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
Canada will join the EU in hopes of gaining some currency stability at least. The Quebecois will lead the push. It won’t change the trade reality that, other than fossil fuels, Canada does not produce anything that they can export in abundance at competitive prices. The only viable market they have for most of what they make is the US.
Reality is painful sometimes.
In other words Canada is
FU_KED ECONOMICALLY
No! Canada will not join the EU. Period!
Time will tell.
I suppose the British absence from the EU will have bearing, for however long that last. But it is irrelevant if Canada remains a puppet regime.
For instance, a couple of the absolute best general aviation light aircraft are Canadian made, but totally noncompetitive on price with with US made aircraft. But the absolute gorilla in the room is that the two top companies are Chinese owned, both the Canadian plant and US brand.
Multiple examples abound. But the bottom line fact is the US has to rebuild a best in the world industrial base. Nothing matters more, with the exception of strengthening the commitment to a constitutional government.
You go right ahead and build that best in the world industrial base and be the builder of all the stuff the world needs.
This would be your big problem. with the industrial base of the rest of the world ruined because of that…..
WHO is going to be able to buy this stuff. Certainly not the $hithole countries left.
If I had any idea what you meant, I would offer a sincere response, as I did before. I’m sorry your country is being destroyed and broken into pieces like the European countries, and I hope that mine doesn’t join yours in that future. It very well may. Every nation must be able to provide for the majority of it’s needs or face decline. Like the US, there is no need at all for Canada to be in such a situation. Neither of these countries lack resources and ability.
Note: the USA consumes 80% of what we produce internally. Exports are with stuff the world needs: food, energy and high tech and financial services. Having a super strong industrial manufacturing base is national security.
Less Britain has no effect whatsoever.
and thus the Donroe Doctrine & tariffs, tariffs, tariffs baby!
Amen and Amen.
The boat ride from Africa to the Canadian shore maybe a little more hazardous but I’m sure Soros will provide, if the join the EU.
Nothing says doom like trying to jump onto a sinking ship.
(I doubt they’ll be able to.)
💯 🎯 And the fossil fuels are made un-competitive by Carney’s need to line Brookfield’s pockets and thus his own, by the Great Green Grift. That’s assuming the First Nations would even allow them to get to tidewater anyway. Same goes for rare minerals etc.
Canada needs to realize that it has no leverage at all with the US now. Zero.
Our policies are insane e.g. we continue to dump a million litres or so of fresh milk a day to stop Quebec from separating and to make a couple of huge dairy businesses very rich.
Inter-provincial trade barriers are still more costly to Canadian businesses trying to sell here than many of the tariffs they face selling int the US.
Rust belt incoming, and it wont be long before being a CCP Ontarian slave worker is seen as worse than being a Uighur.
But the CBC’s lead news story all day yesterday was just about US alcohol being allowed here again, and interviews with outraged TDS-addled AWFLs saying they won’t buy it anyway.
🤯 🤣 😭 🤮 😡
The Canadian public is fed up. A petition to expel the U.S. ambassador has collected nearly 248,000 signatures since July 21. It accuses Ambassador Pete Hoekstra of having “normalized’’ Trump’s talk of annexing Canada, among other things.
Nearly 72% of Canada’s goods exports last year went to the United States.
And the Trump administration might be wary of imposing a hefty new tariff — paid by U.S. importers who try to pass along the cost to consumers via higher prices — ahead of November’s midterm elections.
American voters are already frustrated with the high cost of living. How is what Carney has done any different from what Tehran is trying to do by influencing the US midterm elections against Trump?
The American public is fed up with Canada and Iran. Not President Trump. I’ll pay $4.00 ( or 5 or whatever ) a gallon gas all day long if it means bombing the F out of Iran. And Canada can keep thier shit. F them too.
We finally got someone fighting for the interests of the USA , I’ll take a little pain now and sacrifice for the benefit of my kids and grandkids.
You think this is tough now ? We’re f ‘d if the demon crats get back in power.
Suck it up and quit whining.
Tell that to a whiny, virtues signaling, TDS suffering liberal and see what kind of answer you get.
Probably not yeah your right I will now vote for President Trump.
Why waste your time with them.
Only some traumatic life event will wake those idiots up!
The cambridge university upper/lower crust and pawn types are locked in denial/crazy stupid.
So a traumatic life event would not “wake them up”.
They would use their racism dei explaination.
Reprobate minds will *not*wake up. It is written.
If glorified infanticide, killing off the elderly and infirm, chopping off sexual organs, human trafficking, drug smuggling, weaponized DNA and weather experiments, mocking God and surrendering national sovereignty don’t do it then nothing will.
No matter how they may suffer the lost sheep will remain clueless.
Shucks, seems like just waking up in the morning and facing reality is a highly traumatic life event for them!
Don’t think they will ever “wake up”, probably just double down on their anti anxiety and depression prescriptions.
I’m not going to waste my breath trying to reason with these brain dead morons. Besides, I don’t want to listen to their whining, bitching and incoherent nonsense!
jeff is correct. you cry babies head on back to the basement. The real men are here now.
Do you expect us to believe the Commie Virtue signaling TDS trolls would ever vote for someone who made them work for their own sh!T?
I had a socialist/communist in my living room yesterday and all I can say is VOTE LIKE HELL is nipping at your heels!
I don’t allow communists into my home but I understand what you’re saying!
EXACTLY!
F yeah!!!!!! It’s like I’m reading my own words on the screen with all of the F bombs???? That would epic if the explosion of our falling ordinances have our Presidents voice saying F YOU!!!! Its my idea first!
