I’ll repeat it as much as needed, until it sinks in.
The U.S-Canada trade deal status is simply a no-brainer. President Trump will answer questions about Canada and tariffs, he’ll put people into seats to discuss trade with the Canadian delegation, and he’ll give every outward appearance of being favorable to Prime Minister Mark Carney…. BUT…
In the background, Trump is simply waiting for the USMCA timeline to trigger a renegotiation. President Donald Trump is ambivalent to the trade partnership with Canada. This moot-status reality is why there’s no substantive engagement.
‘No deal’ -until USMCA redo- is a win for President Trump.
For some bizarre reason that I simply cannot fathom, almost every Canadian politician seems entirely oblivious to this reality. Instead, Canadian Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Mark Carney’s chief-of-staff, Marc-André Blanchard are once again coming to DC to ride their bicycles in slow circles at the bottom of the White House driveway while staring in the windows.
An article in Politico notes the Canadian premiers are now accepting the August 1st deadline will pass without any agreement, and the 35% reciprocal tariffs on non-USMCA products (meaning a lot of stuff) is going to trigger.
Literally, everything from Canada that has a non-USMCA component is going to be tariffed. Think about all the stuff from China, Asia (writ large) and Europe that Canada assembles for finished goods. All of that stuff will be subject to the tariffs.
That said, there’s good news coming from the recent meeting between Prime Minister Carney and the Premiers. Within their statement they use the term “developing large infrastructure projects.” That’s Canadian political codespeak for them realizing they are going to have to get back to regular energy development, raw material use/refinement and ACTUAL MANUFACTURING.
Canada is going to have to bring back their ‘dirty’ industrial jobs.
For our Treehouse friends in Canada, this is very good news. The Canadian assembly economic model has to change in order to get compliant with U.S. trade rules. THAT’S TRUMP’S ENTIRE POINT!
The environmentalists within Canada will not like this, but economically they will have no choice; it’s the only way to avoid a complete economic depression.
HUNTSVILLE, Ontario — Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada’s premiers are tempering expectations that they’ll strike a new economic and security deal with Donald Trump by the end of the month.
“We would like to have the ideal deal, as fast as possible. But what can we get?” Quebec Premier François Legault said Tuesday. “You almost need to ask Donald Trump, and I’m not even sure he knows himself what he wants.”
It’s a shift in tone from the premiers and Carney, who ran for election on his economic record, arguing he’d be the best person to negotiate with the president. But Canada is finding it harder than it looks.
Carney met the premiers in Muskoka, cottage country north of Toronto, to update them on Canada-U.S. negotiations.
As the leaders emerged from a three-hour meeting, they downplayed hopes of an Aug. 1 deal, arguing that achieving a “good deal” is more important than hitting a deadline.
[…] As the negotiations continue, the premiers spent Tuesday carving out a strategy to offset the economic impact of Trump’s tariffs on the aluminum, steel, auto and lumber sector. They spoke about developing large infrastructure projects, breaking down trade barriers between provinces and encouraging a “buy Canadian” approach. (READ MORE)
Canada is going to go into a deep economic recession; there’s no way to avoid it. However, if they restart their industrial base, drop the ridiculous ‘green’ energy stuff, start exploiting their own natural resources and train an apprentice generation -just like we are trying to do- then Canada can bounce back stronger than ever.
We know there are Canadian wolverines who understand this concept; we saw thousands of them in the Truckers’ vaccine strike. Make Canada Great Again, by Making Dirty Jobs Great Again, eh?
Stop, I’m hyperventilating.
Europe…I guess I may have to put the idea of Scottish woolens on hold…
Buy them on Ebay. If you get cashmere, get vintage cashmere woolens, made up through the early 90s. Chinese cashmere is crap. Get the old stuff.
We export to Canada almost the same amount of goods and services as we import so whatever we collect in tariffs is the amount that we’ll pay Canada in tariffs. It’s really just a wash except for the Americans and Canadians who will be paying more for various products!
It’s not exactly a “wash,” if you consider the disparity prior to Trumps playfield leveling tariff maneuver. We are saving a considerable amount of money, comparatively, and no longer subsidizing Canada’s Al Gore dreamscape.
Inaccurate… but nice try.
Why does Canada have a tariff with US before Trump arrived?
Nice try, you’re right in what you say but wrong in what you don’t say. Canada is a proxy trader for countries that actually manufacture. That’s the point fair trade to minimize leeching.
Or, we’ll just onshore a large part of that manufacturing here. This will save us money, create jobs, and it will also be good for the environment — just think of all the CO2 we won’t be polluting the atmosphere with due to shortened supply lines and with our better standards here in the States (even if we relax them, they’re still higher than most countries, certainly China and India). Donald Trump, the Green Deal President!
PS. much of the ‘manufacturing’ in Canada at present is simply receiving goods from China and slapping a “Made in Canada” sticker on it. They should really fix that; maybe if they did they’d get a better deal from us.
But … Think of all the years that Canada leeched off us, so they could “green” their country. At least 20+ years.
Trump will not accept any reciprocal tariffs.
You did see that with literally EVERY other deal he made?
Zero tariffs for America in each instance.
Get a bit more educated before posting.
be graateful he’s here on the treehouse getting his education.
The purpose of the tariffs is to bring good paying jobs back to America. If you are a globalist, your opinion is the consensus economic view of the statists.
That sidesteps Canada’s role in transshipping Chinese manufactures, with minimal value-added assembly. Same with Mexico, Vietnam, and who knows how many other countries.
I think your data is skewed.
