80 Replies to “Art of the Fail”

  1. Well, turdo la doo ain’t very bright, but given the reflexive anti-Americanism of the majority of Canadians, he’s smart enough to know he’s in a win-win situation on any trade deal success or fail.

    If he doesn’t make a deal, the Dairy cartel will cheer to high heavens, and the blame for any tariffs that the US imposes on Canadian autos (and all consequences) will be assigned by the majority of Canadians, to Trump.

    If he does make a deal, here’s my prediction: the Canadian market will open up to certain Yank dairy products, Trump will relent on our autos, and the poor, screwed Canadian taxpayer will make up for any losses (and then some) incurred by dairy farmers…which, by the way, will be all Trump’s fault.

    1. I have a different pov.
      If a deal is made, those that would never vote liberal will breath a sigh of relief but still not vote liberal. Further to that, those that would vote liberal but are rabid Trump haters would likely stay home on election day as it would be seen as juthtin caving to Trump’s demands.

    2. “the Canadian market will open up to certain Yank dairy products”

      As long as a deal on dairy is equitable, we can’t lose. Wisconsin dairy farmers aren’t willing to give up their protection which is far worse than Canada. Canada’s 270% tariff over the quota amount reflects the fact that American farmers have 257% government subsidies on their sales. Ain’t rocket science. The US allows less than 1% import of dairy products controlled by way of quota with high tariffs (but lower than Canada) for exceeding quota. Canada has significantly higher import quotas than the US. We can’t make a bad equitable deal on dairy with the US because they are way greedier than Canada. Canada should lower its tariff to 50% and cut its quota its quota to 1% and hear the US dairy farmers squeal.

      1. Who is this moron scar?

        US dairy is cheaper. Cross the border and buy some; that will be your evidence.

        How, do you ask, can dairy be cheaper by stepping one foot across the border?

        Les regulation.
        More free market.

        Canada is the fucking protected market, you brain dead Quebec dairy crime lord.

        We have more regulation.
        Less free market.
        HIGHER PRICES.

        Simple as that. Please stop trying to get the stupid on everyone else. We do not need your extra stupid.

        1. Kevin – what did I write that isn’t true? Governments in the US pay dairy farmers $72 for every $28 of milk they produce. This is called unfair trade. It’s also why Americans give away their dairy products. If Canada agreed to fair open trade in dairy products the Wisconsin farmers would quickly change their minds. Does having that tiny dick make you rude or do rude people grow shorter dicks. See you later little fella.

          1. “Does having that tiny dick make you rude” when your comment turns to insults, you have lost the argument

          2. “Governments in the US pay dairy farmers $72 for every $28 of milk they produce”

            Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……

          3. “when your comment turns to insults, you have lost the argument”

            nuthinmuffin – There is no argument to lose. It was a list of facts. I didn’t start the insults. I did finish them.

    3. Then Canadians will richly deserve what is about to happen to their net equity and retirement savings.

      Oh and investment capital will begin diverting rapidly from Canadian business, as who in their right minds wants to risk investing in a market the US president hates?

    4. Jamie – Looking through old papers and photos today, I came upon a Maclean’s magazine from Feb. 9, 2004. I had saved it for the cover. Trudeau says Canadians are polite and won’t be bullied, implying that Trump is a rude bully. Maclean’s tasteful cover is a headshot of George W. Bush, with the message: Canadians to Bush: HOPE YOU LOSE, EH.

  2. It only makes sense. Trudeau cannot get re-elected running against Andrew Scheer, unless maybe a minority government. Running against Donald Trump, he can galvanize Ontario and Quebec, with the help of Liberal media, and that is the last chapter of a once great nation. Thanks for coming out, but the Canadian experiment might be over soon.

    1. Hotrod you’r wrong. Canada died years ago. Harper drove a spike through its decaying heart so it couldn’t come back

        1. There are those that believe our economy peaked in about 1970. Homes and cars required the least hours of work ever. We may have not had all that cheap plastic Chinese shit destined for the landfill but lives were way simpler.

      2. Hmmmm Tony. You make a very strong point there. So what your saying is, you’re a brain dead lefty and we all should be too. Let me think about it. That’s a compelling argument there.

      3. I wonder if Canada would even be a country today save the Harper era. We’re still feeding off its fat. But not for long.

