As noted by President Trump, U.S. businesses and contractors are blocked from bidding on most Canadian federal and provincial contracts for goods and services. However, the U.S. does not restrict Canadian companies from bidding on U.S. state and federal contracts.
Effective today, that one-way benefit ends.
Keep in mind, as this Truth Social post was made, USTR Jamieson Greer is in a meeting with Canadian USMCA negotiator, Dominick LeBlanc.
(Via Truth Social) – “Everyone knows that Canada doesn’t let our Great Dairy Farmers sell into the Canadian Market, and that the only reason Canada makes Autos is because of previous disastrous Trade Agreements while other Presidents were in Office. Canada has been ripping us off for years, but what many do not realize is that the Canadian Government, including Canadian Provinces, have banned American Small Businesses and Companies from selling into their Government Procurement Markets.
This is the case even though Canada gets broad access into the massive American Government Procurement Market, including those of our States. That is not reciprocity, it is a Canadian Trade Scam. From now on, NO RECIPROCITY – NO ACCESS! I am hereby directing the GSA, working with the USTR, to take all necessary steps to REMOVE Canadian-origin products from GSA’s Multiple Award Schedules unless Canada restores full and fair reciprocity for American Farmers and Companies. Those schedules account for more than 50 BILLION DOLLARS a year. This should have been cut off years ago, by other Administrations, like it was by mine, only to reinstituted by Sleepy Joe Biden. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
This is also a good opportunity to point out that several media reports on a Deloitte analysis of the Canadian economy, centered around what would happen if the USMCA was terminated, are fundamentally false. The Deloitte analysis has a baseline assumption that is structurally flawed.
You can read the Deloitte Report HERE. In the forward you will notice they ‘assume’ all trade between the U.S. and Canada continues, they assume Canada will retain “most favored nation” status, and they assume without the USMCA Canada will face a global 10% baseline tariff. Each of these assumptions is structurally false.
There is a lot of wish-casting in those assumptions, the biggest one is that Deloitte ignores the Chinese components in Canadian goods.
Without the USMCA to protect their transshipping operation, Canada will not be able to assemble component parts from China into finished goods bound for the United States. There would be no content agreement with the U.S, nor would there be a defined ‘rules of origin’ to use as a guide.
A singular Chinese component not available in the USA (as an outcome of the U.S-China agreement) would be enough to disqualify the entire product line from Canada.
Within their economy Canada doesn’t independently manufacture all their component parts, specifically the heavy industrial components. Instead, Canada ships the raw materials to China then imports the finished component goods. Canada is more of an assembly plant than a manufacturing plant.
Canada exports raw materials, then imports component goods. THAT is their economic model. They chose that route when they decided that climate change was their gospel, carbon emissions were terrible and industrial manufacturing was dirty work that kills the planet. Now they have a “clean energy” carbon trading system, but electricity alone cannot smelt and pour.
Deloitte misses that BIG PICTURE entirely, in their estimate of losing 163,000 jobs/yr, and losing $402 billion in economic activity over ten years.
Basically, Deloitte pretends some form of a general Free Trade Agreement with the USA will exist, while continuing to believe a bunch of Canadian processes, rules, bans, provincial regulations, tariffs and non-tariff barriers against the USA remain in place. The status quo without the USMCA. I can assure you those massive assumptions are flawed.
Canadian media and govt officials are pushing the Deloitte-ca analysis to maintain their political agenda.
The more likely scenario of a USMCA termination (without a FTA to replace it) would be somewhere around a 30 to 50% drop in all export-driven GDP, totaling well over a trillion dollars in the first 5 years. 70% of all Canadian exports would be impacted, and the job losses are not just in the direct manufacturing or assembly process. All of the ancillary economic activity that is derived from wage spending suddenly stops.
China would need to spend 10x more to subsidize Canada than Europe is spending to subsidize Ukraine.
Canada = Yuan Money Pit.