Delicious revenge, not just for us, but for normal Canadians!
The cognitive dissonance in Canadian leadership is overwhelmingly strong.
Yeah, cognitive dissonance mixed with TDS = economic suicide.
or cognitive desolation.
The government run Canadian Health system is pushing assisted suicide. It is for the greater good to eliminate the “users” . The globalist leaders of Canada are sick. They are asking for 8 years and 7 years for mischief for Tamara Lich and her trucker convoy organizer. Can’t have freedom in North Mexico.
As a Canadian, I am disgusted, embarrassed what has happened to this once beautiful country, it was thriving plenty of jobs for those that were seeking work, we were happy. Now, it is unbelievable how many medications are on backorder for months now, starting with antibiotics, diabetic meds, heart and blood pressure and pain meds. Horrific, when asking when they will be available, the answer is always, we are not sure, backorder is all you get. The prices of everything have gone through the roof. My house taxes are $7,500 for the year, garbage pick up, mail delivery to community mail boxes. The mail is still not voted on whether to strike or not, we are lucky if the postal workers deliver mail once or twice a week. It is bad all around.
Mrs. Sunshine: I see no evidence of cognition among Canada’s leadership.
They believed screeching to the moonbat media and running to the euroglobalist douches was going to sway PDJT. Utter nonsense.
That Cognitive Dissonance is well represented within regular folk in Canada. I’ve never run across a more self important people, except maybe Irish folk, or Germans or….
well after all it is can-a-duh 😂
Remember ET?
Terrestrial Extraordinaire
Thats a knock on Francophones but illustrates the point the nothing is really straight forward with Canadians.
I prefer the Canadian truckers ‘nuance’ versus the Toronto ‘nuance’.
Canadian tariff discussion should start with making Canadian Truckers whole financially and a public apology from Trudeau.
I’ve written this before, those truckers were done wrong on so many levels.
Two leaders of the truckers Freedom Rally will discover their fate in court in the next couple of days.
They face as much as 7 years in prison.
So wrong… any tariff talk should address the Truckers. Curb stomp the regime in Ottawa.
Amen.
There are just things they don’t want to admit is all. What is in the obvious interests of the nation of Canada and the people of Canada is to get to a trade deal and to value the only economic system type that brings prosperity, peace and stability.
Their loyalties lie with other interests and are well paid for. They are conflicted between the money and support they get from evil sources and doing their F’ing job.
The Canadian politicians who ‘seem’ not to ‘get it’… get it, all right.
But they can’t say that to their voting public… since they have lied…
Dissembled…
Deflected…
Fantasized…
About trade with the US.
So… it’s going to be a cold, cold winter for the people up north… until perhaps by Spring, with the melting of the snow… the fantasies that have been promulgated about Canada’s economy will finally melt, too.
Come on, the Snow Mexicans will be fine through the Winter. Their WEF leaders can convince their citizens global warming will solve their 20 below sensations.
I prefer the term “Snowbacks”!
the snow bros have become so accustomed to the duplicity of their leadership that i cannot see them negatively reacting to any political flip-floping and more likely would accept any 180’s as business as usual
Straight out of 1984.
I don’t think even starvation will convince the Canadians to reverse course. Every single one of them I have ever met anywhere, from the politicians who’d come talk at my university to the drunk Boomers I’d meet in hostels, every single Canadian is convinced that they are right about everything and Americans are wrong. They cannot conceive of a world where they might be worse than us in any way.
I cannot dispute that because I see it also. However, I do anecdotally know normal thinking Canadians who do “get it.”
Sam Steele.
Canada has their geographic idiosyncrasies, older provinces, Quebec, special concessions for Quebec (?), and their own demographic invasion.
I recently learned the Crown Corporation (Royals?) own a large portion of Canada.
I don’t know about ‘ownership’ but Crown Royal is a Canadian brand of whiskey. There was a softer whiskey called Canadian Mist…that went well with 7 Up or ginger ale…
My old man worked at “The Mist” when I was a kid, the only thing it was good for was to light your charcoal bbq. It was owned by Jack Daniel’s and only there because to call it Canadian Whisky by law it had to be distilled and aged in Canada. It was shipped in tanker trucks to the States somewhere to get bottled.
Ownership is British. Diageo.
Crown Corporations simply means Government-owned and the Royals in the U.K. don’t own any of the corporations. Petro Canada is government owned and a Crown Corporation for example.
Petro-Canada is not currently owned by the federal government of Canada. It was originally created as a federal Crown corporation in 1975, wholly owned by the Canadian government. However, it underwent privatization with an initial public offering (IPO) on July 3, 1991, after which it became publicly traded and no longer government-owned
Who wears the crown. Who did your appointed prime minister swear an oath to certainly not to Canada.
It’s a term Canucks use for orgs. structured like private companies but owned by government.
In this case, Crown meaning public. 11% of Canada’s land is private; 41% federal crown and 48% provincial crown ……. 89% of land in Canada is in public domain
Yes, the bigger problem is that the ones that think they are right are going to blame the US for their problems, instead of realizing it was them. The Canadian media will go full force on it, and sew a division that hasn’t been seen before.
Yes, this ship has already sailed.
Life is hard when you’re stupid; just ask our own people who have to suffer the liberals in their blue states, counties, cities.
I should use the term ‘lefties’; many of the actual liberals have been waking up and realizing this nightmare in the last few years. If it can happen here it can happen in other places I suppose.
Definitely leftists. Too intolerant to be called liberal.
