The water carriers for the Trump Whisperer are out in full force today, blissfully unaware how stupid it looks to portray a stunning defeat as a victory. It’s notable that no one wants to mention the elephant in the room: the undue influence of the Canadian dairy lobby which is a major reason why these talks went nowhere.
Payne thinks Canada has leverage — aluminum, critical minerals, electricity, oil and potash — and should be using them to retaliate. She said she has repeated that message to Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. and the prime minister’s office.
“It’s important right now that we draw a line in the sand and understand that Canada has a lot of strength and a lot of leverage, and we’re going to have to use some of it.”
He would rather lose the west than the dairy lobby. Just what Moronto (the Toronto Montreal corridor) needs in a deep-thinking leader.
Canada has no leverage. Everything Canada provides can be obtained elsewhere. But Canada can’t replace the consumer base of the U.S.
Ford and others bellow about shutting off electricity to the U.S. or putting extra costs on it. But it appears that those who do that are blissfully unaware that in 2024 Canada actually IMPORTED more electricity than it exported. And of course, the U.S. could easily bring Canada to its knees and let’s not forget that Enbridge Line 5 could be shut down which would grind Ontario to a halt.
And also, don’t forget that the The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is to be renegotiated next year….it is going to be a very bumpy ride for Canada which is about to be kicked so far into the weeds, it will take a decade to get out.
“Canada has no leverage. Everything Canada provides can be obtained elsewhere. But Canada can’t replace the consumer base of the U.S. ”
Your average Canadian doesn’t know that, though…and the Canadian news media stubbornly refuses to tell them about it.
… and the average “Canadian” knows enough to NEVER do any independent lookin’ and readin’ lest they end up with narratives that defy what it is to be “Canadian,” which is moral superiority to those Yankees despite “Canada’s” profound inability to demonstrate it.
We have no leverage. And yet, we’re going full crumb…
Time for Eddie Bauer to introduce a new line of “Elbows Down”.
Stop confusing get Trump chicken little be very afraid big baby boomers and partisan parasites with reality.
Couldn’t agree more.
While Thug Ford bloviates over cutting off power, notice how quite Comrade Brother Eby is on that topic?
1. BC is a net importer of electricity from the US.
2. Lower Mainland and Island imports half their fuels from Cherry Point refinery in Anacortes WA. So does YVR.
The US could bring this country to its knees within a matter of days. And Canada has ZERO effective ways of defending itself.
Lutnick and company must be shaking their behind closed doors, at the aloofness and stupidity of this country’s inept, arrogant negotiating team. This is the calm before the storm. Just wait until the USMCA is renegotiated. Or should I say, Dictated.
If one were to be actually sabotaging trade and relationships, I wouldn’t do anything different than what Carnage has done so far.
Someone should have told Ford that we can’t actually stop exporting the electricity to the US, because you risk another 2003 blackout.
Wait. What? Your government is finally acknowledging that Canada desperately NEEDS the American economy? Why not just sell all those natural resources to the EU? Gouge the EU to get back at the BadOrangeMan.
No….I don’t think the “government” is acknowledging that….at least not publicly….they are, as usual, banging the worn out “Canada is number one” drum. The Liberals are as delusional as Jim Jones and those who followed him into the Guyana jungle.
Yes, but Jones gave his followers a good story. He was rescuing them from the horrors of a dog eat dog white mans capitalist system of oppression. He gave them Hope for Change!
Yeah, you’re right. Your government is selling the same poison
Canada does have leverage. So does America. The big difference is the Americans are using their leverage more effectively.
Canada should give in to the 15% tariffs and quietly start building trade relationships with other countries to diversify its client-base. Selling all your stuff to one client might seem convenient, but it’s also dangerous.
And who is the moron who approved the “we recognize Palestine” idea? Give that person a field assignment in Ukraine.
Canada has no leverage.
Leverage? We don’t even have enough cleavage to interest the Americans.
The “we recognize Palestine” morons are the 11 Muslim MP’s and 1.8 million Jew-hating death-cultist voters.
Canada has zero leverage, zilch, nada, nothing. The people who say this are part of the parasitic class, bureaucrats and union leaders. Parasites get hungry when the host dies, and this country is dying a deserved death. Shithole.
President Trump, if he could, should just offer Canada 0% tariffs in exchange for an equal dollar. Canada’s 30% dollar advantage gone, just like that.
You go girl.
the peculiar thing is, as a youngster, having been *literally* BEAT UP by my fellow Canaduhians, truly have NO IMPETUS NO INCLINATION to ‘join in the fight’.
zip. nada. zilch. lm still the ‘bad guy’ for daring to bytch about it. (l spelled out the remedy which par for the course got ignored and turned into victim blaming etc etc).
sooooo using the 2nd official language ‘manger le merde’
Alberta is tied to a sinking ship and we refuse to cut the rope. Soon we will be overrun by laid off Liberal voters from out east.
Liberal locust theory.
You’re Canadians, quintessential cowards, you don’t have the guts to cut the rope, and everyone knows it. Shithole.
A 72 cent dollar multiplied by a 34% tariff brings it to a 97 cent dollar.
Any Canadian industry that can prosper in a 97 cent dollar environment can do well at a even dollar exchange.
As with the brain drain going south, I suspect an economic slowdown will require additional investment in the Canadian banks. You may see American banks buying Canadian banks.
Check out the growth rate, and the exchange rate between September 20, 2007 and July 21, 2011.
Once the Boy Blunder took over it reached a low of $0.70 before recovering a few times
So Baghdad Bob is now working in the PMO.
Duh.. in the poker analogy, Carney doesn’t have the cards and is bluffing in the hope – a certainty in the TDS suffer circles he moves in – that the dealer (in the person of the US courts) will call the game. Personally, I’d bet against him on this – but, since the majority of the pain will be felt by his fellow TDS victims in Ontario and Quebec (thus boosting separatism there) I’m not feeling much sympathy.
When will this Climate Change Stop?
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