shock.
Of course a faith in God, a God that has directed me to the CTH is the Keystone.
We may even look to buy a small place in the S/W of the U.S. before our Canadian Peso loses even more value.
Cheers!
Deke, what tips can you give on using the Alcan Highway to drive to Alaska and back?
What sort of mechanics are along the highway in case of trouble? (I would be running a Jeep or a 4WD mobile home.)
That’s a bucket list thing for me.
I haven’t driven it, but a few years back a neighbour had made the journey and he thoroughly enjoyed the adventure.
He was a long haul trucker so was obviously confident on the roads.
My hunch is an internet search will suggest mobile/ 24 hour shops and the like
for the Hwy.
Depending where you are coming from crossing in Montana and heading straight north up and into Alberta would likely be best.
One would be driving through the major cities of Calgary, then further north to Edmonton.
From there on heads west to Dawson City where I believe the Alcan Hwy begins.
The Jeep of course would be more nimble and better on fuel, but having the 4×4 motor home would be truly versatile.
Cheers!
Thanks, Dekester!
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Valdez was a surprise destination – two really great museums.
I did that when I finished college. But we camped. We drove from MN, which is not recommended. Depending where you are, if not in the upper, western US, best to fly to Edmonton and rent a car, if it can be afforded. From Fort Nelson up it is very beautiful and worth every second. Camping by Kluane Lake is one of the most memorable camping trips imo. The Yukon is spectacular. Driving the Canadian flat land can be bland but that area is filled with salt of the earth farmers and it is beautiful in itself. The highway was not paved when we did it and we made it.
Once I retire, I’d like to do that again. Alaska is one of our most beautiful states. Make sure you go to Mt. McKinley, and take the bus to the interior. Also the Kenai peninsula, Homer, Prince William Sound, Seward, even hard to reach Cordova are very beautiful. You can drive back to Sitka and put yourselves and the car on the ferry and do the inside passage to Prince George or wherever it ends. Best travels to you and yours!
I hope Dekester forgives my intrusion in the conversation, but I love that part of our continent!
Hi, not at all.
My assumption was that WT. wanted to drive his Jeep or M/H.
If one wants to fly, rent a vehicle and do it frugally I would suggest something a bit different.
Possibly, and I stress possibly fly Allegiant Air ( we fly regularly with them as they are great value) to Bellingham Washington St ( 20 mins from the B.C. border)
Get a deal there or in B.C. and drive up through B.C. to Dawson City.
The drive is quite scenic.
Cheers!
Son and I wanted to drive from Alaska to Argentina but alas I waited too long and now I don’t see my health ever permitting the drive.
I’d like to add this to possibly help you.
My state borders Canada and I’ve been up there quite a bit in my life, it’s very different from America.
First of all, depending upon where you are, I’m very near Quebec, they cannot stand Americans.
None of this is new and it’s far worse now.
We were treated horribly many times, and in a hostile way more than once- people refused to speak English to us even though we knew they knew how too. I’d call it just being a jerk whenever the opportunity presented itself.
It just is what it is.. but be aware of all this as you travel there.
Next: they use the Metric system. I’m not a mechanic but I know that my dad always brought half his garage with us when we went up there because he’d say that their tools that they had on hand were likely not compatible with our older American vehicles.. obviously if you need to fix something, and no one has tools that work on your vehicle, this is a big deal.
I don’t know if this is still an issue today, but it’s something for you to research to then prepare for.
Do your research about how their medical system works, call your insurance company. Make sure you understand what to do should you find yourself needing medical care there.
Another thing to remember: Canada is a very far gone Socialist country. We were robbed the last time we were there and they looked at us like we had two heads when we went to the local police station to report that we’d been robbed. They do not think of a single thing as we do. You cannot assume anything..
Also do your research on what the border crossing will be all about.
We went in with a motorhome one time, a team of border agents searched literally every square inch- even looking into jars of food in the fridge. We were there for almost 12 hours both going in and coming home.. this is something to be very prepared for if you wind up going in with a camper.
You can possibly lose two entire days of your trip just crossing the border- I would expect this to happen in fact.
Canada is a wonderful country, IF things go well, BUT exercise full caution as you would going into a foreign country that doesn’t necessarily want you there.
Would never have thought of the metric tool issue. Very practical advice.
I went to Canada over a decade ago, in August. An older relative wanted very much for my daughters to see the whales in the St. Lawrence.
We had a lovely time in Quebec and Montreal; no problems except that relative claimed to my teen daughter that “there is no crime in Canada”. I protested that this is an unwise assumption. Criminals can travel just as easily as we could, and lawbreakers exist in all times and places. There might be MORE criminals in US cities but I did not ever want for the kids to make assumptions of ideal total safety in unfamiliar surroundings
I wonder if we here can pick and choose which parts of Canada we would welcome…
Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, leaving Quebec and Ontario to marinate in the consequences of their own Liberal ideologies which have brought the monster globalist, climate cult worshipper Carney to power. The rest we could discuss.
We have enough of our own Lib cities and states without adding more which by numbers could turn us into a permanent one party nation. Food for thought.
(Your thinking is mine, Dekester. I believe each of us on our road’s journey homeward has been led to this wonderful place by God. Grateful…)
Eh, maybe not B.C. though…
Give them a few months or so of their new crucifying carbon taxes, higher’taxes in general, censorship, and the new aerosol mRNA vaxxxines which Carney, not three seconds in office, has given the green light for , who knows…
BC might just have a sudden light bulb moment 😎
Canada’s new national Covidian anthem? Up your nose with an mRNA hose!”
BC is drop-down dead gorgeous! I’d live there in a heartbeat. That said, Vancouver would be one BC location I would avoid.
Amen.
BC is too full of themselves.
Not BC. Please! That is like taking Seattle.
the political chess game has to be considered. maybe canada can be territory.
I can’t actually see its happening, gary. It would take years and would surely be fought tooth and nail by various factions on either side of the border.
Events are rapidly unfolding now and unsettling chaos is increasing everywhere amongst the Western nations. Political landscapes are in flux and evolving.
But mountains have been moved by seeds of the mustard type.
The only thing which is certain is that nothing is. Gotta get through this little upcoming trade war first.
