The media and Canadian government discussions around the U.S-Canada trade and economic relationship, specifically as they pertain to the USMCA (CUSMA) continue to be fascinating.
As we noted over a year ago, the expressed perception from the Canadian side was remarkably disconnected from the most likely scenario.
The level of entrenched disbelief that the U.S. could completely separate from a trilateral trade deal in favor of a bilateral replacement has been remarkable to watch.
However, for the first time today Canadian media began admitting to themselves the USMCA can technically be terminated within six months; albeit buried at the end of the article.
GLOBAL NEWS – […] “I’m not in a position to guarantee anything. These decisions are made at the White House. They are made by the president,” Hoekstra said.
His comments come just days after the Trump administration declined to extend the trilateral pact with Canada and Mexico for a new 16-year term, citing what the U.S. calls “shortcomings” and “trade deficits.” Mexico and Canada both publicly pushed for a renewal.
U.S. President Donald Trump suggested last month that the U.S. is “better without” CUSMA, and that he’d even prefer to see it “terminated.”
When asked by Global News, Hoekstra would not say if the administration is considering ripping up the deal, which can be done by any party with six months’ formal notice.
“All options are on the table,” Hoekstra said. “[Termination] clearly is allowed for within the agreement.” (read more)
Canada has painted themselves into a corner on the issue of Chinese manufactured automobiles. This is an issue that is not going away.
So Trump need to say boo six times to start clock?
Or the President could say, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
LOL!!!
You beat me to it…
I thought the same thing in response to Hanuman.
….and then Hillary would appear again. No thanks.
Orrrrrrr…..
Elbowsup elbowsup elbowsup.
He started it last night. Those fireworks were boo’s. lol
Goodbye Canada! You will not be missed!
Is it ok to flush now
Or do I got to wait 6 months
The Canada we love is already missed.
We want Ottawa, then we need to move westward to connect the Alaska parcel.
NO WE DO NOT WANT OTTAWA! That is where all this trouble started.
I do think that Alberta and Saskatchewan seem to be filled with freedom-loving hard-working people so I would happily accept them on their own terms. Either as an independent country or to join the US. Actually, for them the best of both worlds might be to become a protectorate – defended by the US but without the taxes etc. But in the end that should be up to them.
Can a DUH, Can a DUH, Can a DUH.
Spontanious at some speeches at selected venues in Can a DUH.😂
Not having a very good year our northern neighbors.
We’ve not had a good eleven years!
Sympathies from one of the socialist states of America. Like you, we’re trying to push back where we can.
Socialist – You wait till that NY mayor starts to take America to the test. Have you come up with a proper salute like Hi Hitler.
And it will continue, nagothm.
The new “Gordie Howe Bridge” (Detroit-Windsor crossing) Canadians are so eager to claim they paid for, in fact, was built with other people’s money (financed/loans).
The loans will be paid back (iirc) by user fees from those who use the bridge, not Canadians.
Since a overwhelming amount of trade from Canada ALREADY crosses over the long established “Ambassador
bridge” (a 100% American-owned company), any traffic crossing the Gordie Howe Bridge would simply be diverted traffic that once crossed the Ambassador Bridge. (Canada “legally” pilfering $ from an American company to pay for “their bridge”)
President Trump wants just compensation for the losses.
I suspect, President Trump will get what he wants or, Mr Carny will get the crossed arms treatment from President Trump in return.
USTR Greer will then be instructed to hand deliver the “USA is Exiting USMCA” declaration, and Mr Carny can figure out how to repay the loans for the now completed (though closed)
Gordie Howe Bridge (Sans diverted import traffic revenue from the 100% American-owned Ambassador Bridge).
If that weren’t bad enough, if Carney balks, and the US exits the USMCA, there won’t be a whole lot of “import traffic revenues” crossing ANY bridge, and the cost of the Gordie Howe Bridge will, inevitably, come from the pockets of the Canadian people.
