Friday On Turtle Island

11 Replies to “Friday On Turtle Island”

1. Trump’s Transformation of America is a worthy read and cause for celebration is plentiful. Were we to have suffered for four years under a dunder like Shrub, the nation would be banging on the door (can you say UK?) of revolution. Trump’s second term has saved quite a few lives.

2. Not drinking Pepsi is no hardship. It’s a terrible accompaniment to brown liquor of any sort.

3. The DMV/Star Wars Bar.
   If Ontario driver’s licenses are tested for in 30+ languages, what confirmation is there that successful applicants can actually read highway signs?

   1. I realize its a rhetorical question…

      This is yet another example of a dying nation: it’s standards are purposely diluted and diminished.
      Progressives are incapable of separating fact from feelings.
      Making it easy for semi-literate, low IQ turnips who’ve only ever drove a tuk tuk on the left side of the road get a license to drive on the highway is criminal.
      A month later they’re in a Kenworth pulling a trailer down the 401…

4. If it can be imported from Ontario, it can be made in America.
   “Whatever you think of Doug Ford, he’s a master at building relationships…” and so that’s why he’s attacking Trump?

   Look for Ontario to lose a lot of industry in the ongoing “Elbows up rebellion”.

   1. Reasons Not To Negotiate.
      https://fao-on.org/en/report/impacts-of-us-tariffs/#gqitqcnz

      Summary

      This report examines Ontario’s trade relationship with the United States and estimates the potential impacts of US tariffs on Ontario’s exports, imports, GDP, employment and inflation.

      The United States is Ontario’s most important trading partner

      The US accounts for most of Ontario’s international trade, with 77 per cent of Ontario’s total goods exports and 60 per cent of the province’s total services exports. Imports of goods from the US accounted for 68 per cent of Ontario’s total goods imports, while services imports from the US were 63 per cent of total services imports.
      Ontario’s exports to the US accounted for 13 per cent of the province’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in recent years, more than double the contribution of Ontario’s exports to the rest of the world.
      In 2024, an estimated 933,000 Ontario jobs were US export–related, about one in every nine jobs in the province. This was comprised of 536,000 jobs in the goods sector (one in every 15 jobs in Ontario), mostly concentrated in the manufacturing industry, and 397,000 jobs in the services sector (one in every 20 jobs in Ontario), including in professional services, trade and transportation, and all other services.
      Ontario’s manufacturing sector is the most reliant on exports to the US, with 40 per cent of its production shipped to the US. By comparison, Ontario’s trade and transportation sector exports eight per cent of its output to the US, the primary sector exports seven per cent, followed by professional services (four per cent).
      Over the 2013 to 2024 period, Ontario recorded trade deficits with the US in each year (except for 2016), averaging a trade deficit of $8 billion. In 2024, Ontario’s trade deficit with the US was an estimated $4 billion.
      The FAO’s tariff scenario

      This report analyzes the impact of a tariff scenario based on trade actions announced by the US and Canada as of April 17, 2025. This includes US tariffs on steel, aluminum, automobiles and automobile parts, and Canadian retaliatory tariffs.
      Overall, under the FAO’s tariff scenario, US tariffs apply to 20 per cent of Ontario’s international exports, while the Canadian government’s retaliatory tariffs apply to 15 per cent of Ontario’s international imports.
      US tariffs will slow Ontario’s economic growth, lower employment and raise consumer prices

      As US tariffs reduce demand for Ontario’s exports, the province’s economic growth will slow. In 2025, Ontario’s real GDP growth would slow to 0.6 per cent, less than half the 1.7 per cent growth expected in the absence of US tariffs. This implies that a modest recession would occur in 2025. For 2026, real GDP growth would be 1.2 per cent, compared to 1.9 per cent growth in the no tariff outlook.
      On a level basis, Ontario’s real GDP is projected to be 1.8 per cent lower than the no tariff outlook by 2026 and 2.0 per cent lower by 2029, led by heavy declines in Ontario’s steel, aluminum, auto and auto parts industries.
      In 2026, the first full year of tariffs, Ontario’s manufacturing sector would be the most impacted with real GDP reduced by 8.0 per cent. All other sectors, including services, would also be impacted through supply chain effects, as well as through broader economic impacts from lower incomes, profits, consumption and investment.
      The FAO estimates that US tariffs would result in 68,100 fewer jobs in Ontario in 2025 and 119,200 fewer jobs in 2026 compared to the no tariff scenario. By 2029, there would be 137,900 fewer jobs in Ontario.
      US tariffs are projected to raise Ontario’s unemployment rate by 1.1 percentage points over the 2025 to 2029 outlook, averaging 7.7 per cent.
      By sector, manufacturing employment is expected to be the most affected by the tariffs, with 57,700 (-6.8 per cent) fewer jobs in 2026. The manufacturing sector’s supply chain industries would also be impacted, particularly the more labour-intensive services industries, including trade and transport, and professional services.
      US tariffs on Ontario exports would negatively affect all Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) in the province. Windsor is expected to be impacted the most, with employment 1.6 per cent lower in 2026, followed by Guelph (-1.6 per cent lower), Brantford (-1.5 per cent lower), Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo (-1.5 per cent lower) and London (-1.3 per cent lower). These CMAs are more exposed to export-focused manufacturing than other Ontario CMAs.
      Under the FAO’s tariff scenario, Ontario’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate is projected to be 0.2 percentage points higher in 2025 and 0.3 percentage points higher in 2026. Ontario’s import prices would increase due to Canada’s tariff retaliation, higher US inflation (primarily caused by US tariffs on imports from China) and a slightly weaker Canadian dollar. This would be partially offset by the impact of weaker economic activity in Ontario and lower oil prices.

   2. If Ontario (i.e. mainly the GTA) goes the way it’s going, look for Ottawa to make Alberta pay dearly for it.

      1. And here I thought we already were…

5. I knew Fatass Ford was an asshole and I knew he wasn’t very bright, but does he not have one single advisor who can tell him to turn the other blubbery cheek?
   Typical, ignorant, smug, full-of-shit Canadian who thinks the sun shines out of his arse.

6. Ain’t the fault of the Freedom Convoy.

7. I don’t believe DEI is dying, it’s turning into something else with a different name. The whole BRIDGE initiative is showing that these DEI people are moving into HR spaces for example to continue on.