Here’s the fact bomb that silences Canadians almost immediately when delivered.
In December 2024 then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, told President-elect Donald Trump that Canada could not comply with a renewed trade agreement based on reciprocity because: (1) Canada had deindustrialized; their manufacturing was now “light” manufacturing and assembling of component goods made by others. (2) Canada had legislated energy policy based on climate change, and high carbon emitting industrial production was no longer an option [coking coal burning etc.]. (3) The NATO military spending goal was too high for Canada to reach [they were 19th and it wasn’t a priority because the USA was the crutch]. (4) Internal provincial rules, restrictions and cross-border trade regulations did not align with a Canadian federal trade policy effort, and (5) the political power of the ‘dairy cartel’ inside Canada tied the hands of Canadian trade representatives.
That was the gist of it. That’s why Canada cannot now or ever find a path to a U.S. reciprocal or balanced trade agreement. #1 and #2 is specifically why Canadian govt officials repeatedly use the word “intertwined.” They say intertwined because they can no longer function separately. Canada is economically dependent on proximal and economic subsidies from the United States.
That outline by Trudeau led Trump to say that Canada should then become a 51st state….. And, well, you know the rest. Someone in Canada should ask Trudeau about it. The former Prime Minister has no reason to deny it, and too many people were witness. Then, perhaps, Canadians will understand.
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Historian and political Pundit Victor Davis Hanson gives his review of the current status. I would refute the point that VDH makes about Mark Carney “not knowing what he is doing” and the resulting chaos will come as a surprise.
VDH is well intentioned. However, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney knows exactly what he is doing. Carney’s antagonism is a feature of his commonwealth alignment with the European union, and understanding that takes you to a very dark place in this geopolitical dynamic.
It would be one thing if they announced OK, we’re light manufacturing, greenie energy, etc. and admitted they’ve become a vassal state of the US.
That’s not what happened; they’re a vassal state of the PRC and EU trying to con us into allowing the people who want us destroyed to use Canada as a lever. Carney didn’t say “we can’t do the deal you want because we’re trying to kill you” but fortunately many here including the Trump administration have this secret technique called “deduction.”
(hint: so do the Demonrats – but they’re working *for* the enemy).
Lutnick makes a great point about the gas tax in California and her reply is, “are you saying people are not FEELING inflation”, how do you interact with this type of willful ignorance? That interviewer is obtuse in the extreme. Tariffs serve a useful purpose, you are never going to convince these dunderhead media types or liberals/progressives etc, THEY NEVER and I mean NEVER look at the long term ramifications of their policy! NEVER! They are the ones that stripped the USA of manufacturing, destroying entire small middle class towns, creating dependence on countries that hate us or are antithetical to us, i.e communist, islamic, etc. and I am old enough to remember the a*shol*s saying, we will become a service economy and it will make up for no longer being a country that makes things! Well guess what, DAILY the small business I work for gets calls and emails from India, and elsewhere and private equity firms (i.e. evil, greedy entities) that want to “invest” in our business which is code for as soon as the ink dries on the dotted line we will co-opt your business, dictate the service you provide, remove you from decision making based on what is good for your CUSTOMER and hook you up to a call center in Indiana so fast your head will spin. Then what? We don’t make anything, and our service industries are shipped overseas too. Then what? So sick of the short sighted and sick to death of globalism.
The reporter is a leftist Quack…. she had no intention on mentioning not only the Grocery stores, but also the local Communist Govt’s (that includes Pritzker, Newscum, etc.) raising prices on everyday goods like food and gas tax to make GOP look bad. These Govt’s and Grocery chains are outright looting the American people at this juncture…. and what’s really disgusting is the Big Retailers all got Tax incentives from us to be in our jurisdictions.
This was former PM, Jean Chretien, at the 9/11 get together in Gander yesterday (US planes were diverted there on 9/11).
https://x.com/CPAC_TV/status/2098490152658059510?s=20 – he was given a standing ovation!!