In actual fact many of the small number of people in Canada who do understand what is going on owe President Trump a vote of thanks. It is for the big wake up call he has provided. Canada does need to get its act together and eliminate the stupid interprovincial trade barriers erected over the years. Pres Trump has said many times the US doesn’t need anything from Canada. Looks like Canada needs many things from the US because no other country imports as much in the way of goods and services than Canada does from the US. If tariffs turn Canada into a third world country after all the auto manufacturing, steel and aluminum production jobs move to the US, Canada would not be able to afford to buy anything from the US
Well, down under, my Kiwi peeps get it…
Gordon Sinclair – The Americans Radio Broadcast
originally written and delivered via radio broadcast 5 June 1973 on station CFRB, Toronto, Canada
“The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French, and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971, and this Canadian thinks it’s time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous, and possibly the least-appreciated, people in all the world.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Well who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that’s who.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges, and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan, and to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there — I saw that. When distant cities are hit by earthquake, it’s the United States that hurries into help. Managua, Nicaragua, is one of the most recent examples.
So far this spring, fifty-nine American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Policy, all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. And now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war-mongering Americans.
Now, I’d like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes. Come on now, you, let’s hear it. Does any country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don’t they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a woman on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times, and, safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They’re right here on our streets in Toronto. Most of them, unless they’re breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend up here.
When the Americans get out of this bind — as they will — who could blame them if they said “the hell with the rest of the world. Let somebody else buy the bonds. Let somebody else build or repair foreign dams, or design foreign buildings that won’t shake apart in earthquakes.” When the railways of France and Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of ’em are still broke.
I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don’t think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I’m one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They’ll come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they’re entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians.
And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year’s disasters — with the year less than half-over — has taken it all. And nobody, but nobody, has helped.” …….
The fact that this was said by Gordon Sinclair in 1973 (!!!) 52 years ago shows that this animosity did not
start with PDJT.
Try Colonel Washington!
Hey Gipper, I used to listen to Wally Crowder as my Dad would have CFRB on all the time. Gordon Sinclair couldn’t have said it better. I am so sick of my fellow Canadians who continue to mouth off and look down their noses at the Greatest Country in the History of the World , THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. God Bless all of you Americans. Canada has fallen. I am 57 and a 35 yr Red Seal Steamfitter and cannot find work. We’ve been sold out by Trudeau and now Carney is stopping by long enough to ensure that Brookfield continues to enrich themselves on the green schemes that so many stupid Canadians gladly vote for. Sick of all of it. I wish all the success for President Trump so that America is preserved as the beacon of Liberty to the rest of the world.
Thank you, Mike.
Can you name all five of them for us?
I’m sure there are Canadians who do understand the trade dynamic!
I have to be fair and say too that every Canadian I’ve ever met has been very nice. They just seem to have this weird psychological trigger when it comes to the United States, and I’d bet that’s playing into this.
The Canadian problem is envy…
basically you are talking about coastal canadians … i really think the ones from alberta, manitoba, and saskatoon get it. really they would be better off in the usa long term though since they are a better fit for us
We’ll pretend Ontario is coastal.
But you are about right. We Canadians come in a variety of flavours. (With a “u”, thank you.) The Prairies, and bits of BC, are roughly “red states”, the rest are blue. But even in the blue there are plenty of actual conservatives. It’s complicated.
I’m coastal and I’ve never bought into the mindset being described here about Canadians. I’m not really sure why. I’ve never thought Canada was better than America. I’ve been concerned for many years about China becoming a superpower.. I fully supported the trucker’s rally. I’ve unwaveringly believed in Trump and his agenda. I know I’m not the norm but there are other Canadians like me.
Yes, here I Ontario my husband and I supported the truckers and Trump. We have one other couple that is not woke. Interestingly, a couple of summers ago on Canada Day they were painting people who flew the Canadian flag as “right wing nationalists “. Now, all of a sudden, when there is a chance to bray about PDJT the Left is all patriotic.
Those of is with our eyes open are waiting for a Conservative government to pull us from the abyss.
You are absolutely right about the Canadian flag, especially when the truckers hoisted them high. That impelled the government to send in the mounties on horseback to quell the unruly masses.
Now every time I see a Canadian flag with the fold marks still visible I shake my head.
And we wait….
That’s possibly true. I’m guessing that most Canadian businesses that would have people here in the US, or kids who would be out traveling internationally, aren’t from the more rural areas. That’s the same for the US.
I’d love to get up there someday. I hear the Canadian Rockies are beautiful
Well then, as our President says,
“Let’s see what happens”
The next months leading into the new year, will be a real-world experiment as to whether (some) Canadians can accept that ‘Murica ain’t always wrong.
one way or another the reality of their situation will sink in
Ah yes…
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
“Ja, ja, this ist clear” says the German in his best English.
What you say is accurate…as a Canadian I
experience this daily.
My perspective is like many Canadians that were born in Europe and emigrated as adults is however different.
It is second and third generations that have been drinking kool aid since the sixties. They have been indoctrinated by our state run media The CBC much like the U.K. and their BBC.
Our trucker rallies were something else.( we attended several) and European emigrants, in particular Hungarians and Czechs were extremely vociferous in their disgust at our fascists in government.
Cheers!
Dekester – How will this play out in Canada’s widely-varying (IMO) Provincial Cultures?
• British Columbia’s Asians
• Quebec’s Quebecois
• Ottawa’s Entitled
Unite or Fight?
Fight or Flee?
Domestic or Imported Industries & Labor?
China Bought-and-Built?
