In 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau relied heavily on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for assistance when the U.S. and Mexico constructed the majority of the USMCA trade pact. Today, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney takes the same approach.
PRESS RELEASE – “Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, met with a bipartisan delegation of United States senators in Ottawa. The Senator for Oregon, Ron Wyden, the Senator for Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, the Senator for New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan, and the Senator for Nevada, Catherine Cortez Masto, were present.” (more)
The 35% tariffs against Canada are scheduled to go into effect on August 1st.
As noted by President Trump in his remarks during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to the White House, Trump plans to renegotiate the USMCA and end the trilateral agreement in favor of two bilateral trade deals.
During the Oval Office meeting President Trump said, “As you know [USMCA] terminates fairly shortly. It gets renegotiated fairly shortly.” Then the biggest statement, “This was a transitional deal, and we’ll see what happens, we’re going to start renegotiating that”… “I don’t know if it serves a purpose anymore.” …. “And the biggest purpose it served was, we got rid of NAFTA.”
President Trump is going to exit the trilateral USMCA in favor of two distinctly different bilateral trade agreements between the U.S and Mexico, and the U.S and Canada. The only consideration now is the timing. President Trump is 100% focused on the BIG ECONOMIC PICTURE; it’s not about the politics, it’s all about the economics.
Not exactly the Senate’s A-Team that met with Carney.
When Lisa Murkowski is the lone republican, can the group really be called bipartisan?
Would have been more productive for Carney had he met with random DC homeless people.
Somebody had to say it. Good one.
I’m not sure Carney is up to speed on street cred and the multifaceted lingo.
“What up, sheeeeit? might be a stretch for him.
🙂
Remember, he’s Canadian.
It’s: “What up, EH?
Carney’s response.
“Beauty, I am a bit of a keener on Shia or Sunni culture. Let’s discuss over a pop at Timmies, eh?”
Is that where “pop” originated? Everyone calls it soda but in our neighborhood Western NY it was “pop”!
Pop in Ohio
And in Pittsburgh PA.
Except for Dr. Pepper maybe?
“dope” in North Carolina.
I am from Pittsburg, Pa and that’s what we called it also.
🙂 Add California in, too!
I’ve been noticing your CTH comments over the past few weeks; they’re mostly ON POINT and they are mildly to
hilariously entertaining. Keep it going. Regards, Former U. S. Naval Flight Officer
Man, I love your style….
Or visit the land of the non thinkers in Seattle. Seattle’s idea of thinking is painting your house black, grey or white so you match your neighbor. Such a huge decision for them.
I kinda think he did.
That was very good indeed.
Lisa Murkowski is a Republican???
In name only.
She took over for her daddy.
In the same way that, when restaurants first had smoking and non-smoking sections, the booth in the non-smoking section right next to the smoking section was “in the non-smoking section”.
Nice description.
Or when ‘the covid’ couldn’t get around a piece of plastic from the next table. Or disappeared when you sat down without your muzzle.
Belittling COVID regulations alone would revitalize stand-up comedy.
It would have it’s own Standard Occupation Code.
I happened to be in a bar in Montana years ago. A long bar. Maybe 200 LF.
One side had smoking. One side did not. No wall in between. Juke box dead center.
Was hilarious!
No. Murkowski is just a fake pretender, a full blown RINO.
A cross dressing democrat.
I just looked up RINO in the dictionary to see what it meant.
There was a picture of Lisa Murkowski under that definition.
Right next to one of Susan Collins.
I live in Maine and in one election I did a write in for Senator. “Anybody but Susan Collins”. It was close.
CCP member?
Who knew….?
Fake news!
She probably volunteered to go just so they could say it was bipartisan.
I guess it’s three democrats and a uniparty, so technically perhaps so.
Exactly!
Zing!
Lisa Murkowski is a R? Is there any proof of that?
She’s the “new” Liz Cheney!
That bitch is supposed to be representing my State. I doubt seriously even the native population here would favor uneven, costly, and favorable trade negotiations for a foreign country. She sure as Hell isn’t representing what’s best for the USA & subsequently this State,
Grrrr 🤬
Of course, one of my loser senators, Cortez Masto, was there. She checked all of the right boxes as she climbed the political ladder: female and spanish surname.
