For those who have followed along with the U.S-Canada trade positioning, the current status of conflict between the Trump administration and the government of Canada is not surprising. {GO DEEP} Going all the way back to the replacement of NAFTA, with the USMCA, President Trump always said he did not favor multilateral trade deals with multiple countries; instead, he preferred bilateral free trade agreements.
Some people have construed the bilateral preference of President Trump to be the elimination of globalism in favor of nationalism in trade agreements.
While the outcome of the Trump approach indeed aligns with that theme, it is not specifically the objective of President Trump to eliminate global trade, but rather to focus on specific interests in trade that benefit the unique nature of each party involved.
As a result, the USMCA -or CUSMA as said in Canada- is not in alignment with a bilateral free trade agreement, and the conflicted differences between trade with Mexico and trade with Canada are an outcome of this dynamic. The solution is simply to eliminate the multilateral in favor of the bilateral approach. This is the objective of President Trump as expressed.
That said, the USMCA covers approximately 60% of U.S-Canada trade, and the remaining 40% is being debated and argued. President Trump would prefer to just deal with 100% of the trade sectors in one free trade agreement; hence, his ambivalence until the USMCA is dissolved.
Canada, on the other hand, continues to demand that all trade conflicts be resolved without opening up the entire USMCA. Again, another conflict. Canada is like the dependent spouse in a divorce arguing for child support payments when the “children” are in their twenties.
The current status is President Trump pulling back completely from discussions with Canada, while the various provincial Premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney antagonize over the issue.
At a certain point, when the entire national economic plan of Canada is based on “Donald Trump bad”, and all political messaging internally is to proclaim they have no alternative policy positions, the Canadians might not realize it, but they are confirming complete and total dependency on the nation Donald Trump represents.
As the Canadian government continues demanding President Trump pay attention to their needs, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, informs the Carney administration, and various stakeholders, any trade agreement is no longer possible.
CANADA – The U.S. ambassador to Canada doesn’t foresee a new security and economic deal between Canada and the United States — which could see the reduction or full removal of tariffs amid an ongoing trade dispute — before the new year.
“We have stopped negotiations with Canada,” Pete Hoekstra said in a keynote address to the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Business Canada on Monday. “I don’t see any way that there will be an agreement before American Thanksgiving.”
“I’m not sure what it’s going to take to get people back to the table in a constructive and positive mode,” he added.
Hoekstra’s comments come just days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he is terminating trade talks with Canada and increasing levies on Canadian goods by 10 per cent in response to an anti-tariff ad by the government of Ontario which featured the voice of former Republican U.S. president Ronald Reagan. Ontario has since pulled the ads, effective Monday.
Government sources had told CTV News that Canadian officials were hopeful there could be movement on a steel and aluminum deal by this week’s APEC Summit in South Korea.
[…] Asked by event attendees whether he sees any way to get negotiations back on track, such as an apology for the ad, Hoekstra said: “No.”
Speaking more broadly about the state of negotiations, Hoekstra laid the blame at Canada’s feet for the soured relationship.
Hoekstra has previous expressed his distaste for what he’s called “anti-American” sentiment in Canada, and on Monday pointed to some provinces removing U.S. liquor from store shelves and Canadians being discouraged from travelling south of the border as examples.
He also said the ad amounts to foreign interference, with the U.S. Supreme Court set to start hearing arguments on the legality of Trump’s tariffs on Nov. 5, as well as some gubernatorial and state legislative elections happening next week.
“Canada burnt the bridges with America,” he said. “Donald Trump did not slam the door.”
“Donald Trump could do the only thing that a leader of a sovereign nation could do when a neighbour, another sovereign nation, decided to interject itself into American politics,” he added. “Canada slammed that door shut all by itself.” (read more)
Canada is trying to force President Trump to give them preference, in a similar way the EU demanded special trade privileges.
President Trump is trying to end the Canadian one-way benefits toward the U.S. market.
President Trump is currently touring Asia, gathering up bilateral trade deals with various countries all across the ASEAN network.