Pretending the cost of living isn’t a problem for Trump supporters is naive. I’m hearing lots of Trump voters grumbling about the war and the high costs. At this point, the midterms are going to be a bloodbath for us.
Personally I’m blaming the Republicans in Congress for being so unwilling to implement an America First agenda. But keeping Baghdad Bob “all is well” blinders on isn’t helping anyone. I feel like there a concerted effort among the political class to keep the general dissatisfaction from the President, thereby ensuring the midterm bloodbath.
go ahead and get straight outta philly.
Yeah, I’m frustrated by the high cost of everything. I’m frustrated about Trump allowing this war to linger like a nasty head cold. He knows Iran lies about everything, he needs to quit playing their silly games. Run a stake through their heart and end this madness NOW. And quit endorsing candidates like Darline Graham. She is not qualified for the job and if elected, will end up being another Collins or Murkowski. And to hell with the traitorous RINOs in Washington that are determined to prevent our great President from accomplishing great things!
Then learn how to budget better. You whiners would never have survived the hardships of WWII. We have the most amazing quality of life here.
Financially, my husband and I are doing just fine. We’re currently cash flowing three in college and are paying for another adult child’s wedding next year. 4 dollar gas is the least of my problems. But I can also acknowledge reality. A lot of Americans are struggling and not happy and it is going to result in different people taking office next time. You can continue to live in La La Land.
Why would you be obligated to pay for the wedding of an adult child? Let them pay for their own wedding.
Looks good. What is the source?
I’d like to use this if it’s accurate.
It was said to be compiled from BLS data.
https://tineye.com/search/2f06c5cb03e51f987dbd035dad0c4a17fbfc8c5e?sort=score&order=desc&page=1
Here’s CPI over that time period, where you can see the general climb of over 20% and the leveling off as PDJT’s policies have started to take hold.
Hillsdale had a good article on wages vs inflation of PDJT #45 versus AutoPen #46:
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-biden-economy-and-how-it-could-be-fixed/
Oh yeah, its bad now…, but lets just elect the Democrats to “fix” everything. My God, no more idiotic words or thoughts could ever be brought to bear.
Who is saying, elect a democrat, other than Democrats? As I stated, most of the people I know who voted for Trump will certainly not vote for Democrats this time or ever. I am merely saying we need to start focusing on the economic pain average Americans are suffering. I believe immigration enforcement is a good start to that end. but that’s unlikely to have a positive impact before the midterms.
I’m no longer overconcerned about the midterms. Why? Have you seen what the left is doing to itself? And looking forward a bit: Do you know that while we’re all in a demographic crisis, it’s the liberal left that’s getting absolutely slammed by it?
So long as we hold the senate (and have you been paying attention to those races?)…and if and only IF the Dems take the house by just 5 or 6, then they lose. Completely and decidedly. No blue wave will send their TDS-having base into such a deep, downward depression that, that -well, someone like JD Vance could actually win the presidency.
Hear, Hear, Jeff! Couldn’t agree more.
Suck it up, quit whining? Who in the hell do you think you are? One thing is clear and concise: you, can’t handle the truth.
China is behind the scenes influencing the trade war with Canada to cause economic inflation in the US and to get DSA candidates elected to destroy the US from within.
Blab all you want but after aluminum, lumber, steel, and other basic products escalate in price (say hello $200 4×8 sheets of plywood) voters can be influenced to turn on Trump.
That strategy is what we are up against you pea brain!
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Ummm… there are no tariffs on American made/sourced products
200$ for a sheet of plywood !?!? Really !
That’s the most
“ Sky is falling “
Thing I’ve ever heard.
Pea brain ? That’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me.
Worth copying and pasting…as needed… by everyone.
I just wanna sing 🎵Amens🎵 to all you wrote!
So to lower the cost of living people will vote for Democrats!? What democrat delivered a lower cost of living? Biden? Obama? Clinton? Carter?
What are the Democrat’s plan to lower the cost of living? Higher taxes? More regulation? Government run healthcare? Government housing? Government run grocery stores? Government childcare (just like government education) More illegals into the country? Stopping ICE deportations? No police? Violent criminals and convicted felons running free when they shut down prisons and jails?
Tell me how any one of of those will lower the cost of living.
You just nailed a great MAGA ad campaign.
I hear that PDJT is in need of some good, honest, reliable advisors!
I HEAR THAT PDJT IS IN NEED OF SOME GOOD, HONEST, RELIABLE ADVISORS!
I fixed it in hopes PDJT will see it, WD…..
They add THEIR tax (which goes directly to their communist coffers) onto everything. Do you know I found out I was paying $80 a month tax on my landline phone? I hadn’t seen a paper bill for 15 years. $90 for the phone and $60 for my internet resulted in a bill costing $230/mo. I’ve had this phone for 30 years, of which I have had to purchase 2 in 30 years.
https://www.usmobile.com/
I hope I am not violating etiquette by promoting a link to a business. I have no vested interested, just a very pleased customer. Unless you stream a lot, you can get all your phone and Internet needed for $50 or less. I have 2 lines and cover broadband at home and office for less than your paying.
I’m keeping my landline because it represents freedom. When the internet of things is intentionally cut off (cable, wifi, etc) which happens all too frequently, landlines remain open. It’s like driving a dependable old vehicle that doesn’t have all those hinky computer software glitches.
When will we learn that money isn’t everything? How are we enjoying cheap Chinese crap, poisoned food and medicine, and monopolized industries delivering a globalized economic reset?
I’ll keep my dependable landline, shop my local merchants and drive my old reliable vehicle sans all the computerized bells and whistles.
*Freedom* from the monopolistic matrix designed to control us is well worth a few extra bucks.