It appears that “ Capital “ is moving south into the U.S.A.
Our once electric real estate “ industry” is anaemic.
Federal and Provincial governments appear to have finally if not killed the “ Golden Goose” they have certainly starved it.
Now with the impending 35% tariffs we appear to be in unchartered waters.
Why would savvy buyers/ investors move in this environment.
Cheers!
What say we go with Necessity and the Mother of Invention!
If China’s got a supply of Rare Earths, why not Canada.
Talk about new cards to play.
I have been keeping up with the rare earth elements mining. There are many Canadian run companies mining for rare earth minerals, gold and other minerals not only in their country but in the USA and all over the world. That said I do not know if their product is sent to China to be processed for advanced technological parts used in microchips, planes….
Probably most of those rare earth bearing minerals are shipped to China for processing.
Last I knew, China controlled some 90+% of all the refining of the rare earths despite possessing a much smaller proportion of economically recoverable rare earths, most of which are mined elsewhere in the world.
The short answer is that the CCP cornered the market because they just dumped the undesirable byproducts and generated pollution. Refining rare earths is a dirty business.
There’s a lake in Inner Mongolia where this pollution has been dumped for decades with no regard for the local environment.
My patents bought a house in Florida, in preparation from retiring from Panama Canal…1978…and there were a lot of folks from Canada that were either snowbirds or permanent residents…and they were comfortable to affluent, back then.
“Why would savvy buyers/ investors move in this environment.”
I think it was Warren Buffet who said:
“The time to buy is when there is blood in the streets.”
No blood yet. We are small time players in the real estate game.
Panic has yet to set in with the majority of sellers.
Just today, three detached homes had their list prices drop significantly.
All three have been on the market for approximately one year.
Three years ago, similar properties would have had multiple offers upon listing.
Many cheap ( 2% or so mortgages) are coming due over the next few months.
Cheers!
It was actually a Rothchild…
I suspect it is much like it is, here where the voices on the left are amplified so much that the few sound like many.
Hope it goes as well as possible.
All is well for the lions..the sheep. Baaa.
Cheers! 😉
Thankyou for noting that good people will be affected.
Yep. I’ve had the same identical experience, including my relatives no matter where, kinda like Israeli’s.
I am from the interior of British Columbia and I can tell you that there are many in Canada, outside the liberal bastions of the big cities, (very similar to the US) who understand what’s at stake and “get it”. Our problem in Canada is that a majority, primarily in the large urban centres, have bought into the liberal lies the same way you have in the U.S. e.g. California, Oregon, Washington… (I could go on)
If Canada had let Quebec separate back in the 8o’s, we would demographically be much more similar to the U.S. overall. It is the socialists in Quebec that tip the balance every time Federally. Also the small Maritime provinces have had generations of living off of the wealth of western Canada (through socialist policies of transfer payments. That has typically given them a welfare mentality.
It’s not really fair to label all Canadians with the same brush!
This coastal British Columbian agrees 100%.
We KNOW the referendum in Quebec was fixed…
Cheers!
As far as Canadian citizens outside the urban liberal enclave populations, most Americans are unaware that you guys exist. The kids I work with have trouble the meme of “the cheddar curtain”…(I am in the SW suburbs of Chicago, and work in the city, this ‘curtain I speak of is the border between IL and Wisconsin).
Be careful not to fall off that high horse you’re mounted on
Wrong dude.
Those are the Canadians who think they are safe — the bureaucrats/academia (the academia who practice ‘right think’; talk to anyone who has been blackballed for whatever reason and the response might be different) and the older ones who think they are sitting on a gold mine with their home and its rising market value.
They have not experienced the crash…yet.
The workers et al. Ah, they also might tell a different story.
Totally agree – saw it in a small Liberal retirement town I live near – in ’16 they posted on their FB page they would not sell their products to visiting Americans – the only reason for their existence – when I pointed out the idiocy I got bounced.
Meanwhile – the Quebec dairy farmers thank Americans each day – for helping them attain and maintain their multi-millionaire status.
Here’s one Canadian who thinks elitist PM Carney’s actions spell doom for Canada. Please save us, Mr. President.
I am trying to think of a historical example of when a whole nation was so mugged by reality that at least a majority of it woke up and walked our of their national delusion.
I am doubtful that it happens. Bye-bye UK; it was nice to know you. Maybe Sri Lanka last year, and was that a mess!
How can you not believe President Trump?
Exactly, especially the past few weeks about Epstein. All of it was fake apparently.
Nice try !
Riding their bicycles in circles at the end of the driveway at the WH……..Bwhahahahahaha!!!
and slowly…
Blowing on whistles and wearing shriner hats with tassels…
It seems like they rebuilt their economy on a single trick: to help other countries, particularly China, get around US trading requirements. It is not a stable strategy.
Similar to Mexico? I wonder of the two, who has the stronger industrial base, Canada or Mexico?
About 5 months ago, someone here in the Treehouse mentioned that people who lived close to the Canada/US border…would get a postal box in the US and use that address when ordering stuff on line, to avoid the duties.
Another day, another capitulation to the reality that is President Trump’s economic agenda. Canada, your permission is not required.
For anyone in need of a reminder:
America First.
Economic Security IS National Security.
MAGA
Donald Don’t Play. 😂☺️👍
I promised I wasn’t going to tell my seal clubbing and Rush jokes again on the next Canadian thread. So I won’t.
They have trillions of dollars of untapped natural resources. Like SD said, I hope the green enviro weenies take off, to the Great White North.