In the bigger context, Trump is cutting all the tentacles and tools of China, and isolating them from Southeast Asia, as it relates to trade with the USA.
The bigger strategy of President Trump is very clear now, reduce dependency on China by retracting all of the manufacturing dependency.
All of the surrounding nations in Asia stand to benefit from this approach through bilateral free trade agreements with the USA. Beijing’s influence is being seriously diminished as the lead-up to President Trump sitting down with Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping on Thursday.
Inside China, throughout the Chinese Communist Party, there are indications they are recognizing how successful President Trump has been at working around their influence. Some outside observers have even started to believe the “moderates” within China feel empowered over the “hardliners” represented by Chairman Xi. There is a lot going on behind the scenes.
This internal pressure inside Beijing’s politics works to President Trump’s favor, because it makes it even harder for Xi Jinping to be aggressive. Additionally, with the Chinese economy being uncertain, perhaps significantly weak, Chairman Xi might even face a challenge to his power structure. Meanwhile President Trump hops around shaking hands and making deals.
One of many steps to take Canada as new US states.
No. No. No! We don’t need more blue states.
Indeed although some areas, maybe.
We only want Saskatchewan and Alberta. They are already connected to us via train and pipeline (Enbridge and Keystone) transmission of oil to our refineries in TX, MT, and IL.
They can keep the loonies in Toronto and Quebec.
To keep Treepers ahead of everyone, Alberta is not going to be the 51st state they are going to be a sovereign nation. They are NOT going to switch from one master to another.
Read how they’re going about it following the Canadian Constitution for sovereignty.
https://albertaprosperityproject.com/faqs/
With what (serious) army?
Yes-Any unpopulated area for natural resources eh?
Keep in mind many of the Blue States are Blue due to Voter’s fraud and Democrat graft.
If it weren’t for Chicago, Illinois would be bright red.
If my uncle had breasts, he’d be my aunt.
LOL!!!
Nah! Pretty sure Uncle Pat would be an Olympic medalist…
Peoria is not red. Neither are McClean, Champagne, Clair, and Jackson Counties. But Chicago and its immediate surrounding counties, Lake, Will, DuPage, Kendall, Kane and Dekalb counties form an insurmountable blue empire that overpowers the rest of Illinois in recent 21st century elections.
Although, it looks 3/4ths of the state’s counties voted for Gore in 2000. Trump made a significantly better showing in 2024…
The “Strong City Initiative” that the UN forced Osama and Lynch to implement is why all major cities have become overpopulated and negates the rest of the voting bloc of any state.
But it looos like Illinois was more Democratioc statewide before all that happened.
Remember it was Chicago that put JFK in office in 1960, even if it was allegedly crooked vote counts by Mayor Richard Daley. So IDK how for back the “blue cities vs red counties” thing goes….
‘Forced’
We here in Georgia have our own DeKalb county problems! (among other Atlanta area counties)!
Yes. Atlanta seems to have infected surrounding counties as well…
100%!
Gwinnett County native….I remember when it was solid red, as was Cobb and North Fulton (formerly Milton County). Don’t hear much from the Milton breakaway people anymore…maybe because they left for Forsyth or Dawson….which Forsyth may be purple now.
I live in a red county now, but the yankee tags are scaring the crap out of me….again! I wonder if they’re doing what they did in ’20 and ’22 getting rentals to turn GA blue and keep Assoff and “reverend Wife Beater” in the Senate…
Meanwhile Stone Mountain Park museum has a black racist who wants to change history and try (again) to eliminate the carving….
Maybe build a wall on the SC/GA border….and one around metro Atlanta?
#secession
Grey Eagle. I wonder how my reception will be when I relocate from MA to saner environs. I’ll change the license plate as quickly as possible but I’m sure I’ll be eyed suspiciously for a while!
Ponce, there’s Yankees and there’s Northerners.
There’s a distinction. If you’re the latter, you’re okay.
“When I see Atlanta I see what 250,000 Confederate soldiers tried to prevent”.