Oh, Canada!!
The “crossed arms treatment” would look good on his Mt. Rushmore statue.
Now there’s an idea!!
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I don’t think President Trump is yet worthy of Mt. Rushmore.
Achieve fair elections, secure voter roles, same day in person voting, paper ballots hand counted same day, no voting “machines,” balance the budget, end the income tax, deport illegal border crossers, pay down the debt, dump the fed and CIA, then I would agree, President Trump on Mt. Rushmore.
All those things would have been done, except for the corrupt judiciary, as well as the entrenched uniparty in the House and Senate.
You need to talk to Thune and the RINOs.
President Trump needs to put real pressure on those resisting his policies.
The Democrats do it. How? Blackmail? Kickbacks? I don’t know, but they vote as one.
Until he creates lasting change in this country, he is not great.
Note, he is arguably the best president of my lifetime and I am very appreciative of his courageous efforts. Unfortunately, with the fraudulent elections we have, we are ONE stolen election from the tyranny the Democrats would rain down on this country.
This one’s for the hockey fans:
User fees for Americans on…
Gordie Howe crosses the red line.
Shooting may follow. 🙂
😂 slapstick comedy right there!
Canadian referee (Carney) calls “roughing” penalty on President Trump……who quickly jumps over the boards and cold cocks him. Game On!
“Canada has painted themselves into a corner on the issue of Chinese manufactured automobiles. This is an issue that is not going away.”
Not only that, they used asphalt roofing/ foundation coating that takes over a week to fully dry!
You would not believe the Quality and Speed packed into these gems. Sort of like when everyone used to laugh at J.A. PAN and Company until they started to stick it to us with all the precised brands that exist now.. We sometimes have to take our head out of the sane — or worse….
I hear you. Chyna has got really good at copying everybody else’s products and infringing on their patents, etc.
The metallurgy of the tools is far better than the 1980’s. Their Philip’s head and Reed & Prince screwdrivers would strip and break when encountering a really stuck or rusted in American fastener years ago.
However, experienced welders I know say that the steel for welding in still dung and they can tell as soon as they strike and arc and start running a bead.
Global News refers to the USMCA as CUSMA. As if Canada was somehow the most important “partner”. And notes the agreement “was widely seen as a historic success”. Too funny.
It’s not “Global News”, it’s “Globalist News”.
That 6 month clock is ticking, right? And if not, WHY NOT? No need to “host” Carney at the WH any more, just like there’s no need to host little Z. A couple of buzzing gnats. Powerless, but still irritating…
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The entire MSM and most of the TDS-addled population here calls it CUSMA, even though Justine Sparkle Socks just barely got us tacked on at the end of the initial negotiations.
That one simple fact tells you everything about their air of superiority over, and absolute disdain for America.
Despite thc fact that they owe their entire smug woketard lifestyles to having exploited America since WWII.
They have literally no idea of the economic dust-bowl they’ll be living in 9 months from now.
Mind-boggling.
All the foresight of an amoeba circling the drain.
You have to remember that total direct federal spending on various news media programmes in Canada as well as tax breaks etc is a very real influence on Canadian news reporting. Type this into Grok –
“How does the Canadian government subsidize news outlets in Canada” – you will see numbers in the billions
Hence they all follow the vocabulary rules from Ottawa.
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CBC gets about $1.5bn annually – i.e. fully funded by and for Liberals. All other MSM channels receive significant funding from them as well. As do all national newspapers and some regionals.
Another key element in the propaganda war is that ALL the national pollsters that all these channels cite daily are funded to a significant degree by Liberals. This biased funding really took off and accelerated as soon as Trudeau took office:
https://xcancel.com/vesperdigital/status/2072490244125884713#m
These polls continually reassure the TDS woketards that they are right and in the majority even as the country is being destroyed.
Of course it was a success … for them …. at the USA’s expense. It’s no wonder that they are proud of hoodwinking the USA.