I am assuming the that Carney speaks French at least to some degree. I wonder if he speaks Spanish.
Does she know ANYTHING about tariffs, anything at all? Or is she there in an attempt to look relevant?
Do any of them support tariffs or President Trump? Carney is not very smart.
Cortez was a hated Conquestor murderer who conquered Mexico. But other than that it’s a fine name.
AOC next?
Not even sure it’s the “B” team either!
Murkowski is the only one I have ever heard of and that is only because I follow CTH.
The Senate has an A-Team? I wasn’t aware of that. Please send me a list even if it only has a few names on it.
I’ll frame it for posterity…….at the range.
Not the B-Team or the C-Team either Boss.
Good comment!
The back bench photo op media prostitutes.
I looked them up.
This is group of senators that are on Finance Committee or Energy and National Resource Committee.
So it doesn’t appear to be a random group of senators.
Not even committee chairs?
Wyden is ranking member Finance. Murkowski chairs a subcommittee Nat. Resources.
“Only 2 things scare me and one is nuclear war.”
“What’s the other thing?”
“Excuse me?”
“What’s the other thing that scares you”
“Carney”
Austin Powers knows what’s going on!
none of those names are patriots.
Retired Magistrate here: Thank GOD we have a businessman in the White House who puts America first.
YOU said it!
That “businessman” personally negotiated the USMCA in 2018 to replace NAFTA. The USMCA covers most of our trade with Canada and doesn’t expire until 2036. It is a treaty that cannot be cancelled and it was ratified by Congress and the Canadian Parliament.
I don’t know what this belligerence with Canada is all about?
O ye of little faith….
Watch what happens….
Expires in 2026, not 2036…
And the ‘belligerence’ with Canada, as you put it, has to do with Canada charging the US ridiculously high tariffs, some as high as 400%, and also allowing other countries to take advantage of Canada’s USMCA relationship, China being one, to trans-ship goods through Canada, for a fee of course, in order to circumvent the tariffs they would otherwise have to pay…
This is another one of those things that convinces me that all is in the mystery and hand of God’s timing as the USMCA is up for renewal or complete ending in 2026, if the 2020 election hadn’t been stolen, there would be a different President in the White House to take on the task of creating new and separate trade agreements between Canada and a different one for Mexico.
Canada’s tariffs on the US
Please, here are just some historic tariffs Canada hits America with.
Milk: 270%
Cheese: 245%
Butter: 298%
Chicken: 238%
Sausages: 69.9%
Barley seed: 57.8%
Bovine/meat: 26.5%
Cars: 25%
HVAC: 45%
Vacuums: 35%
Cable boxes: 35%
TVs: 45%
Steel: 25%
Aluminum: 45%
Copper: 48%
Take a guess how much financial aide the U.S. sends Canada EVERY YEAR and how much military defense $$$$ we provide
Thank goodness guys like Hannity keeps us aware of this stuff. We need more people like him to inform us.
You jest!
The high tariff rates on food products are the “above-quota” rate. US farmers can export to Canada up to a certain quota. In the case of dairy, US farmers never reach the quota level, so everything comes in tariff-free. What is more, the US exports TWICE as much dairy to Canada as it imports.
Explain to me how that is a bad thing for American exporters? The US has a 100% surplus with Canada on dairy, and yet Trump never stops complaining about “how unfair Canada treats are dairy farmers”. Is Trump just uninformed about the facts, or is he lying to create “leverage” with Canada?
As for the other tariffs on industrial products, they reflect the retaliatory tariffs Canada imposed after Trump imposed his tariffs. Before Trump, these were tariff-free.
Nope! It expires in 2036 if the United States and Canada do not agree to extend it in 2026. So, 2026 is the date of the decision but the effective date it ends is 2036.
Perhaps family members of those who died from a fentanyl overdose brought over the border could explain the belligerence.
Canada is not and has never been the source of your fentanyl problem. Far more Canadians have died from fentanyl (and guns) crossing the US border than the other way around.
Here are the statistics for 2025 YTD for fentanyl border seizures (US Border and Customs figures)
Canada Border: 37 lbs
Mexico Border: 5,515 lbs
Coastal/Interior: 459 lbs
Total: 6,011 lbs
Funny, the UAE just busted a drug smuggling ring that involved…Canada. And 131 KG of narcotics…
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-861681
The reason your numbers are so low is due to that only being seizures, not what may be actually produced. Give it up; you live in a failed, narco state.