Interesting times, no?
Betsy in the old days (pre-Covid) I would have agreed with you fully.
But think about what we’ve seen- not just over the course of our lives, but look at the Covid lockdowns and what they’ve done to us!
I think it’s fair to say that we have no idea at all what is possible and not possible anymore.
I’ve seen so much now that I never dreamed we’d see here in America.
So who knows..
Make Canada a territory. Right now it’s so top heavy with conmunists we would just add more leftist voters and give the Conmunist Racist Demoncrats the hard number they need to effect one party rule.
To me, this is like the conversations of people moving to “get away” from liberal blue insanity.
WE need to ‘Stand our ground”; look what happened when a bunch of MAGA types got suckered into leaving NYS, to move to Florida.
Lee Probably would have won as Governor, had they stayef and voted, and the “free state of Florida” as toutef by DeSantis, ain’t so great after all.
Never been to Jersey eh? The only thing standing your ground gets you is taxed into oblivion so the tenants of the new 750 thousand plus sq ft warehouses don’t have to pay any for a decade. I’m taxed out the wazzzzu so illegals can turn our schools into gangland. Billions of personal wealth have left this state and Murphy’s got to collect the revenue somewhere.
Standing your ground looks good on paper Dutch, reality is it has cost me everything and wasn’t worth the effort.
Same with Virginia. I stood my ground for nearly 60 years from:
Corruption from proximity to DC
Illegal aliens- been in VA for DECADES.
Destruction of the textile and furniture industry killing whole counties across the entire border with NC.
Sky High taxes on income, property, personal property such as cars, trailers, boats, ATVs and mobile homes; utility services, business inventory and machinery (which do not enjoy any depreciation for the first 5 years)
Highway tolls for the shittiest roads in America,
and saddest of all, a pathetic education system beholden to DC’s leftist indoctrination and slavish devotion to the tranny freak sexual perverts agenda.
One of my grandsons in high school literally did NOTHING construed as learning when the Commonwealth shut down tight for covid, for the entire school year. The students didn’t even have teachers teaching, just mostly instructional videos filled with propaganda.
The main thing I remember from a short time spent in NJ is the realization that I needed to have taken a defensive driving course before visiting there.
I visited NJ once to see some friends that moved there.
I wanted to walk to a Wawa for coffee, less than 2 blocks away.
My friends literally would not allow me to walk, as they said I would never make it back safely. This was in 1996. In what appeared to be a “nice” neighborhood.
The Indians drive slow. I am a PA resident that frequented the Edison/Woodbridge area 7 to 10 years ago.
Alberta = 51
Saskatchewan = 52
Manitoba = 53
So six new Senators then. I’d be careful with that.
Exactly.
Not rejoicing over that. Maybe we go back to a non voting territory?
Texas reserves the right to divided itself into no more than five states which would give it 10 senators. The threat has always been there.
No new states until the seventeenth amendment is repealed .
You don’t want Manitoba. It’s too socialist.
Saskatchewan is too hard to spell.
Break it into syllables – Sask -at – chew- an. It is quite easy then.
It was for awhile, but it is slowly returning to Conservatism. The younger generation have had their fill of liberalism.
I support that. These provinces are loyal Conservative which would be synonymous with the Republican Party. In Canada, the colors for the Liberal Party is red, whereas the colors for the Conservative Party are blue, which is the opposite to your main two political parties. These three provinces has many rich resources such as oil, natural gas, potash, lumber, grain, fisheries, etc., that the Liberal government will NOT allow them to further develop.
Same colors here back before the yellowstream media managed to flip colors thru brainwashing the sheeples.
Hi Betsy,
Alberta and Saskatchewan to be sure.
Unfortunately British Columbia is corrupted by its major cities. Much of British Columbia is very Conservative.
A very good comparison is Washington State, we here in British Columbia “ mirror” Washington State.
Seattle/Vancouver, Olympia/Victoria
With each passing year
my belief in God is stronger.
We never had a church or religious influence.
I am enjoying my journey “ and as coincidence has it sitting on the table as I plonk away.
Is a fascinating book that was written by a Fulton J. Sheen he was a professor of the Catholic University of America.
A few years back a book with such power would not be on my table.
Cheers!
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Oops..not sure if that made much sense.😟
I understood it…so yes it makes alot of sense
I figured there might be some unfortunate spillover from Washington. And that’s a terrible shame as it’s such a beautiful state. But such is the sickness which has infected it…and far too many others. I’m past trying to figure out the insanity.
I remember Fulton Sheen. My mother would listen to his broadcasts when I was young; and recently I’ve stumbled on them once more, blessedly preserved on Youtube. A joy to hear him again and to absorb his spiritual messages now that I have travelled much further down my road.
And yes, my friend, you made perfect beautiful sense 💕
Blessings always…
Fulton J. Sheen was an archbishop of the dioceses of Rochester , NY. He did many broadcasts back in the day and you may still be able to find some of them on the net. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_J._Sheen
Most certainly percise.
From what i’m hearing, the Native Tribes, First Nations, have a lot of say as to whether any Provence of Canada can, or could join the USA. So far none of them are onboard with the idea. Sounds like a major stumbling block for any separation.
Hunger always trumps pride in the end.
The First Nations are grandstanding in order to secure a better deal for themselves. Their ”treaty” lands will not be affected if separation takes place.
My neighborhood here in Arizona is full of Canadians. Snowbirds. They leave the first day the temp hits 100 degrees.
We have Canadian Banks (PNC and Harris) and Canada Talks on Sirius.
Come on down!
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Be careful where you go in the southwest US. There are massive problems with drugs, homelessness and illegals. In spite of the Trump administrations work and focus tremendous damage was done in the 4 years of Biden and Mayorkas. It may not be fixable and if it is it will be a long time from now.
Thanks the both of you..we have a neighbour two up from our cottage on Vancouver Island.
He is a U.S citizen retiree who resides in Scottsdale, and spends his late spring and summer here on Vancouver Islands east coast.
Cheers!
I like the way you end messages with “Cheers,” Dekester.