Agreed! From now on Canuck will replace Polok in all disparaging jokes.
I’ll start.
This afternoon in Canada a fully loaded piper cub crashed in a grave yard. Upon the initial assessment of the crash site a massive rescue and recovery operation was launched. In an interview with the Canadian Press the lead emergency responder reported that so far the Canucks had recovered 48 bodies and were still digging!
There were four people in that aircraft. The rescue/recovery effort is digging up at the grave site, underground where dead people have been buried. It’s a cemetery!
A Piper cub only carries 2.
thats the point it’s joke……..eh
Very interesting times.
My whole life, I’m 68, I’ve listened to and told Polish jokes. I think we picked on the wrong country.
As a blonde of Polish descent, I thank you!
Ok, you set yourself up for one …
A Polish blonde walks into a library, goes straight up to the front desk, and says in a loud voice, “I’d like a hamburger, large fries, and a milkshake, please!”The librarian looks at her, shocked, and says, “Ma’am, you must be confused. This is a library!”The blonde blushes, smiles sheepishly, puts her hand over her mouth, and whispers, “Oh, I am so sorry.” She leans across the counter and whispers quietly, “I’d like a hamburger, large fries, and a milkshake, please.”
What do you do with a Retarded Pig?
Make Canadian Bacon.
I think those are now AOC jokes and appropriately so.
Good one, Don. I’m 79 1/2 and you’re right, it’s now the era of Canadian jokes going forward. Regards, Former U. S. Naval Flight Officer
Drag ALL of the “U.S.” automakers into a conversation and demand all automobiles made by U.S. manufacturers be made in the U.S. or slap massive tariffs on them all.
First, do a deep dive and look at all sides of the issue as to why, many years ago, American automakers set up factories on the other side of the border. Most likely the reasons are plentiful, so they should help illuminate a pathway towards new, mutually beneficial trade agreements, that last long into the future.
THIS is the correct way to proceed
Canada forced them to put factories there in the early 1900s, or not sell cars there.
I had no idea we Canadians were such artists of the deal way back then, I figured the Americans just naturally always ended up on top as they seem to in most deals. I guess the Trump golden touch was a pretty pervasive carry over from the historical Trump family brothel and hotel operated by Donald Trump’s grandfather, Friedrich Trump, in northern Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush (AI facts).
yeah, and what’s your point?
That Canada is full of whores?
Dude.
You’re on a roll.
LOL
0.o
Is that the best you can do? An 1896 “gold rush” in the Yukon that lasted 3 years?
Hoser!
Before Clinton sold us out, before Biden sold us out, it was LBJ who sold us out. LBJ gave us “APTA” the Canada-United States Automotive Products Trade Agreement, 1966.
Nothing reciprocal about it. APTA was a pure gift from the US to Canada. (Other than Canada dropping their ultra-high tariffs on US-made automobiles into their tiny market.)
Before APTA the Canadian auto industry was small and fading. After APTA the big-3 US auto-makers guaranteed a share of production for Canada, set up factories in Canada and employed many thousands of Canadian workers. APTA is the beginning of the modern Canadian auto manufacturing industry. APTA rolled into NAFTA and then into USMCA.
APTA itself is no longer in effect because it was ruled “unfair” by the WTO. But it’s built-in assumption that Canada must always get a guaranteed share of the manufacturing lives on. That assumption is strong in the Canadian leadership’s minds. They cannot fathom a world without that locked-in share.
The Canada-US Auto Pact, the Canada-United States Automotive Products Trade Agreement (APTA) removed tariffs on cars, trucks, buses, tires, and parts between Canada and the U.S., greatly benefiting the Big Three carmakers. In exchange, the companies agreed not to let Canadian production fall below 1964 levels, and to ensure the Canadian production-to-sales ratio is equal to the U.S.