-John Shelton Reed (paraphrased)
Look at the so called liberal states in the west and it is big cities dictating policy for the entire state. That is what liberals are trying to do to Montana, Idaho and Utah. Take control of the big cities and due to population take control of the state. Bozeman is called Bozangeles for this reason.
Back in the ’60s I liked Bozeman! Wonderful fishing area! World class type!
Every state has a cancer attached.
And some of those voter fraud machines are housed in Canada.
Canada is like the enemy within.
They need to get their house in order to truly become our friends.
We don’t have the same machines you do. We use paper ballots and machines called tabulators like scantron machines.
Not the machines, the software. The software is or was developed in Canada. Take one of the big players created after HAVA was passed in the early 00’s, Diebold Election Systems. Their software division was in Canada. When the election division was acquired by ES&S the software division went with the transaction. Then when part of the acquisition was sold to Dominion the software went there as well. It was like a virus. Now ES&S and Dominion may have had their own software divisions but the acquisition of Diebold’s election divisions included the software which they adapted to their machines or in some cases just slapped their name on the Diebold software and used it. To make things more interesting one of the reasons Diebold entered the election business after HAVA was passed was due to the fact that at the time Diebold was the election voting machine supplier to the entire country of Brazil and thought they could easily adapt to the US election market because of their experience in Brazil.
And those blue states do nothing to rectify that crookedness.
They created it in order to gain & maintain their power.
Of course. So prove Canada has fixed that and we can have a further conversation!
The Foraker Act of 1900 established a civil government, ending rule by American generals and the Department of War. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Ortega v. Lara, 202 U.S. 339, 342 (1906),[o] involving the Foraker Act and referring to the island as “the acquired country”, soon affirmed that the U.S. Constitution applied within its territory and that any domestic Puerto Rican laws which did not conflict with it remained in force
We need non voting territories.
Nope. That comes with citizenship.
Ok.
American Samoa is “non-voting”. Residents are US “Nationals” and have US passports but must apply for citizenship.
Plus its loaded with poc non’s.
They’re only “blue” because there is no Right side television and news. It’s continuous Leftist propaganda. And still, 35-40% vote Right.
I’d say, integrate some provinces as “territories” first, giving them no representation for a generation. It’s not a negotiation, it’s a take it or take it. Everything changes in a generation.
It’s more dangerous to allow them to keep importing anti-Western migrants by the million every year. I think there are several million mainland Chinese there already…
https://www.jccf.ca/western-standard-alberta-can-leave-canada-without-court-approval/
Alberta is the only one we need.
Alberta is ready.
It would be more cost effective to fix California than Canada.
Heck, just investigate Voter Fraud here in California and you’d get a return to Sanity faster than pouring Maple Syrup!
Guaranteed free and fair elections in all states would dramatically change Washington DC. Add in term limits and it could produce the government the Founders envisioned.
The one thing that I’ve noticed since DOGE started their examination of Government spending is that the Democrats are weaker now as to why they’re acting so unhinged.
I would not be surprised if future Historians would have documentation of the graft used to keep the Democrat Machine up.
California bureaucrats and their cronies would fight that investigation harder than they do ICE.
And yet those fighting ICE are LOSING and shown them selves to be petulant entitled Children!
We fight the good fight not because it’s easy, but because it’s right.
By just saying the fight is too hard, or the Opposition will just fight harder is how California turned blue. The CA GOPe here redrew the line until there was no line left.
Cali has to have at least 5 million illegal immigrants.
HUD allegedly has two million illegal immigrants in their housing stock. That could go to veterans, single Mothers, and fixed-income seniors.
@Pe7rot Conservative, all the funds to those Illegals could be used to get Addicts off the streets! The majority of the Homeless here are hopelessly addicted to Drugs.
Just that action alone would clean up San Francisco and LA. But the Progressives don’t want that, they want perpetual squallor and misery to lord over their subjects.
Have a good supply of body bags
You snow mexicans are worse than the French, you won’t even put up a good argument.
Really? You can’t be serious, but then PRIDE comes before the fall.