There was a huge bust last week that involved people of African origin dressed up as some sort of emergency or charity group. They were stopped traveling from Canada to the USA.
It’s not belligerence, it’s business. We have a New York businessman in the White House, not a diplomat, and he speaks the language of New York business, which may sound aggressive to those not from New York.
The USMCA does indeed run through 2036, but it will terminate then if the U.S., Canada or Mexico withhold renewal approval during the 2026 joint review period. This gives the U.S. leverage in next year’s review, and leverage is something a businessman like President Trump will wield like a sword.
With all due respect, it’s not personal, it’s strictly business.
Trump is the source of this new belligerence towards Canada. For some reason, Trump hates Canada and Canadians, and his non-stop lies about the true nature of US/Canada free trade have led Americans to come to despise Canada and Canadians for no good reason.
Canada has only ever been a good neighbor and ally to the United States. The United States enjoys a big trade surplus in finished goods with Canada. Canada buys more goods stamped “Made in the USA” than any other country. More than China, Japan, the UK, and France combined! And yet Canada is the country Trump wants you to hate.
As a Canadian, I resent this. Canadians fought and died in Afghanistan. They died for the United States. They were not “Snow Mexicans.”
Good neighbors don’t continuously mooch off their neighbor while getting in bed with an enemy who is trying to smuggle lethal drugs into the neighbor’s home.
Oh, and the neighbor they’re doing this to is a policeman (or at least everyone expects them to be).
Don’t get mad at the cop when your parents set up a drug and goods smuggling ring next door to the cop and the cop decides your stupid mom and dad need some consequences for their poor life choices.
Exactly! Almost everything President says about Canada is not true. For example, our trade with Canada is virtually even!!! They buy almost as much from the U.S. as we buy from Canada and Canada has ten times less population than the United States.
I don’t know where he gets his statistics from but whoever it is should be fired!
I think you need to take a look at how the economy of Canada works. Looks like Alberta and Saskatchewan are the money makers of the country while the others are a net drain. It’s pretty shocking though the USA keeps moving in that direction with every Democratic party majority.
I hope Alberta becomes independent as they seem to be heading that way. After that, it won’t be long before Canada’s economy collapses entirely. Alberta wants to leave because the government takes all of their money to give to people who don’t produce.
Some people will criticize Canada for not being a “good neighbor.” I criticize Canada because it’s pretty crappy to its own people, and ESPECIALLY the people who keep the economy afloat.
There are many reasons for our belligerence with Canada, and they have already broken that treaty. Yes, the President did negotiate USMCA; it was the best that could be done at the time, but I’m sure he remembers how he was hamstrung by our feckless Congress during those negotiations and has found a way to neutralize that problem.
Try to keep up.
Why are elected officials now allowed to meet on foreign policy with other countries? Who do they think they are, John sKerry???
Age-old great question.
Think they use the ‘fact finding mission’ excuse for interfering in the Executive Branch business.
Question: What is a Senator?
Answer: A Senator is a person who, when looking in the mirror, sees a future President who needs to start acting like one today.
And that’s why those arrogant jackasses meddle in foreign relations.
Q: What do you call a lawyer gone bad?
A: Senator
Arnold Ripner.
He is still trying to get $ from Blood on the Badge.
and what do you call 1,000 lawyers chained to the bottom of the ocean……… A good start.
Yup. The 17th Amendment turned U.S. Senators into future U.S. President fantasists.
Meeting on trade policy.
Carney is more like a lobbyist in this scenario.
Secretary of State needs to take Congress to court. They appear to be taking on executive branch function or worse are openly undermining the executive branch.
But let’s not pretend these representatives are representing their constituency, they are representing the deep state IC.
President Trump says: “All your base are belong to us”!
(from an OLD video game)… 🙂
(Zero Wing)
For great justice!
So many good memes made from that screenshot.
I forgot who said it, but one of the pundits said that this — “it’s not about the politics, it’s all about the economics” — has been a flaw in President Trump’s approach to international relations. I guess we’ll see. They also said that, because of it, he got duped by Putin, but that that naivety was now (fortunately) over with.