The agreement was a boon for Canadian auto manufacturers. Before APTA, only 7.6 per cent of vehicles made in Canada were exported to the U.S. By 1968, the figure had jumped to 60 per cent. Automobile and parts production soon exceeded pulp and paper to become Canada’s central industry.
https://www.edc.ca/en/blog/canadas-automotive-industry-exporting-history.html
I think LBJ sold out a lot more than just to Canada. lol
LBJ==the original American Father of Socialism
LBJ==Leader of the Destruction of the Family Party
LBJ==godfather behind the Kill Kennedy movement
I recall that this was to offset the power of the UAW which was striking GM and Ford for higher wages.
“APTA” the Canada-United States Automotive Products Trade Agreement, 1966.”
They did it precisely because Canada put huge tariffs on American-made automobiles.
Including ALL component parts!
Couldn’t agree more
Make Detroit great again !
Now start filing lawsuits in Canadian courts, bombarding them with US propaganda, and bribing a few weak politicians in parliament. Time to fight as dirty as they do.
I would feel sorry for the average Canadian, but I live in Vegas, and the Canucks are commonly known as incesent complainers who don’t tip. So screw ’em.
But at lease we can spel. 😉
Take your tongue out of your cheek.
Hmmm how do you spell the other term for the hues in a crayon box?
OK now I’m harbouring resentment. 😉
It’s your math dummie.
Oh come now, you know in the very centre of your being that a single math cannot exist by itself. 😉
Shakes head and rolls eyes…. Hmmm
Sounds like your typical liberal.
If only PDJT could get a few more terms and a few in congress with spines he could actually fix this country. If it were up to me I’d appoint him benevolent dictator for life.
America is no longer anything even close to resembling the Republic mandated by our Constitution. NOT EVEN CLOSE.
If we were a business the courts would have already put us into receivership. And here we are with even our highest courts lined with traitors.
Donald Trump is quite literally the only hope the Republic has – the only hope that America can return to being the Land of the Free.
It was almost there between Obama and Biden. Trump is the only reason we got this far. One more Democrat administration will push the U.S. over the edge in a manner that forbids any full term recovery.
Ain’t a whole lotta light shines between a Donkey and an Elephant, ‘specially when it comes to stopping Trump.
What he achieves, builds and changes for the benefit of America and we Americans are truly astonishing since I’ve seen a lot of past Administrations that did nothing or did harm. The politics of today; all parties are disgustingly corrupt, compromised and sinister; and are embarrassed by Trump’s performance!
agreed
Do not forget Bush and Clinton.
agreed…..i was watching rome the teevee series and caesar was made dicktator of rome was the inspiration for the comment….i thought i was a bit over the top on that comment
That’s a big heavy lift in 27 months.
Agree! 1913 was a very bad year.
Sadly, the first of your points in the conditional is more likely than the second! If the DemoSocialists keep having NoKings rallies, then we normal Americans should push for it! If you’re going to be accused, you may as well do that for which the accusations are slung!
Concarney your about to discover the meaning of FAFO and so it Canada.
Stand by for a Fire Sale !
Deloitte is a multinational globalist organization. All you need to know. Look at their leadership.
and benevolence didn’t pay for the manhours charged to preparing that report.
The economic model described by SD is basically the same as Australia: export raw materials (bauxite and iron ore), mostly extracted by Chinese companies with Chinese equipment and transported in Chinese ships from China-managed ports… send back fully completed goods or nearly-completed goods for final assembly. Absolute hollowing-out of an economy.
The largest extractors aka miners of raw materials in Australia are not Chinese. They are BHP headquartered in Melbourne, Rio Tinto a British-Australian company with headquarters in London and Melbourne, Fortescue headquartered in Perth and Newcrest Mining headquartered in Melbourne. Newcrest Mining is owned by the American company Newmont, Rio Tinto dual ownership Australia/Great Britain, Fortescue is Australian and BHP Group is Australian. BHP Group has some major joint ventures with Chinese companies. The majority owners of all four company are the usual institutional companies Blackrock, Vanguard, etc… which can be called foreign investors/owners but they are not Chinese.
