Moments ago, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered the news via his X account. Discussions between the U.S and Canada have collapsed. All trade representatives are called back home. The 50% U.S. tariffs against Canada are now in effect. A trade war begins.
First, read the statement from Prime Minister Mark Carney, with the understanding that Carney is making the first statement because the news is exceptionally bad for Canada. Worse than bad.
When the 3-day tariff pause was announced, CTH said to be cautious. When USTR Jamieson Greer and Canadian negotiator Dominic LeBlanc said the terms were “basically agreed”, again CTH said be careful.
The reason for our notes of extreme caution is because the divide between the two economies and trade policy is just too big. There was no way for both sides to close the gap without major structural economic changes within Canada. The issues are not points of friction, they are just too big and embedded within the laws of Canada that would have to change.
Banking regulations would have to change. Intellectual property and media rules, regulations and laws would have to change. Industrial policy would have to change. The Canadian energy policy would have to change. The carbon trading scheme would have to change or be removed. All of this would fall upon Canada to carry out in order to position their economy in alignment with the USA. There’s literally no way for their government to accomplish this against the backdrop of their political ideology.
That was the structural argument and point made by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This is also why the USMCA as a trilateral trade agreement is impossible to maintain. The only trade agreement construct possible is two clearly separate bilateral free trade agreements, one with Mexico and one with Canada.
The 50% tariffs begin tonight.
A trade war is underway.
This is breaking news. More to come soon….
UPDATE: USTR Response
“Tonight, Canada declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week.
Despite the U.S. offer to Canada to receive the best treatment of any major exporter to our market, new demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada have upended the careful balance reached in the past days. In addition, Canada is continuing to maintain its prolonged retaliation against the United States, including, among other things, flat-out prohibitions on certain American goods and services.
For decades, Canada has enjoyed the most favorable access to the U.S. market of any country. And from the beginning of President Trump’s trade program, Canada has continued to enjoy the best treatment in the world, even after – like China – retaliating against the United States. This week, the United States agreed to provide even better treatment to Canada, offering significant tariff reductions on steel, aluminum, autos, and lumber.
The U.S. offer was also forward looking, and included a historic economic and national security partnership to cooperate on export controls, combat transshipment, enhance digital trade, and align certain external tariffs. The offer would have led to supply chain coordination on aerospace, complementary actions to address unfair trade practices, critical minerals cooperation, increased enforcement against imports produced with forced labor, and the announcement of formal U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) negotiations.
This is a missed opportunity for Canada to partner with the United States, which is the fastest growing economy in the G7.”
~ U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer
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Bring it on!
Mark Carney and his cohorts across Western Europe is Alice through the looking glass and the US is Alice, just sayin!
Canada’s stupidity: Too big not to fail…
Just how stupid are they?
This is Manitoba’s Premier talking about President Trump two days ago :
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kinew-trump-canada-trade-tariffs-b3036939.html&ved=2ahUKEwjErZjstrOWAxWSl4kEHfZGFaMQvOMEKAB6BAgWEAE&usg=AOvVaw1XwKynyiXSAIVVNP_2EsKp
My only error was in not clarifying the fact that my comment was mostly directed toward Canada’s governing body. Your linked to article only proves that the truth of my comment includes Premier Wab Kinew of Canada’s province, Manitoba.
My apologies if that was your intent. I could not tell from your comment, sorry.
https://www.rebelnews.com/carney_hints_at_cutting_u_s_energy_supplies_in_response_to_trump_s_50_tariffs
They just don’t get it that the free ride is over. Over.
Without President Trump we’d be subsidizing their “free” everything for the next hundred years.
What pathetic child parasites these malicious tools of London are.
And, the thing is Carney really doesn’t give a rat’s ass about Canada or her people. Hope Canadians get their news from straight-shooting Canada Free Press.
I REALLY wonder what Mark Carney is going to do, other than stupid, which I think he’ll do.
Carney is a talker not a doer.
He will “introduce additional measures”, “building our strength”, “diversifying our partnerships”, “advancing 500 billion in infrastructure projects”, and “unlocking new export markets”. Government will get bigger the people will suffer. Just think that could have been the US with Harris. We would have had another 10 million illegals by now.
