In his most recent outline, Promethean Action PAC’s Mike Steger puts the U.S-Canada trade conflict into an accurate context where China is really the enterprise to gain or fail. This is a very well presented segment worth watching.
CTH readers will note our long track of this dynamic. In short, as NAFTA predictably evolved, and as the U.S. manufacturing base was deconstructed, suddenly things shifted. Canada and Mexico became important as entry doors into the U.S. consumer market for the products outsourced by the destruction of the American manufacturing base.
Steger appropriately uses the auto-sector as an example because it is the easiest sector to quantify damage. By playing the long game, China has thoroughly compromised the EU and U.K auto market. In 2025 China exported 1.2 million vehicles into Europe. Europe only exported 200,000 vehicles into China; a net trade deficit of 1 million vehicles in Beijing’s favor.
Chinese cars now represent over ten percent of all EU vehicles on the road, and this is only the beginning stage of the collapse of the EU industrial base that Germany and Brussels have only recently started to grasp. The pace is irreversible at this point for Europe, and now China has turned their attention toward Canada. This is why the U.S-Canada trade conflict matters!
Canada is the entryway to do in North America what China has done in Europe. WATCH:
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In the graph below, look at how fast things move once the foothold is established by policy. This is stunning.
When President Trump left office in Term-1 (Jan ’21), Europe was exporting around 400,000 cars to China, and China was exporting around 175,000 cars to Europe.
Just five years later, Europe is exporting 200,000 cars to China, and China is exporting 1.2 million cars to Europe.
This is why Germany’s auto-sector is in a state of rapid collapse, represented by Volkswagen’s recent announcements to close factories, chut down models and eliminate up to 100,000 jobs. LOOK:
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When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney tells President Trump that there are limits on the Chinese EVs Canada is currently allowing, no reasonable person can look at the recent history of both BYD/GEELY and not understand what is likely from Carney’s decision.
In many ways Canada’s antagonism is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Trump needs to immediately protect the vulnerable U.S. position to restart strong manufacturing. That’s the reason for the Sec.301 Steel and Aluminum tariffs.
Additionally, the Sec.338 tariffs (50%) are necessary to close the access point, not because Canadian imports pose a threat, but because they are indistinguishable from Chinese component parts that are assembled into finished goods and exported from Canada.
Here’s an example of a possible scenario:
(1) Toyota and Honda have both told Canadian trade officials that without USMCA access to the U.S. market, there is no reason to maintain auto plants in Canada.
(2) The most effective protectionist position that Trump can take would be to terminate the USMCA.
(3) If Trump terminates the USMCA, auto plants in Canada will close.
(4) That’s the moment when Chinese EV companies BYD/GEELY, subsidized heavily by China, will swoop in and purchase those Canadian facilities for pennies on the dollar – based on the entry agreement that Mark Carney has already authorized.
President Trump needs to protect the USA from globalist trade policies on our border. This is why the U.S-Canada trade conflict matters more than any other trade friction in the world. There are trillions at stake.
I look at that chart and see the “Great Reset” promoted by the WEF and all the globalists. In this case it was very successful. How sad.
I see the Southwest Airlines model.
Look at what happened in the airline industry.
Majors gobbled up smallers to keep SW from overwhelming them….so many lost jobs across the board.
Like Walmart, SW starting up with “barely making profit” fares to build a reputation of being cheap but it didn’t take too many years before SW was not the cheapest ticket around. Yet the reputation remained. This will happen with Chinese goods.
At some point, very soon, the US needs to look at Canada as a national security threat.
You cannot have a country inviting your enemies right on you massively long border. Thats on top of massive immigration.
We might have a future where the US has no choice but take over Canada. Not to incorporate it, but to isolate it.
President Trump is not going to allow Chinese intervention to shape any kind of turbulence in Canada that threatens the US or Western Hemisphere security pact. China will be told where the lines are. Consequences to follow. The better footprint is for Trump to make a deal with Canada that is too good to turn down.
That leaves Canada in an even worse scenario should Chili con Carney refuse to play. 51st statehood is still in play. Globalist be damned. You know President Trump already has a hand or three in play. Interesting times don’t ya know.