      4. Peeair and the Liberal Party killed Canada a long time ago, simply legislated it away. First they changed the flag, without permission, then they imposed french on an English speaking nation, without permission, then they imposed Martial law, then they changed the national anthem, without permission, then they imposed the CRTC, without permission, then they imposed Trudeaus Charter again without consent from the governed changing forever the way in which the country is governed, now the country is essentially governed by an unaccountable unelected autocratic court of law society freaks and agitators. Canada is long gone, Trudopia is an insane asylum, as intended.

        1. First they changed the flag, without permission, then they imposed french on an English speaking nation, without permission

          The flag was changed while Pearson was PM. He, ultimately, was also responsible for inflicting French upon us as an official language as he started the Royal Commission on bilingualism and biculturalism.

          Still, those were moves largely meant to keep Quebec happy.

          1. Yes, the country was destroyed by Peeair and the Liberal Party as I stated. Soviet mole Pearson was the PM when the LIberals unilaterally changed the flag without permission and he did so under the advice of the “three wisguys” from Queerbek including crazy little Peeair. Pearson may have started the infamous B@B commission under advisement from franco Queerbekers, but it was crazy Peeair who imposed french as an “official language” in 1969 followed by the imposition of the War Measures Act in 1970, all for a classic phoney “crisis’…. a strategy right out of Mien Kampf. Also, the findings of the B@B commission were largely ignored by Trudeau as he imposed personalized “bilingualism” even though that was the least favourable among Canadians including Queerbekers… territorial “bilingualism” had mild support but was discarded. These dictatorial destabilizing and unnecessary perversions of the Canadian State were all on crazy Peeair and the Liberal Party he hijacked. As crazy Peeair stated when elected Liberal leader, “ah huh, and now the cat is among the pigeons”… yep, a crazy malicious cat that should’ve been put down but instead ruled for decades.

  3. If Trudeau really does want a deal then a GOOD deal for Canadians is laying there on the table for Groper Sparklesocks to sign. He can KEEP his beloved “supply management” but eliminate the tariff on 1 or 2 diary items, such as ‘milk solids’ ( = powdered milk used as an ingredient in manufactured foods) and maybe ‘whey protein’. That would give Trump a (partial) victory to wave to Wisconsin dairy interests while letting Trudeau claim “I saved Canada’s dairy industry AND cars – vote for me!” …in short, a win – win for 2 politicians seeking re-election.

    But I don’t think Trudeau’s Liberals are smart enough to see that opening as a win – they’re not bright, and they’re as much ‘drama queens’ as he is. I truly fear they will risk 160,000 auto jobs in Ontario to save 10,000 dairy farmers in Quebec …because it would also leave Canada’s telecom + banking + ‘Canadian content’ in broadcasting ALL untouched to remain as is.

    The Canadian PEOPLE would love the results of Trump’s new trade deal … Canada’s Liberal Party would hate it bigly. That’s why I think there will be no deal for Canada, and Trudeau will be ‘campaigning against the nasty bully Trump’ in 2019. Canada’s Liberal media megaphones are already tirelessly spinning the story this way for him.

    1. ” truly fear they will risk 160,000 auto jobs in Ontario to save 10,000 dairy farmers in Quebec ”

      Consider that being liberals and that they want to be all things to all people, they don’t want to allow either to lend their support to another party and the negotiating strategy is to rag the puck.
      Trump put the kybosh on that when he sent the letter to congress that said with or without Canada.
      They have less than 90 days to agree to Trump’s terms maybe less before choosing between cars or dairy cartel.

  5. Ezra’s video is very insightful. I believe Trudeau did not take the call because he is scared of Trump – and perhaps not authorized ( by whoever is really running Canada) to deal directly with him. I am appalled by the level if incompetence in this government. It is additionally galling that the media seems not to notice. Both are betraying the country.

    1. Welcome to our world (U.S.) where as Instapundit reminds us, reporters are Democrat operatives with bylines. Frightening when the press voluntarily muzzles itself. Thank God for Fox , Drudge, Breitbart, et al. If you’re not reading conservative press, you have no idea what’s really going on in the world.

  6. So the various scenarios of who wants a deal and who doesn’t are rolling out. Is Turdeau naive enough to think he can play hard ball with Trump? I can only hope there are people counselling otherwise. Yes, he could fan the flames of Canadian nationalism for his re-election, but re-election to what?