Ha ha ha.
She should take her act on the stage, preferably the one leaving town.
LOL !
Economic security is national security. Economic might influences geopolitical outcomes including wars.
President Trump is realigning America economic growth for prosperity and stability while reasserting American economic dominance.
I’m good with it. It’s what I voted for in 2016, 2020 and 2024.
With all due resect, I don’t see it as Trump being “duped” by Putin. We instigated this war long before Trump came in office. In the Donbass referendum, the ethic Russians voted to return to Russia and Ukraine started shelling civilians. The Russians have the advantage and won’t quit until the three states are liberated. The problem is, Trump has no leverage. He can’t threaten much and honestly more sanctions will just drive Russia completely off the dollar system (which hurts us). Our President can go full on war or just wait for Russia to be satisfied. In my view, this outcome is already baked in. We just need to keep the damn warmongers like Lindsay Graham out of the whole thing. Russia is not an enemy, they are a Christian nation, who should be our allies not enemies. IMHO
Agree 1000%, and it’s hard for me to believe that President Trump doesn’t believe this too. I am hoping that all the recent hard talk about Putin and Ukraine was just follow-up BS to the BBB negotiations. I find it very hard to believe that Trump will actually go through with facilitating a continuance of war with Russia.
But he also doesn’t have control over the IC faction that is waging the war as of yet. Our President is working on a very, very complex problem, probably the most complex problem an American President has ever faced.
But I have faith he will come down on the righteous side in the end.
You are absolutely correct. I pray that Putin and Ukraine can reach an accommodation within the 50 day timeframe. Z -man continues to dupe everyone he deals with. We have no business sending billions to Ukraine where there is no accountability. I truly believe that both Trump and Putin want to resolve this and become allies and trading partners.
Not duped by Putin. President Trump is giving him more time to wrap up in Russia.
“it’s not about the politics, it’s all about the economics”
The economics of peace. When two nations share a border one of two options are available to them. Either mutually beneficial economic trade crosses their border or soldiers do. Trump would prefer to go the route of economic trade.
Aren’t those Senators violating the Logan Act?
It sounds as though they met with him to give themselves gravitas as though they are serious political people. This statement includes Carney. He got to put out a big boy press release as though this meeting was monumental.
No.
This is what it was about:
In other words. It’s a clown show. Not a bad try, but I’d call it shit-show.
LOL, a classic.
isn’t the Logan Act the one that has NEVER been actually tried in a court because it’s plainly unconstitutional?
the Logan Act is used to open investigations on anyone that is troublesome. then it’s never actually laid as a charge, after the Feds are done seeking other crimes to charge the target with.
Liberal Senators huddle with Canada and figure a way to screw Trump and America.
Its not going to happen. As previously mentioned, these Senators aren’t exactly the A team. The Snow Mexicans tried running to the EU to avoid the economic impact of PDT’s trade policies. Running to pathetic Senators like this bunch won’t help Canada at all either. A good guess would be theres likely a whole lot of private conversations going on across the different provinces regarding the whole 51st state business. Canada has become so addicted to sucking off the US economically, the current reality is hitting them like a junkie with fix in sight
Alberta and Saskatchewan may well become the 51st and 52nd States in time.
We’ll see how things turn out with measures for succession from Canada on the ballots between now and early 2026.
I think Israel might be our “51st state”.
I dont want Isreal.
“secession” just FYI.
I wonder who paid for the air fare and accomadations.
We did..good ole ma and pa American!
Yeah. I forgot to sarc it.
If only Da Nang dick was there…..
As someone else mentioned, the named Dems are on the Finance Committee.
Liberal???
Try globalist-controlled senators.
There’s nothing at all even remotely “liberal” about globalists’ evil totalitarian objectives..
Hey Mr. Prime Minister, there ain’t no way around our POTUS! May God bless the USA and PDJT!
He might as well met with Humper.
Hunter F Biden. ‘F’ apparently stands for F-Bomb, from snippets I saw on the news before coming into work tonight…
Tom Luongo asserts that the CUSIP data shows that the recent leg down in USD and pressure in the treasuries market was primarily due to BoC selling treasuries en masse. FOREX charts seem to confirm this as CAD has actually held up well despite the tariff pressure.