I don’t know where it originated. I noticed it in a message from a co-worker in Ireland during my work years, and have ended almost every email with it since. It just made me feel good, and thought my correspondents would smile…
In the UK it appears to be equivalent to “Thanks.” Is that true in Canada as well?
Hi,
Likely originated in the
Pubs.
Raising a glass and saying cheers!
Maybe too up our way in Scotland women would end a chance meeting with “ a cheerio” and a wave.
🥂
Here in California the fake news is already spewing how our economy is being hurt by Canadians cancelling their trips to the hellhole that is California, because of Trump no less. It’s beginning to sound like a win-win.
The question is are they stabbing Trump or covering for Gabbin’ Nuisance.
I fear that they have been affected by the non-stop hateful rhetoric spewed by the lapdog media of Canada, the Liberal Party and its leader, PM Carney. They have been brainwashed to believe in ”orange man bad” and Americans even worse.
Come to Az., Dekeseter, but stay out of big cities.
The NW corner is especially nice, altitude is everything so look for around 3000′-3400′ elevation, gives you relatively mild weather all year round…
Thank you!
No Deke not the west coast area, come to Montana!
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The Crown Colony Canada needs to be taken by force from the British royals or be used as leverage in a USA exit from the Federal Reserve Bank (Bank of England).
OH, but the Crown Colony has invited King Charles of England to open its new session of Parliament on May 27. ”His Royal Consort”, PM Carney extended the invitation in order to give President Trump and Americans the middle finger as you can see in the Time cover.
President Trump should decline any future visits with the royals who tried to assassinate him.
It appears that President Trump did not meet with Prince William at Pope’s funeral after William buttonholed him a few months back at Notre Dame reopening.
Death to the Crown.
the Canadian people need to realize this
the days of living off the backs of the American taxpayer should be over
US Federal Reserve = Bank of England
Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England.
A USA war against the UK is unavoidable at this point.
British spy, Prince Harry should be the first casualty for his ongoing espionage in the USA.
As a man of Irish ancestry, I agree.
Smash the Brits!
Here’s what my namesake thought of them:
“On the arrival of General Sherman at Savannah, he saw a large number of British flags displayed from buildings, and had a curiosity to know how many British Consuls there were there. He soon ascertained that these flags were on buildings where cotton had been stored away, and at once ordered to be seized. Soon after that, while the General was busily engaged at headquarters, a pompous gentleman walked in, apparently in great haste, and inquired if he was General Sherman. Having received an affirmative reply, the pompous gentleman remarked, “that when he left his residence, United States troops were engaged in removing cotton from it, when it was protected by the British flag.”
“Stop, sir!” said General Sherman; “not your cotton, sir, but my cotton, – in the name of the United States Government, sir. I have noticed,” continued Sherman, ” a great many British flags all about here, protecting cotton. I have seized it all, in the name of my Government.”
“But, sir,” said the Consul, indignantly, “there is scarcely any cotton in Savannah that does not belong to me.”
“There is not a pound of cotton here, sir, that does not belong to me, for the United States,” responded Sherman.
“Well, sir,” said the Consul, swelling himself up with the dignity of his office, and reddening in the face; “my Government shall hear of this. I shall report your conduct to my Government, sir!”
“Ah! pray, who are you, sir?” said the General.
“Consul to Her British Majesty, sir!”
“O! indeed!” responded the General. “I hope you will report me to your Government. You will please say to your Government, for me, that I have been fighting the English Government all the way from the Ohio River to Vicksburg, and thence to this point. At every step I have encountered British arms, British munitions of war, and British goods of every description- at every step- sir. I have met them, sir, in all shapes; and now sir, I find you claiming all the cotton, sir. I intend to call upon my Government to order my Army to Nassau at once.”
“What do you propose to do there?” asked the Consul, somewhat taken a back.
“I would,” replied the General, “take with me a quantity of picks and shovels, and throw that cursed sand-hill into the sea, sir; and then I would pay for it, sir- if necessary! Good day, sir.”
Pg. 496–The Civil War in Song and Story, By Frank Moore, published in 1889
Sherman was an evil, terrible man. The atrocities that he and his army perpetrated upon civilians, old men, women and children have guaranteed his place in hell right next to Lincoln and Grant for the loss of life, destitution and suffering those three men caused. What the British did to Americans as represented in Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Patriot” is the exact same game plan that Sherman used to destroy the South by deliberately killing, laying waste and burning civilian property. All because of greedy oligarchs who did not want the South to develop it’s own industrialization.
Less than six weeks after Lincoln was put into office by these same oligarchs, he provoked a war by antagonizing South Carolina AFTER South Carolina had legally/constitutionally seceded from the United States. He was promised by the oligarchs that “it would be a short war.”
My great, great grandmother was living in Savannah when Sherman was here, displaying his contempt for God and man. I’m still here. We Savannahians haven’t forgotten the stories that were passed down from that time. You might want to rethink your patron saint. He was not someone to be proud of.
Lesson number one,
Do not engage in wars you stand no chance of winning.
The slaveholders forced secession by special elections most people didn’t vote in.
Most Southerners didn’t own slaves, but had to fight to protect the “property” of the few who did.
What did secession get you?
260K dead, many K crippled for life, massive destruction of property, backwardness for more than a century.
Sherman and his men shortened the war by making many desert from the Army of Northern Virginia.
Sucks for you you don’t like the methods and the outcome. But in the long run Sherman’s approach saved not only his own troops and those of the Army of the Potomac lives, it also cut down on Rebel casualties in fighting. Thousands of deserters without rifles don’t shoot or get shot.
What did fighting get General Hood and his men? It got them shot to pieces at Franklin and Nashville in Tennessee, to the extent they were destroyed as an army and the survivors either drifted home, or had to cross the Appalachians into NC and VA in the dead of winter, and they wound up dying or having to surrender anyway.
The slaveholder mafia had earlier turned on Zachary Taylor, a Kentuckian who owned slaves but saw the issue was tearing the country apart. Taylor, a war hero, was much like Trump in that the people voted for him even though the leaders of the party that nominated him — Whigs Daniel Webster and Henry Clay — backstabbed him. Taylor was looking at admitting California and New Mexico as free states to outvote the slave states in the Senate. Taylor opposed any sort of fugitive slave act (which would send violent in- breds with guns across the North to kidnap and kill blacks), and he opposed bailing Texas and Northern speculators out who had bought Texas debt bonds.