    The reality is that the Americans could economically destroy Canada at their whim. They have had that capacity since at least 1946. Trump knows that and I hope Turdeau does as well. One has to consider what value Canada can bring to a trade deal that benefits the USA. The harsh reality is that Canada brings a market of +/- 35 million people. Canada cannot sell a national security partnership any more as technology and lack of military spending has passed us by.

    At what point to Canadians ask themselves who is the stronger partner for the USA, Canada or Mexico? I have to suggest Mexico. Mexico and bring a source of cheap labor in a increasingly challenged demographic USA. Mexico can also provide a buffer to Central and South America. The USA and Mexico border can be made secure and likely will.

    Canada on the otherhand has major issues. A society based on exploiting resources and dependent on its geographic relationship to the USA. A society with debt that far exceeds the ability to pay and a national psyche that refuses to acknowledge or even debate these weaknesses. By all appearances the major Canadian concern with a revised NAFTA is the retention of 150,000 auto worker jobs in Ontario. What value is the automotive industry in Canada over and above the existing domestic market? Whatever that number why wouldn’t Donald Trump think that those revenues should benefit Americans? He knows and all Canadians should know that foreign governments have seen investment in Canada as access to the USA market through NAFTA. Redirecting investment from Canada to the USA is an obvious fallout.

    The next time Trump is characterized as a bourish baffoon it should be considered that this man is a businessman who has a plan. That plan does not bode well for Canada.

    1. CT, good analysis. It seems that Canadians’ economic well-being has depended in large part on American generosity which will only exist in a framework of mutual good-will. It appears that much of that good-will may have been squandered since 2015.

    2. Agreed.

      The Trump and Trudeau teams are headed in two different directions, one to eliminate tariffs, one to preserve them.

      But, they will arrive at the same destination – a 25% duty on vehicles exported to the US.

      Blaming this all on Trump or calling the Conservatives racist will neither comfort nor mollify auto workers.

      Will Trudeau calculate, as Chretien would, that ON autoworkers have more political capital than Quebec dairy moguls?

      No he won’t, he’s trapped in his Montreal centric world, where its mayors decide national policies like pipelines, and are soooo concerned with the belugas depending on the direction of the crude tankers going up or down the St Lawrence.

      This is turning into a slam dunk for Scheer assuming he’s not betrayed from within by ne’er do well “real” conservatives.

      Trudeau has no rainmakers, just global village idiots pining for sunny days, while shutting down our fossil fuels industry to get on the UNSC and the approval of climate apparatchiks, with policies formulated anywhere but in or for this country.

      He’ll have “more flexibility” after the next election. We’ll need it more than he, because we’re going to get bent over real good.

      Like their leftist friends down south, power is the only concern, and like NK, keeping their cronies fat is their key to power.

  7. irony…..they are all liberal man is destroying the planet greens
    and they are trying to save two industries…they have been telling us are destroying the planet
    We’ve all seen how fast car factories can move….we all know how many different brands and choices there are
    …they better be worried about cars

  8. Turdo & Freeland want a trade war. They had those retaliatory tariffs that surgically target GOP constituencies ready to go when USA announced tariffs on steel and aluminum cuz of dumping into the US and wasted no time slapping then on.

    “The idea is, you look at a map of the congressional districts of the United States, you look at which members of Congress are in leadership positions and then you look at the big industries in those districts and then you draw up your list accordingly,” she said. “And this list was clearly drawn up with this in mind.”

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/steel-tariff-maple-syrup-toilet-paper-1.4686833

    This needs to be shouted from the roof tops for American voters to know how the Dems have been colluding with Canada to influence the outcome of the American mid-term election.

  9. Imposing crippling carbon taxes, stopping or sabotaging any export pipeline construction, deliberately antagonizing and snubbing a major trading partner resulting in failed trade negotiations, and all the while trumpeting gender and diversity. All of this seems to be part of Maurice Strong’s plan to deindustrialize Canada.

    1. Strong was NDP Ontario premier Bob Rae’s godfather. Rae appointed Strong chairman of Ontario Hydro, largest utility on the planet at the time. Strong under the Ontario NPD set the wheels in motion for Ontario Hydro’s privatization. After his hatchet job on Hydro, Strong got implicated in funds being taken from the UN “food for oil” cookie jar. Then he moved on to China helping them set up house to play along with the globalist nations.

      Going back 3 decades, he used Canada as the lead nation for pushing the UN sustainability agenda. Business leaders signed on and Mulroney got an award for playing along.