You are correct.
As you can tell from my handle I have dealt with all facets of the mining industry for many decades. I still play with mining stocks, and I guarantee that Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street…… are all involved.
The real irony in the whole “export raw materials, import components” is that the effect on the GLOBE is exactly the same, if you truly buy into the climate change theory. Do they believe that the stuff put into Chinese air only affects China? They must, since they buy into that rationale. They reason more like 3 year olds who want a toy that someone else has and will provide any manipulative trick available.
Part of the reason that “climate change” has not caught on with a larger swath of people is that the stupid climate alarmists have these global “conferences” and promote them widely in the complicit media. They don’t realize that people with functioning brains see the private jets pull up to the airports near the conference and only a few participants and THEIR HUGE STAFFS get off the planes. Al Gore wrote An Inconvenient Truth, which should have had “The greatest existential threat to the planet is climate change. If only the common man could be convinced NOT to fly commercial, NOT to drive a car, NOT to burn anything outdoors (including charcoal for a barbecue), NOT to heat and cool your homes and businesses with fossil fuels, etc, then we could save the planet. Those of us who consider ourselves Climate Educators and Saviors could then fly across the world delivering our message and increase the numbers of Climate Educated Citizens.
They always have a clever caveat to exclude themselves from the rules that they want the common man to follow. Just once I would say Put up or shut up, Live by your OWN rules, Walk the walk because so far you’ve done nothing but Talk the Talk!!
“Live by your own rules..” sounds rather Saul Alinsky to me! Rules for Hustlers?
It is a good idea for PDJT to keep hammering at Canada’s one way trading system. And tear it apart as he is.
The Marshal Plan, Chinese trade, NATO, UN, WTO, NAFTA and others have been previous welfare schemes that are hard to stop. immigration killed everything!
Carney is playing off the hatred of Trump. If he succeeds and tilts the vote in favor of the Democrat’s, then what?? Main stream voters don’t know any of this stuff and anything is possible. Canada may lose now, but money talks and bullshit walks. The politicians are a greedy bunch on both sides of the isle. How can what Trump enacts against Canada survive once he is out. I want to know what long term guarantees there may be over the long haul. The next asshat may pass another agreement with Canada and we are back at square one.
Does he need Congress?
Does Canada have 2 years to wait and pray for different US President?
Blockade the US – Canada border. With “the Militia,” who know the truth as they live it every day.
Vote however you want. I guess that those I referenced earlier now understand there was a green light already given to act.
Some controversial guy that is running for the US Senate seat in some northern border state.
“Hurt people hurt some people.” Amirite?!
All this has a two year shelf life until the next preidential election…after that, who knows. God forbid a democrap President wins and everything becomes undone as in the Sleepy Joe Biden years and we are again returned to Americian sold out policies…Glass Half full now, hopefully not half empty after that election.
Another great example of pretending not to know things.
Carney has been selected to accomplish one objective — bring down or at least dramatically weaken President Donald J. Trump no matter what it takes and regardless of who gets hurt, even if it wrecks his own economy and people.
How does this weaken Trump and the US?
I didn’t say it was working or even that it will work. I suggested that it was Carney’s objective (i.e. assignment), and mostly likely why he was practically gifted the PM position.
They’ve already admitted they want to impact the mid-terms to hurt the President. I do know from being on the ground in a border state, our northern, traditionally conservative counties are encountering highly motivated Dems in local elections and are expecting them to show up in the mid-terms.
Craney was practically grifted the PM position.
The bankers had to install one of their own. Stopping Trump is too important.
That’s something we should never forget. Thanks for the reminder. It needs to be repeated.
I would suggest all the negative narrative leave the CTH and take their propaganda with
them.
Get out, vote early and take the elderly and/or others that do not have means of transportation!