A number of resource stocks, and our “ Big Five banks” are doing rather well of late.
Nice dividend too.
Cheers!
Cheers, then.
Like Dekester I live in BC but in a small interior logging /mining town –
Taseko Mining have been trying for years to get a new copper mine developed nearby – it has one of the largest deposits in the world. It has been a no-go for way more than ten years! Greenies, aboriginals etc etc all blocking it.
This month (!) our socialist provincial government have given it the start of a green light – interesting timing, eh??
Yep, and copper is getting real expensive.
Tax revenues from real estate transactions are WAY done.
Cheers from the coast!
It’s a beauty way to go. 😂
“….economically they will have no choice”
I don’t know Sundance. Canadian leftists are in firm control over all levers of nat’l government. Misery and hardship are features of their rule. To that end, I very much doubt, having been being entirely infiltrated by DEI & flow-up communism, the cannucks will reverse course. I really don’t see:
1) restart their industrial base – no way, the left spent decades rusting it all out.
2) drop the ridiculous ‘green’ energy stuff – doubtful the greenies will vote their own paychecks out of existence
3) start exploiting their own natural resources – might as well ask them to become the 51st state
4) train an apprentice generation – they just imported millions of immigrants w/out marketable skills that sustain themselves on welfare. No money left over for the native sons.
And I LIKE Canada, being a 1/2 cannuck myself!
I don’t know. Hunger is pretty motivating when it kicks in.
The pendulum swung when Alberta said they were open to voting to secede.
With tariffs and Alberta’s oil money gone, Ottawa starves
Sounds a lot like what Germany has done to their economy/country and they are having a hell of a time coming back. I’m not sure they have Canada’s natural resources also.
Look to Germany if you want to know what green agenda does.
“For some bizarre reason that I simply cannot fathom, almost every Canadian politician seems entirely oblivious to this reality. Instead, Canadian Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Mark Carney’s chief-of-staff, Marc-André Blanchard are once again coming to DC to ride their bicycles in slow circles at the bottom of the White House driveway while staring in the windows.”
They’re trying to persuade Canadians there’s a light at the end of the tunnel in this trade dispute, but (hat tip to Metallica) it’s a freight train named Donald Trump. And despite Carney’s claim that “we’ve worked harder on this than anything we’ve ever done,” the deal still remains elusive.
Mark Carney and hard work have never met.
Carney gives me the impression that he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room. That’s a mistake.
Civilian Hero Mode Activated. The Rise of the Citizen Wrenching Back Power–Elizabeth Nickson (July 5):
“…Contrast Trump with this ghoul below, product of the international banking set. Carney, who stole his election according to evidence gathered by hundreds of patriots, is saying that Trump has restricted access to U.S. markets (never mind the tariffs Canuckistan has been imposing), and stopped paying for NATO’s defence.
And the U.S. is, horror of horrors, “monetizing its hegemony”. Which means, yeah, buddy that’s what the strong do for their people. How about letting Canada grow out of the carbon prison you’ve imposed on us? Not to mention the debt you ran up during the ‘08 crisis when you were head of the Bank of Canada, having no doubt salted away tens of millions during the housing boom. I can’t tell what drug Carney is on, I suspect just Ambien, propranolol, and a shockingly inflated sense of his own importance. He must know the massive size of his failure. He is the failure of all failures. Every step along the path of his success he has punched down, and pleased his masters, whoever they are. His moniker, Carnage, is honestly won, and it is the only honest thing about him. If he is opening his mouth, he is lying.
Pleasingly, Carney was humiliated right and proper this week, withdrawing the Digital Services Tax, which he imposed on the U.S. retroactively. And then the E.U. pulled out of the suicidal climate pact, which he architected and plans to force on the only carbon neutral country in the world, Canada. His stupidity and vanity is astounding.. Every complaint Carney makes in this video, every accusation, is about Trump removing the grift this class fattened itself on. I could not loathe them more. …
There is no getting around it. This [PDT’s External Revenue Service] will be the biggest increase and transfer of purchasing power in history. With that, working hard is going to be worth it. Furthermore, Trump, on his way to charm Congresspeople, said, “I don’t believe in cuts,” eliminating the last argument of the left. The cuts that the left is bloviating about are all cuts to free medical, dental, housing and food for illegal migrants.” …….
Secretary Scott Bessent said it perfectly, “All these PhDs at the Fed, I don’t know what they do…”. This is the mindset of PM Carney. These academics think they have all of the answers in their quest for Utopia. Perfection is the enemy of good.
Academia has been woke for years and now 60%+ of college students are female. They become the teachers in K-12 and we ask why no one fails anymore. All our children are “exceptional” here in Lake Woebegone. Exceptionally lazy, fat, and ignorant of the three “R”s. We are indeed a need of a renaissance in education and the work ethic.
Carney just has to be smarter than his indoctrinated constituents.
Third-rate Obama
I’m not commenting until I hear from Dekester and DD.
See above.
Hmmm, I’m dubious about Canadas outcome ending in a positive light. While I don’t think they’re completely oblivious to their potential economic outcome, I think their green-thumb ruling class & policies are too ingrained in their culture & will result in their own demise.
Then, I think Alberta ultimately finds a way to secede from the rest if they’re Country. Possibly becoming the 51st state.
Eurotrash isn’t in the can yet.
I am not sure that Dudley Do-Right ever got his man
Canada is putting 2 members of the truckers’ convoy in jail for 8 years. These people saved the world. Concentration camps for the uninjected had already been built in Toronto. 1 of those being jailed is a grandmother. Every media outlet attacks President Trump on a daily basis. Free speech is under scrutiny coast to coast.EV,s are subsidized for the next 10 to 20 years. In this case, I have to question SD’s optimism.