      Maurice Strong’s Cloak of Green with Elaine Dewar
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dKnIFeiO1Y

      Book ends with Brazilian Aboriginals selling out for Green $$$$$$$$$$$$s.

  10. The re-framing of NAFTA is now in full-swing. As the CBC article states, Trudeau is involving the unions heavily in his negotiations to make sure that Canadians get the best deal possible. In fact, the unions say they have never had this much input into a trade deal before. Ignore what Trump says. There is always drama as the deadline draws near. Things are going to be fine.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nafta-unions-labour-day-1.4808379

    The only question is whether the unions will still be on board with 25% tariffs on autos.

    1. No wonder negotiations are going badly. Unions are well known for living in Nirvana, desiring perfection, and denying reality. Jerry Dias is right there, as narrow minded as he can get.
      Union members always seem to forget the most important economic aspect of their lives. The EMPLOYER signs your paycheque, NOT the union. I’ve seen too many instances of the Union going to extremes, taking the most impossible position, and making their members pay, losing homes, divorces, exhausting savings, all for chasing an impossible goal.
      And these negotiations have Dias driving the bus? Ontariowe is done!

      1. Its never a good idea to have the Union Mafia ( Media Unions) negotiate on behalf of the country, they’re solely interested in themselves not the well being of the nation. Trudopia is as corrupt as they come.

        1. Welcome to our world (U.S.) where as Instapundit reminds us, reporters are Democrat operatives with bylines. Frightening when the press voluntarily muzzles itself. Thank God for Fox , Drudge, Breitbart, et al. If you’re not reading conservative press, you have no idea what’s really going on in the world.

    2. *
      “As the CBC article states…”

      yeah, steve… lemme help you with that…

      Toronto Police Service:

      “Police released two suspect descriptions shortly after the shooting.
      The first suspect was described as a black male in his 20s, wearing
      a hoodie and blue jeans. The second suspect was described as
      mixed-race male in his 20s, with a skinny build and standing about
      five-foot-nine, carrying a black handgun.”

      Your National Broadcaster:

      “Police tweeted that they were seeking two men in their 20s, one
      of whom may be carrying a handgun.”

      Smell the journalism.

      *

  11. Here’s a scenario I haven’t yet seen mentioned in Canada’s Liberal media …and since they have studiously avoided mentioning it this is probably what they’re planning:

    1) Trump’s letter (last week) to Congress give’s them 90 days to approve his adjustments to NAFTA or he will cancel NAFTA.

    2) Under Canadian law the MINIMUM length of a Canadian election campaign is 36 days from the date the writ is dropped.

    3) Between now and the end of Trump’s 90-day deadline to Congress I predict the Liberals WILL drop the writ to call a snap election in October, on the pretext of “give us a clear mandate to SAVE CANADA’s ECONOMY!”

    The Liberals are currently ‘ragging the puck’ in DC to waste time while;
    a) prepping for their snap election … and …
    b) poll-testing the media spin / excuses / ‘messaging’ for that election

    Count on a snap-election in October to (as Liberals will claim when announcing the election in a nation-wide prime time TV broadcast) “save the economy from that bully, Trump!” Note that the Conservatives have shot themselves in the foot by being openly supportive of “supply management”, so no matter how they try to oppose it Canada’s media (led by the CBC and the Toronto Red Star) will bury them for the Liberals.

    Free advice > get your financial investments out of Canadian stocks and ETFs and into U.S. stocks and ETFs this coming week. No matter how this trade dispute ends it’s GOOD for America’s economy but for Canada’s economy it’s at best only ‘status quo’. Canada’s 75 cent ‘dollarette’ could become a 65 cent ‘northern snow peso’ by Valentine Day much more likely than an 80 cent ‘dollarette’.

    1. Davers6, I think your point (3) is my second option for the Libs, but they can use the same argument in a election for either of my options. Well expressed and I agree with all you say. Also, I am afraid Andy 2% is going to be horribly outplayed by the Libs A LA Ontario for 15 years,

    2. While those are very possible scenarios, the fallout after the fact, will be brutal for Boy Blunder.
      This will be, within the near future (2-3 years):
      Double digit unemployment
      Crushing Interest rates
      Bankruptcies
      Underwater mortgages.
      This, mostly in Ontariowe, but those interest rates will decimate BC as well, where real estate is the only industry that is healthy. Blaming Trump will only go so far, and Juthtin can only print so much money, “Crushing Interest Rates”
      So, any ‘victory’ in a short term election, will result in an extreme fail and crushing economic climate down the road.
      Well played Juthtin……