I imagine Bessent is all over this. It’s a bizarre strategy from Carney as one of the ways to mitigate the costs of tariffs is by rebalancing the currency pair. A lower CAD would absorb some of the tariff penalty (as do links in the supply chain). This means this maneuver isn’t a Canada-first policy but a globalist/Euro/WEF one. The Canadian PM is actually making the tariffs even worse on Canadians and their economy.
That said, the GENIUS Act looks like a way of legislating new demand for treasuries. (As well as a potential tool for using private corporations to de-bank and de-finance whomever the government of the day determines is a bad actor. Much like using FB to censor rather than the government doing it directly.) But note that if the Fed is struggling to sell on-the-run bills–and there is some evidence of that struggle–there’s little chance of Powell lowering interest rates simply to help the government deal with its enormous interest payments. Smooth treasury auctions are absolutely essential to a functioning government under this fiat ponzi scheme we call the greenback.
I don’t think there’s any immediate call for alarm. Any sovereign debt crisis will rear its ugly head in the periphery before it does in the central currency. Watch Japan and China, UK and Europe for your canaries in the gas pocket. Note that all have been steadily lowering rates for over a year, ostensibly in the hope of restarting their moribund economies, but also to ease the budgetary pressure on their insolvent governments.
Solon,
Your THIRD paragraph about the GENIUS ACT, is something that folks SHOULD be paying attention to right now.
Most FOLKS won’t… but is DETRIMENTAL to our Lives.
Think of the Canadian Truckers protest & how they were , “De- Banked”>
This “GENIUS ACT” would allow the same. using a “Stable-Coin” ( < or whatever name they give it..) to disrupt & control your banking.
It could come back & bite ya in the ass… PLEASE..Pay attention to it.
GOD Bless~!
Thanks for highlighting my parenthetical. It’s OT so I didn’t want to hammer on the issue, but I also didn’t want it to go unsaid either. Too dang important.
As for the Canadian Truckers, here’s where they’re at now:
Poilievre rips Crown’s demand that Lich and Barber serve up to 8 years in prison
8 years. For mischief. Does that ring a Jan 6 bell or what?
PM CARNEY MET WITH A GROUP OF SENATORS TO PLOT AGAINST PDT AND AMERICA
fify
Sounds more like it!
They’re all looking for their next insider stock tip with a Canadian flavor so to speak.
Really do not know what the Canadian economy will offer?
I would almost rather see Murkowski defeated and humiliated than Biden. In fact I know I would.
Why does Canada keep playing games with trade? Surely, they fully understand they will soon become the 51st state of the United States? Come on Carney, suit up for the game if you want to play.
Why would anybody want to wish Canada becoming the next Detroit, Chicago or Baltimore?
Doesn’t sound like he’s wishing for Canada to become Detroit. More like saying that Carnie should stop F@*%!#g around.
Nevertheless, Kevins comment and assertions above deserve a cogent response.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/21/trudeau-redux-canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney-huddles-with-u-s-senators/#comment-11963179
Or Lansing, Michigan.
Canada could WISH to be one of those cities. But they are all Democrat run [into the dirt] cities. It’s the leftism that is the problem.
Here’s what’s funny. Lefistist ideology cannot start on its own. It has to take over a merit based or capitalist system. The pilgrims back in the early colonial days tried to establish a system based on “from each according to their ability to each according to their needs.” They just about starved to death before they realized no one wanted to work and then give it all up to others who didn’t work… and ESPECIALLY not to the “leadership” who never seem to work and always has the most somehow.
Leftism is a mental illness among those who actually believe the ideals and a scam among those in leadership who simply want to control everything and enrich themselves. And leftists ALWAYS accuse the right of doing exactly what they want to or already do. They accuse successful people of being thieves and other horrible things. The most starvation in the world happened under leftist government.
I’m guessing because Canada is only a pawn in the “game” being played by China. Carney, like Trudeau, is a puppet. Ol’ Twinkle Sox became obviously un-playable, so the same powers that installed Trudeau removed him and then installed Carney. Simple as changing out one worn out spark plug for another.
“Thank you for your attention to this matter” gets me laughing every time.
Me too🤣😂
I have used this sentence in business letters for three decades, but lately I can’t use it anymore, because it cracks me up too much, and I have no idea what the recipient would think.