Taylor had to order US regulars to New Mexico to keep Texas militiamen from trying to seize the land from the residents who helped us against the Mexicans. (An earlier 1843 Texas grab ended when Santa Anna killed a number of raiding Texans and had the ears of those who surrendered cut off.)
Taylor also forbade the polygamists in the Utah Territory from taking much of the Mexican Cession. Bring ’em in Young and his greedy degenerate followers claimed northern New Mexico and Arizona, western CO, SW Wyoming, southern Idaho, SE Oregon, all of Nevada, and California east of the peaks of the Sierras down thru the Mojave Desert to San Bernardino and then out to the Pacific Ocean. Taylor stopped that. Lincoln and Andrew Johnson completed the work by taking away Nevada from the Utah Territory, making it a state, and adding many thousands of square miles to its eastern side.
Taylor started a railroad across Panama to shorten the travel time to California until a transcontinental railroad could be built.
Taylor had to stop two armed attempts backed by the leaders of Louisiana and Mississippi to seize Cuba from the Spanish and make it a slave state. Jeff Davis and Robert Lee thought about taking the leader role, but in the end declined. Taylor got the first attempt scuttled, but the second attempt resulted in a landing of half of the invaders on Cuba. The Spanish shot them up pretty effectively, and the US Navy captured the escapees and held them on piracy charges. After Taylor’s death, Swamp Whig Fillmore released them.
Taylor was looking at a proposal by Seward and Lincoln to use federal money to buy the slaves free, resettle former slave volunteers in the West as homesteaders, set up other former slaves as sharecroppers, and integrate them to the level of their abilities into American society. Slave state leaders opposed Taylor’s leadership on this.
Taylor threatened secessionist leaders in Congress to their faces with hanging if they were caught in rebellion.
Taylor died under suspicious circumstances 16 months into his term. It was supposed by many, given his symptoms, that he was poisoned.
Swamp DC danced on Taylor’s grave, especially the Democrats, and Whigs Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
With a strong Union man out of the way, prosouthern wimps Millard Fillmore of NY (W), Franklin Pierce of NH (D, an ancestor of Bush 43 thru Barb), and James Buchanan (D) of PA let slaveholder leaders run things.
Buchanan even wanted to force Kansas into becoming a slave state even though antislavery men outnumbered proslavery men profoundly.
Proslavery violence roiled the 1850s. Fugitive Slave Act bounty hunters made peaceful Northerners start to hate slavery.
Taylor looked at a plan that would have cost a hell of a lot less money than the Civil War cost, and with no bloodshed. The slave buyout and integration plan was a blessing for the nation that the slaveholder leaders decided to urinate on.
In other words, when the slaveocracy refused to listen to the reason of fellow slaveholder Zachary Taylor (who actually paid his slaves salaries and ensured they had reasonable housing, reasonable rations of food, medical treatment, and a policy of not splitting families), and incited violence, they deserved it in return.
Slave states wouldn’t even let Lincoln on the ballot except in Delaware, Maryland, the counties of Virginia that became West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. So much for democracy.
Violence-inciting selfish leaders brought Sherman’s wrath upon Georgia and South Carolina. Be fortunate he didn’t burn Savannah into rubble.
Let it go, Jenny Reb.
Sincerely doubt Harry knows the location of the sock drawer in his own home.
You can bet his privy council knows the location of your sock drawer.
Yes, and Europe is in the same boat hence their war cries in Ukraine! Our days of supporting socialist countries while they sneer at us is, over!
Why should Canada change? As soon as Trump leaves office the Uni-party globalists will return tariff policy back to where it was in 2024. You think Canadians and their political leaders don’t know this?
Of course they know this, but 3.5 years of economic hardship is hard on the people.
they will be singing a different tune in way less than 3.5 years.
Not if Vance is elevated in 28
Vance is more like Trump when it comes to fair trade
I think that Vance, (unless he gets too full of himself and betrays Trump like Pence(five letters to the last name same as Vance, maybe someone can look into that?), is legit.
As of now, 4 months into the presidency of Trump for the 2nd time, Vance is doing a great job. Rubio is also doing well, but I will NEVER trust him, and my only reason is that he got 99 votes to confirm him. Why did all the dems vote to confirm him? Because he is just as corrupt as them IMAO. Talking the talk, but I do not trust him. He will turn on a dime to betray Trump in my opinion.
But let’s see. I need to see senators pissed off at Rubio before I will support him for President. Right now many hate Vance. That tells me who I can trust.
Vance = Pence
They have 3 1/2 long years to survive/suffer. Sounds like Bidung just got elected in Canada ehhh. 🤨
I disagree.
No one knows what lies ahead 4 years from now.
Canada is no exception.
The Globalists are no exception.
It’s not a good idea to underestimate President Donald J. Trump, now and in the future.
Even more so, you can not fathom what God has planned.
And, once you recognise how God created and prepared DJT, uniquely for this moment in time, its hard to fathom God would go to all this trouble, only to have things devolve.
That reminds me of the story of Gideon. He was chosen by God to defeat the Midianites in the land of Canaan who were stealing food and animals from the Israelites and causing them to starve. Gideon rounded up 30,000 men to fight for God, but God whittled them down to a mere 300 in order to show that with His power they could conquer the huge Midianite armies AND THEY DID!.
God overcame the plans of those who wanted President Trump dead. He also saw to it that no weapon formed against POTUS (election fraud) would prosper. We are seeing a renewal, a growing and thriving of God’s mercy and power here in our SW AZ city. That’s my God! Praise His holy name. Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
DJT is literally the only man on earth able to do what he has done.
Oh Canada….you’ve run out of other people’s money.
How does it feel to be a parasite?
Canada had a plan until it got punched in the nose.
Regrets to the people of Canada who know better.
Paradigm time.
What a wonderful and informative way to explain the trade issues between the USA 🇺🇸 Canada 🇨🇦 and Mexico 🇲🇽
CTH is the only place where you get this perspective and analysis.
The only problem with being correct is that it can be lonely, very lonely.
Yes, that can be true.