    3. I tend to agree with your assessment. As such I reduced my exposure to Canadian markets on Friday . I am thinking this coming week may be ugly for the TSX and may further reduce risk and or hedge currency or buy inverse . Of course a deal will likely precipitate a bounce in the TSX . I am willing to forgo some upside as I feel the downside risk is much higher . This is advice for no one as we have seen no one can accurately predict what is going to happen.(the stock market will collapse if Trump is elected comes to mind) . One thing for sure ,unless the arrogant asses leading us change their strategy (unlikely) long term economic prospects in Canada are poor . And yes , a snap election is entirely possible and the Liberals are nearly a shoe in .

      1. If the CPC tosses sCheers, snap election is certain. I hope the Turd gets a minority government, and the Turd Butts has to contend with Jagmeathead and the NDPee. And hopefully the CPC gets a actual leader in place. I don’t see a libtard NDPee collision lasting more than 2 years. Butts will go bonkers:-)))

    6. Well, The Groovy Groper and his Minionettes better hope that Trump doesn’t interfere in a snap election.
      In fact they may want to expect it.
      Imagine, vote Scheer , get rid of the Fribble or we close the border completely.
      And for good measure, we may even let North Korea have Quebec.
      Let’s see how your 2000 boots on the ground make out.
      To say nothing of subs that sink but don’t rise, choppers from the dawn of flight, and planes the equivalent of Pong or Starship Invaders.
      Luckily, young Canadians are in good shape and ……..nevermind.

    7. I can add another reason for the Liberals to call a national election very soon; Doug Ford.
      If he continues to govern and win for the people of Ontario, urban centers just might wake up and think “Hey, maybe Conservatives aren’t all assholes” and not vote Liberal next time.
      Best to strike now before too many good things happen courtesy of Doug Ford.

      1. Yeah, city idiots ain’t never gonna wake up. How did you ever get your own head, so far up your own posterior?

        City means socialism. Full stop.

        In cities, food comes from grocery stores, and has nothing to do with diesel fuel or farmers.

  12. There are two or three, perhaps contradictory, assumptons in posts here:

    1. Liberals are stupid. Well, Front Boy is but not the Desmarais familly and friends.
    2. The Liberals want what is best for Canada. Well, they want what’s best for Liberals, which is government.
    3. The Liberals want a deal with Trump. Refer to points ! & 2 above.

    They probably are tempted by an anti-Trump election and are weighing up their options to achieve this: Sign a deal and declare victory over the evil Trump. Or not, and demand Canadian support as a re-affirmation of Canada in the face of the evil Trump. I don’t think I explained that second option clearly enough; basically a patriotic rally-around-the-flag election. Andy 2% has already fallen for this.

    Personally, I think the Libs will chose the former as it is safer.

  13. One thing is very clear. The media is tag-teaming with the Liberals and are aggressively pushing their hate Trump, anti-U.S. election campaign to deflect from their own disastrous bungles and boondoggles. The petulant thin skinned Soy Boy, is slighted over Doug Ford’s win in ON & will punish Ontarians by handing over the auto sector and 160k jobs to the U.S. in order to protect his daddy’s dairy mafia legacy. After all, for the Liberals it is all about themselves first, then Quebec, and Canada a distant.

  14. If this is scuttled, it’ll be yet another plank in the electoral platform that the Liberals will not only run on in the next election, it’ll win them another majority.

    This government has never taken responsibility for any of its actions. Until the NAFTA debacle, Prince Pippi Longstockings Dummkopf blamed his failures or, more likely, deliberate inactions on Stephen Harper. (“Our hands are tied because of what the previous government did.” “We can’t act on that proposal because we’re too busy cleaning up the mess that the previous government left us with.” I think you get the picture.)

    Now, of course, he’ll use Trump as a whipping boy. (“We couldn’t get an agreement on NAFTA because of Trump’s stubbornness as well as his inherent hostility towards Canada.”)

    How convenient. Then again, if one never intended to do anything in the first place, others than dupe the electorate to keep voting them into office, scapegoats like that come in handy as a way of justifying having sat on one’s backside since winning the election.