We could get that 10 million more illegals headed our way at the end of this year if the Dems/DSA take Congress. There are reports of caravans starting to form up in Central and South America.
…..And nobody would be happier than the GOP!
Not that they could prevent Trump from keeping the border secure.
But if you the “Da Dems” are the enemy, then you need to check right under your nose better.
Maybe SNL will hire him.
Carney is not stupid; he simply calculated that he must posture and pretend to fight Trump in order to appease the Canadian TDS sufferers. His negotiating tactic is predictable and only serves his globalist allies and his fellow investors. Carney’s very public rejection of round one will soon lead to some face saving acceptance in round 2 or 3. He will then claim he fought Trump and won. Carney and his fellow globalists must be forced understand that “The mouse that roared” strategy no longer works for countries like Canada. This isn’t 1946 and for once we have a President who’s all in for America-first.
Carney is destroying Canada by design.
There are some pro Trump Canadians that will get hurt by this.
There are tens of millions of good people, who are going to be hurt by this. Who did not vote for this impostor, Carnage, who do not hate PDJT, and wish we had a guy like him running the place.
We are in an abusive relationship, with Communist, Globalist scumbags, who run the Canadian Government.
This crap is all intentional.
Thanks a lot libtards….
( I still do not believe our election was secure and reflected the will of the majority, and I never will. It was stolen from us. The entire Western world had had far left leaders installed. Not elected. Installed.! )
A pox on them all!!!
HAHA Good luck with that hope.
Conniving Canadian Government Tries Blaming President Trump For Potentially Scrapping Online News Act
Puh-leeze! Donald Trump does not “long to be President of Canada”, he has, in fact been blamed for Canada’s severe financial decline ever since former PM Justin Trudeau went whining to him at Mar-a-Lago in November of 2025.;
Judi McLeod & Brian Thompson-August 21, 2026
https://canadafreepress.com/article/conniving-canadian-government-tries-blaming-president-trump-for-potentially-scrapping-online-news-act
https://x.com/Concern70732755/status/2090893407061188748
that x.com link above is to a diatribe from the canadian minister to ukraine, Chrystia Freeland
So be it. The people running Canada are all in with the One-World totalitarian types in the EU and WEF, and they are still using the idiotic “climate” ruse to coerce their population into slavery, even as the sane world has already kicked that nonsense to the curb. I feel bad for the patriots up there, including the good people who post here. The question is, how do they rid themselves of the communists that are oppressing Canada? Can it be done peacefully? I’m starting to doubt it.
I wonder if there will be another trucker strike? The problem with these Countries is that we have been funding their socialist programs for years upon years that has given rise to their Liberal governments. What is going to happen when they run out OF THE USA MONEY. Will their Liberal programs EXPLODE?
Do you remember what they did to the truckers last time?
https://thedeepdive.ca/over-800-canadians-de-banked-since-2018-including-freedom-convoy-supporters/
Over 800 Canadians ‘De-Banked’ Since 2018, Including Freedom Convoy Supporters
Among those affected, 267 bank accounts and 170 bitcoin wallets belong to Freedom Convoy supporters. Those that were de-banked collectively held an estimated $7.8 million in assets.
It’s very hard to protest in this electronic digital age if you are not on the side of the government.
The commies and their cabal are trying to topple the USA….. that’s why HRC was working with British spies to undermine our Elections…. that was and is Treason.
It’s sad to watch a country self destruct.
Very much like so many of our own cities and states. As someone born, raised and educated in the Pacific NW, it sickens me to see what has happened to the once beautiful Portland, Seattle, et al. Other major cities could be added to the list…
Alaskan cruises on non-US flagged ships out of Seattle or Seward have to stop in Canada (or Russia-Russia-Russia) – getting off in worn-out Victoria, or Frisco’d Vancouver – just gonna stay on board and clutch our US greenbacks…
Message to Carney: Go suck sh!t
Don’t get Swallwell excited.
Excellent, let their pain begin!
Unfortunately, this may be the only way that the Snow Mexican populous begins to truly understand their position in the Dominance Hierarchy. For far to long they have been sold a bill of goods & been led to believe that they are on equal economic, commercial, diplomatic, military, & influential footing as the U.S., they are just “more likeable”. For what it’s worth, every Canadian I personally know, four (4), became US citizens, or as I like to say “Americans”!