After eighty years, it’s time that we end the Marshall plan and allow these countries stand on their own two feet. Let’s see how successful their Socialist governments function, without the USA propping them up, at the expense of US citizens.
The head of Canada Economic Team : ”I think… I think… I think…”. Meanwhile, Canada’s agriculture exports to USA went from 75% to 67%. And she seems proud of this accomplishment.
Canada will also be exporting its GOLD in order to create new markets !!!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/shows/taking-stock/2026/06/26/developing-and-diversifying-canadas-trade/
This rift can go so much farther than just a trade deal.
It’s a parallel to Russia not allowing the US/EU/NATO to continue meddling on their border inside of Ukraine. The USA won’t/can’t allow Chinese Communists to meddle inside Canada right on our border.
The Chinese want Canada to be our Taiwan.
Their relationship to China is serious for the USA. Chinese Military has been active on bases in Canada for a few years now. Very Very Close to us. This is no Joke!
And they are imbeded throughout our Country for decades, and flooded in during Biden. Not good.
Glad to see you understand. Chinese troops trained in winter warfare in eastern Canada and former ex Canadian fighter pilots helped to train the Chinese fighter pilots.We do not know the future.
Have you seen a Canadian base. Something out of WW1.
Doesn’t diminish their live-fire ranges. Of course you need to bring your own ammo.
The barracks are like most US barracks,,, in that they are livable. Their bases haven’t been modern since they were built. They will do only so much as to have an appearance of having a military. Their last big hooyah was Afghanistan. There might be some spit shine somewhere in their military but it ain’t radiating much looking in from the outside.
Not to mention now that the Supreme Court was foolish enough to allow the Chinese birth tourism industry to continue in America, with those “citizens” going back to China to be raised and indoctrinated in communism, it’s only a matter of time til SWARMS of CHI-COM “citizens” come back “home” to a country they have been taught to HATE for alllllllll kinds of negative purposes.
I don’t think “foolish” is the correct word.
adjective
Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly.
I think “calculated” fits better along with “traitorous”.
Roberts thinks words mean what ever he wants them to mean much like the Red Queen.
Tyranny of judges.
YMMV
“A Shift Begins?”
Yep, because the shift just hit the fan!
Having shared time with Canadian snowbirds, they have fallen for the political and deliberate media propaganda which has been completely negative to the US. They are decent, albeit clueless people, who need to start using their own brains and stop lazily accepting what they’ve been told. With the Covid trucker situation so well handled by their own kind government, it’s not like there wasn’t a warning shot. Then, when our great President starting resetting hemisheres to a new nationalism and especially with Europe, it is abundantly clear that Canada is staking their future in the globalist past. All across the world countries are changing from the free trade, green energy, build back better paradigms. Given the US as the monolithic trade giant supporting the Canadian economy, joining with Europe and China factually against the US is exactly the worst thing they could do. Throw off Carney and his sycophants and grow up….Oh Canada
“…. it is abundantly clear that Canada is staking their future in the globalist past.”
says it all
This brings a question to mind that I will take the liberty to answer.
What Government officials were looking out for the interest of the people of the United States before Trump came to office?
Answer being Nobody WAS .
Ross Perot tried his best but the deep state operatives neutralized him.
The “giant sucking sound” giveth, the “giant sucking sound” taketh away.
Mr. Perot was a harbinger of what was to come.
I wish I could say I voted for him but I was not as well as informed then as I am now , greatly due to my reading Sundance, but I would have then if I knew what I know now.
Perot didn’t have the New York attitude Trump is so famous for.
For those who don’t remember their were threats to Perots daughters wedding that caused him to fade away.
The folks that voted for Perot gave us Clinton. Clinton gave us Hillary.
That was a tough year. Bush was fired by America and he deserved to be fired, but Clinton?
Perot could have won in 1992 had he not bailed out, then re-entered.
BTW I supported Perot. Hindsight is 20-20.
