Earlier today following a meeting in Washington, D.C., between Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, both representatives delivered remarks to reporters. There are no details provided, however, within his remarks, Greer says he is confident that a deal has been reached as they work to finalize the details.
USTR Greer notes the significant trade barriers between the U.S. and Canada appear to have been resolved. However, the devil is going to be in the details. Greer noted they are putting together the documentation that will allow him to brief President Trump and congress on the proposals. “While we certainly have eliminated some of the irritants we have had over the past several years, we are also taking a strong foot forward,” Greer remarked. WATCH:
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Given the antagonistic nature of Canada and their dependency on retaining an assembly economy with access to the U.S. market, it will be interesting to see what non-tariff barrier positions the Canadian government is willing to put forth.
There is a lot of optimism in media surrounding the tariff pause and the remarks that have followed; but I would caution interested parties to be aware of the scale of the divide between the two sides.
President Trump’s remarks from today about the Canada-U.S. trade position are below.
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The Moose opinion.
Ya, I didn’t understand the ‘victory’ on Keystone. In this case it was always Canada waiting on US>
The economic impact of reviving the Keystone XL pipeline –
—or building an equivalent high-capacity crude corridor—spans construction, regional refining, energy security, and retail pump prices.
Key Economic Impacts
Temporary Job Creation and Investment: Resurrecting the northern leg of the project would bring billions of dollars in private capital expenditure. During active development, construction creates thousands of temporary high-paying trade jobs across manufacturing, heavy equipment, and regional support services.
Refinery Utilization in the Gulf Coast: The U.S. Gulf Coast houses sophisticated heavy crude refineries optimized to process sludgy, high-sulfur oil. Bringing up to 830,000 barrels per day of Canadian heavy crude directly to these facilities replaces reliance on heavier grades imported from Latin America or the Middle East.
Transport Efficiency Over Rail: Moving crude via continuous pipeline is significantly cheaper and safer per barrel than moving it via rail cars. Lowering shipping costs reduces the input expenses for domestic refiners, improving operating margins.
Why not build a couple large refineries in North Dakota and route Canadian tar oils there? Pipelines for distributing fuels are cheaper and there is less maintenance due to the much less abrasive fuel load.
God bless,
Mike
Originally from South Dakota with lots of family in North Dakota, both ranchers and construction.
Heck, why don’t the Snow Mexicans build several refineries near the tar sand deposits and export refined fuel and lubrication products. That’s a big win for Canada.
God bless
Too much ”red tape” by government makes this option incredibly expensive for the oil and petroleum companies.
Because EPA. Regulations are prohibitive and extremely costly.
My thought as well – refineries require acreage, among other things. Plenty of it in non-critical environmental areas on both sides of the border adjacent to the Bakkan.
Another bugaboo with the pipeline is that of pumping the Bakkan’s thick, sludgy crude. It’s problem-free until there’s a problem.
On and on.
But part of the original thinking with the pipeline is its role in getting crude to port and refineries in Louisiana to be shipped to other nations. Pipeline = cheap. American export of crude = economic and political advantage.
So there’s that.
My thinking here: American crude, refined on site and distribuuted in its many forms to America’s once-industrial heartland could revitalize it. Everything from medical R&D to the manufacture of every product made from oil, close to the source, would do much over the long haul to stabalize and grow the domestic economy.
There is more to petroleum than automobile fuel as we currently know it. It all doesn’t have to go to woefully ineffecient internal combustion engines. Those same engines can be made to run much more efficiently.
Pump crude out of the ocean from existing platforms directly onto tankers and export that. Don’t deplete inland oil that may last for only another two-three generations by pumping it for export Exporting that oil now for immediate profit makes little long-term sense, to put it mildly.
Our inland crude, pumped at less than full capacity for any foreseeable future, becomes our petroleum reserve. Pumped dry for profit in a shifting and unstable world makes us
sitting ducks.
Of course it was TIED IN, it was LEVERAGE for Trump, LOL, think like Trump. You make a deal or no pipeline. So, in his mind, since these so called We don’t need the USA Bums are in power and refusing to trade fair, it was indeed “THEIR FAULT” the pipeline wasn’t up and going already, Trump was never going to allow it until a deal was reached.