I didn’t realize Canada had that many residents. Thanks for the heads-up on matters
Note: The world can all well recall witnessing the JAN ’22 monkey-stomping Canadians received when
CastroTrudeau made quick work of your threatened revolt. America cheered you on and our citizens sent money to support your cause, but…….So, tell us again the Canadian version of how things will be going down.
Did they do better or worse than we did after J6 & Empress Piglosi militarizing the capital?
Serious question?
Why would you assume force? No one is advocating the forced annexation of anything. Many of us would be inclined against annexing a territory that asked us to do so.
Sounds like Colonel Samuel Trautman in First Blood………
We might want their resources, but we definitely don’t want their leftists.
Calgary Alberta and the OIL, they can keep the REST!
“TERRITORY” not state.
No Congressional votes.
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Canada, like Europe and the GOP and the Swamp and others, are just hunkering-down until Trump is gone. One year in the can, three more to go.
The GOP isn’t gonna do anything to help Trump legislatively. They are fine with his trade agreements and EO’s. They go away with one stroke of the auto-pen in January 2029. If Trump refuses to openly acknowledge what these GOP turds are doing, then this is partly on him. We all knew it would go this way. If you didn’t, you know now.
i get this vibe, too. in fact, i bet they reckon that even if is a donald successor, they will be more “moderate” on globalism. if vance and rubio are the frontrunners, they’re not wrong.
So you are saying Vance/Rubio would halt this work of President Trump in January 2029? Jeez, have a little faith, Baby
Unfortunately, they nor anybody else has “the right stuff” to perform like POTUS Trump has. Not the DNA, business sense, achieving in spite of NYC politics, development of a fighters ego, exercising the power of one with money, having powerful politicians beg at your feet, being humiliated by disgusting and embarrassing accusations and trials, etc. Just going to Harvard or Yale and thinking you’re qualified and ready to compete on this World stage is folly; being an ex-barmaid in Boston is just plain stupid. If you’re a politician now, you’ll never reach the level of being a President Trump. (Just by not drinking or smoking eliminated 99.9% of you wanna-be’s!)
Eric Trump ’28
No, no more dynasties 🖖🏻
The Reagan to Bush transition is still fresh in my memory.
Bush was a deep state plant. He was chosen for Reagan, not by Reagan.
Deep State did to Reagan with Bush as they did to Trump with Pence. Put reins on a good President by the insertion of an albatross around the neck!
Can we trust either one?
Thanks for the pep-talk Cat.
It’s always good to receive your affirmation during times like these.
It’s not a pep talk…it’s the truth.
Katie Hopkins recently had this somber note for the future of Western Europe:
– some will escape to Hungary and Poland, eastward
– some will seek asylum in America
– those who remain will fight a new Crusades
China will not pull back from its overall economic aspirations, but it will engage in a tactical de-escalation.
Canada on the other hand is learning the hard way..
So… after massively insulting, disrespecting AND ACTING IN BAD FAITH to their prospective Trade Partner, Canada finally realized that?
The Canadian Elite’s arrogance and entitlement is mind boggling!
Some globalist family trillionaire is pulling their string. No one is that stoopid!
But but but Trudeau and Obama were BFF’s don’cha know? Some soothing words and a bit of blow; it all works out….
“Let the citizens eat poutine.”
Send us a million cases of maple syrup, and maybe we will talk again
I know you’re mostly kidding – but we don’t even need them for that. Plenty of US states make the product.
Vermont for one!
I always by maple syrup made in Vermont
Trader Joe’s has the best, most economical option for VT real maple syrup…
I live near a town that builds Kenworth trucks. A couple in my church on Sunday, that work there, told me they were getting build orders transferred from Canadian plants due to the tariffs. Trucks.com has an article confirming that PACAAR is indeed laying off large numbers of people in Canada. And of course the great thing is these trucks, that were going to be built in Canada, were to be exported into the US. Just as Trump keeps saying. If you want to sell here, build here.
Nice!
One step forwards, two steps back. The world war against globalism continues.