Harbingers of the future don’t win elections. Ross put Bill in the Whitehouse.
That was my 1st vote for an outsider.
I’m a quality engineer & I could tell from his charts and logical conclusions that he was spot on.
Now THIS is a bonafide Tick-Tock countdown! About time Canadian heard the music.
D’oh!
Slowly, slowly……then, all at once
“Possible” termination in six months..? What you mean Mr Dumbass by possibly..? lol.. what part of “don’t like the deal, I’m not going to renew it” is there wiggle room stating possibly..
SD was correct as usual the other day when he pointed to July 20rh as a very important day. US meets with Mexico for the third time for full-on trade negotiations. If a positive framework emerges or, God bless us all, a full trade deal is agreed upon, the ticking clock for Canada really picks up steam. Carney, for all of his bluster and elbows up nonsense, will be in quite the pickle up north. He won’t be able to hide his lack of skill or knowledge any longer from the Canadian people. They will finally see he has been played, and truly has no clothes.
He doesn’t lack skill or knowledge. He’s deliberately aligning Canada with the EU & WEF.
He doesn’t give a tinkers dam what happens to the hoi polloi. He’s well positioned/insulated.
I wonder how this will affect the secession measure they’ll be voting on in Alberta in October.
I was just talking to an Amish acquaintance about the secession measure the other day. I hadn’t even heard of it, some of his family are directly involved in that process. I was glad to hear at least some Canadian’s aren’t swallowing the B.S.
Every province has to agree which is not happening. Alberta is to rich in resources, especially oil.
I don’t think that is correct – the separation situation is covered by the Clarity Act brought in by Harper back when Quebec was constantly threatening to leave if it didn’t get its way.
I can’t put my hand on my glasses at the moment but here is a link, – https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-31.8/index.html
“The Clarity Act is the reflection of the Supreme Court reference. In 1998, the court said that a province of Canada cannot secede unilaterally,” former MP Stéphane Dion, who drafted the Clarity Act, told CBC News in an interview.
Under the Clarity Act, if the House of Commons agrees that a clear question leads to a clear majority supporting separation, the federal government could then begin to negotiate secession.
Canada’s Constitution does not mention secession, meaning there would need to be a constitutional amendment — which in part requires a certain level of support from provincial legislatures.
The Supreme Court ruling says separation negotiations would need to have Indigenous interests “taken into account.” The Clarity Act also explicitly states that the “interests and territorial claims of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada” need to be considered during negotiations.
As the Supreme Court noted in its 1998 ruling, “the ultimate success of such a secession would be dependent on recognition by the international community.”
“The idea that a province of Canada would accede to international recognition against the will of Ottawa, I think is almost zero,” Dion said.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/can-a-province-seperate-from-canada-9.7209415
lets get the majoity vote in alberta first and then the wheels will begin turning – and there are avenues to separate some legal and some ? – alberta will get a better shake no matter what happens at that point in time
Let’s be done with it.
DJT has done everything short of grabbing Carney by the lapels and bitch slapping him. FINALLY, they seem to have gotten the message!
Unfortunately for our cousins in the Great White North, it may be too late for their incompetent government to make the changes necessary to mitigate some of the impact.
Let’s pick over the carcass and see if there are still some good parts to annex — Alberta (oil), Eastern CA (some sightseeing), NW Territory.
Agree with Alberta and the NW Territory, but the Maritimes lack an economy. No thank you to Quebec too. Maybe the Yukon and the other territories would be nice to have to control the Northwest passage.
It would be nice to make Alaska contiguous with the 48 err 51-52?. Being part of the USA would certainly speed economic development of western Canada.
We need Alberta, the Yukon, the Northwest Territory, and as much of the rest of Canada as we can get, if for no other reason than to protect the Arctic; for the same reasons we need Greenland.