Enjoy! Haven’t had a land line since 2008. Can use my phone pretty much anywhere, have a wide choice of vendors, not hostage to whatever a monopoly desires to charge.
You do know that most landline calls now are routed over Internet fiber at some point, don’t you? It’s called VOIP.
Enjoy your next three years, because your line is soon going dead because it makes no sense.
https://morningoverview.com/your-landline-is-on-the-clock-as-att-targets-a-2029-shutdown/
Nearly forgot, I have three vehicles with more than 300000 miles each.
I think you’re missing the point (non-digital, non-spy capability), CET.
Except your metadata on every call you make from any phone, landline, cell, or voip is stored in data centers the government built years ago, possibly the Utah center and others. I suspect the actual content of the call is recorded and stored for a month or more, perhaps permanently. Several types of telephone, particularly the ones that come with cable tv services, are required to be recorded and kept for 30 days .
Every piece of mail you send and receive is photographed for destination and return address and stored.Has been for years.
Please go to the White House gate right now and demand entry.
I’m from the Gov’t and I’m here to help…. ROLMFAO!!!
Great Jake.
Could I humbly add one little thing President Trump could do?
Please reopen all the lunatic asylums.
None of them. And that’s what I’m hearing from well informed conservative leaning people who voted Trump the last three times. They’d vote Trump again because the choice is communism or Trump. But the enthusiasm is gone. And without the enthusiasm, how do you get the low information/ low motivated voters off their keysters to vote America First? The answer is you don’t. Prepare emotionally for the bloodbath. It’s coming.
just come south, hon. weather is wonderful and the shopping 🛍 malls are jammed
Let me guess – you vote blue and are getting paid to spew this stupidity?
The only bloodbath is going to be when all of the communists and their Dim supporters are obliterated. The fact is nothing motivates people more than the thought of wackos like MamaDama, AOC, Hasan Piker, and the rest of the loonies gaining majority control and trying to turn this nation into the USSR.
They will vote for dumocraps b/c dumocraps are promising the moon and to ‘tax the rich’. Look at all the DSA candidates winning primaries before the mid-terms. Universities have been churning out young people who think Communism is the way to go b/c the rich will pay for everything. My God! Look at NYC Mayor Mandummy. He is promising free everything and New Yorkers are saying he is doing a great job. If only enough Idjits can be awakened before the mid-terms, but I doubt it. Js
The Canadian public is held hostage by their leaders who continue to make poor decisions.
Canada is in a recession, hard to see how this will help.
Chrysler screwed them on jobs and money, and the other automakers AREN’T building the plants they were scheduled to build in Canada.
In other words, they hold no cards.
Is the Canadian public under the misapprehension that they’re doing us a favor by selling us stuff? They’re in for quite a shock.
The Canadian public is told lies. They do not have access to news from the outside world; literally the only news allowed to be reported must originate from Canadian Broadcasting.
The President Trump administration is not wary of any tariff. American importers do not pay tariffs. President Trump does not make decisions for making America great and prosperous, based upon the next election cycle.
The cost of living in the US is orders of magnitude better than when we were under the yoke of both the Obama and Biden reigns of tyranny.
The Backhand™️continues.
We are told lies also. They have access to the Internet so are able to find alternatives to the media.
We did that prior to newsmax, etc.
They have Bibles, they have free will.
They need to take a stand, take responsibility, find leaders who care and get to work. Maybe this will do it.
Getting kicked out of the house can be the best gift they could get.
”American importers do not pay tariffs.”
100% absolutely not true. In my 30 plus years in the import/export business I assure you the exporter does not to get an invoice from the customs broker for the tariff charges. US importers of aluminum for example have seen a 50% increase in the cost. That is because of the tariffs paid by them
The foreign manufacturer pays the tariff for access to America’s market. The importer does not.
Just stop while you are tragically behind.
Actually, Allen is correct. The importer is sent the invoice by the US government in most cases, not sure if it is all cases. The importer may or may not get a discount from the manufacturer offshore to balance the tarrif. I’m sure that explains most of his outlook today, and he may not have availability of domestic sources. If he is in direct competition with domestic sources, he needs to adjust his business model. That’s often quite difficult, but he will be part of the solution, not the problem, and far happier.
Lord have mercy… No he is not. Tariffs are paid by the manufacturer for access to US markets.
If you are saying the importer does not ever receive an invoice you could not be more wrong. I was very careful with my answer, and I am correct completely. Yes, in some cases it is washed out. Not all.
I have no doubt that Allen, with whom I am generally not in agreement on this issue, could post the invoices if he cared too . I’m not trying to be popular, I’m trying to be truthful.
I do not import directly. I do use imported components that are tarrifed before reaching me. There is a particular component I need badly that the small business in France has quit importing because they can’t know when shipping what the cost will be, or if the shipment will be delayed, or even returned due to tariff cost.
So what did I do? I had a two hour AI chat where I learned nearly everything to make the component here. It’s not a field where I have direct expertise. I have basically validated and charted out how to proceed.
I am not wrong. I am doing this the right way. The part will be made in North Carolina I expect next year .
I don’t know what your experience is, but from what I see, he is correct, and I’m not looking for a feud, but will not agree with a statement I know for certain is incorrect.
Lol. You consulted
AI
to tell me I’m wrong.
🤣 FFS just stop.
Ok. You are wrong, lying, or both. I am telling you I have associates that are billed tariffs on parts I buy . No AI involved in. No I’m going to tell you son else you want like even more. You are stupid. And you are part of the problem. You can’t see the truth when it is being shown to you.
Say whatever you wish too after this. You are not worth the effort because you choose stupidity.