This man is one of the chief architects of the embarrassing state we, in Canada, are in today. Here are some of the others –
https://x.com/bcbluecon/status/2098627178430886050?s=20
Why would he deliver such a threatening message to AMERICANS, on the day to commemorate 9-11??
First of all, how INSULTING COULD HE BE? All his threats were aimed at us, not the 9-11 criminals!
2nd, who the hell does he think he is? He thinks he commands the US?
The truth is … All the EU countries, & Canada, have devolved from monarchies & aristocracies. It’s still in their heads that they are the rulers, the smarter entitled class, the ones who always “know better”, & deserve more wealth, more command, etc.
Finally, they think that we who have shed our blood on their lands, for their freedoms, rebuilt their countries, protected them with NATO, given them tariff preferences, ad nauseum, for 80 years, should just continue to do it, while their poor governing choices ruin their trading value to us, or they will threaten & insult us??
Was there even one that said, upon hearing of P. Trump’s amended tariff policy, said, “Well, we knew this day would come. Your intended 20-year largesse to us extended to 80, and you continued to favor us …. So now, it’s our turn to help our benefactor, the US, & it’s fine & generous people.. What can we do now for you?
Let’s sit and talk & work this out in as win-win spirit as we can. Thank you for all those good years when you sustained us, & weren’t obligated to do so. We are grateful”.
Would that ever occur to these greedy, inept cretins??
Thank you very much, Sundance! I appreciate your assessment that VDH knows clearly the bent of those running the scam; he just doesn’t want to receive their wrath.
The deindustrialization of the USA and that is little sister Canada, may come clear in digesting David Rockefeller’s oped “China Traveler” published in the New York Times August 1973.
It’s all to do with their quest of eliminating competition. Once true thinking citizens wake to reality the tyrants have no chance.
Press On!!
I don’t get it. If they were so close to a deal, why would they do a bilateral agreement. I’m guessing they are still doing USMCA at this point in time.
When a bilateral deal is done with Mexico, the USMCA will be terminated and Canada will be bankrupt
The logical thinking would be that when the US bilateral with the real mexicans is done, that will end the USMCA between them and snow mexicans as a bonus round.
This should be good, get plenty of Indiana popcorn.
Elbows up needs to be changed to buns up kneeling While Carneys wheeling and dealing.
Not even becoming a US territory. They need us more than we need them. There are too many global warming nut cases there.
Canada. A country where they insist on speaking French yet are a constitutional monarchy with the British monarchy recognized as the head of state. Already a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, why not add EU Commonwealth to the mix.
Canada as a 51st state would be a disaster for the USA and must never happen. Imagine Canadians with two Senate seats and more House seats than California. No thank you!
On this link from today’s presser, at the very end, Trump says “You’ll probably see a deal very soon”.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/trump-says-trade-deal-with-canada-could-come-fairly-soon-says-us-has-been-ripped-off-for-50-years/
The dehumanizing name calling is the step before violence.
Will the mass of Canadian people be able to pull themselves out of the psyop their politicians have put them?
Will there be shooting between Canadians or Cans vs Ams?
If not for Rush Limbaugh and our Bill of Rights we would be psyop’d the same way.
I just noticed some EBT eligible items on Amazon that come from Canada factories, the item has gone up in price by magnitude of 300% in the past 10 years or so. Someone needs to stop this foreign abuse of SNAP and EBT via Democrat handouts. We’re talking an item that isn’t even food, but instead a breath mint. We need regulations on EBT….. foreign companies should not be eligible…. unless the product is made in the USA. Someone please relay this issue to the Administration…. thanks.
Good catch.
Canada -the mouse that roared. 😂
I remember the last time new trade deals were being worked out with Canada and Mexico.
Canada pushed back, insulted, hated America more…
Until Mexico came through for a deal with the US….
Then Mexoco panicked….and came crawling back to the table.
Probably gonna happen that way again.
Geez, she asks a question, then doesn’t listen to the answer, OR RESPOND. Then goes off topic, asks another, doesn’t respond. She doesn’t strike me as very bright. Of course, what’s new?