  15. I can only assume your self-confessed … “feminist” … PM has no balls. Or at least he “identifies” as ball-less. Your emerging “feminist” nation has milk to sell … at artificially high prices … but not much else. Maybe Justine can rent xes womb out to China in some other way.

  17. The Soros led environmental groups have destroyed the energy sector.Trudeau has decided to play politics to destroy the Auto sector.The tragedy is this will get him elected we are done as a nation.

    1. Trudles’ main strategic goal may just be to end up a Soros Fellow. The thugs who run him are intelligent enough to realize they do not have to give this moron a cut of the graft.

  18. Canada has become a liability in that they believe “Hypothetical Probabilities” are proven FACTS and ignoring the fact that disproving Hypothetical Probabilities is an impossible task… The Canadian Courts & general public have this ingrained stupidity…AGW & Carbon TAX

    The fact IS that the US Mexican pact is COMPLETE & Agreed. The Canadian media lied to the public when they say it is only IN Principle,(T that is just the way the Congress wants it framed), but it has every issue closed. The 90 day Clock to approval was started and details, which already exist, finalized in 30 days (End of September) Canada can’t join that deal unless they agree to the same conditions, it is highly unlikely that changes can be renegotiated with Mexico in the 30 days….

    Trump dropped the notice rejecting NAFTA more than 6 months ago and it will cease @ the same time as the Mexican Pack is finalized.

    Trump may/could tariff the Canadian Auto industry Tomorrow or Thursday… The Canadian charge that Trump is bargaining in Bad Faith is an old Union claim when things have gone south… Without NAFTA things just go back to the Pre-NAFTA trade practices..

    JMHO of reported issues..

    1. It feels somewhat simpler to me. Your country is living in make-believe land, where meaningless gestures of virtue-signaling are valued as currency of the highest denomination. When your Groper-PM claims he is a “feminist” it is as laughable as me claiming to be a “lesbian in a man’s body”. But WHAT kind of a national leader spends 5min. claiming to be a “feminist”? To what end? For what purpose? Ahhh, yesssss … to pander for 50% of the voting pubic. (Not a misspelling).

      1. Ouch Kenji. I cringe every time that tool is referenced as “our” PM. The so-called feminist a couple years back, took a few of the Lieberal MP’s to a Mosque whereby he ushered the female MP’s to the side door, where they were directed to the back of the Mosque. A feminist in vote pandering name only.

    2. Gotta reply just to underline your first point — the USA-Mexico deal is a DONE DEAL. Trudeau and Freeland, with the cooperation of media, are doing an extend and pretend thing that they are somehow negotiating a three-way pact. That ship has sailed, it’s over. The Mexicans took Trump seriously, put serious people on the job, and got a deal that is good for Mexico. As the video at the top of this post shows, they did all that while Justin was dancing in gay parades and Chrystia was giving speeches to German diplomats.

  19. I believe this break is purely for Butts, Justin, Friesland and their communications team at the CBC to try to frame up how any resulution to this will be a huge win to Canada.

    After getting out classed in respects through this negotiation at Canada’s expense, they will figure out some angle, related to diversity or gender, that they will use as a proof point that they won.

    It will then be pushed through the Canadian media and anxiously lapped up by all the faithful players.

    I don’t believe the thought of Canada it Canadians ever crossed their mind.

  20. The union vote was delivered to bongo in the ’15 election. The libranos need it to win next year that’s why the unionistas are included in every step of the negotiations.
    Supply management comprises 60% of quebeks ag industry.
    Bongo will sell out Canada to win.
    Consumers will pay. Nothing good will come of the position he has put the country in. I read the personal exemption will go back to $100 from $800 .