What were these last minute changes?
“However, that progress has not been enough to meet our objectives for Canadians. As a result, this evening, I have decided to suspend trade negotiations with the U.S. and have directed Canada’s negotiators to return to Ottawa. They have worked hard, in good faith, to defend the interests of Canadians throughout these negotiations up until the very last minute. However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the
reliability of any deal.“
This doesn’t matter, they hold ZERO leverage & needed to come to the table “hat in hand” & be willing to take whatever they were offered. Something is better than nothing & right now, They Have Nothing!
Why do you always look at things from the opposition’s viewpoint? I’d ask what were the new demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada as mentioned by U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
Because that seems to be what triggered this.
Questions from both sides.
That’s if you want to believe Carney, which apparently you do.
That’s your perspective, not what I’m saying.
I just want to know the details. We will have to wait for those to come out.
China owns half of Canada, and India owns the other half.
Carney has to check with his owners before making any decisions.
No chance. This was inevitable and the Canucks knew it. That’s why they run to our loony media to argue the case, not unlike the mullahs.
Anyone using the legacy media to battle the US is lying.
Agree. Details matter.
Start by asking the right questions.
Truth has no agenda.
What a fool Carney is (not to mention his predecessor The Boy Castro). The economy size difference is huge. Canada could have gained so much if not for TDS by Carney and his pushers, the Eurotrash.
Here in the South Pacific, we have two nations with similar difference in economy size, Australia and New Zealand. Long ago the two agreed to TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE free trade in goods, services and the ability for companies to set up shop in either country or both.
If NZ had acted like Canada, today it would be a backwater farm and nothing more.
Stupid stupid Canucks.
The reason I did not write about events was my waiting for this to happen.
Here’s some background articles that highlight the problems of the past few days.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/vance-weighs-jivani-trade-advocacy-220009192.html
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/mark-carney-will-have-to-sacrifice-to-get-a-deal-but-this-concession-would-be-too-much/article_d53a2dd9-e6d4-4c66-b509-a6983ea36250.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share
From the Toronto Star: “Trump’s tariffs have battered our industries: car plants are idling, B.C.’s forest sector is shedding jobs and steel output is down. (Quebec’s aluminum industry has been more resilient than expected, though there’s no guarantee that will continue.) If tariffs did go to 50 per cent, the damage would be enormous.”
Yet, they walk away from the table, with the support from this rag? There’s an old saying in poker….When you sit at the table, look around & can’t spot “the fish” (sucker), then you’re “the fish”!
Looks like Carney chose Door Number 2: Smuggling drugs and illegals.
Thank you SD! News the other night had me confused as all heck, this makes much more sense.
(Scrubbing the comments on that post, as this probably will be, not so much a great look but whatever I get it.)
Thanks for all you do!
Here’s a note I made awhile back based on a PDB by you at the time, just to summarize my feeble memory. Thought I’d just see how things play out:
“Mid-to-late August: The Canadians (and everyone else) will quickly realize how flaky Canada’s economy is. Sometime after this announcement – maybe mid-August – the EU will want “to help” them (they can’t). The Chinese Communists will begin working to buy up Canadian assets at pennies on the Canadian dollar. The Canadians will tolerate this because they are completely deranged in a “hate Trump, don’t be like Americans” mode.”
That stands on its own and there are, no doubt, spectators who are thinking about helping but can’t due to their own economic misfeasance. Beijing sees that old character “opportunity.”
First class coverage, sir; why is it we’re paying for an IC again, lol? 🙂
Excerpt from the Star opinion:
FTA: “The pollster asked Canadians their perspectives on the trade war. Some 40 per cent of respondents called Carney’s approach “quite passive,” with a majority wanting Ottawa to “take a hard line and make no concessions.”The really staggering thing is how consistent the sentiment is — across age group, gender, region and voting intention.
The pollster found that Canadians supported just about every possible retaliation we could impose, and were opposed to nearly every concession we could offer. Half of Canadians supported the idea of adding a tax on U.S. streaming sites like Netflix and Amazon.”
Hard core hatred toward USA, which will get worse as their econmics worsen and they blame PT/USA. No pretending. Build a northern border wall withing the next 10 years. It’s going to get really ugly. This is just the beginning.