Negative and false publicity weaken his popular support, which weakens his support in CONgress and, in the immediate future, weakens the prospects of holding both houses in the mid terms.
Canada is our largest trading partner and putting the “ripping us off” narrative aside for the moment Canada buys almost $430 billion in goods and services from the United States including $1.3 billion in dairy products. This is almost the same amount of goods and services the United States buys from Canada each year.
It’s in black and white on Greer’s USTR website….
Canada | United States Trade Representative
Canada Trade Summary
“U.S. goods and services (exports plus imports) trade with Canada totaled an estimated $872.3 billion in 2025, down 4.6 percent ($42.1 billion) from 2024.
U.S. goods trade (exports plus imports) with Canada totaled an estimated $715.5 billion in 2025. U.S. goods exports to Canada in 2025 were $333.6 billion, down 4.8 percent ($17.0 billion) from 2024. U.S. goods imports from Canada totaled $381.9 billion in 2025, down 7.2 percent ($29.8 billion) from 2024. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Canada was $48.3 billion in 2025, a 21 percent decrease ($12.9 billion) over 2024.
U.S. services trade (exports plus imports) with Canada totaled an estimated $156.8 billion in 2025. U.S. services exports to Canada in 2025 were $92.3 billion, up 1.9 percent ($1.7 billion) from 2024. U.S. services imports from Canada in 2025 were $64.5 billion, up 4.9 percent ($3.0 billion) from 2024. The U.S. services trade surplus with Canada was $27.7 billion in 2025, a 4.6 percent decrease ($1.3 billion) over 2024.”
https://share.google/kWd2OgoG0Qys7trI8
He has failed dramatically.
President Trump won 2020. He should get to serve that term next.
Even if he has to declare martial law to do it based on the corrupt election process in so many States.
The future of the USA hangs in the balance, and I for one believe that allowing the Demo-Communists back into power is the key to Civil War and WW3.
President Trump is our last chance for a peaceful off-ramp from the trajectory of several decades. God bless him, and God Bless America.
These folks are hilarious. As I shop, if it says raised in or product of canada. it stays on the shelf. I live in a small town in NH and Quebbies have always been known as rude . Go to Hampton beach and watch these chuckleheads refuse to speak English. When it comes to buying anything, I spend more to shop local. As Tom Selleck said in the movie Monte Walsh. “You have no idea how little I care”. Keep your beady eyes, square tires and flapping heads on your side of the border.
Trump is savage
So much for Deloitte’s reputation.
They were hired because they agreed with the outcome prior to starting.
exactly!
Ouch! Oopsie! I feel for our Canadian Treepers!
It’s very simple. Deloitte knows that Canaduh will assist the democrats in every way possible this November to cheat and steal, and they *assume* it will work. A democratic House and Senate will then impeach and remove Trump. Carney gets nominated for the next administration’s Treasury Secretary, and we move all our industry to Canaduh.
It as if they shift the carbon emissions from Canada to China they are sending them to a different planet. The pretending is off the charts. Let alone that the regulation to protect air and water are much stricter in Canada, so in fact they are increasing carbon emissions and pollution by moving heavy industrial businesses to China.
“They chose that route when they decided that climate change was their gospel, carbon emissions were terrible and industrial manufacturing was dirty work that kills the planet. Now they have a “clean energy” carbon trading system, but electricity alone cannot smelt and pour.”
And guess what, they’ve even sacrificed their energy production to Mother Gaia……
Pretty safe assumption that the imported energy is coming from the US. Any bets on Carnagey slapping a tariff on electricity imported from the US?
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240429/cg-b002-eng.htm
Interesting Canada wants to end trade with the United States and increase it with China. Very dangerous for Canada …….. and the United States.