  21. Trump would prefer to not have a deal with Canada. It helps him on many levels. Trudeau may think he can campaign and win on the anti-Trump platform (at any cost), but Trump can also leverage the obstinance of Trudeau’s liberals and their alliance with globalists and the Uniparty in DC. It is clear that Trudeau is more interested in protecting China’s backdoor and dishonest access to the US market through Canada’s willingness to whore out that access with no gain for the average Canadian deplorable. “Chy-na” is one of Trump’s biggest targets and he campaigned heavily on that issue. Canada’s allegiance and alignment with China and willingness to assist them in dumping their surplus into the US while keeping their markets closed to US goods will be something they will pay dearly for, if and when, they get a deal. As will Canada’s refusal to not only be responsible for their own defense and NATO commitments, but Trudeau’s childish Na-Na-Na-Na to Trump that was not only Canada NOT going to raise defense spending to 2% of GDP as Trump had lectured other NATO participants about, but that the Liberals were deliberately lowering defense allocations in this budget. So now the Liberals are 2 for 2 on issues key to Trump’s foreign policy and economic outlook. I think Trump’s targeting of the Quebec supply management sacred cow is an issue he wants to make sure Canada understands well. And he is, in fact, keen to create the conditions to permanently bring back the auto sector, including parts, to the US states most decimated by the NAFTA pact – OH, MI are the key ones. Notice the only Congresscritters “standing with Canada” are hyper partisan Democrats who seek to undermine Trump at any opportunity, whether or not it is good for their constituents or the US as a whole. I see this as a win-win-win for Trump and his team, while Canada is going to slip further and further behind. It even begs the question now why Canada should remain part of the G7, if that is based on economic strength. The case could be made that Canada’s spot should rightfully be taken up by India instead, a growing Commonwealth economy that is on the rise and building stronger economic ties with the other G7 nations including the US.

    The 416/905 crew better decide whether getting on board the nationalistic “anti-Trump” train and voting Liberal is worth it, or if they will make any next upcoming federal election, snap or not, their “Flight 93” choice.

    1. Good post, but IMO Trump doesn’t really care about dairy. He’s just using it as a hill for Justin to die on while Trump gets what he really wants, the auto plants and the end of China’s side door access to the USA.

      And yeah, the G7. After that last performance by Justin, if I was another G7 country I’d vote to kick Canada out.

  22. It is simple as this.

    IF THE CBC BACKS IT, IT IS TERRIBLE. Full stop.

    The CBC backs dairy marketing board in Canada. That tells you all you need to know.
    The Globe & Mail backs dairy…
    CTV backs dairy…
    Toronto Star…
    National Post…
    Global….
    Snopes is backing Tudeau vs Trump…

    All the same people who say Trudeau is standing up for Canada, back the dairy marketing board.

    Therefore, Scar is a Trudeau supporter. That is what the evidence tells me. He probably voted for Hillary.

    Look at the allies of Quebec dairy, and you have a complete list of people who want to take your freedom away.

    1. The G&M, and by extension(?) the Liberals may back dairy, but not all Grits are onside with Trudeau’s disastrous “plan.”

      “Canada’s supply management system for dairy is no longer defensible,” by Martha Hall Findlay (aka prominent Liberal).

      “Our made-in-Canada cartel, based on high-price fixing, production control and extremely high tariffs, is the sick cow of global agricultural trade. The wealthy and powerful dairy, poultry and egg lobby has been able to engage in behaviour that for everyone else would be illegal.”

      The evidence for reform is overwhelming. With an appropriate transition plan (which the Canada West Foundation has proposed), liberalization can be a big win for Canada – ironically, for the dairy sector, too. Which means that these NAFTA negotiations offer a tremendous win-win opportunity. Unfortunately, we still hear politicians repeating the dairy lobby’s false and misleading talking points.”

      “Supply management ‘protects’ the family farm.” Not only is this false, the opposite is true. In Canada, the rate of consolidation has actually been higher – yes, higher – in the supply-managed dairy, poultry and egg sectors, than in most other agricultural sectors. Whereas in the 1970s, there were approximately 145,000 dairy producers, there are now barely more than 9,000.”

      https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/canadas-supply-management-system-for-dairy-is-no-longer-defensible/article36029788/

  23. It’s the Shiny Resistance all the way. Shiny is siding with the resistance which is a lose-lose proposition for Canadians!

  24. One can only hope that the failed NAFTA
    talks result in the end of the harridan freeland.
    WTF does she bring to the table? Any table?
    Her agenda involves the Ukrain / Russia – nothing more.

  25. ….Why do Canadians hate Americans?
    You have a PM whose ego is bigger than your country and you are doing no favors to your countryman by not confronting Trudeau and his abnormal handling of the economy!

  26. There’s another angle to consider in this. Trudeau belongs to the group of people who consider Trump to be an illegitimate president. It’s also likely that he buys into the idea that Trump will face a swift impeachment after the mid-terms, and be gone by next summer. That notion, as silly as it is on a couple of levels, is probably shaping the Librano strategy.

  27. A good synopsis on the Art of the Fail, soon to be followed by the Art of the Big Fail, aka auto tariffs.

    “Gormley: Canada outplayed on NAFTA.”