Of all of SDs frequent posts, it’s the Canadian ones I find the most purely entertaining. Others might be more interesting, disturbing or challenging.
This is a bit of each of those with a big dose of LOL tucked in.
I’m cool as long as I can still download Rush and Triumph tunes and take my annual seal clubbing trip.
Take it easy on bragging about the clubbing of seals, that will put almost anyone off.🖖🏻
Alberta leans a bit conservative.
Battle lines being drawn . . . interestingly, that song ‘Signs’, is by a Canadian rock band, The Five Man Electric Band, is an apt fit to what we are seeing these days, globalists vs nationalists, individuals vs group-think, on a planetary scale no less. This little ditty of a song still has its foot on the times.
Good song
Now you’ve done it. Got the urge to listen to Rush now.
I’ll have a hard time waiting to see if their new tour with a Female Neil replacement comes to a town anywhere near me.
As for listening to Rush, I rarely seek to listen to any music anymore other that whatever my karaoke customers are queuing up to sing. Some are really good singers, most decent, a few sound like nails on a blackboard that even my ear plugs cannot compensate for.
When I bought a Buick LeSabre with a CD player built into it, it only had Rush CD’s in it…. ever… then I sold it to my boss some years later. (CD was inoperable by that time)
Rush is one of the few things that Canada has produced that is worth a sh*t…
How about the Guess Who?
Senior year in college. #94 in lottery.
Great song, but the only thing that band ever did………
Is China the real picture or is President Trump simply making new friends as the old one seem undependable. There was a time when NATO was a net but now it seems a web of greed and hatred.
With insider “friends” in the US like this,China has the contacts in place…..
https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exc-biden-official-worked-with-chinese?r=gb03o&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=post-publish&triedRedirect=true
Why Trump Is Routing the Free Traders
https://buchanan.org/blog/trump-routing-free-traders-125393
I said this a few years ago..
But I am grateful God has allowed Pat to live long enough to see his struggles and beliefs tested and found worthy.
Ty friend, Pat was my political America First Clan chief for decades, until the chieftainship passed to PDJT. I appreciate your kind & wise words. He inspired me to run for office and become politically active long ago.
Senator Schmitt Requests Presidential Medal of Freedom for Conservative Icon Pat Buchanan
https://www.schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/senator-schmitt-requests-presidential-medal-of-freedom-for-conservative-icon-pat-buchanan/
Thank you for posting.
MAGA Fabulous!!
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What are we to make of these new signed deals between the US and companies Carney is heavily invested in?
See podcast Moose on the Loose –
https://www.facebook.com/reel/794595110245345 (might need to copy and paste)
Canada is a huge country (second largest in the world), powerful, and should be proud. But right now it has exactly one over-arching problem: its government.
This is something that the Canadian people must deal with by themselves. But it is becoming absolutely more critical by the day that they take some immediate action to regain control of themselves.
While Canada has huge land mass, much of it is frozen and they only have 10% of the population of the U.S.
The Monroe Doctrine is hemispheric.
I just learned The Crown Cirpoeation owns a large chunk of Canada.
Also, Asian Triad gangs, casinos, CCP, money and drug laundering are devastating the West Coast and buying off / planting their Inspectors into key positions.
Canada, with its teeny, tiny GDP, has a trade surplus with the USA. That is really all that needs to be said at the negotiating table. It goes down to even, or a surplus for the USA, or we really are done talking. Let Canada figure out the details, if they can. But unless that is the starting point of any discussions, we are done with ya!! Don’t let the doorknob hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
The we s t of Canada produces most of the wealth. The east will be coming for it. Could produce some sparks.
Let the chips fall where they may…
I suspect a plurality of Canadian leaders are guilty to some extent of ethnic racism with respect to Mexico.
You may have noticed this with their acronym for the trade agreement. I’m under the impression that our President has found it much easier to negotiate with our Southern neighbors. The Canadians, OTOH, got their tidy-whities in a bunch after his 51st state troll. There are plenty of freedom loving conservatives up north and many are truckers.