And like the Trojan Priestess Cassandra, whose true prophecies were never believed,
CTH is waaay ahead of the curve.
Here’s a prophecy (true or not, I cannot say):
The USA 🇺🇸 will add a 51st star to its flag on July 4, 2027.
For the new Northern Prairie State of…
Alberta!
“Fortis et liber”-
“Strong and Free”
Alberta has lived up to its motto, with Albertans overwhelmingly voting in a special referendum in October 2025 to separate from Canada, 120 years after
Confederation.
The 5 million ambitious, hard-working, educated and affluent Albertans looked forward to a future union with the United States, after the contentious and controversial process of leaving the Canadian confederation was achieved in the summer of 2026.
Albertans immediately requested admission to its Southern neighbor as a new state; following the ‘red wave’ of new MAGA representatives in both the lower and upper houses of Congress, the Alberta Admissions Act was passed on February 10, 2027.
As per the Flag Act of 1818, the new 51-star flag was raised over the state capital of Edmonton July 4th.
The Calgary Stampeders leave the CFL and are welcomed into the NFL. After a first season of adapting the free-wheeling CFL-style play to the more conservative American Pro League, the Stampeders make the playoffs in 2028, only to lose in the first round.
Meanwhile, their provincial (now state) rival, the Edmonton Elks (formerly the Eskimos) remain mired near the bottom of the standings.
The Edmonton Oilers take the Stanley Cup in the 2028 tournament; the Calgary Flames 🔥 ‘flame out’ in the second round.
Governor Danielle Smith, with her fresh face and unique leadership of the new state, is rumored to be sought as a Vice Presidential candidate by both major parties for the 2028 November
Elections.
Now how’s that for specifics! Lol 😆
(And if ANY of it comes true, I will eat my CBP campaign hat (but only in small bites)
In the late 1950s I remember a program on CBUT (Ch 2, Vancouver BC) discussing the possibility of Canada breaking up in the future and how the provinces would react. The prairie provinces (Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan) would seek immediate statehood with the US; Quebec would declare full independence; Ontario would be Canada; and the Maritimes (PEI, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia) and Newfoundland/Labrador? – they are economic black-holes, no one wants them, so let the Americans take them. The same discussion occurred again in 1967 (I was a student at the UW) after DeGaulle ended his Expo ’67 speech with “Long live free Quebec.” And now 60-70 years later, the same discussion is again relevant. I would welcome the prairie provinces as states. A Newfoundland/Labrador state would also work as Trump continues to eye Greenland. I don’t have much interest in the Maritimes, Quebec or Ontario.
As you know, Newfoundland didn’t actually join Canada 🇨🇦 until 1949.
Before that it was a separate Dominion.
And you’re right, I remember DeGaulle helping ignite a new drive for a Free Quebec nearly 60 years ago.’
That TV program from all those years ago may be right.
What’s it called, ‘normalcy bias’?
Things will continue as they are… as if change is the exception, rather than the rule.
My birthday is February 10th!!😂
Well Happy advance Birthday 🥳!!
‘“Let’s see what happens”
And Alberta is the largest rat free area in the world, quite an amazing feat
Rat free? 🐀 really?
Had no idea 🤷♂️
Well, once it gets exposed to politics in
DC, that won’t last 🤪
If you build it, they will come….
Maybe.
Never liked being a part of a crowd, especially a delusional one.
Much better to be with a few folks who can handle reality.
Not for SD and all us Treepers. He got a lotta company and no blues. 😀😁
Also a hell of a lot of courage and faith in prayer.
Canada will stall until 2026 when they hope the Dems will win the House.
Dominion Voting Systems, Toronto, Canada
I’m so sick of these smug Canucks. The US is also tired of them being our welfare state. Free healthcare, that we subside. F them
I saw today where Alberta will get to vote for independence. They control the railroads and all the resources.
Here you go.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/05/01/alberta-is-talking-tough-love-to-carney-n3802340
Not if every socialist district judge in the country throws out a restraining order aimed at some piece of this, and the administration is mired in court forever.
Alberta & Saskatchewan maybe interested in their own U.S trade deals?
https://x.com/oilpatchAB/status/1917782593707336167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://x.com/globeandmail/status/1918021637716492757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
England, France and then Germany will be in the same situation as Canada.
Whats the common denominator?
Liberal, socialist leaning politics and policies. The road to no where and a slow death.
Common Denominator?
Both gradually structured theirceconomies to bevutterly dependant on the Marshall Plan era tariffs structures, and addirional trade barriers, continueing forever.
And, neither can survive without a steady diet of OPM, i.e. OUR money.
I wouldn’t call it a trade war, so much as a trade kerfuffle – as far as the U.S. is concerned.
Canada seems to be a masochistic country.
My heart goes out to the average Canadian. They did not ask to be in this bind. Like us, they trusted their politicians to fight for their best interest. Like us, they were betrayed.
Canadians are royal subjects, mere livestock on the King’s estate.
No, they voted for this Carnege. They’ve made their bed, now go lie in it.
Please. They voted for him like Biden was voted into office.
Ragle Gumm: I don’t think Canadians were betrayed. They saw themselves as being virtuous and got rolled by the globalists, for whom Canadians, with a heritage of living as subjects under the British Crown or French Royalty, were easy prey.
Yes, you are right. I forgot that they voted for all those politicians whose platforms were based on deindustrialization, assumption of a de facto vassal state to China’s industrial economic might, and the wide open borders. They voted for that?
The globalist used their British heritage and virtue to take advantage of them, just like politicians here use the regret of slavery to basically destroy the blacks and our culture and Germany’s past to outlaw AfD.
Those points you raised were USED AGAINST THEIR OWN INTEREST.
That is called betrayal.
And PP didn’t help things with his Romney-esque botching of Trump’s baiting…
Someone has to start teaching the Canadians how to think critically. Let’s start with Viva Frei, he is a great commentator and analyst, as are a handful of other Canadians. Too bad Canadians are too lazy to listen to anything other than state TV.
Viva Frei and Robert Barnes together make for fascinating conversations.
Thanks for the reminder – I haven’t heard one since the Golden Age started, will look around.