Yes, the foreign exporter pays the tariff for access to the USA market…
But, the exporter raises the price of his product to cover the cost of the tariff…
In effect, the tariff is paid by the importer and is passed down to the ultimate consumer by increased prices charged by the Jobbers, Distributers, and retail stores selling the imported item to the American public…
Not true.
The foreign exporter eats the tariff because he wants the access to US markets. The average markup on foreign manufacturing is in the 1000% to 5000% range. They will eat the 10 or 15 extra percent tariff while still being wildly profitable.
I see where we are missing each other. You are, in general, referring to the imported finished goods like are popular on Amazon or eBay, the Alibaba stuff. In general, what you have stated is not anything I disagree with in that regard.
Higher cost, specialized components, such as parts of more complicated assemblies, can’t be absorbed, and the offshore producer does not universally pay the charges on entry. This is how it needs to be to restore more advanced manufacturing, and I am happy to participate. In the past, there was a higher rate on parts than finished goods, giving exporters leverage to supply assemblies that were intended to be finished here. I’m not sure enough to state that has been corrected. Hope so.
Here is how it is billed and collected. First self reporting, billing with interest if the gov disagrees or you don’t file;
https://www.cbp.gov/trade/programs-administration/entry-summary
Here is the form for the importer:
https://www.cbp.gov/trade/programs-administration/entry-summary/cbp-form-7501
Additional guidelines:
https://www.cbp.gov/trade/priority-issues/revenue/bill-payments
That is untrue. The foreign importer has to compete with all of the other foreign importers trying to get access to the USA market.
If one importer passes the tariff price onto the price sold in the American market and the other ones do not then they have priced themselves out of the market.
If a similar item is manufactured in the USA and has no tariffs then their prices are going to be less than imports that pay tariffs and try to pass the tariff onto the USA consumer. Then the importers/manufacturers have to decide whether or not to move the business into the USA and go tariff free.
Of course it is true…
If you, cats, or CET had ever run a successful retail business, you would know that when a tariff is added, the cost of the item to the store goes up the same amount as the tariff…
The tariff is actually paid by the ultimate consumer of the product… The exact reason Walmart is cutting retail prices is to re-pay consumers for the tariffs they paid to buy the product…
But, you go ahead and believe the CNN version if that is what makes you happy…
Canada can piss off…as a nation they have screwed over America for decades. Their own policies have resulting in multiple years of declining exports to America. They don’t make anything – they have simply become CunIkea assemblers.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2026/02/18/data-to-show-canada-trade-to-have-fallen-third-straight-year-a-first/
Nearly 72% of Canada’s goods exports last year went to the United States.
Uh, nearly all of those exports were pass throughs from China and other countries looking to avoid teir own tariffs if that dries up , and it just did, theres no reason for those countries to trade with Canada. You were just screwed by your government and I for one welcome Alberta as our new trading partner and whatever else they they want to be…..
you truly have no idea what you’re saying you just think you do.
We buy about 2% of GDP from Canada. What have you bought from Canada lately?
They buy something like 70% of their GDP from us.
It’s not a problem for us. Vermont has great maple syrup.
Congratulations Canada, you have completed phase FA and are now entering the FO period.
Flight Attendant?
Forward Observer?
Fool around
Find out
I’m pretty sure John understands FAFO
Yes. It’s way overused.
It isn’t used (literally) nearly enough – if it was, there would be a lot less FA…
Canada Economically is now totally going to COLLAPSE
Canadians only hope for survival is being taken over by our closest and largest trading partner the USA .
32.6 Trillion USA $
Vs
2.6 Trillion Can $
With 75% trade volume
going to the US from CAN
Guess who WINS ?
First rule of business…”The customer is always right”.
Canada is the largest purchaser of U.S.-made automobiles. In 2025, Canada accounted for about 32% of U.S. vehicle exports by value and 21% by quantity, ahead of Mexico and other markets.. Canada being the customer, they are always right
They could start driving those cheap Chinese electric golf carts.
Until it gets cold and the batteries crap out. And on a dark, windless evening, what are your electricity choices again? Oh, yeah … you took out all the reliable energy sources which enable modern society and replaced them with unicorns and pixie dust.
Life is hard, but it is a lot harder if you are stupid.
US businesses and consumers purchase 75% of everything Canada exports in a year.
So which one is the customer?
Ok, Canadian.
You know you’re in a recession, right?
Or has the CBC not told you?
Canada purchases roughly 6% of total US production for light vehicles/passenger cars and light trucks.
The US purchases approximately 85–90% of canadian auto production. trilliummfg.ca
Tell me who the customer is, again?
Auto tariffs of 15% would erase profitability and spur industry’s decline, experts say
How do they feel about 25%?
As recent headlines demonstrate, car production is surprisingly mobile.
Lol.
Americans are the largest purchasers of US made vehicles. We do not need to export everything we make in order to generate income. We, are the largest global market. We sell to ourselves, dingdong.
Ha ha ha. Elbows up, Canadian.
2nd Rule: When ever the customer is wrong, see Rule 1.
The Chinese and the EU. They are the influencers here.
Canada negotiates like George Costanza did with NBC when he and Jerry were trying to sell their show about nothing.
We need to secure the northern border. It is wide open and illegals are still flooding across.
Talking with a Canadian guy in the beginning of the year (one of the few on the Gulf Beaches this year) reasonable guy, he said phent is being sent down from the northern border as the cartels have infiltrated the 1st nation people.
It is time to start cancelling some of the work visa’s to the US as well.
Some? How about ALL from EVERY country. In Mexico’s case, ones all the illegals and cartel members are back in Mexico we can start considering seasonal farm worker visas…
Golly! …what will we do?
Time for coffee.
MAGA!
I think you spelled “covfefe” wrong.