Canada’s new retaliatory tariffs put Washington paper, machinery and other exports at risk
https://komonews.com/news/local/canadas-new-retaliatory-tariffs-put-washington-paper-machinery-and-other-exports-at-risk-taxes-taxpayer-inflation-economy-cost-of-living-imports-exports-trump-federal-groceries-trade-negotiations-boeing-industry-employment
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I wonder if Canadians are still crossing into Washington to get urgent health care treatments done along the I-5 corridor? That was a substantial business years ago. Almost 20% of the heart bypass operations were on Canadian patients.
I used to enjoy Nabob jam. It came in a tin. I don’t think they make it anymore.
They still cross into Michigan to buy all kinds of stuff, go to the doctors, etc.
So…
Washington State sucks anyway.
Let them go under with their canadian friends.
Not the entire state.
John, the canucks cross over into MI from ontario for most of their needs, including health care.
I laughed when I read carnage telling canadians to boycott the U.S.
HA HA!!
They cannot stay away!!! We complete them!
They cross over into Michigan from the Bluewater Bridge from Sarnia all the time, there is a Walmart just as they get off the bridge, they shop, go to the doctors, buy cars, it’s crazy how many come over.
The “legacy” ones or the ‘new’ Canadians? I’m surprised if the former still have money to buy cars…
Maybe Carney The Clown can sell Canada to Chy-na for one Yuan and an NHL Draft Pick to be named later.
Latest news:
Carney’s government has made a deeper EU partnership a top priority and is actively looking at everything short of actual membership, said a Canadian official who spoke on the condition of anonymity
I can’t think of a worse wagon to hitch to.
On Sept 16 Canada becomes a protectorate if the EU. The House of Windsor has abandoned their European roots. More Mosques than Christian Churches. Too much inbreeding I suspect.
How about TD Bank? We cannot open a single bank in Chinada yet they have Toronto Dominion everywhere. Time to stop this!!!
If anyone has an account with TD there are plenty of other banks to do business with.
Most don’t know what the TD stands for
Toronto Dominion
Can’t wait to buy a ski lodge on 500 acres for $50,000!
All Treepers get free lift passes.
Yeah, I’m a generous guy.
Are you anticipating a nationwide collapse of real estate and land values north of the border? If so, much of Canada will be up for grabs cheap to outside buyers. It’s also a financial win for some of those inside Canada who helped to create the collapse in the first place.
Just teasing but it’s possible. Currently Americans can own property there, but I’m sure they could change that with some quick legislation.
My sincere hope is that a majority of Canadians wake up from their unrealistic fantasy and turn things around, first by getting rid of Carney.
Why were Canadian companies ever allowed to do this in the first place?
Enjoy your new leeches, Xi!
I was supposed to deliver some merchandise for a show in Canada this coming weekend but was told, today, that they cancelled because the taxes they’d have to pay would be too high.
I think Carney is gambling that he will just wait out Trump’s tenure and then return to business as usual. I’m not sure Canada would last that long.
Canadian companies can no longer bid on U.S. state and federal contracts. Will there be any effect on the contracts that they currently have, or at least on the federal ones?
Make use of the T4C clause – Termination for the convenience of the Govt.
Oh no!!!!
What will alcoholic motorcycle riders do when they can’t buy three wheeled CanAm bikes for the equilibrium impaired?
Polaris Slingshot.
Something like 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the southern border. Well within AM radio range of a Voice of America type radio network based on the US.
Hell, it might be advantageous to blast the broadcast in both directions.
So, it didn’t go well for Canada’s rep in talks with Greer.
No link available, yet. But, here’s the CBC title : LeBlanc calls U.S. response ‘unjustified’
19 minutes ago
Deloitte in its role here more as a consultant than accountant demonstrates the common notion that consultants often are paid to tell their clients what they want to hear. Clearly this is the message Carney’s government wants to convey. Now they have an expert, Deloitte, proclaiming it, ergo it must be true. An expert has both studied it and publicly released it.
Better to look at the many independent Canadian professionals who see the real and true downside here.