Every time they queued up for “FREE” healthcare for 6hrs they asked to be in this bind. Same applies to the UK. The UK could have fk’d over the landed gentry after WW2, but they chose “FREE” government controlled everything. Speak to anyone in the UK, and they love their near Communist system. The only thing they don’t like about it is, sharing it with mass immigration.
Does Dominion count their votes?
They voted for Carney.
It will be painful for the USA to rebuild the industrial base it sold-off and let rust away.
It will be painful for Europe to rebuild its defense industry and energy infrastructure.
Canada can rebuild themselves. But it will be painful. It will require them to abandon their WEF, Net-Zero, Open-Immigration delusions. The USA under PDJT is doing exactly that. Europe will have to do the same, kicking and screaming all the way.
The alternative is to be a slave of China.
Gulag escapee: Painful? I see re-building our industrial base as a joyful move. Building things is fun.
That is the can do spirit! Right attitude!!
That is the American way!!!
…and the Canadians can do it, too. Let’s do it together, even more fun!
No such thing as a free lunch!
Tell that to Katy Perry,…oh, you said “lunch”,…not “launch”?
Never mind!
Rocket 🚀 girl!
That 10-minute flight works out to about
$15,000/minute – not exactly a
‘Free’ Launch 💰💰
😜
Katie may have “launched” the guy who paid for her head to become weightless in near space, too.
At least she tried to give him skyrockets in flight, allegedly.
Her next song will be “I kissed space junk and I liked it.”
Excuse me but Europe, as a manufacturing base is already dead. They committed suicide when the shut down the only forges they had.
Every so often (more regularly lately) you produce a high-quality tutorial that lets folks catch up and rope this stuff into their brain. This is going to a couple of the kids. Thanks for taking the time to write these longer pieces, especially with the backstory links included.
Carney is in for a buggy ride.
Yes, this is high quality analysis, which is extremely rare in any field of the public square…
I’m still scratching my head trying to understand how Canada with a population of 40 million people about 1/10th of the US is supposed to buy and consume the same amount of “stuff” as the United States especially since almost 1/3 of their exports here are oil, natural gas and lumber?
When you deduct oil from the equation Canada actually buys more “stuff” from us than they export. Also, we have a huge services trade surplus with Canada over $30 billion which makes our business with them virtually even.
As Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund CEO and mega donor to President Trump, wrote on Twitter last week…
“We will forever have a trade deficit with Madagascar!”
Check out the trade barriers and other import restrictions that exist with Canada and the US. Begins on page 40. https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Reports/2025NTE.pdf
It helps explain our trade deficit with Canada. The fake media and people like Ackman don’t want you to know these facts.
Fortunately in the real world, one cannot deduct his that or the other when looking at fair trade.
Bottom line, Canada has become a slave to the communists in China and the welfare from the U.S. taxpayer.
God is good. Everything will work out if we ask and are patient.
Keep scratching. Eventually you may discover unused brain matter.
I guess that Canada could have been a good neighbor.
But they chose to be a bad neighbor and here are the consequences.
A year ago today it was .73 US. Today the Canadian dollar is .72 US.
Not much change at all.
Conversion rate for Canadian Dollar to
United States Dollar https://g.co/kgs/kwjpnj4
Art of the Deal:
Swap PR for Alberta, Portland for Greenland .
We’ll trade them Jen Pissaki for Nell Fenwick.
Both are cartoons.
Jen can help booger up Canada more with her lying.
Nell, the least stupid member of the cast of “Dudley Doo-Right,” can run a library in Minnesota. She would have enough class not to lend out perv porn to children.
Nell can also work with her new Minnesota neighbor Rocket J. Squirrel on border security.
Would that library 📚 be in Frostbite Falls?
We’re on the same wavelength. 👍😁
Don’t think Frostbite has enough people for a library.
And Bullwinkle can’t read.
Boris and Natasha already have their crime library.
I’m guessing Brainerd …. Chief Marge Gunderson could give Nell lessons on The Minnesota Way.
I have seen on this site several times the claim that “Trudeau admitted that the Canadian economy could not compete if there was actually fair trade.” Is there a cite to a transcript, a readout, or any other credible, contemporaneous documentation of this claim? I have looked for readouts, transcripts, or a public statement to this effect without any luck.
Not doubting the CTH or Sundance, but to have a country’s political leader admit (even privately) that the country cannot function in a fair and free market would be extraordinary and I would very much like to have an unimpeachable source to refer to when describing this event to non-believers.
At 18:54
It’s becoming a cliché these days, but sundance always “brings the receipts.”
No doubt. I just couldn’t find this. This will help point out facts to naysayers. Of course, pointing out facts to some people is still like …. doing something pointless and useless, but we must still try.
You should see him on Twitter proverbially sword fighting with IC zealots, alligator emoji people, self described “influencers” (often one and the same)
and all other manner of crazy people.
It’s great entertainment.
Bigger than an Amazon warehouse.
Much obliged!!
“Representing Canada, Justin Trudeau was not expressing an unwillingness to comply with fairness and reciprocity in trade with the USA, what Trudeau was expressing was an inability to comply.”
Was Trudeau representing Canada in that meeting, or was he speaking on behalf of the crown, and by extension the EU?
“Was Trudeau representing Canada in that meeting, or was he speaking on behalf of the crown,”
The crown? ?
Have you ever heard of the Statue or Westminster?
Canada’s independence from England began 94 years ago!
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/statute-of-westminster
Canada still has the King of England as their monarch:
https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/is-canada-still-under-the-british-monarchy/
Canada is “almost” independent but couldn’t quite cut the apron strings.
Actually he is King of Canada, as well.
Independence legislatively, or financially? The crown has it’s purse strings wrapped around the necks of many who believe themselves to be independent.
An answer to your question:
https://badlands.substack.com/p/defeating-the-depopulation-agenda
The apple doesn’t fall far from the (putative) tree.