Carneys goal is to collapse Canadas economy. There was never going to be a deal because it would interfere with carneys agenda.
Please, tell us what agenda would that be?
How about: destroy another Western country? How’re we doin’!
New green scam for a start.
Carney’s agenda is to signal his virtue while being the banker for the London globalist hacks. He will burn Canada to the ground and rule over the ashes.
I agree. That’s what they were doing in the US before Trump’s was elected.
Enslaving Canadians into a service economy of very very high taxes and very very low living standards while he and the government class enjoy the perks and benefits they steal from the citizens with their carbon capture scheme.
“Assisted suicide” – it’s not just for people’s lives…
Amazing how the world struggles and battles and invests to get their products into the United States.
I kind of think with economic collapse, there’s going to be economic migrants, there should be a northern wall in the works.
So, will Sorel pack boots cost more? They’re already crazy expensive.
Sorel boots are manufactured in several countries -including Canada, China, Vietnam and India. I would think that shifting manufacturing to the latter three countries should lower cost.
This is a failure to communicate moment. Canada’s leaders simply don’t or won’t understand the issues.
Apparently they can’t read a map either.
Well Carney, you s**t the bed and now you get to lay in it. Maybe it’s time to deport all those Indians and Chinese you took in to replace your white population.
Buy American, spend local, affect global.
I believe Chinese goods are loaded with toxic waste they are putting into what they sell to us. We are not realizing how dangerous they are. I remember the toxic dog food debacle that killed pets. How many tombstones should read Made in China?
i remember a dry wall problem also,don’t remember what was in them.
Dang, if the GOPrick RINOrats just won’t F up the midterms, which they are trying their best to do. (Save Act would be nice). Maybe just maybe some of the independent state work, regardless of Traitor Thune et al best efforts, we might be able to hold the line. This time next year, Canada will be begging. I hope that new deal is a bit more direct than what they were offered this time.
Trade with Canada seems to be pretty much a rounding error to anyone who trades with them. China electric cars are going to do lovely in the rather chilly climate. I watch the Maine deer pantry webcams and they are currently about 64 degrees near “hottest” summer time. Electric cars will work wonderfully in Canada 🤪
The Globalist Wars have commenced.
They started decades ago – we just finally have a president that is on our side in them…
Not to worry. Some activist judge in the US will be along shortly to bail canada out for their brave stance against a “rouge” president.
Any product that says canada on the label stays out of my cart anyway. Silly b@llsh!t.
The various schemes across the gamut (ranging from free benefits offered by socialist mayors in the U.S., to carbon trading credit systems, to wealth taxes by states, to outright asset confiscation by other nations) all rely upon taking productivity and assets from others. The global system of graft / wealth transfer from the U.S. that Canada and others have relied upon (including the Marshall plan from 1945-2026) is unsustainable. The NGO industry has relied upon USAID and other congressional funding conduits for years (many of which have been turned off). It is very telling to see where Carney has his personal investment portfolio. Follow the money.
NGOs should be audited, investigated and outlawed.
Conservative Canadian YouTubers have been criticizing Carney for over a year, observing that he hasn’t ever seemed to want a deal, the better to continue his high poll numbers using Trump derangement syndrome as his strategy with his ‘elbows up’ majority crowd, complementing this observation as he took off to Italy for a vacation days before the 50% deadline.
What will be the fallout, if any, from the Vance-leaked audio where he told donors that Carney tried to “out-tough” Trump? “It’s hilarious because Carney presents this as some victory for Canada when fundamentally, like, they climb down on a lot of issues,” Vance told the room.
Canadian broadcasters, i.e., CBC (government paid mouthpieces), will frame this as ‘Carney out-toughing Trump’ and standing up to the bully. Meanwhile, as the Canadian auto manufacturers threatened if Carney signed the reduced 15% auto tariff deal, after the current line of autos is completed, they would shut down. Congrats, Carney just walked away and left the industry with the 25% Section 232 tariff.
It is like the Palestinians who walked away from a deal with Israel that gave them everything they asked for. They never wanted a deal in the first place.
This is shocking, Canada’s ”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 comment shows this was always far more than just a trade agreement. Why does the Trump administration feel it can stick its nose into what it feels are other countries problems. Many Canadian feel the USA should concentrate of fixing its own problems. Problems, problems? USA has problems?
Donald Trump started this trade war with the start of the March 4 2025 arbitrarily imposed (later declared illegal by the Supreme Court) tariffs. How dare Canada respond to this punch in the face by responding with its own tariffs.
Canada’s economic collapse coming?? Hope you are not holding your breath.
The EU won’t be propping you up for long, since they themselves are in dire straits economically.
I suggest a mass production of a English to Chinese Dictionary.
Do you think the Canadian Govt doesn’t have a price? I think that’s been perfectly clear. And it’s citizens have no clear idea because they are being spoon fed censored hand pick news information.
Carney’s letter of declaration was nothing but lies and more lies.
I didn’t mention EU and want nothing to do with EU. As far as Chinese/English dictionary goes, i would bet there are more Eric Swalwell types in your government using those dictionaries than Canada is
He actually thinks they can find markets for all of their exports in China and the EU – as well as not incur losses due to their import duties and restrictions + the extra transportation costs – so delusional he is.
Bank failures since 2000 : USA 577. Canada. 0.
There are 83 banks in Canada. There are over 4,000 banks and 4,300 credit unions in the USA.
It sounds like Carney is giving you exactly what you want and you should be happy with this outcome then. Enjoy going your own way, Canada!
No deal is better than a Trump/Lutnick extorted deal.
You’re just silly, not serious. Canada’s economy equals that of the state of New York. That’s all. Let that sink in.