The Art of the Deal: Never give away your leverage or free.
It sounded like Keystone XL might be built INSTEAD OF the West Coast pipeline. Funding, right-of-way and now permitting are all in place for Keystone. That’s all yet to be finalized for West Coast.
Keystone will supply the US refineries. The West Coast pipeline would supply China.
It would mark yet another move to build-out global energy infrastructure around the USA, route energy flows through the USA and to keep cheap energy away from China.
No, President Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline as soon as he became President.
A very important issue included in the proposed deal is the lifting of Canada’s prohibition of the USA bidding in procurement contracts. These contracts (tenders/proposals…) are mostly in the multi-million $ range. American companies often benefit greatly from these procurement requests when specialized equipment is involved.
(Video in the link, at the 2:00 min mark)
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/pm-carney-asks-provinces-to-return-us-booze-to-shelves-nova-scotia-premier-says-live-trade-updates-here/
I think PM Carney has those ”procurement contracts” covered through his former company Brookfield already based in the US.
I’m interested in the details, especially in light of past remarks by Carney. Don’t see a compromise unless Carney decided to face reality.
Carney despises President Trump and despises that he, Carney, has been essentially reduced to the role of “supplicant”..
He is a little man, a globalist poseur, who sees himself as great and powerful.
But he is not and never will be, because he looks upon Canada’s people and sneers, spitting on them from a great height….and worse. He cares nothing for Canada. His allegiances are elsewhere. This I firmly believe.
Contrast and compare with the man putting the citizens he works for (for no pay) first, and loves them as he loves America.
He has put an able man, Ambassador Greer, in charge of doing what is best for us.
It shall be done.
WOW, very well said Betsy !!!
Amen!!!!!!!
As 1 commentator aptly put it, that little man is in charge of C’s “controlled demolition” as his allegiance is to the globohomo…
Your assessment is 100% correct.
🏴🏴🏴
You hit the nail on the head re PM Carney. However, this phrase made me chuckle ”spitting on them from a great height”. PM Carney is shorter than the average world leader. President Trump towers over him.
“Canada and their dependency on retaining an assembly economy”
CanaIkea.
Wordman quality.
It starts out “flat-packed” and it ends up in a dumpster.
My suspicion is that negotiating with Canada will be a lot like negotiating with Iran.
I’m confident that President Trump won’t get rolled, but Canada most certainly will give it the old Canucklehead try.
He’s the best. Let them think they have a deal then pull the rug and make them concede more. No deal final until the ink is dry.
No, negotiating with Carney is like negotiating with Iran.
I hope Greer and PT are right about this ‘great deal’ with Canada over trade. But why does it feel like trying to get a great no-nukes open-Hormuz peace deal with Iran? It always sounds like we are on the cusp of a deal, and then we aren’t. When this Canadian trade deal negotiation drags on for months with the tariffs paused and no signed agreement, then what?
👁️👁️
“The sky is falling, the sky is falling, can’t you see the sky is falling….!”
🐥🐥🐥
Yeah, yeah….. the deal only covers 5% of total trades. Once a bilateral trade agreement is finalized with Mexico, the US will decline to renew USMCA leading to a 6 month clock for 100% exit. This current deal foretells what Canada will face in early 2027.
I hope you are correct
So is this the bilateral deal? Is the USMCA agreement dead?
Good question. My understanding is that the USMCA will continue until one of the parties cancels. Why would the US cancel if this agreement is what we wanted?
We will get both — patience, please.
How does the success or failure of this “deal” affect the likely pullout of the US from the USMCA framework?
Does a deal actually improve tne likelihood of a bilateral deal with tne Snow Mexicans?
“caution interested parties to be aware of the scale of the divide between the two sides.”
I would liken the scale of the divide to dealing with Iran, only with a different subject matter. The issue with Canada is trade/ economics and with Iran it is terrorism and nuclear proliferation.