    As the Trump presidency settled into the Oval Office, Canada whistled past the graveyard thinking it impossible that a president would actually do what he promised. And, despite a cordial first meeting with the president, Justin Trudeau couldn’t resist identity politics and virtue signalling by declaring that any new Canadian trade agreements, like NAFTA, must include chapters on gender, climate change and Indigenous issues. This established that Canada was not going to be taken seriously by the Americans.”

    As the NAFTA talks began, Canada’s lead negotiator insulted the Trump administration with a backhanded comment during a Washington speech on trade. This would not have been done by the redoubtable international trade law experts who have led Canadian trade teams in the past.”

    From the day he was elected, President Trump’s beef was not with Canada — it was with Mexico. Except for some minor objections, mainly over Canadian dairy policy, Trump spoke of “tweaking” the Canadian relationship. And his team said it preferred bi-lateral, or two-way, deals with each of Canada and Mexico.”

    But Trudeau and his band of utopians don’t understand the basic concept that nations have interests before they have friends:

    “Then Mexico, which had talked a good game along with us on insisting there’d be no bilateral agreements, started having a detailed two-way negotiation, as our lead negotiator and her team sat on the sidelines.”

    As this week played out, Ms. Freeland and the Prime Minister have put on their best brave faces and optimistically talked of getting a deal. But they are looking down the barrel of a last-minute ultimatum to sign a deal already decided by Mexico and the U.S.”

    https://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/columnists/gormley-canada-outplayed-on-nafta

  28. NAFTA is as dead as old Canada… The Libranos are not going to sign on to the deal thats on the table, if they were they would’ve already signed. Right now the Libranos their Union Mafia buddies and their Media pets are all working on a narrative to sell to the public that makes President Trump the bad guy and Juthtin the Groper the hero…. they’re stalling until they feel they have the right narrative and all the players are onboard with the mendacious spin. This is why the Nazi Grand daughter and the actor play acting as PM stated that “no deal is better than a bad deal” because there is no deal. Expect the prissy little Turd Juthtin to utter the “we won’t be puthed awound” mantra that we hear Jerry Diaz blathering around… expect the act to start on Wednesday or Thursday… “no deal is better than a bad deal”. Nafta is as dead as Juthtins brain

  29. I can read over 400 wpm. Most people speak at less than 100. I can read an article in less than five minutes, instead of spending 20 minutes listening to someone speak. If Ezra want me to receive his thoughts, he can publish a transcript so I don’t have to waste time listening.

      1. Well, he probably is quite aware that the bulk of Canadjians are dumb as a rock & have to have someone explain things to them, at their level. Now, some of you are snobs, I guess, you’re so smart. Started your own media have you? Reaching out to the dumbkoffs that live in this country? Explaining things to them that our lying swill spewed by the “real” media is just that, swill? These folks just read the headlines.
        Have you seen or heard much intelligent discussion in our brand media lately, even in a headline that would push back against the current narrative? Name three. I can’t, well maybe three & that’s just 3 people, so what are you doing about it? The SUN is a low class, yuk yuk medium anyway, read by more folks than you care to associate with yourselves, so you gonna just slag them for not being as suave, hip & on the pulse of greatness in Canadjian politicks? That will sure win votes, eh? At 38-39%, elections are won in this country. Close to 60% don’t vote & don’t care. That’s what you’re dealing with, so deal with it. And, keep your snobbery to yourselves, you sound like the CBC!
        I have a photographic memory, & can “read” way faster than you ever will. I’m so fast that I can read what you’re all gonna tippy tap in response to this.
        Now, let’s get back to the discussion at hand.

    2. Exactly. I spend hardly anytime at the Rebel cuz not enough print for me. Transcripts would help but he’d still have to tighten up his game. Levant missed calling out Freeland comparing Trump to Hitler in her NY times interview published during G7 summit. Most importantly he missed calling out Turdo on the retaliatory tariffs that target the GOP.

  30. Nope. Trump said himself in ‘off the record comments’ that he basically sabotaged the negotiations.

  31. It is a real shame this whole deal wasn’t handled in a mature manner by both sides. HTG, Animal Farm, you know? But, the PM was piling on in line with the Eurotrash from the beginning, so now here we all are.

  32. Levant was at his best here; leveled, simplified, understated with muted sarcasm.
    I guarantee with every insult the Trudeau team is costing Canada about 1 billion.
    Enjoy your milk.

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