Trade between two countries should be fair and equal.
Canada has been free-loading on US since WWII, setting tariffs to protect their industries (e.i. Dairy).
Canada wants an unfair deal with US losing in the deal.
Ain’t going to happen anymore.
Without tariff-free access to US markets, China has no interest in Canada.
Lose and Lose.
China is interested in resource extraction and Canada has a lot to offer.
There’s literally no way for their government to accomplish this against the backdrop of their political ideology.”
That comment shows this was always far more than just a trade agreement. Why does the Trump administration feel it can stick its nose into what it feels are other countries problems.
You continue to show just how stupid you are with each passing post. If you’re any example of what Canadians have become, it’s no wonder your nation is such an atrocious mess.
Here’s a hard dose of reality for you – your idiot PM is doing the exact thing that you accuse the president of – attempting to foist upon our nation goods made with slave labor, pay moronic “carbon credits”, allow you to steal our IP, tell our companies what they can and can’t do, foist your restrictions regarding free speech upon us, put massive restrictions in place against our imports while crying for one on your own, and a long litany of other absurdities and stupidity.
Guess what – go pound snow….
80 years of the Marshall Plan is enough. Trump didn’t create this problem. He’s ending it though.
Canada is NOT USA’s problem.
Martin Armstong public blog article (private blog is worse info), “Canada’s Inflation Problem Is Far From Over”.
Buckle up. You’re in for the ride of your life.
“Canada’s inflation rate accelerated to 3.2% in May, coming in above expectations and once again exposing the fantasy that inflation was somehow defeated. Policymakers spent the past year congratulating themselves for bringing inflation down, yet the cost of living continues to rise while the economy itself is sliding toward recession. This is precisely the type of stagflationary environment that governments hate because there is no easy solution. Raise rates, and you deepen the economic slowdown. Cut rates and you fuel inflation once again.
What makes Canada particularly vulnerable is that inflation is rising while economic growth remains weak. Canada has already slipped into a technical recession, household debt remains among the highest in the developed world, and housing affordability has become a national crisis. Citizens are struggling with food, energy, insurance, housing, and taxes, yet government spending continues to expand. The political class always assumes it can spend endlessly without consequence. Eventually, the bill arrives.
I have warned that Canada faces a much larger structural problem than inflation alone. The country has become excessively dependent on government spending, real estate, and debt expansion. Investment has been declining while capital continues flowing south into the United States. When governments begin relying on debt growth to maintain living standards, they enter the same dangerous cycle that has destroyed countless nations throughout history. Debt can create the illusion of prosperity, but it cannot create real wealth.
Government debt at the federal and provincial levels has exploded over the past decade while entitlement obligations continue growing. The assumption has always been that interest rates would remain low forever. That assumption is now being challenged throughout the world. As rates rise, governments are forced to devote larger portions of tax revenue simply to servicing debt rather than providing services.
This is why our long-term models continue to point toward 2032 as a major sovereign debt turning point. Governments everywhere borrowed as though there would never be a reckoning. Canada is especially vulnerable because its economy remains heavily tied to commodities, housing, and government spending while productivity growth has lagged. The inflation report is not the story. Inflation is merely a symptom. The underlying disease is a debt-based economic model that requires constant expansion to survive.
Looking ahead, the period from 2026 into 2028 aligns with our broader forecasts for rising volatility, recessionary pressures, and increasing civil unrest across many Western nations. Canada is not immune.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/inflation/canadas-inflation-problem-is-far-from-over/
More stats.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/canada/canadas-labor-market-is-cracking-under-the-surface/
More devasting news for Canada. Canada is sinking and USA isn’t throwing a lifeline. Marshall Plan is officially over. Support yourself. Not. Our. Problem.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/canada/alberta-separatism-is-rising-because-ottawa-destroyed-canadas-economic-balance/
The thing to remember is that Carney is a banker. Not just any banker. Carney served as head honcho at the Central Bank in London . Carney is well aware of how money moves and he fully understands the ramifications of what he is doing.
I think he is counting on the his former home The Central Bank to come through for Canada in some way. I am interested in how the folks at Promethean view this
Government and some businesses motto: If you throw enough money and people at a bad plan it will look like it works eventually.
According to Internet search results it seems that the Time magazine image of Carney giving Trump the middle finger was faked, AI generated. Is this true? Inquiring minds want to know.
If this means fewer overweight Canadian trucks pounding the shit out of our Michigan roads, and a huge reduction in the hundreds of Canadian garbage trucks a day bringing trash into our landfills, I’m good.
it is sad that my neighbor, who owns a dairy farm, will not be able to export his product to Canada any longer. Oh wait, he doesn’t already because the permits he had applied for 10 years ago are still under review.
The Canadians have gotten a lot of free stuff from us for decades. Dig into the State Department and War Department budgets. You will be amazed at the billions of dollars in assistance given to them. Ask yourself, why would we be sending so much of our tax money to a “First world” country?
2×4 anyone ?
“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Canada existed as a way to get around restrictions and tarrifs on countries like Japan and China–and that existence is about to come crashing down on Canada, because without the free movement of those goods across the northern border, who needs Canada?
Toyota already announced the relocation and expansion of their operations to the US and other manufacturers will probably do the same (if they haven’t already).
Canada deserves what the decades of trying to be the cosmopolitan Euro-lite of North America will now bring them. Let’s see how they like being reminded that they aren’t European and never will be; and don’t forget, Europe isn’t exactly doin’ so hot economically. The EU will probably admit them ASAP, if only because they think it will embarrass Trump (who’s laughing all the way to cut the ribbon at a new Toyota factory!)
It’s easy to harm one’s self, and then blame someone else.