Bill Ackman on X:
What is not counted in the U.S. trade deficit…
(3) U.S. ‘exports’ of software, IP, finance, and other services are high value and important sources of trade that are not reflected in traditional measures of exports and imports, and if included in the calculations would make the balance of trade statistics look much more balanced,
(4) our multinationals’ subsidiaries that sell services in foreign countries that are not counted in the balance of trade calculation, but generate profits, value and future dividends are good for America,
(5) a goal of generating a dollar of exports for every dollar of imports is not a useful one, particularly on a country-by-country basis in light of our massively higher standard of living, and having the largest economy in the world.
https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1909313079130951801
You are correct, EZ and any revenue collected by tariffs cannot be calculated in the federal budget unless the tariffs are approved by Congress!
“Congress is never going to pass any of Trump’s tariff or economic policies into law.”
look back two years and realize you could not have predicted what is happening right now. two more years from now trump will have put a permenant dent in globalism.
Trump 2028!
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1915460778565742969
The hat didn’t say which Trump…LOL!
Tiffany will not be age – eligible until 2035.
JD Vance won’t be alive in 2028.
Everything is always three to six months away, to keep the citizenry in a sustained, energy-wasting and attention-distracting state of suspense. All the drama is intended to wear us out.
At least tomorrow is Caturday.
And…..its Derby Day!
I heard one of the favored horses is named Journalism…LOL…some other names are:
Render Judgement, Sovereignty, American Promise, Flying Mohawk and Chunk of Gold
I’m going with Sandman…I have a special love for the grey horses since my beloved Arab was one! And he’s a descendent of Seattle Slew, so he gets extra bonus points in my book for that, too!
Sundance – I thought the “NAFTA loophole” was closed in the USMCA. Meaning finished products imported from Mex. and CA. had to contain parts made in those countries. Was there a small percentage of parts that could come from other countries (i.e., China)?
when we return to the state legislatures picking the senators, we need not worry about the dirty scummy city vote.
Unfortunately in my blue state the the state legislature is even worse than the citizenry.
Now that I’ve joined the “precinct project” and become a voting member of my town meeting, I have a front-row seat to the sausage concoction and it’s as smelly as everyone always said.
Wonder if China will move to support Canada financially, and damage itself in the process?
So now read this, then add it to what Sundance is saying.
War Between The US And Canada – Is It Now A Real Possibility?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/war-between-us-and-canada-it-now-real-possibility
“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated!!”
Lol,ten minutes will never get back.
The U.S. and Canada are brothers. Canada got soft, stopped building, and started sneaking in China—his shady girlfriend—through the back door.
Not for love, but for some cheap booty.
China didn’t want Canada. She wanted access to big brother—the house, the money, the influence. Canada let it happen because the deal scratched his itch.
Now big brother’s home. He sees China’s been living rent-free, using his stuff, and running game through the house.
And Canada? He doesn’t build, defend, or contribute anymore—he just passes off China’s goods and hopes no one looks too close.
That time is over. The locks are changing. The reckoning is coming.
The Canucks are a damned perpetual welfare case!
I ‘am so freakin’ done with Canada!!
I am up for a trade war with Canada. Let it happen.
Many revelations in this discussion.
It was easy to see this coming, to those who had the data.
Yet they continue running as lemmings over the cliff’s edge.
PDJT stopping the lemming herd, saving them from themselves.
Holy mackerel
Where will I get my Canadian (“P”) bacon now?
Actually – it’s just ham
Smoked por loin, actually. Easy enough to make your own.
Those who come from NJ prefer ‘Taylor Ham’
I prefer country ham
A thick slab of Taylor pork roll on a toasted bagel with egg and cheese… Da bomb!
Mmmmm!
I’ll tell you exactly what the over-riding problem is. For the world.
Ever since the beginning of the last 100-years’ exponential acceleration of computing and technology, humanity as a whole has become not only insanely delusional, but humanity as a whole has become completely dishonest, lawless, and corrupt.
Look at any one of the hundreds of current societal and geo-political issues. Every single one of them is about CONTROL, POWER and MONEY. People and governments will without shame steal from, cheat, defraud and even kill their fellow humans to obtain and keep those things. It makes me sick. It makes me disgusted. I hate to admit it, but I have become a de facto misanthrope late in life.
I’ve watched as the Cloward-Piven strategy plays out in real time. I’ve studied the theory of Fourth Turnings. I’ve witnessed the WEF, the UN and WHO have global wet dreams about taking over and controlling all of humanity. I’ve seen the lengths to which multiple foreign governments have gone to enslave their respective populations.
I have gotten myself right with the Lord, and I’m ready to go when He calls me. But until that day comes, I will despise the corrupt dishonest money chasers and power-mad control freaks with every ounce of my being. I submit it is without question NOT why God put us on this earth.
Will there be the proverbial second-coming of Christ? If so, His coming cannot come soon enough.
Godspeed to one and all.
Thats one theory.
Another is that its inherent in the nature of civilisations, that over time they inevitably lead to a larger and larger portion of the population that are psychpaths/sociopaths.
Agree , the cause is simple : society ceases to remove those individuals who refuse to fend for themselves. Take away the struggle for food , clothing , and shelter leaves a segment that loses reason and promotes perversion in all facets of life . Time for an extended period of ” tough love ” . Hang on , the ride will be rough .
It happened when they closed the asylums, and turned them into luxury apartments.
It happened when they endorsed anal sex, and same sex marriage, and they being allowed to adopt.
When someone slaps you, you don’t turn the other cheek. You make sure they don’t get up again.
Well, if the Canadian dollar drops 25%, then it seems like Canada could weather the 25% tariff without too much trouble. Sure, the Canadian consumers would take a big hit in higher prices, and would get clobbered traveling to foreign countries.
Canada would have to spend at least another $15 billion/yr on their defense programs in order to reach 2.0%. Justin Trudeau told President Trump that was an impossible goal given the nature of the Canadian political system.
I would suggest they fix their political system.
Canada doesn’t even have enough people skilled to do the dirty jobs within the heavy manufacturing; they would need a national apprenticeship program.
I would suggest that they get to cracking then.
USA banks are allowed to operate in Mexico, but USA banks are not allowed to operate in Canada.
USA media organizations are allowed to broadcast in Mexico, but USA media organizations are regulated and not permitted to broadcast in Canada. The Canadian government has strong regulations and restrictions on information.PDJT should either ban Canadian banks from being able to do any business here or Canada should open up their system. Their “strong regulations and restrictions on information” are also called censorship…
In a nutshell – instead of spewing excuses the Canadian government needs to put on their big boy pants, the people need to roll up their sleeves, and they need to start becoming a sane country. If not – they can wither on the vine.