FTA: “Canadians and Americans are unified: this trade war sucks. The Supreme Court, which has already invalidated one round of Trump tariffs, seems to agree. Democrats, and even a rump of Republicans, are on the same page — and the camp who wants the trade war to end are likely to win more power in November. ”
No indication this is true. We are not unified on this. USA citizen no longer want to continue w/the Marshall Plan and rebuild the world, financially. 80 years is more than enough. Last sentence is pure BS. No one will run on that and win.
The lack of self awareness at the Toronto Star is breathtaking, as they whine about the possible elimination of censorship of non government approved online news and opinion sources 😎.
Thank You SUNDANCE. I’ve been waiting for your post about no trade deal and now, I can go to bed for the night.
I’m thinking about your post a few months ago where you explained that Canada will end up paying tariffs to other countries and these tariffs will serve as a base for when Canada starts another round of talks with America. It all seems to be heading that way.
I also can confirm that most Canadians deserve what’s coming their way. I read their comments in English and French and a very high majority are so disrespectful with deep hatred toward President Trump and his team.
Have a great night everybody. Interesting times await us.
Carney just ran out of some other peoples’ money.
Bingo!!
Most?
How about the tens of millions that did not vote for this moron?
Carnage is despised by most…..so was Castro Jr.
What on earth makes you think those 2 idiots were voted in fairly? What makes you think the Globalists didnt steal the Canadian elections too?
Asking for millions of normal Candians that did not ask for this or deserve it….
For those of us who love stacks of buttermilk pancakes, gallons of Vermont maple syrup are in our future.
Good pancakes only need butter.
My dad had us eat maple flavored everything until I could no longer eat maple flavoring.
Now, more than ever, it it’s important that we keep the House and Senate. Should the Republicans lose either one, Canada just waits for the Dems to undo all this Administration’s efforts to get America back to it’s Constitutional greatness.
Remember, the Republicans have to make sure this election turnout is “Too Big To Rig”. Carney is counting on the Republicans to lose.
Not true. There is a big VETO PEN on President Trump’s desk.
I wonder how much of November 2026 depends upon the price of gasoline and its effect on the economy downstream: it seems that too many people just do not care or do not bother to understand anything about Iran’s nuclear neutering, if it means $4.00 a gallon gasoline.
Short-sighted, but….
That will be the big push by the dems. Those on that side will run with it as they are told.
The big question is will the right turn out to vote or will they stay home? That may be what decides the outcome.
Maybe if we ran a swarthy Arabic looking type who knew how to swoon the foolish. It’s working for the Ds.
The US population is not informed to understand the nuances discussed on this forum.
Seeing the candidates that the Dparty and DSA are running we better get used to the upset stomach caused by being ruled by the ignorant,
So I am talking to the working folks I encounter in daily life about the risks they do not see…..they are all working, so I assume they are motivated by earning net $$, not more free stuff from ‘President Trumps’ stash’
The problems are voter have short memories and in general are ignorant or stupid. Even with the trouble in the Middle East Trump still has a better economy than Democratic Presidents.
Did Biden have cheaper gas (adjusted for inflation), less inflation and a better economy? No
Did Obama have cheaper gas (adjusted for inflation), , less inflation and a better economy? No
Did Clinton have cheaper gas (adjusted for inflation), , less inflation and a better economy? Maybe yes because he was lucky enough to have presided over tech bubble which crashed right after his leaving office, and critics argue his deregulation of finance and support for NAFTA contributed to later economic inequality and the Great Recession.
Did Carter have cheaper gas (adjusted for inflation), , less inflation and a better economy? No
Carter’s $1.38 gas would be $6.35 today.
I know this is not a widely acknowledged comparison but gas in London is $7 a gallon, converted from liters.
As an aside, Harry and his wife have opted for that.
And they’ll get Carbon taxes – on Gasoline, electricity, non-EV cars, new Appliance efficiency standards, AC green tech – that does not cool as well as Ozone-Hole Freon 12 at $3 a can…. and Preezy Jasmin Crockett’ll send Iran a few more pallets of cash….
I’m so disappointed. 😊 🎉
China will be looking for a new middle man now
Thanks, that video is where reality hits the wall.
Thank you Sundance.
