New Governor, Same As The Old Governor

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1. So glad we don’t have Kenney as Premier anymore.

   He should never be allowed anywhere near a political office ever again.

   1. Kenney is agitating against Poilivere to try and lower the approval number he gets in January and force a leadership, whether it is to make his own bid or as a stalking horse I do not know, but that POS is just the kind of Conservative the Canadian coward sheep can handle, controlled opposition. Shithole.

2. Kenney is CanCon of the Uni-party.

   1. Kenney ain’t canny, that’s for sure.

3. Canada: old Onondaga word meaning “land of crying papoose.”

4. Fat Kenney is still butt hurt it can’t rule over the serfs and shut down Christian churches.

5. China will drop the panda mask w/ regards to Canada the same way it does with N. Korea: as a threat to the US.
   California is doing the same thing as Canada as a way to make the US dependent upon Mexican food.

6. ”… cannibalize entire Canadian industries“

   Uhhh … those industries are all offshoots of American corporations. Canada is the cannibal. We’re simply recovering the remnants of the corporate body you’ve been dining out on. Those industries PRIMARY customer is USa … thank you for your attention to this matter.

   1. You are correct to a large degree (there are of course some outliers).
      Sundance has to keep the Canadians on his site happy, I suppose. I notice he has fewer noticeably American commentators than he did in times past. Oh well, he often does well on economics and trade, but some of his other posts (along with his comments section) are…interesting.

7. I’m going back 20-30 years, were political pontificators always this snarky?

8. Nice comprehensive explanation. I would only add one thing. In advance of any bi-lateral negotiation with Canada the US isn’t just twiddling their thumbs. They are expanding bi-lateral trade agreements with other nations (Indonesia, Argentina, the EU, etc.) and creating overlap on some of the exports provided by Canada. Obviously, this can’t be done on certain resources. But, where it CAN be done, it IS being done. The same with Mexico (which is actually the US’s biggest trading partner).

   These acts are about improving the negotiating position. As stated, Canada is expanding trading relationships with the EU and China. What is interesting about trading with the EU, however, is that they require that Canada be in line with their meticulous requirements on “green” positions…which is why Carney made some changes in that regard for Canada. You might recall the last time Canada negotiated a trade agreement with the EU, it took a decade to acquire approval because the Green requirements didn’t match up. France, especially, shot it down because of that.

9. Canada did not “choose” to de-industrialize. As a result of NAFTA, Canadian companies were simply bought up by larger American companies who shut them down and moved the jobs and output elsewhere, mostly to Mexico and China. You can thank the Liberals for that. FTA served Canada well, NAFTA put a hole in its industrial heart. Trust me, whatever the Liberals negotiate next will be worse.

   1. Canada chose the same path to de-industrialization as the EU, with climate fantasies pushing power rates sky high, and carbon taxes. Here in NS, we lost all of our heavy industry at 0.16/kwHr, it is higher now. Paper mills, a refinery and all we have left is Michelin, due to a power price agreement that has ratepayers subsidizing them.

   2. “. FTA served Canada well, NAFTA put a hole in its industrial heart. ”

      I never voted PC again after Brian Mulroney pulled that infamous ‘bait and switch’ on us. NO ONE voted for free trade with Mexico.

10. Rail transport is expensive. Sea transport is not. Regardless of whether the volume of trade with Europe could match trade with the US (I estimate it could get to 20% at maximum) it is trade with Eastern Canada, the Liberal’s power base.

    It’s another way to screw Alberta and Saskatchewan for the benefit of those who can be trusted to vote Liberal. WEXIT cannot come soon enough IMHO.

    Oh, and the refining capacity for bitumen doesn’t exist in Canada for the same reason that MacDonalds opens restaurants in cities and not in cow pastures. The raw resources travel better and spoil much, much slower than the finished product.

    1. “Sea transport is not.”
       Well it is going to be a lot more expensive now, since we’ve signed on to the UN carbon tax on heavy crude use for shipping.

       1. Carbon taxes on or coming soon to all transport. Since rail is 20x more expensive for bulk commodities the same percentage increase will hit it harder.

    2. When factoring in the expense of transport, you also have to take into consideration distances covered. Plus, water transport isn’t out of the question within the lower 48; we’re remarkably well set up to do it.
       Ocean transport has a whole host of other issues…the UN carbon tax as noted below is just one of them; the other is the need for a deep water navy to secure trade routes. Those navies cost a lot of money to build, maintain, and deploy — just sayin’.

11. Quoting Reagan is fine; misrepresenting his words and argument isn’t. Shame on you Kenney, falling for that.

12. Canada chose de-industrialization (ie giving away manufacturing/heavy industry to China in exchange for Belt-&-Road ‘”support”) when the Liberal Party shoved their ‘service-based’ economy down Canadians’ throats, replacing the long standing and highly competitive resource/manufacturing based economy along with all the blue collar jobs which ran it.

    … ‘Service-Based’ being the marxists etymological extension of ‘Serf-Based’.

    The oh so sophisticated Liberal Party is unable to resist rubbing peoples nose in their corruption while despising those who actually get their hands dirty at work.

    1. Buck up though, because we are witnessing their disintegration under Trudeau/Carney, who have promised (not surmised) that Canada will “collapse upon itself economically and cease to exist” if Trump pursued his reciprocal tariffs.

       The future of the West is Bright.

       1. My President just raised tariffs on Canada.

13. National Suicide is such a permanent solution to a very temporary problem.
    A very good explanation ,certain to be ignored by those suffering from TDS.
    Canadians are stupid.
    We are so far gone,than we have an attack of the vapours when The President of The United States of America acts in the interests of the USA.
    Naturally so,I guess..For we have never seen a Canadian Prime Minister act in the best interests of Canadians,at least not in my lifetime.

    I suspect Mr Trump will make the West an Offer they can’t refuse.
    For the resources of this area are important to the USA and a land-bridge to Alaska becomes more a matter of National Security everyday,as Canada dissolves into chaos.
    The idiotic threats from the BC Premier did not do unnoticed.
    And the time is right.
    Art of the deal,”Do not let leverage go unused”.

    So here we are.
    The Western Canadians are being alienated more everyday,by Eastern Fools and Bandits.
    The National interest,fiscal and military ,of the US ,is control of the oilsands,control of the land,air and sea conduits to Alaska.. and having a stable civil government on their northern border..
    Or eliminating that border all together.
    And most Western Canadians are compatible with the American Dream..
    Easily assimilated,even eagerly assimilated,at this point in time.

    We are ripe for the picking,as we are still absorbing the depths of the betrayal that Ottawa has wrought.
    Zero rights,no freedoms,corrupt government,to the point of being a State of thuggery.
    Theft without end.

    And then there is ego.
    The US President who joins the lower 48 to Alaska,eliminates the communist threat to the northern border and makes the Nation richer,will get his own mountain at Rushmore.
    If he gets the current citizens of Western Canada to pay to make this all happen?
    Two mountains!.
    A cynical note here,it occurs to me that the Liberals will blame all of their own idiocy and destruction of Canada upon American Influence,Evil Orangeman when back in time to make Canada a failed state,just so he could take over the ruins..
    The Chicken Dancers would swallow that right up.

    1. L – + + +

    2. I would advise Western Canadians to realize that while you are important, you are not THAT important. And to some extent, you too have to own the collapse of your country — TMX may have made you happy, but helped to open the door, now didn’t it? Did you think we’d forget?

       If we would go for it, we’ll go for it all.

14. Jason Kenny is a David Frum “conservative”.