That so many Canadians are so thin skinned that they rejected a (slightly more) conservative in Polivierre just proves John Lennon correct.
Power to the sheeple!
But Mexico hasn’t been an honest broker, either.
Mark Carney and his fellow Snow Mexicans are sounding more and more like Zelenskyy every day.
How many times do they need to hear the word NO before it sinks in?
Bring something to the table, and then we’ll talk. In the meantime, we’re forging alliances with useful partners.
Eh?
Canada is MI5’s & City of London’s puppet across the pond. The PR scam that says China’s economy depends on the United States is just that, PeeAre. Trump, Xi, and Putin are doing something together that nobody knows about but them. The young investigative reporters at Badlands Media call it “The Sovereign Nations Strategy.” Oligarchs, beware. https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-news-brief-545
Trump said no Whitehouse invite for either world series team. There are only two Canucks on the. Blue jays. If they win Invite the American s
go dodgers.
I’m Mark Carney and I approve this ad:
Speaking to reporters at Queen’s Park on Monday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said both Carney and his chief of staff, Marc-André Blanchard, saw the ad prior to it airing.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/us-ambassador-to-canada-doesnt-see-any-way-to-get-tariff-deal-by-american-thanksgiving/
Hit them hard
Punish the Snow Mexican grifters
I’m sure Canada interfered in both elections
We don’t need to punish them they will punish themselves..
They are now the 52nd state after Greenland.
If the USA would tie Trade with Human Rights- especially with gun confiscation- I’d be happier about it.
From the linked article:
“Ford said the intention was never to “poke the president in the eye,” but rather to “inform the American people.”
Asked whether he believes he owes an apology for derailing negotiations, Ford said his job is to fight for workers in at-risk sectors in Ontario, and he believes that despite word of an imminent deal, some sectors — namely autos — have “slipped to the side.”
“If it wasn’t the ad, he’d look out the door or the window, President Trump say, ‘Oh, the leaves have turned colour, let’s stop,’” Ford said.
“Believe me, President Trump is not putting a deal together to benefit Canada. It’s our job. It’s the prime minister’s job to get a deal that benefits all of Canada.”
“It’s not about the ad, it’s about finding every excuse in the world not to get a deal,” he also said.” ”
Good grief. What is he smoking??
The guy’s nuts! And so is carney!
President Trump will rub their noses in the stinking mess they just made.
Carnie is one of those misguided people who always thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room.
Apparently so.
He’s definitely misguided if he thinks he’s smarter than President Trump.
The always entertaining Jeff Childers at the daiily Coffee and Covid substack wrote today that “President Xi was probably merrily counting his Yen, expecting to have the U.S. President over a rare-earths barrel when they met later this week, only to sit in stupified silence as the colorful currency dropped from his cold, nerveless fingers as he heard the news of one minerals deal after another.”
Yuan 🙂
“Know when to walk away from the table.” (The Art of the Deal.)
“If you’re not prepared to walk away you can’t negotiate.” @realdonaldtrump
“For those who are asking, We didn’t come to South Korea to see Canada!” President Trump
President Trump just tweeted this from South Korea:
“For those who are asking, we didn’t come to South Korea to see Canada!”
Most Canadians don’t know all this that is going on. Their media controls what they know. Been going on for a long time. Of course the Canadian treepers know what is going on.
KCIII’s visit several months ago, emphasizing that Canada would always be a Commonwealth country – and not a candidate as the ’51st’ state – underlined their own ‘special relationship’. So, okay, Canada, look to your mother country for help. Oh, wait…they’re too busy rounding up Heritage Britons demanding the right to walk their own streets without being molested by maladapted, inbred Islamists who prefer living in the 8th century.
Possibly the best President of all time.
Canadians are fully Anti-America, is very good for America.
Canadians are acting like the “free loading, unemployed, drug addicted parasite” that was kicked out of their parent’s basement, and now is pissed at their Dad….Canada you are on your own,….get a job.
Ha,…”Oh, Canada” is now “Uh oh, Canada!”