Bravado does not suit globalist banker Mark Carney.
As the saying goes, in a battle of wits, he came unarmed.
“Growth of what”… exactly.
Carney commie talk will now be exposed for the pile it is. Wake up Canada. Now.
The USA did not try to change the terms of the deal at the last second because it holds the upper hand and got what it wanted. There was no reason for the USA to request further concessions.
Canadian trade people tried to slip in some concessions from the USA at the last minute. They are in the weak position and thought that they could weasel a few more “asks” out of US trade reps. The real owners/controllers of Canada wanted more and thought that they should try and move the goalposts.
Is Canadian beef included in the EO?
“It is expected to include Canadian beef, though the announcement did not specify individual country allocations.
Canada is typically the largest foreign supplier of beef to the United States.
Under the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) structure, removing out-of-quota tariffs for 300,000 metric tons of ground beef product allows major trade partners—primarily Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and Argentina—to ship additional lean manufacturing beef into the U.S. market without incurring the standard 26.4% duty.”
Wheat, oats, barley, and lettuce, too
2025 “Live animals”…about 2.60 billion dollars worth? does not specifiy which ‘animals’.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/canada
These reports display Canadian and American annual inventory, slaughter, production, imports, exports of hog/pork, sheep/lamb and cattle/beef.
https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/sector/animal-industry/red-meat-and-livestock-market-information/supply-comparison-species-between-canada-and-united-states
A lot of the question isn’t what the US won’t get from Canada, but where can Canada sell those excess products for a profit? Canada is cutting it’s own throat in my opinion.
Remember Premier Ford: Canadian Premier Threatens To Cut Off Electricity Exports To U.S.
I doubt they will be exporting Electricity to China! – March 4, 2025
Beside decimating the Ontario economy it would break contracts leading to fines and lawsuits.
Canada IS NOT the biggest foriegn supplier of beef to the US 😎
In order:
Canada is #6 with a 5.8% share of total imported beef.
Image post no workey!
Hey Alberta, secession is looking pretty good right now. C’mon over. We’ll swap ’em Minnesotastan.
A L B E R T A.
Come on down.
You are the fifty first state in the great USA.
Like Dave says above, give them Minnesota. That way we don’t need to change the flag.
Big tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos, and lumber. Let that sink in. Windsor, Toronto, Winnipeg, and many other cities are going to get crushed.
Do we have a thriving steel industry yet? I thought we are still in the buildup process.
Will China step in to take up the slack I wonder? These are dangerous times.
This was always going to be the outcome bc this is the battleground for a final stand by the Globalists.
And Carney was always going to deliver the first message to continue his control narrative. VSG POTUS is brilliant to let Carney et al play out their hand bc they don’t have the cards, they just don’t have the cards
I told my wife when I read here that a tentative agreement had been reached that there was absolutely no chance it would be consumated given the unrealistic Canadian perspective that the U.S. would not walk away from one of its neighbors. It will be interesting to see how long Canada can play the waiting game, just like Iran. Unfortunately, the USA has given the world the impression for many decades that our tolerance for world wide entitlements was endless if you played the game and said the right words to the right people. It is unfortunate that the world is well aware that there is an end date for the Trump presidency, so the strategic calculations of other countries will be if they can survive until 2029 with the hope that the next president will not maintain the MAGA focus. There is some merit to such a strategy, but with more than 2 years to go it is also a very risky bet with the world changing at Trump speed. I am looking forward to next phase of this entanglement.
If the Canadian dollar crashes like Sundance expects there won’t be too many businesses in Canada left operating by 2029. The fact that the Canadian Prime Minister has already propped up Canadian businesses with $25 billion in subsidies before the implementation of the 50% tariffs just means that government intervention will have to become even more exspansive. This will likely not prevent the migration of more businesses southward, which will increasingly impact sustainable employment.
“It will be interesting to see how long Canada can play the waiting game, just like Iran.”
When your “friends” & enemies are using the same tactics, what does that say? As you implied, It tells me that we were the worlds sugar daddy for far too long!
I’ve always heard that Carney’s personal investments are mostly in the US. If true, I guess he’s in line to make some fast cash while the country he supposedly represents gets screwed. Makes me wonder.