0.o
Newfoundland including the Labrador. Nova Scotia. Defense, fishing, sea economic zone, good route to Greenland. Newfoundland only joined Canada in 1949.
If we gotta defend it all, then everything under the Golden Dome should be beneficial to us, and by “us” I mean Americans and Canadians. It’s a have-to, not a want-to. Chinada cannot be a thing—EVER.
Canadians have been dragged down a darkening path for too long by anti-freedom, anti-wealth, anti-Canada factions, all while a paid and complicit soviet-style media warmly assures them that everything’s going beautifully.
No thanks.
Land bridge to Alaska
Not the people, but Carney and the WEF, and the Kier Starmer mentality. Dear Canadians, wake the “flock” up and tar & feather Carne and the other fat guy – Get it done. There endeth the sea,mon
The Canada stock market needs a huge drop before January so I can profit from the put options I have been buying.
CTH will get a share of the profits because Sundance was the only person on earth talking about this since early 2026…
At some point surely a few Canadians will get their heads out of their igloos and see the world for what it actually IS — right?
Trump wants 2 bilateral deals. The Mexicans get it, and are engaging. The Snow Mexicans are furiously pretending that this isn’t happening.
I think Trump will pull the 6 month trigger the minute that Mexico and the US have an agreement that will begin at the end of the 6 month exit window.
The Canadians will then be up a glacier without a snowpick……
STUPID, by itself, is hard to overcome, but when accompanied by CORRUPT and ENTITLED it is like climbing Everest without oxygen.
Pride Goeth before a fall.
The higher the pride the lower the depth of the fall.
Canada is preparing to auger in from 60k feet.
Ground auger mode is a helluva way to end a flight.
Thus ends all “sorta free” democracies….and why we must constantly guard our republic.
I think the important question now is how fast will the Candian Media go through the Five Stages of Denial! 😛
With 25% of the Canadian economy and jobs directly linked to exports to the US, you would think that Canadians would have a more appreciative view of the US. Instead they are like the infant attached to mommy’s teat that resents her for the fact that he is dependent on it.
HOSERS
there is no reason to spike the ball, and likewise no reason to feel sorry for anybody in Canada
except for those folks in the Northwest Territories without comms and our beloved Canadian Treepers.
this is going to play out as planned and IF Canadian “leadership” gets a clue,
it will be the best thing that ever happened to the country.
i hope they can right their ship.
oh, and one other thing: as a condition of any new bi-lateral agreement, and prior to signing,
Canada must accomplish the expulsion, passport revocation, and deportation to Syria of Chrystia Freeland.
Ukraine nazi is her heritage….and proud of it too. Give Syria a break.
Gun 🔫 meet foot 🦶
So, the US is going to accept “CHYN-ada” next door?
I wish Sundance would extend his analysis to address this mid to long-term strategic talking point.
Believe the clock was started last week.
Name 3 times in your house that are made in Canada that you truly need and use often?
And maple syrup doesn’t count.
Can’t think of even one, in over 60+ years on the planet, all in USA, can’t recall one thing…
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Spouse swears by Tim Horton’s coffee…….but truly “need and use often”?
Lot’s of alternatives……
Bagged, undyed cedar mulch from Quebec. Just because the local garden place stocks it.
I don’t think I’ve bought Canadian maple syrup in 2 decades!
You can get maple syrup from Wisconsin and Vermont. What have we purchased from Canada that we cannot buy elsewhere? – Nothing that I know of. What do we buy: Tim Horton coffee, tomatoes, baked goods, lumber, plastic gutters, and years ago a Ford Crown Vic and Moosehead beer.
You likely meant to say: “Name 3 items”
That is not Canada. Electricity, oil, pulp (kraft) and timber are the big exports. Ontario’s Ford threatened to shut off electricity to the US when this first started. I think someone pointed out to him it’s the US or nobody, you are not exporting hydro power to Europe, South America, Asia or Africa.
Also our auto industry is quite intertwined. I have had a few American vehicles built in Canada.