Sounds like the “P” team. Politicians, nary a business person in the bunch. Sounds like “monkey wrenches” are being made ready to toss
”You will never be disappointed with the United States of America.” I love this man.
I see carney met with senators that are just as stupid as him. These senate light weights, don’t have the intellectual capacity to make a deal for toilet paper, if they were suffering from diarrhea.
Carney is not stupid. It’s always a bad strategy to underestimate your opponent.
He’s leveraging the Senators’ TDS to his advantage.
My ‘guess’ is that he’s leveraging it for intelligence and allies. On the intelligence side, “What products can be tariffed to cause the quickest and loudest screaming from American constituents?” On the ally side, “We need you to make as much noise in the media and via your business and lawfare contacts as possible to apply pressure on the President.”
In sum, use their TDS to turn them into economic traitors and get them to work against their own country and people (which admittedly they already do in spades in other areas). There are also likely ‘considerations’ being offered. One has to remember that he’s ultimately working for the City, not for Canada…
As Presiident Trump said, Canada doesn’t have anything we want.
Trump calls for construction to resume on Keystone XL Pipeline killed by Biden Admin. | Fox News
President Trump issued an Executive Order said “Get it built!”
The pipeline had been scheduled to be completed in early 2023 and would transport an additional 830,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Canada to the U.S. through an existing pipeline network, according to TC Energy. It was also projected to create thousands of jobs, many of which would have been union jobs.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-company-building-keystone-xl-pipeline-return-america-get-built
We’re in July, I wonder if it ever reopened?
Trying to figure out why we’d spend billions to build a pipeline from Canada to bring 800,000 barrels of crude oil when we don’t need anything from them?
This would have been like a meeting with the cast of “Duck Soup”!!! Hail Freedonia!
Duck Soup (3/10) Movie CLIP – These Are My Spies (1933) HD
Repeal the direct election of senators (17th Amendment); We have SUBVERTED the Constitution by NOT allowing the individual US states participation in law making …
HEAR HEAR!!! This needs a LOT of repeating. Instead of TWO houses accepting “lobbyist money” we could do with just one. And the price of Senators’ votes is WAY higher than that of the house of representatives’. It’s time to take money out of congress the way it was INTENDED.
Bipartisan delegation……to include Murkowski? Nothing bipartisan about that.
More like the Communists traitors met with Carney!
What’s with these Snow Mexican Politicians? When will they learn that President Trump isn’t fooling around?
Sure is, economics is THE priority, just viewed the National Debt Clock site… I thought it would be decreasing, instead it’s over $37Trillion with total inclusive of $0.1 quad
Give me liberty from Globalism or give me death.
And these Crap Weasel Senators are trying to sabotage President Trump’s agenda…
Let’s double our trade commitment with 70%.
Careful Sundance using the word republican with even one of these misfits.
Those were the only Senators he could round up? 3rd string line-up at best & not one of them has any cred with Trump.
US Senate = deep state.
They have no role in direct foreign policy.
Clowns, need to be reined in.
Repeal 17th amendment!
Let the Canexicans/Mexadians eat cake!
This attempted ‘end=around’ by meeting with the Senate really irks the crap out of me.
Imagine PDJT going to a foreign country & requesting a closed door meeting with their legislators?
What a weak move!
Being in Canada, and following politics, I see Carney is willing to engage Trump, and the premiers have already said there will be tariffs from Trump outside the USMCA but they want a deal.
I remember Doug Ford of Ontario saying he wanted to simply engage the USA separately from Mexico.
In other words, the makings of a deal are there at the political level.
The Canadian media will work to sabotage a deal by whipping up public dissent and hatred of Americans, and Carney will have to whip the worst of his Liberals and punish dissent by them.
The Canadian majority is under strong propaganda control.
Being more centrist. I see Trump and his admin as doing many things that absolutely had to be done, and some things that should never be done.
Nevertheless, US politics are decided in the USA not here and it can’t be expected that any president should please Canadians.
We had our chance to have Pierre Poilievre as Canadian PM but somebody we know sabotaged that by claiming Canada should be the 51st State and stirring Canadian patriotism against the United States! Why, I have no idea?