Wrong-headed nationalism is one of the strongest headwinds that’s preventing Canadians from getting where they need to go.
Seems like Canada’s plight is a golden opportunity for more China help and influence.
Don’t forget what they’ve done to Artur Pawlowski and what they continue to do.
He was such a fighter for Christianity that they couldn’t have that. God bless him.
Yes. But there is a co- equivalency with J6 gulag prisoners. That is no different. We have a Democracy Fund of lawyers who will provide a legal fight and do the Appeal. We understand what is at stake.
Many here who criticize what is going on in Canada are admitting that they don’t acknowledge that the US was in exactly the same position under Biden. America was being destroyed.
All of it is essentially down to one person who saved you: Donald J Trump. Without him you would be having your country overrun and and drag queens in the Rose Garden.
Exactly.
Nick does a trip to Toronto, talks to the people, gives real estate prices and general info. My question is, where are all the people in a major city like this? He was there several days.
Decent video. Outside of the overpriced real estate, there was no mention of the economy, no mention of how America subsidizes Canada, no mention of the tariffs Canada charges for our products.
Love Nick, but he’s not that deep.
Interesting video. The home prices are astronomical for what you get in Toronto. No discussion of the nitty gritty differences between the USA and Canada, though. They seem content to just boycott us ‘until Trump’s term is over’.
They’ve imported a huge number of India Indians, also. Native Canadians find it hard to get a job.
To paraphrase a generations old saying, you can lead a jackass to water, but you can’t make him drink.
I’ve always said “horse to water”, but I like jackals better.
Thank you, Sundance.
Canada has become a risk on the northern border regardless if they drop the green plan and bounce back.
I’d change “has become” to “has been”, but yes, yes they are.
Their (and other countries) “leaders” problem is similar to Trump and the border. “We need comprehensive immigration reform to close the border.” And Trump closes it with laws on the books. People say, umm this has been going on for decades and this is all it took? Same thing with economy and manufacturing. Leadership wants so much to avoid opening that box. People will realize it was decades of lies. Every election would be 70/30 minimum.
BREAKING:
CNBC: Trump announces ‘massive’ trade deal with Japan with 15% tariffs
“Trump said that Japan will invest $550 billion into the United States, adding that the U.S. will “receive 90% of the Profits.”
“He also said Japan will “open their Country to Trade including Cars and Trucks, Rice and certain other Agricultural Products, and other things.” ”
“…Japanese automobiles imported into the U.S. already attract a 25% tariff in line with the rest of the countries.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/trump-announces-massive-trade-deal-with-japan-with-15percent-tariffs.html
Also negotiated a reciprocal trade deal with Indonesia.
https://redstate.com/katie-jerkovich/2025/07/22/trump-announces-historic-trade-deal-with-not-one-but-two-major-countries-n2191971
This is an important Big One. Great news! 😁
So…as a Canadian and an industrialist, I can say without doubt that the industrial ecosystem in Canada is destroyed. Train an apprentice generation…sure, but there is no base from which to do so any longer. There aren’t the industrial operations to embed such trainees into. The educational system is a horrible joke on young people, and even those that might be motivated to seek out a trade only get exploited and jerked around. Canada needs a cultural revolution more than the US does, but the populace is not sufficiently engaged yet. And the problem is…the rot has gone on so long and so deep, that it may well be too late. I do not understand what underpins CAD. I honestly do not. I hoard USD as a result.
May God bless America.
Awesome that so many Canadians are chiming in on this refuge.
IMO the worst offenders happen to also be our greatest generation.
They sincerely believe that our Canadian everything is superior to the U.S. because the CBC and CTV and all the MSM newspapers etc have B.S.’d them for decades.
Many are getting a rude awakening..
Glad we prepped..
Cheers!
Dekester, I hope you have your prepper supplies well concealed. Your government will think nothing of confiscating anything and everything they can – you know in the name of “for the greater good”.
Truckistan rises from the ashes. I absolutely love the photo of the bare chested smoking trucker. The Hedgehog and the Fox. Brilliant analysis, advantage MAGA. Canada is about to get punched in the face.
I have no reasons to like or dislike Canada. Never did follow Canadian history. I trust that President Trump will do the correct process to make it work to our economic benefit. Get it done quick so that we Americans can buy Greenland to imprison all the crooked politicians until their necktie parties are scheduled.
I have no reasons to dislike Canadians. I have never even heard of a Canadian committing murder in the United States or car jacking or kidnapping children, rape or assault with deadly weapon here.
Unlike Mexicans and other immigrants from Central and South America they seem like friendly and law abiding neighbors who aren’t violent prone or here to collect welfare, food stamps or file fraudulent income tax refunds using stolen identities.
Actually, now that I think about it I do like Canadians!
You don’t know much about the drug and human trafficking trade that goes on at our northern border. Hint: it isn’t pretty.
Look up Sam Cooper and prepare for a shock.
And the guy who assaulted Nancy Pelosi’s husband in San Francisco….
You just talked yourself into it, but some people think that talking to yourself is a sign of insanity. Be careful Sam.
As a born Canadian, I’m fed up with smug Canadians and their anti-
Americanism
The vitriol towards our northern neighbor on this website is an untapped resource due to its enormity.
I personally would never live in Canada because of the frigid climate.