One can see why the circus Carney desperately wants to join the EU (which would be hilarious) – they have the same socialist systems, same stupid policies, and they can become wards of the EU state…
Canada was 2% Muslim in 2000, in 2021 Canada was 5% Muslim. Ballpark shows the population doubling every 10 to 12 years.
The birthrate of the Muslim population is much larger than the rest of the population.
Canada fits with the Islamazation of the EU.
The US has a Narco state to the South and a budding Islamic state to the North.
Hasn’t the US done pretty much what Canada has done, get rid of industry?
Yes, and Trump wants to bring it back.
PDJT signed an EO last week allowing American fishing within 500 miles of our coastline.
The only ones fishing prior were foreign countries who would sneak in or our government would ignore.
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Wow. Do Canadians have a clue? What is the solution?
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I really don’t understand a lot of this, one thing I do know; I do not want one single acre of Canada to be a part of our country. I have great respect for those in Canada who would want to be with us, but sorry, no thanks.
Wow, thanks for this explanation. A whole new light now.
Again, Trump was right even though he seemed outrageous. 51st state indeed, if we even want such snotty relatives.
Canada must decide – be a client state of China or a client state of the US. Or back to igloos and going it alone.
Meanwhile snotty Canadians are bragging they never plan to visit or spend winters in the US again because Trump is so mean. Nor will they even sail on Holland America cruise line which was their favorite, because it has the name America in it.
Let them cut off their noses to spite their face. That’s on them and more property and rentals will be available for Americans to enjoy. Maybe the prices will come down too. Do what you have to Canadians. We will still be here and our nice beaches and warm winters in the south will be too. You lose your place and we benefit in other ways. Have at it.
Why would the US want the burden of taking on Canada? To keep China from having it?
Unless they lose their smugness about being so much better and enlightened than the US, they would be insufferable new siblings.
Known fact : If you don’t aquire the property next door when it becomes available and one is able ; you usually end up regetting it .
The TIME cover showing Mark Carney giving our President Trump the middle finger shows the persistently delusional mindset of the woke left.
It is smart or good policy to insult the one man who holds the economic future of your country in his hands? No, but the woke lib will do it anyway…because it feels good!
And feeling good is all that matters, right?
So tell me, PM Carney, how good will it feel to realize that millions of Canadians will no longer be able to afford the rent or to put food on the table because of your delusions about driving electric cars powered by windmills?
I’ve been doing the ‘dirty’ jobs associated with heavy manufacturing my whole life! When I turned 7 my dad had me working in his storeroom on Saturday mornings, sweeping floors and sorting bins of nuts, bolts and washers under the watchful eye of Mr. Al, the retired master sergeant who was the storeroom manager. At 14 I was working in Dad’s machine shop under Mr. Deckleman, operating the drill press, band saw, bolt threader and grinding the burrs off the cast iron housings that held the bearings we used in our steel fab shop.
At 77 I still work in heavy industry and those experiences from my youth made me a better man and taught me respect for the men who get their hands dirty for a living.
Canadans with clean fingernails will have little choice other than to reacquaint themselves with their country’s industrial past, and we all may be sure President Trump will be making that abundantly clear to our Green New Deal neighbors to the north in the coming months.
As for PM Carney, he’d do well to cover that glitzy ring on his middle finger with a pair of work gloves made in China!
I raise my glass and my micrometer to you sir. I specialize in machinery twice my age thanks to a father who saw fit to teach me basic mechanical engineering.
We’ll make it a mutual toast to each other, my friend!
You tell ‘em!
Someone who has
Never
Ever
Gotten his
Fingernails dirty
At work or at hobby
Is someone
Who’s missing
The satisfaction of accomplishment that comes with tangible, real, achievement.
That doesn’t mean an Einstein isn’t an achiever; the life of the mind IS critical and important.
But even Einstein displayed a liking for physical activity – he has been described as ‘well-muscled’, and enjoyed sailing ⛵️- which is certainly not for the desk set.
I’m an admirer of Einstein too, Bob, but Elon is my kind of genius because he, like old Albert, generates amazing mental concepts…but then Musk is able to turn those ideas into things that work!
Elon is a unique individual – he almost seems like a character out of Ayn Rand’s novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’
Imagine trying to write a biography of someone like Musk – where to start?
I think the President is operating at the very peak of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs… I have no idea where you place Elon on that pyramid.
How do you measure – for good or for bad – someone like Elon Musk?
His wealth is beyond imagination – what does that mean?
There really is no logical reason to desire more – only the desire to use that wealth to pursue dreams beyond imagination.
Start your biography with this:
Elon Musk is John Galt!
It is my belief that the EU also can not continue to exist, if the members have to meet their NATO obligations, ..AND have to remove all of their various trade barriers, tariffs, VAT, Currency manipulation, bogus regulations, etc.
Like Canada, they have evolved to be dependent on OPM, specifically OUR $, to finance the generous retirement and medical programs, etc.
We make them pay their share of NATO, and open up their markets, and they will have to intitute “austerity measures” which their people, already pissed off at them due to open borders, will throw the buums out.
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Hopefully, that is true, Dutch. But who counts the votes? Always the biggest question since the stolen election of 2020! They also need to find a way to arm themselves. The people cannot continue to have no way to defend themselves from what is to come. May God have mercy on their souls (and ours!!)
The EU death spiral began the moment it was founded. It is counterintuitive to not only European heritage, but human nature as well. The U.S. isn’t a cheap knockoff like the EU,, it was structured in a specific manner.
Victor David Hanson on what’s happening in Canada:
Does anyone remember reading about the Canadian military training the Chinese on Canadian soil??
If Canadia were to become a state (God forbid) The CCP Army would have to be expelled.
Oh Canada, trying to run with the big dogs with very little to offer! You can keep your “Snow Mexicans”! It must be frustrating sitting at the table on the world stage with nothing to leverage except your GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION. AMERICA doesn’t need ANY MORE DEPENDANTS.