Carney is doing what he was told to do. It’s easy for him.
Hey Carney…..did you realize that when. You took that picture for Time Magazine that you were actually .looking in the mirror and that it was YOU…..YOURSELF you were giving the finger to?
Obviously not……because YOU are a fricking liberal moron!
Let’s watch Canada crumble!
Even through all of this, I still will drink my one black coffee (light ice) every morning on my way to work from Timbo’s. It sucks to my brothers across the St Clair River that they are subjects to a communist government. Cheers Canada.
Sheriff Bart, we’re calling your bluff!
Talking to the Canadian government is like talking to the IRGC of Iran.
It’s exhausting and pointless.
Both governments also have the majority of their populations captive and control the narrative.
Please crush them both. It’s the only solution .
My generation, the generation of hippies, the Boomers, that welcomed American draft dodgers in the early 70s, will not change.
They will have to suffer and die off before things improve.
I will sit here in Toronto watching and sipping vodka until bourbon is again available
With President Trump, deal making is still being done, no matter what Iran or Canada says or does, … the ART of the DEAL, is an ART! And President Trump hires the BEST PEOPLE to carry out tasks, and if some people can’t handle the job TRUMP assigns them he says “YOU ARE FIRED”,… and then Trump looks for a new person with experience to “do the job Trump assigns him to do”. Trump has NO problems firing people. And Trump doesn’t care how the people deal with TRUMP. NONE at all. It is all part of deal making. Trump took out 17 reps in 2016. Trump won 2016 against all odds. Trump did win by more in 2020 but the Corrupt Government rigged the election. Trump won in 2024, with saying TOO BIG TO RIG! And NOW, the FBI/CIA/DOJ is going after the Corrupt people that rigged the elections.
Trump has got this. Canada is just SINKING FAST … and maybe Trump makes Canada the 51st state (or gets alberta). MAGA don’t care what MSM says anymore … as Donald told us and coined the slogan ….” FAKE NEWS”.
and the citizens of Canada standby wringing their hands as their country plunges into the abyss of nothingness.
JMO.
Many see Mark Carney as a Canadian clown …. it is not hard to imagine.
True, he was born in Canada, but if you look closely, he is a hardcore subject of King Charles of UK, purposely embedded into Canada to be Charles’ attack dog against President Trump.
King Charles looks meek but behind that mask there is a man driven by the hatred of the United States’ because we defeated King George in 1776 and we defeated King Charles’ Big New Green Scam in 2024 with the election of President Trump.
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Back to Mark Carney’s CliffsNotes history:
He assumed the duties of PM of Canada on March 14, 2025.
Now, looking back, here is his citizenship history since 1980:
Republic of Ireland (1980s–2025) ….. history as part of UK.
United Kingdom (2018–2025)
Consider also that he was the Governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020.
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It is King Charles who is encouraging Canada’s close ties to China, an enemy of the USA.
Yup, it is becoming more evident every day, Canada and China are King Charles’ surrogates in his contemporary attack on President Trump and the USA.
President Trump has known this since before 2024 and is taking the necessary actions to protect American’s and America, aka the tariffs and exposing Canada’s lack of NATO support.
He also knows that the “5-eyes in UK” were a large part of the democrat / RINO’s 2021 coup d’état against our Constitutional Republic, our Constitution and also our President Trump.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
I notice GOOGLE/YOUTUBE has stepped into high gear to promote Leftist stuff. Google is censoring … heavy again. Are you guys noticing this stepped up behavior (before the 2026 elections).
Yup, and also the “splitter group of Karl ROVE and the bushites” on FOX NEWS” have been activated.
As globalists, their main objective is to try to split up President Trump’s MAGA / America First movement ….. of course, they will fail just like they did in 2022.
MAGA / America Fist isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Good synopsis on the citizenship history. I am curious what his next role will be after leaving his current assignment as PM.
The only thing we use from Canada that I know of here in FL is their whisky and their tourists who vacation annually here. The ones that come here don’t like their government!
Canada has also been a major source of potassium chloride.
We’ll happily pay more for softener salt until an American enterprise revives US production.
America First.
It seems pretty clear to me that Canada’s main objective here is to hurt Trump politically and to influence the American midterm election in favor of the Democrat (communist) party. Does anyone else see it that way?
The motive of destroying our nation – which requires first destroying our president and government – is the main objective of the majority of the world, including many in our own nation.
That globalist and commonwealth stooge Carney shares that motivation should not came as a surprise to anyone Joe.
Scuttlebutt says Russia is going to nuke Canada and they expect EUROPE NATO members to help, but will only send supplies. USA will step in and save their Canadian bacon and cement the Canada/USA relations which has been planned all along by Carney/Trump.
How’s that?
Cray cray.
Hey Mark — back at you…
Not surprised by this. Years ago, in November of 2006 – my husband had a very significant dream where he was “falling” after all of our possessions, our beautiful home and everything that we held dear, went up in a tornado and was scattered. He was thrown into the air from the tornado and was “falling” until at the end of his falling, he saw a maple leaf on the ground.
Dreams are pictures that the Lord paints on our hearts, when our bodies are asleep but our hearts are awake. See the Song of Songs 5:2….”I went to sleep, but my heart stayed awake…..”. God gives dreams to speak into our spirit, as His back up communication; it complements day time communications from the Lord. He was giving us (my husband) a night time parable of the next 19 years.
This dream did become a reality as we went from a prosperous life style into a “pit.” All arranged by the hand of the Lord to expose our self nature. The book of Job is one of the first recorded scriptures. Job was a man brought into the “pit” for the greater purposes of God.