Pierre Poilievre was the candidate of the Canadian version of the right Uniparty branch. In reality, he is no different from Trudeau or Carney, from the left side. President Trump knew this and decided it would be better to deal with the left-side of the Canadian Uniparty in Canada. I have no problem with it and have seen no ill effects on America because of it. I’m starting to think you just don’t like President Trump, because you make so many posts denigrating him.
Spend much time here and you will see that even many of us who are staunch Trump supporters don’t hesitate to state our disagreement. He’s still the best President of my lifetime.
Appreciated, yet I would like an answer to Kevins assertions above. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/21/trudeau-redux-canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney-huddles-with-u-s-senators/#comment-11963179
This is why the world needs rational debate.
I view Kevin’s assertions as pure 💩. Just a hoser concern troll.
As this current movement of Alberta leaving the Canadian “Union” (I don’t know the term, I could look it up but I’m on my phone and it’s hard enough as it is) has really come with a lot of information about Canada’s parasitic socialistic addiction.
I just don’t know a better way to put it. They are what the US’s left wants to be. They (Canadian political elite) don’t care that they are strangling their golden geese. They have no interest in anything other than continuing they own lifestyles. They are addicted.
The people of Alberta see the high populated leftist regions as parasites. Alberta is the reason Alberta is relatively poor and the reason their extreme socialism continues as living failure.
I don’t want the idiots of the Eastern provinces to suffer from the collapse. I would genuinely love to see their political elites suffer deservedly though. But when Alberta announces itself as independent, it will be very interesting to see how it plays out.
The US will probably not take in a former province with no formal government which represents the whole of the people who live there to make such an important decision. At best we can expect Alberta to become a US territory until they can adopt a US compatible constitution, the population become US citizens and lots of other preparation. It could take years…a decade even.
But with Alberta separate from the Canadian Union of provinces, the government of Canada will fall and fail quickly. Will it be because they go full Weimar? Will it be because they stop operating all of the social services people depend on? Probably both… addicts will kill everyone around them to continue on “as normal” if that’s what they think they have to do. And I don’t think Canada will shift quickly to fiscal conservatism as a way to save themselves. The suffering idiot population will be unable to change their voting habits or alignment. They feel safe and when something disrupts their safety, they won’t want to rethink their positions. They will cry out for everything to go back to the way it was… safe! And when they can’t have it, they will absolutely turn against “the cause.” They will think the cause is Trump and MAGA and will ally themselves with the EU or the UK becoming totally dependent on them.
This, presuming Alberta’s government isn’t all arrested for treason or some such thing… which is another possible outcome. But the Canadian government would simply HAVE to punish the citizens who wanted to break away which is by now more than 20% of the total population and the most productive people in the entire country. This will still result in a collapsed Canada allied with globalist government.
This is going to get ugly. Very very ugly.
If KevIns post above is not rebutted properly, they will have some reason to blame the US. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/21/trudeau-redux-canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney-huddles-with-u-s-senators/#comment-11963179
“Bipartisan” ROFL
“Across the aisle.” Yawn.
Tip O’Neil stuff.
Time to crush Carney.
Hmmmm…
A Carney Crush!
Will the tariff on cars w EU also be 30%?? (It’s currently 25%.)
“Bipartisan”… Hilarious.
Are these Senators violating the Logan Act?
Logan Act: noun; see Kerry, John F.
Everyone prefers to get something for nothing but socialists don’t want to admit where the SOMETHING comes from.
Canada has no chance to succeed financially without adopting a more capitalistic approach.
Canada is full of grownups who prefer to live in Uncle Sam’s basement on his wealth. They need to move out of Dad’s basement and join the real world where you have to work hard to support yourself.
Canadians have got to realize government cannot give you anything if it doesn’t FIRST steal it from someone who works hard to earn it.
This is a VERY HARD LESSON about to be learned in Canada.
Canadian here. Have you ever been to Canada? You don’t know anything about my country. Just spouting nonsense. Where are you getting this information from? Fox News?
“Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, met with a bipartisan delegation of United States senators in Ottawa.”
I dunno. If it were me, I guess I would be meeting with the guy who holds all the cards and has called my bluff on August 1.
Shades of Senators going to Ukraine to speak with Zelensky behind President Trumps back.