The govt will blame trump for all of their problems which in fact actually predate Trump and are due to their failed socialist polices. It’s the convenient boogeyman and the sheeple will simply nod.
Since Carney got in he’s been working furiously to kill interprovincial trade barriers and get cross Canada agreement on major projects. Many regulations are going into the trash bin.
So he knows he won’t get any sweetheart trade deal with Trump.
The premiers of the provinces are cooperating, but of course Quebec is always the ugly fly in the ointment. For example, Quebec is the obstacle to a cross Canada pipleline. Quebec is the obstacle to getting rid of the Dairy Cartel.
The fool David Eby in BC, who shouted by Buy Canadian not US has enabled a 5 billion contract to build BC ferries in China, not Canada or the USA, but China.
I’m in Toronto, so I know lefties here are clueless about the changes coming. Over the coming years, Canada’s Liberal Utopia is facing dismantling in many areas, by Carney and parliament. There will be a lot of noise but that is what will happen.
Made in China with CHINESE steel!!
Make Vermont Maple Syrup great again!
My grocery only carries a Canadian product. I will order on line from Vermont.
Canadian Club or Crown Royal, nope….if I were a whiskey drinker…I would do Jack Daniels or Wild Turkey…
And would get my fudge laced with Kentucky Bourbon, from those Gethsemane Monks…from Kentucky.
They don’t cook out the bourbon…you can get a buzz from a few pieces…once a girl used to send boxes to the the nursing units, at Christmas time…she was a retired nurse from the hospital…the supervisor noticed the nurses were all acting strange….she connected the dots after she had a piece of fudge….Supervisor went around and confiscated the candy…I had 3 or 4 pieces…I was praying I did not get pulled over for speeding on my way home…am sure it would have been a DUI!
Anyway…buy American!
Wild Turkey 101 and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer-Breakfast of champions!
Yoo-hoo!
Interesting. The alcohol would evaporate during cooking so must be injected after and then pressure sealed?
“Canada is going to have to bring back their ‘dirty’ industrial jobs.”
For weeks now the Canadian wildfires have been blowing dirty air steadily our way.
Two days ago we literally saw ash falling through the dirty blue sky, and we cannot sleep with our windows open or we will be sick in the morning.
I hope one of the dirty jobs Canada brings back is Firefighting, or closer to the truth, leaders who aren’t OK with burning half of their country to the ground.
I wonder what would be the response from the Green Weenies if the source of all that smoke and ash was from heavy industry? Would there be lawsuits pending and protests in the street?
Is it possible to calculate what the exact amount of global warming will be as a direct result of these fires?
I would have expected an uproar from the environmental groups over these fires. Are they protesting in the streets? Better yet, are they volunteering to help put the fires out?
The environmental groups are the ones lighting the fires
A joint review of the agreement is scheduled for July 1, 2026. This review is crucial as it marks the beginning of a 10-year countdown to the agreement’s expiration.
Renewal Process
To prevent expiration in 2036, the United States, Canada, and Mexico must notify each other in writing during or after the 2026 review to approve a renewal for another 16-year term. If no action is taken, the agreement will automatically expire.
I take no pity on Canada, it is suffering from a self inflicted wound. Academia is completely woke. A friend of mine was telling me that a professor from Lethbridge University is teaching rats to gamble. If this is how Canada is investing their money they are sunk. Or are they planning to open casinos for rats?
You betcha…canadian wolverines watching on the sidelines……I am secretly enjoying the Carney regime struggle with this reality. Yes will get worse but thank God for Trump. He is basically making all western countries slowly admit they need to walk away from communism or die.
35% is a GREAT deal for Canada. Use history as your guide, what were they charging the USA producers to import to Canada?
A hell of a lot more than 35%
You miss the point. Carney was installed to finish off the Canadian economy. That’s the goal. But now he will blame trump.
“President Donald Trump is ambivalent to the trade partnership with Canada. This moot-status reality is why there’s no substantive engagement.”
If true, why would Trump be ambivalent about the most important and beneficial trade relationship that the US has with any country? Canada buys more US goods than any other country, more than China, Japan, the UK, and France put together.
The US enjoys a huge SURPLUS in trade in finished goods, agriculture, and services with Canada. Canada is the biggest export market for the United States, and Trump is ambivalent about this trade that supports an estimated 8 million jobs in the United States? Make this make sense!
I would be curious to know why Sundance thinks Trump’s trade war on Canada is such a brilliant strategy that will be good for America. Trump is about to blow up the best trading relationship the United States has with any country. And for what?
What is it about the current trade deal with Canada that Trump doesn’t like? The US enjoys a $7.1 billion SURPLUS with Canada in the trade of cars and car parts. Contrast that with the $137 billion DEFICIT that the US has with Mexico on cars and car parts. Source: https://www.americaeconomia.com/en/business-industries/mexicos-automotive-surplus-us-breaks-record-and-exceeds-us-137-billion-2024
I’m curious why so many Americans think that Trump beating up on America’s best customer, closest ally, and neighbor is a good thing? As a Canadian, I know that Trump can inflict a lot of pain on us, but for what purpose? What bad thing did Canada do to the United States? This is sadistic behaviour.
As for the reference to infrastructure projects this refers to the urgent need for Canada to build pipelines east, west and north (not south) so we can sell our oil and gas to markets other than the United States. Until recently the US was our only export market for oil and gas which meant that Americans were able to buy Canadian oil at a steep discount (about $15 less a barrel of Oil).