Make Seal Clubbing Great Again.
in poor taste, i know, i know
but your comment reminds me of a joke i heard told years back
apologies, i only remember is the beginning
a baby seal walks into a club…
Old timers will remember the SNL sketch about saving whales but shooting seals. My poor taste comes from that. Although I understand that seal meat fried in whale blubber is quite good. Wouldn’t want to culturally appropriate however.
nothing compares, especially served with a snowy egret sauce and fresh spotted owl foie gras
Where’s wordman?
I am somewhat confused here. Is this a new bilateral trade deal that is separate from deal with Mexico?
I think they deliberately do not intend to communicate in a comprehensible way with normal Americans.
I must agree with you Sharon.
Glad that President Trump settled our trade issues with Canada and is Making America Great.
I’ve got to ask a dumb question. What is the supply management regime?
I got it.
in plain english this means the consumers get royally Screwed by 250% on their dairy products…
Supply management is the Communist system of central planning for the agricultural systems. The government of Canada controls the amount of milk cheese, poultry etc that the farmers can produce. No new farm are allowed into the system.
Is this a Bilateral Agreement then with the USCMA Deal allowed to die on the vine?
Old guy. I ask same question. It would appear so. We will soon find out I hope.
Carney, is one of those phony basterds who supports that one world order,he will destroy Canada and all those people that supported him, he cares nothing about them , he a little man and all he wants is power. He a typical PUNK,WITH NO CLASS.I for one think that Canada is full of liberal assholes,who think there better than others. I would let them rot on th vein. F_ CK THEM ALL
Hmm.. Sound a bit like Anthony Fauci.
in other words, a psychopath.
Once the ukraine nazis are accounted for the next lot are the canadian nazis
Like the others above, I must admit I am a bit confused.
I have been following (despite it not being the most exciting topic) the USMCA analysis here for years, and have looked forward to when we might be able to get that straightened out.
I was led to believe that the endgame was getting out of that deal, and making bilateral deals with the Mexis and Canucks. Is that not the goal anymore?
President Trump has a few dozen times said we have deal with iran, just to turn around and call them idiots and morons.
Sundance is correct, CAUTION!
If I was a City of London/Carney/EU strategist whose immediate goal is to make the midterms go against Trump…
I’d have the Canadian TM manipulate these trade negotiations to reflect the on-off-on-off pattern of the Iran talks—in order to seed the narrative that Trump’s bellicose makes it impossible to achieve peace and stability.
I understand Sundances cautious tone n I agree. But the big hitter will be auto mfg. Fortunately, it will hit Ontario/Big Mouth Dougy Ford the hardest n will affect/touch other Providences. To a secondary degree is the China bypass of US tariffs, third is the free cross border flow of AG products. As mentioned in previous Sundance articles – the Dairy lobby holds huge sway in Canada.
Satellite countries like canada and mexico and belarus get economic subsidies from the larger power theyre subservient to. Thats part of what keeps them in orbit. But canada acts like a blue state, in opposition to the US federal gov,t. Under trump. Time will tell whether theyll get away with it in the longer run. But they are a special case and the usual economic arguments which might apply to truly independent countries dont always apply
LILLEY: What did Carney give up to get tentative deal with Trump?
(PM’s silence leaves premiers guessing what he gave away on dairy, autos and booze)
Toronto Sun
https://archive.is/xw1SQ
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/readouts/2026/08/19/prime-minister-carney-chairs-first-ministers-meeting
Platitude statement put out by Carney..a bunch of nothingness words
There are a lot of square pegs required to go into round holes for anything meaningful to happen.
As a close watcher of our homegrown political dysfunction since Trudeau The Elder Mania (don’t get me started on Fidel & the Ottawa Open saga) I have very low expectations on any progress.
Suspicious cat on the look out.
Canada’s LeBlanc is headed back to Washington DC today for more talks scheduled for 12h15.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/canada-us-trade-minister-heads-to-washington-as-premiers-express-optimism-live-tariff-updates-here/
I don’t trust the IRGC (immediately repulsive guy Carney). I hope that USTR Greer knows what he’s doing.
Ambassador Greer’s body language: “I’m sick and tired of this little a**hole”. And, “I am outta here.”
Canada is playing trade games.
Just apply the 50% tariffs, Mr. Greer. No more talk.
Leave the gun. Take the canoli.