There’s a change of tone in Canadian media the last couple days. Carney let everyone knows any deal with the US would include some sort of tariffs & quotas. The great mystery is what’s being negotiated since the USMCA is not on the table for a while. I imagine it’s a reduction of the fentanyl tariffs level in exchange for some softwood lumber quotas and other sector specific measures. We’re like 2 weeks out from August and no one really knows what’s really on the table or if any progress is being made. Quite strange really.
We will have to wait and see. Higher prices for goods is what I see now. At least eggs are down some.
Why higher prices? Because the FED needs to lower the prime…. yesterday, that would put the kai bosh on the dollar continuing to lose value, or just eliminate the FED … give control of the money supply to the Treasury where it belongs and it’s been from 1776 – 1913
Screw Carney and the Canucks. They want to be with the EU, more power to them. I wouldn’t have a problem if we broke relations and closed the border.
Bipartisan…rrrriiiiight.
Castro’s gonna Castro…
…- Cuba North, Chy-na West… – Take your pick…
(…- And I could tell you a tale or two about Mark Carney, btw…)
Lost me at bipartisan..
The big difference between Trudeau and Carney is that Trudeau met with the Speaker of the House – Pelosi – who had sway over the final USMCA agreement since it had to be ratified in the Democratically held House.
Carney met with four Senators – three Democrats and one Republican – Lisa Murkowski, who is naturally concerned about the impact on Alaska of a trade war. This meeting would have been a complete waste of Carney’s time. I’m not sure if he attempted to meet with Speaker Johnson, but that would be pointless, also. Johnson does what Trump tells him.
The House and Senate just passed Trump’s big beautiful bill, which contained a provision making interest on car loans tax-deductible, but only on American-made cars. This tax break, worth about $ 2,000 to American car buyers, is a massive non-tariff trade barrier for Canadian-made cars and a violation of the USMCA, but it passed. The time to be talking with US lawmakers passed months ago.
Carney’s time would have been better spent meeting with the CEOs of the major auto companies. He needs to be telling them that if Trump succeeds in destroying Canada’s auto industry with tariffs and non-tariff measures that they will not be shipping any American-made cars to Canada! NONE! Canadians will be buying cars from anywhere but the United States. If he delivered that message, it might motivate the auto companies to pressure the White House. Carney needs to be telling all these foreign automakers who have announced new assembly plants in the United States that if they think they will be able to ship any of those cars to Canada, they need to think again.
Canada has been the biggest export market for US-made cars. In 2024, the United States had a $7.1 billion trade SURPLUS in cars and car parts with Canada. Source: https://www.americaeconomia.com/en/business-industries/mexicos-automotive-surplus-us-breaks-record-and-exceeds-us-137-billion-2024
How many Americans realize that Canada imports more U.S.-made cars and car parts than it exports to the U.S.? Does President Trump know this? If he does, why does he have a big gripe with Canada over cars? Does he think trade is just a one-way street? The U.S. gets to build cars and Canada gets to buy them?
From the above link, you will note that in 2024, the United States had a $137 billion DEFICIT with Mexico in trade in cars and car parts! When have you heard Trump ever complain about Mexican-made cars the way he does Canadian-made cars? He never talks about Mexico with the same venom reserved for Canada? Why is that?
As a Canadian, I think our “leaders” should never have agreed to a trilateral deal with Mexico that did not include quotas on autos. How can Canadian and American auto workers compete with Mexican workers? At the GM factory in Silao, Mexico, where the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra are built, workers are paid $3.25 per hour. Source: GM Factory Workers In Mexico Get A 25-Cent Raise To $3.25 An Hour
It was inevitable that massive numbers of auto jobs would flow to Mexico, leading to the massive imbalance that we have today, where Mexico exports 3.3 million cars to the US/Canada market while only importing 1.36 million vehicles from the US/Canada market. Canadian auto makers are being made to pay the price for this emballance.
This comment by Kevin and his comment above deserve and warrant a point by point rebuttal.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/21/trudeau-redux-canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney-huddles-with-u-s-senators/#comment-11963179
Well, hop to it!
90% of those on the Terrorist Watch List that have come into the US have come in through Canada.
Politicians instead of fixing the problems they helped create, create new problems that make it even worse. No accountability no fiscal responsibility.
As bipartisan as the J6 hearings.