The five million barrels a day of cheap Canadian oil not only keep gas prices low at the pump for Americans. It also allows the U.S. to export an equivalent amount of its sweet crude at a premium. It has been a very lucrative arrangement for the US, worth tens of billions to the American economy annually. Trump often says, “We don’t need Canadian oil,” and yet after he was sworn in a second time, he called for the restarting of the Keystone pipeline so that the US could get more of that cheap Canadian feedstock.
I’m not sure what is meant by Canadians getting back to “actual manufacturing”. We conduct a significant amount of actual manufacturing in Canada, and to the extent that manufactured products include foreign parts, those parts primarily come from the United States. Autos are a good example of that. I’m not sure where this notion that Canada is merely a transshipment country for China comes from. The fact is, China has made far bigger investments in the United States than it has in Canada or Mexico, based on the figures below:
CHINESE INVESTMENTS IN:
USA – $28.04B (2023 official)
Canada ~$2.5B (2024 est.)
Mexico – $159M (2023 official)
For Canada, the only trade deal with the United States that works is a free trade agreement, and we have had such agreements in various forms for decades that have served both countries well. Putting 25% or 35% tariffs on Canadian cars means that car factories will shut down in Canada. That may seem like a big win for Trump and to many Americans, but as a Canadian, I can tell you that when that happens, Canadians will not be buying any American-assembled cars. If we can’t build cars, then we will buy them from China. China builds the best cars in the world today at half the price of American cars and as of late China has been far friendlier to Canada than the United States.
Again, can an American explain to me how Trump’s blowing up the US/Canada relationship is good for America? How is it “America First”?
I would be curious to know why Sundance thinks Trump’s trade war on Canada is such a brilliant strategy that will be good for America. (Your words)
Maybe you should read more. He has explained it numerous times Carney!
“China builds the best cars in the world today”
Oh, ok. Sounds like you Canadians will be living large; have at it.
After hitting for the cycle last week Kev pounds another dinger. Comprehensive, w/attribution. Pleasure, dude .
O, Canada! Our home and native land.
Soon to be under Trump’s command.
O, Canada! We once were tariff-free.
Soon, to Trump, we’ll be on bended knee.
Some lyric changes to the Canadian National Anthem proposed by Trump.
Crooked mouth, crooked soul. Carney is the epitome of the globalist puppet.
The technique of “pretending not to know things” is very commonly used by American democrats and their international counterparts/technocrats.
Oh Canada.
I’ve read on this page many times that CA cannot refine its own oil. But it’s refineries do about 2 million barrels a day versus, depending on the source, 16 to 18 million per day in the USA. Since their population is about 10% the size of ours, it would make sense that they would refine more or less than 10% of their own oil. What am I missing?
Environmental Zealots
Most of the Canadian oil refineries are on the east coast; they refine imported oil.
Transportation cost/pipeline capacity is a factor, so is the type of crude the refineries are tooled to handle (the eastern refineries are taking in light crude — western Canadian oil is heavy).
It has been a case of market forces which has created this. I would also say that one should look at the geography of the issue — Canada would have to create pipelines to the east…where would they go? ah, that’s a big problem; or, they could build refineries in the west, but again where would it go?
People really need to start looking at and understanding maps.
I don’t think they’re going to get much help in that from the President, why should he be inclined to give them any help at this point?
Carney has hundreds of investments in USA stocks, most involve ”green”things,and carbon things. His company Brookfield evades taxes in Canada, and many of his political cronies are former business partners.We have the Democrat formula from the USA in charge. He is forcing policies in Canada that benefit his investments, not working class Canadians. He has mandated that 20% of new car sales must be EVs by 2026,target 100%. There is talk about energy projects, but there isn’t even a list of things to do in that area. The natives here, who call themselves ”first nations”get a say in every project. They cost about 34 billion last year and their land claims demand more land than there is in some areas (British Columbia for eg, central part of Ontario) The supply side management of dairy products etc. is off the table. USA Ag products are locked out. Attached short video explains it. We really are Cuba North.
Canadian citizen here: and I just want to echo this point made in this article. I have been telling people this for over 6 months now. The only way Canada gets back to being a serious country (and by that getting in to the good books with our wonderful neighbor to our south is by doing the following 3 things:
Hopefully, then we can begin to rebuild. My 2 cents take on my country. I am not a learned expert, but this has to be the commonsense solution. Have a great day all, and as always, all the best to the greatest President of my lifetime.
Canada is down for the 8 count,we will crash and burn before reality asserts itself.
We are FUBAR, need to crash and burn down to the ground and start all over,
Sundance, nice imagery in your writing today: Canadians riding their bikes in circles at the end of the WH driveway looking in the window. Lol. Well done.
the biggest loser in Ottawa is Carnage Mark Carney and the rest of the loser have their elbows up, they voted for this kuntwaffle to lead them, never realizing he wsa Trudeau’s advisor for 5 yrs prior to last (S)election
Canada has been screwing the US for years on trade and now we have a President that means what he says and says what he means and the Libs in Canada have never had to deal with this before .I for one could care less if Trump ever deals with the liberal jerks they can Kiss the US’s ass.
European peoples are targeted for genocide in Canada.
the ruling class has long been massively Jewish and they are bent on wiping out Christianity and killing off Europeans people in Canada. there will be zero changes to that goal.
Thanks for the visual of the Canadian castrati riding their bikes around the White house while staring in the windows. I seldom laugh out loud and this is the most hilarious image I’ve enjoyed in a long time. The photo of the classy Canuck at the end of the article is extra fun. Thanks!
Careful…China might step in and provide financing to Canada in exchange for ????