Canadians, are true chumps keep following carney and all those liberals, they tell you to closes your eyes and they do that , then they tell you it just a small drop over that cliff, they don’t tell them it’s a bottomless cliff. Just like HITLER PROMISED ALL THOSE BLIND AND BRAINLESS ROBOTS , THEY ALL DIED FILLED WITH HATE AND SO GODLESS. THEY INVITED EVIL IN AND IT STAYED IN. LOOK AT ALL THAT HATE IN CANADA AND IN EUROPE. SOON THEY WILL TAKE THAT MARK AND WILL BE SO PROUD OF IT. THEY NEVER TALK ABOUT ALL THOSE CHURCHES THAT HAVE BURNED DOWN IN CANADA. NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN CHARGED!!! Wake up Canadians soon.
H!tler invented evil? Go back a little further in European history and look up the Bolsheviks for starters. How ’bout the Pharisees for that matter…
Bounce didn’t say Hitler invented evil, Bounce said Hitler invited evil in……….
A couple of thoughts on the possible scenario in the post –
“(1) Toyota and Honda have both told Canadian trade officials that without USMCA access to the U.S. market, there is no reason to maintain auto plants in Canada.” Toyota also appears to recognize that Mexico will be losing USMCA access to the U.S. market, possibly to be replaced with some kind of reduced/altered access currently being negotiated (while Canada is facing the possibility of no access at all). For example, Toyota just recently announced that all North American production of a popular Toyota pickup is to be moved from where it is now produced in Mexico to San Antonio, Texas.
“(3) If Trump terminates the USMCA, auto plants in Canada will close.” and “(4) That’s the moment when Chinese EV companies BYD/GEELY, subsidized heavily by China, will swoop in and purchase those Canadian facilities for pennies on the dollar – based on the entry agreement that Mark Carney has already authorized.” But the “entry agreement” they negotiated with Carney does not include an entry agreement to the U.S. market absent USMCA remaining in force. So the large Chinese investment in Canadian automotive plants could be a big loss for them if USMCA is terminated, which is what I hope happens. Since the Chinese investment will collapse and since Canada alone cannot purchase all those vehicles, they will need to export them somewhere else. But that doesn’t make sense since they could more cheaply export them directly from China to those places or just make them in those other places. So this part of the scenario does not make sense to me. If USMCA goes away and Canada loses their access to the U.S. auto market, the Chinese will simply pull all or most of their investment. For the Chinese as well as for the Canadians, retention of USMCA is absolutely critical and they are going to do everything they can to retain it. Therefore, in my view USMCA must be terminated, and soon.
I think Chinese-made automobiles should be blocked from import to the U.S. regardless of where they manufacture them. Along with ending USMCA, that may be the only way U.S. auto manufacturers survive. Otherwise, our domestic auto manufacturing could go down the same road to oblivion as the Europeans are now facing. Retention of U.S. auto manufacturing and other heavy industrial manufacturing, all of it free of any Chinese ownership, is as much a national security imperative as it is an economic necessity.
I think you are not looking at the picture correctly. There are no limits on Chinese EVs made in Canada, there are only import limits.
Once China has production set up in Canada, they will pump out hundreds of thousands of units….. for Canada and beyond.
I don’t suppose there is much we can do about how many they produce in Canada, just so long as they do not export any of them from Canada to the United States.
My fear is they will come into America one way or another, my sister lives in Michigan, by the Bridge to Sarnia, she said Canadians drive over the bridge all day long to shop on the US side for certain things, that means those cars will be in America.
I don’t have the media link but I read this morning that the Canadian negotiation team will be in Washington next week, from Monday to Thursday, to discuss the trade agreement problem.
The Canadian team, aka Carney, is now willing to concede on some issues.
We have to make sure not one of those Chinese EV’s ever get into America!
Thank you for posting this analysis. It is one of the best.
It is incredible that Carney allows 10% of cars right now to come from CCP land with 50,000 more EVs on top of it. Carney is willing to gut Canadian jobs for CCP?
Most of this video is good, but the argument that Bretton Woods was the American System highlights the one major point that Promethean falls short. Roosevelt did not save America with the American system. He was a stooge that either sold out directly, or more likely was played by the City of London, who had already taken control of America in 1913.
Bretton Woods was a disaster for America, a classic deployment of the Hegelian dialectic, and was just another front of subversion of the American system; both “sides” were controlled by the CoL bankers, Keynes as open negotiator and Harry Dexter White as controlled opposition. It was a setup from the beginning.
But on all other points Steger is spot on.