You heard correctly. 90% of Marx Carnage’s Brookfield investments are in U.S. companies. In fact, Brookfield is headquartered here.
Can A Duha negoatiates like iran. Lies lies and more lies
The question now is how long before Mr Carrey comes groveling back to PDJT, hat in hand, asking for the US to please take Canada back……Or…….will the Canadian people rise up in political revolution and vote the liberal socialists of Canada out of office?
Canada is not even in the top 10 of large economies, 2.5 trillion in fact. Cannot say I feel sorry for them.
We had some distant family members come over every weekend for a month and eat everything in the house (my sister had goldfish, some went missing). But my Dad had it, saw them pull up into the driveway, went out before they could open the car doors every word was unrepeatable but the last few (don’t ever come back here you dam mooches). I’m feeling just like that right now!
Lol, what? They ate the fish??
All I know is there were 5 fish in that tank, when they left there were 3. This was back in the 60’s.
Maybe they need a snack on the drive back home!
OM f n G, “our government understood, before many, that America is altering all its trade relationships.” So why did you gaslight your whole country that you had America and Trump beaten?
Up next…official 6 month notice of the end of the USMCA.
Possibly, or do they pull an Iran & come back disingenuously half-hearted with a “i think we can negotiate something” in the next 48 hours?
💯 🎯 Carnage is calculating how long he needs to continue this stance, and leverage the TDS-addled woketards blind faith, to get himself elected for 4 more years, before the Overton window shifts to the right.
That will give him time to execute his WEF/CCP puppet masters’ agenda of facilitating the destruction of President Trump’s burgeoning America by the CCP, and become a billionaire via Brookfield. Or so he thinks.
Where I am in SW Ontario will be the new rust belt before the end of those 4 years, which is of no consequence to the scrawny little WEF puppet psycho-lizard green (fake) zealot CCP-lackey, Fabian-disciple child-mutilation-enabling Satanist.
I continue to predict kinetic activity here by America, at minimum to eliminate incoming Fentanyl from here, and possibly CCP military buildup, within that timeframe.
My plan to move to AB is taking shape.
Excellent description of PM Carney. 😀
👍 Thanks! That’s the polite version… 😉
Details here if of interest (3 posts):
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/08/18/president-trump-pauses-50-percent-tariffs-against-canada-hours-before-effect/#comment-12760470
Me thinks (kindly enough to our northern friends) of 1970s culottes as an analogy to this trade fate. No one wants to don ugly.
Must say that this particular topic has such a ‘Palace Intrigue’ element which is compelling. Again, thank you Sundance for the research and information flows.
This heavy tariff may help to increase the PNW timber harvest and lumber production. Maybe even convince USFS to open & maintain their fire roads, to harvest timber and stimulate tree growth instead of leaving our national forest closed in it’s current no growth stagnate state…bill
It would reduce the losses to wildfires too. Hundreds of thousands of acres are burned every year. Proper forest management would cut that back.
It is really hard on the 40-year-old guy who has long lived in Mom’s basement when Mom finally kicks him out. Canada is the bitter and irresponsible grown-up who has finally run out of Mom’s patience and her financial support. “How can this mean woman do this to me, her beloved son?”
This will immediately cause a flood of business relocations from Canada to the US. I think it will also restart the secession movements. They can sue for a separate peace in this trade war.
I notice that the Canadian liars refuse to specify what “last minute changes” the US demanded 😎
From the terms as I read and understand them, they were either going to choose to be our ally, or continue down the enemy path. I know large swaths of Canadians are just “too nice” to see it, so this might help:
As an American I look at what you’ve been doing over the years and can justifiably say that today →→→ you chose violence.
As a long time Treeper and I post less often than I used to, I still check in 2-3 times a day, therefore I am now going to post on an issue that I know a lot about…
I personally don’t have any issue with individual Canadians per se…
BUT… ‘F’ the ‘Too Nice’ BS… Many are liars and scam artists, I could share stories about their scams… I have run in to them all over the world, International Deals, US Real Estate deals, This Failed deal with the US, and others, the list is endless…
Again DON’T buy in to any of the TOO NICE crap…
As Sundance has stated over and over again they cant be trusted… They KNOW exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it…
Peace and God Bless all Treepers…
Road Runner said, “BUT… ‘F’ the ‘Too Nice’ BS… Many are liars and scam artists, I could share stories about their scams… I have run in to them all over the world, International Deals, US Real Estate deals, This Failed deal with the US, and others, the list is endless…”
Thank you. Same applies to the idea of “Minnesota nice” on both public and private habits of relationship. Late hubby and I lived 18 years in MN (his home ground) — and no. There’s no such thing as Minnesota nice.