So now, on the cusp of my birthday tomorrow, August 23rd, we will be in Niagara Falls, and plan to go into Niagara Falls N.Y. for a birthday dinner. (Denny’s the American Institution!)….smile…….
Literally, we are going to come up and out of our own personal micro wilderness, while the nation of Canada goes into hers. Believe me, what we experienced was the passage from Mark 10:29…..”Jesus said, Truly I tell you, THERE IS NO ONE who has given up and left house, or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for MY SAKE and for the Gospel’s Who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, WITH PERSECUTIONS – and in the time to come eternal life.”
Anyone who ever witnessed the wonderful Secretariat, a red colored race horse, who lived 19 years and won the Belmont by 31 lengths, will recognize that the Supernatural was involved with this wonderful horse. Secretariat was a picture of the overcomer. Secretariat was a creation of the Lord to behold and to declare HIS GLORY. He wore the beautiful blue and white, which also represents the colors of Israel, and our precious Lord came from the Jewish brethern. Psalm 19 reads the Bridegroom coming out of His chambers – Revelation 19 – reads the Bride preparing herself – Proverbs 31 – reads the woman who EXCELLED. Jersualem the capital of Israel – obtained after 19 years – from 1948 to 1967 – is another sign. All of these examples are guideposts for those who can PERCEIVE and UNDERSTAND. 19 is a number for the overcoming BRIDE. Secretariat was born in April of 1970 around Passover, and died in October of 1989 – around the Fall feasts – between Rosh Hashana and Tabernacles. PERCEIVE.
So pray for Canada; because now the conditions are ripe for our own personal release and our nation’s greater captivity. The MAPLE LEAF IS ON THE GROUND. Canada will go into her own “pit” but SHE WILL NOT STAY THERE. God has purposes for us as a sheep nation; God has purposes for us as a nation of healers, but we need to be free from our own corrupt GLOBALIST, COMMUNIST, ISLAMIC HYDRA government. The corruption will be exposed. AND 19 years later, TO THE DAY, I will again be in NIAGARA FALLS, to celebrate a birthday. WOW – God’s timing is perfect.
So American and Canadian readers, KNOW that what we experienced on a personal level will be experienced on a national level for Canada. It has to be this way, because just like our own internal SELF NATURE, Canada must see for herself the corruption from within and choose to turn away from it.
President Trump has the Jeremiah 1:10 mantle, to uproot and over throw, but then to build and to plant.
God bless Canada. God bless the U.S.A. AND God bless President Trump in this very difficult, but necessary, comissioning from the Lord to turn this Canadian HYDRA on it’s head and dismantle it!!
Amen to that!
Canada is being shaken for God’s redemptive purpose and His Glory–look up, Canucks!
John Redenbo at Dream Life Decoded – YouTube teaches that all dreams are from God, even the weird ones, and I think that’s right.
I agree–Secretariat had the Breath of God upon him powerfully. We’ll stand on this verse with you, Candace:
Job 42:10
After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
Double for your trouble, Yes and Amen!
Thank you for those precious words. We had a million dollar business but went from that to the “pit.” Remember though, that the Philadelphia church (the church of true brotherly love) had to learn PATIENT ENDURANCE and they needed that blessing from Isaiah 22:22 – to come into a place with God – running the race in TRUE LOVE. Secretariat ran the longest distance (BELMONT) because of a 22 pound heart. We WENT AHEAD, like a JOSEPH, to prepare for others in the difficult times coming. Any blessings restored is not for selfish reasons but for GOD’s purposes and to help others in need.
“Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.”
Blessings!
It’s all very simple: “Canada, Mexico, you have to PRODUCE.” You can no longer unpack a box from China, tighten one screw, and put it in another box labeled “Made in Canada.”
If you want access to the American market, you have to EARN it.
And: I am quite sure that there are many of your people who badly want to “Make CANADA Great Again!” Why don’t you start listening to them?? You might like what happens next! (Do you think they enjoy being peons??)
Value comes from work. Good work always produces value. Lazy people keep trying to get something for nothing.
Yeah. Now, here’s a stunning idea:
“We are going to make a car – or, how about a lawn mower? – ENTIRELY IN CANADA, that is so damned good that the whole world will beat a path to OUR door in order to buy it.”
I’ll bet that a whole bunch of inventive Canadians, tired of being box-stuffers, would say: “Yeah! We can do it!!”
If we must buy Chinese products, why buy them through a corrupt middleman?
A 50% tariff will force Ford to shut down its operations in Ontario. That is not a win for the U.S. economy, either. Along with the tariffs, Trump should ban the operation of cars made in China on U.S. roads.
That seems kind of dictatorish. So if you own a car made in China, now it’s useless?
Car manufacturing is surprisingly fluid. Alabama is waiting for what Ontario will lose.
OH CANADA..
it appears to me that
after all this back and forth
a trade war is what Canada
the little puppet of Great Britain
wants
it doesn’t take much to realize that the Canadian govt’s entire strategy is to maintain unfair access to the US economy
A better word is, “freeloading.” And Canada, really, isn’t getting anything from it. They’re box-repackers, nothing more.
W-H-Y??
Time for Canada to be put in its place with its predatory trade practice.
The great North American divide. Canada (socialism/communism, totalitarianism, censorship, monarchy, extensive TDS/ hatred of USA) v USA.
There is no changing the reality. It’s a sad day for Canadians and Americans, but we Americans can no longer financially support the world nor militarily defend the world.
I again reiterate I am in favor of a wall on our nothern border. As things get uglier for Canadians, and they become more desperate, the immigration flow, which is large now, will become larger and illegal. We don’t need illegal immigrants from Canada who for the most part hate USA.
It’s a sad day for both countries, but the right decision by President Trump.