Canada also makes some nice wooden furniture, our dining room set is Canadel, made in Canada.
Too bad we can’t just call Canadians on the phone and tell them, “Don’t do this! It happened here and we fully regret it!”
It’s horrible being flooded with Chinese goods, stuff that doesn’t work and falls apart or malfunctions or is downright dangerous. I blame mostly Jeff Bezos, after all the globalists in our government. I still buy a few things from Amazon, but I resent the lack of quality no matter how cheap. Amazon also has made it extremely difficult to get a refund. But, that’s neither here nor there. I can’t imagine driving a car made in China… talk about taking your life in your own hands.
Every town in canada is flooded with cheap stuff from chyna via walmarts, dollar stores
Etc
Canada, please speak with Germany about making tough business decisions. They too made absurd decisions that they are scrambling to reverse.
Try as they might Chinesieum does not turn into Hopieum or Sure-Thingium. As Cap’n told Cool Hand Luke, “You better get your mind right!”
“What we have is failure to communicate.”
having lived as an American in British Columbia, I feel sorry for the Canadian people.. a very modest amount of fresh vegetables are produced in Canada during the winter and early spring. shipping fresh items from Mexico, or elsewhere is expensive and not of better quality. I wish people could find a way to get along.
Ask the diety to do some quality control to correct his original plans.
Yes,most don’t know what’s coming.
We can pray for the souls who have been kept in the dark we can also pray for their government to change and start making some wiser decisions.
Doesn’t look like they consider repentance.
Hubris is a huge infection there.
Hosers!
Very interested to see what the Canadian dollar does tomorrow morning when the markets open….
Carney will let Xi consume Canada if it saves his image.
The movement for Alberta to decouple with Canada will probably gain support as they learn of this news and they war game it out.
Let me just say this: a “treaty” that treated Canada and Mexico “the same” was always ridiculous. These two nations have absolutely nothing in common with one another . . .
. . . Except for one small thing: That China was taking full advantage of both of them. Neither benefited, at all, from the arrangement. Nor did the United States.
Mexico now appears to be the first of the two nations that is finally beginning to think for itself. “Make Mexico Great Again?” Why not?!
“Make Canada …?”
Why not?
Very simply: “If you do not make [your_country] ‘great again,'” absolutely no one else on earth ever will. (And, why on earth should they?)
Carney flies to Turkey. They will be working toward a strategy re how to manage Trump. And Trump will be there, also.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/carney-to-travel-to-turkey-where-nato-allies-will-focus-on-managing-trump/article_b908149b-f353-57a7-9126-cf90b14bb46b.html
This is funny. Just as the first shipments of China cars arrived in Canada Xi announced a new 73.5% tariff on Canadian pea flour.
Just a harbinger of things coming Canada’s way.
fyi….byd has for the first time outsold ev autos than Tesla. *I am not advocating ev to anyone..I think it’s dumb science and impractical, Uber expensive and will remain niche for a long long time*
canada is one of many ev global customers and it’s likely the cheaply sold, cheaply built byd vehicles will be received by the canadian govt with all of the typical subsidies and carbon tax boondoggles.
also noting: BYD sells a significant numbers of ev to Australia.
many are predicting that eventually byd and other chinese ev companies will be lobbying hard to allow sales in the US.
this would be a disaster to the US economy. This cannot be allowed to happen. …but it probably will
God Bless America
Just remember Covid and what the Canadian government did to the protesters. And then give them a taste of their own medicine. Cut them loose. Canada is not the same Canada as it use to be. Let them join the EU ,they seem to love their policies and want to be just like them.
I hope they just cut them loose and leave them hanging. build a wall , it will create jobs and you know they are going to sabotage the USA anyway along with their new partners the CCP
It’s ALL going to happen Canada. Poor leadership, allowing China to make you their little Pekingese, and open borders are your biggest problems.
TRUMP: Like a freight train rolling…