From the Holy Grail movie, Harrison Ford…….. ‘He chose poorly’……
Huge boost for the Alberta independence movement.
It may be by design. Carney wants a majority mandate and the only way to get it is to run against Trump. https://x.com/jaycurrie/status/2091047572081418666
Make Vermont Maple Syrup Great Again.
On the left, is a long list of ‘stuff’…note cocoa and cocoa products…also note coffee products…click the plus sign…lots of stuff…even silk…
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/canada
The coffee must be a finished roasted product? Most commercial coffee is horrid.
Support your local coffee roaster.
Or learn to ‘roast’ it yourself…assuming one can find decent beans!
I’ve heard of people doing that but you need the equipment and the knowledge.
From what I hear, it is not hard, but rather time consuming but need a good ‘roaster’…the knowledge of when the beans are roasted to perfection? I don’t have that kind of patience…LOL. Home roasted does make a wonderful cup of Joe though…
I roast my own coffee beans. It’s easy to learn how to do and there are lots of places to source green beans from.
The cost per pound of green beans varies by quality (Jamaica Blue Mountain or Kona from Hawaii are expensive, most others that are still very good are not). In general I’m paying $7-10 per pound; that’s a lot cheaper than you’d pay for a lb at Starbucks but more than the cheaper brands at the store. I enjoy roasting and the quality of what I roast makes it worth it to me.
My biggest challenge is my roaster (an SR-800 or something like that) requires higher voltage than I have inside my house. I have outlets on my exterior that can handle it but not inside. That can be a problem in MN in the winter.
China controls Canada
This was not helpful.
I am not interested in a trade war.
JD needs to stay in his lane.
JD Vance mocks Carney’s trade strategy, says PM tried to ‘out-tough’ TrumpNewly obtained audio reveals JD Vance’s blunt assessment of Carney’s approach to Trump and Canada-U.S. trade talks, during a private fundraiser.
August 21, 2026
I am not interested in the freeloaders from the north.
Canadians might be waiting for the midterms to give Democrats and Judges the strength to prevent dissolution of the USMCA.
Crossing Trump is not a good idea.
If/when the Dims take control of the Congress in January, I dont think much will change on this front.
Factoring in that they have little chance of winning the WH in 2028, its only a matter of time until the Canucks see the writing on the wall…
…unless of course they are either completely retarded/TDS addled. Or China is in complete control. We’ll know soon enough.
Also, everyone forgets that President Trump will wield the veto pen for the next two years.
Canada is like the IRGC.
It does not matter if Carney fails in Canada.
It will not hurt his pocket.
He will simply be offered a promotion to some better paying international job.
Not so with many hard working and struggling Canadians.
How can they not see this when they vote for their politicians?
Socialists/Communists Do Not Care About the Common Man. Just remember “Safe and Effective”. The Democrat/Communists in the US are no different than Carney and his crew.
I guess Canada is about to transform into China-da. I’m sure the Canadians will enjoy the change into an even more totalitarian regime than they have now.
The Canadian economy is just the size of the state of New York. That’s all. Let that set in.
Besides the real issues of transhippment and Canadian government control over supply chains and markets, this is the kind of mental illness we’re dealing with.
I am truly sorry so many regular sane Canadians are now going to suffer. There are a lot of people happy right now other than just the liberal nut cases and Europeans and China, and those would be the investors that have been shorting the Canadian dollar because if Canadian’s thought inflation was already bad, they ain’t seen nothing yet!
This is good news for me, I cannot stand Canada and Canadians. F Canada
Yeah this move is pure politics on the part of carney. He’s banking on Canadians blaming the coming bad economic news on T. Unfortunately it will probably work since Canadians get their news from gov owned media.
Greer:
“Tonight, Canada declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week.”
Apparently, Canada used the Iran negotiation model, but kept the music playing for only three extra days. Amatuers