Apparently most provincial premiers cannot grasp that these tactics have the same chance of success as an economy sedan playing chicken with a bus. Wiser leaders would know enough to concede before it’s too late.
British Columbia Premier David Eby delivered the starkest message: “There is not a chance in hell that U.S. alcohol is going back on the shelves in British Columbia.”
And what happens when the trainloads of BC lumber are no longer allowed into the US?
Trump doesn’t give a crap about Canadian dairy or alcohol sales. They are small potatoes in Canada-US trade relation. As an example, the value of American alcohol sold in Canada in 2024 was about US$740 million, .15% of all US imports to Canada. Trump is looking for an excuse.
What is entertaining, though, is how Trump’s fans will seize on his tranparent excuses and run with them.
Ten years of Canadian government funded media insulting and lying about Trump and his supporters has consequences.
If the Liberal government didn’t support those insults and lies then why did they continue to fund, license, and allow them? They routinely attack independent media.
Those Liberal MSM lies and insults were the official position of this Liberal government.
Carney and his Liberal government look good with Trump’s cowboy boot up their ass.
And the more stupid reactions from Eby, Ford, and the rest of the morons the better it is for Alberta independence.
“Carney and his Liberal government look good with Trump’s cowboy boot up their ass.”
Yes they do. Their bought-and-paid-for news media will try to spin this, for as hard as they can and as long as they can, as plucky little Canada standing up to the US bully, but to no avail…in the end, Donald Trump will win and they will lose. The only real question is how much economic damage Canada will suffer before it is over.
“What is entertaining, though, is how Trump’s fans will seize on his tranparent excuses and run with them.”
Not as entertaining as watching you entering EVERY SINGLE THREAD here that mentions President Donald Trump (even in passing) and trolling as hard as you can to get people to engage with you. Now *that’s* pathetic. ADHD attention whore pathetic.
The liquor ban has had a significant negative impact on the U.S. You think Trump was going to ignore that?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Trump-Canada-Tariffs.jpeg
The ban affects 581 million dollars of U.S. booze. That’s a significant amount to be sure.
But it has given us the opportunity to affect 20 billion dollars of Canadian goods. That’s a far more significant amount.
No, it isn’t about the booze nor the milk. BUT…they are under the USMCA umbrella and are products that the U.S. has charged Canada with breaking said treaty in the past (and not only in the past year or so, and not without some evidence).
So…of course we’re going to use them in our negotiations.
I’m sorry if it hurts your feelings.
What is entertaining is Liberals who follow the Carney piedpiper over the cliff. All Canada had to do was to align with the economic direction of the U.S., but Liberals want power and who cares what happens to the country? Trump’s economic direction is precisely the right one.
Thanks for the ElBoWZo comment of the day.
The US economy is 13x larger than the US.
THIRTEEN TIMES. LARGER. BIGGER. GRANDER.
All the bloviating from pompous rats doesn’t change that fact.
Fight against it and reap the whirlwind.
Why are you ElBoWZos so self-destructive? Intolerant, uppity, delusional yobbos.
ummmm, more like 14, with only 9 times the population. Who is winning? Not shithole Canada.
And here I am, seizing on things again!
It’s s o much fun.
Trump is obsessed with small potatoes! It’s Freudian, no doubt.
former Premier Brad Wall is also in favor of the alcohol bans, like the good little liberal cuckold he is.
https://x.com/republicofsask/status/2079628247604859241?s=46
Well yeah, if we can’t buy bourbon whiskey it will bring the whole American trade apparatus to a crashing halt. Makes perfect sense. Eby and Ford are geniuses. Trump is shaking in his boots. Yeah.
L – The abandonment of Judeo-Christian values, those being foundational to the West is civilizational suicide. Now standing on the precipice of the abyss, each nation-state’s people can leap forward or step back.
Canada’s gov’t. institutions embrace Thanatos, a death cult mind virus over decades, first reducing the status and meaning of motherhood. Birth rates plummeted below replacement. Mandating genetic experimental vaxxines for women of child bearing age, pregnant women and infants, all in violation of medical ethics, foreshadowed the ultimate naked nihilism. For a civilization that valued life, as a sacred gift from a loving creator and morally and legally sanctioned suicide. Canada promotes “the gov’t. will kill you now”, as health care…
Economic suicide is simply part of the agenda, Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney could only rise to power in a failing body politic. The meme of Canada, as a beached whale, being eaten alive by predators foreign and domestic is a bell ringing.
“Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” John Donne
https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/island.html the entire poem expresses how highly our ancestors regarded life, both individual and and communal.
Why is it when Ebby and Carnage speak I keep hearing an Asian accent…
We will never import American hootch. But we will keep importing and distributing “safe drugs” and selling the farm to the CCP. Way to go B.C.
Exactly! It’s what Ms. Maahs should be saying.
But she won’t.
And to add to the stupidity – a few words of wisdom from Premier Ford.
From the Western Standard:
“We can’t keep rolling over. We can’t keep backing down. We have to go full tilt,” Ford said. “We are an energy powerhouse, and we could dismantle the U.S. if we wanted to … They need to feel the pain rather than us constantly feeling the pain.”
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/watch-ford-refuses-to-lift-us-booze-ban-says-canada-could-dismantle-the-us-if-we-wanted-to/75217
The idiot doesn’t seem to understand that Ontario itself imported U.S. power….B.C. also gets power from Washington State. And of course Ontario gets oil for its refineries through Line 5 from the U.S. So let the pain begin. Ford is an empty vessel.
“….B.C. also gets power from Washington State. ”
And Vancouver’s gasoline comes from the Cherry Point refinery in Washington.
Oh, please do try.
Personally, as a resident of the province that is the actual energy powerhouse of Canada, I half want the oil and gas to be shut in, forestry and mining and anything above sustenance level agriculture to come to a screeching and sudden halt. And stop all refining and manufacturing in Alberta as well. The rest of Canada wants that and completely has it coming.
Besides, super geniuses of the Democrat/Liberal ilk seem to think you can outsource all that stuff and still make money, after all, the government produces the wealth and taxes are to control inflation. Just ask them. They’ll manage to throw in something about trans rights while giving their spiel as well.
https://www.rebelnews.com/inside_montreal_s_homeless_hellscape?utm_campaign=al_montrealhomeless_200726&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
one complaint is immigrants getting $3000 a month ‘more than anybody else’.
all part of the plan to cultivate ‘grateful’ voooooterrrrrrrrs !!!
Canada: old Beothuk word meaning “lemming brain”.
skill testing Q: who else is USA in a trade war with? mexico? any european country?
ancetral american or south american country? any asian nations, SE asia incl vietnam, korea, japan? how about australia? any african nations in the cross hairs?
lm going to say, very broadly and generally speaking Trump ois dealing with the entire rest of the world with the same approach, what economists call ‘enlightened self interest’.
so what is the great bugaboo with Canaduh?
well, one variable is Carnage and bluster from the likes of eby ‘chance in hell’ instead of something the likes of ‘we continue to explore a resolution’.
Canaduh is like a ‘tough talking’ 80 y.o. moderately senile retire boxer with the grandkids still living at home and sponging between social media postings.
Here’s a novel idea. How about letting the consumer decide what products they want to buy or not. Whether that be Canadian, US, China or any other Country. I oppose all the, oh poor me, I am a victim of Orange Man Bad, garbage. Canada is the spoiled, bad neighbor in all this and It it time for the Premiers to act like adults, step up to the plate, eat some crow, if necessary, and get a deal done, which will benefit both Canada and the US.
Exactly. Trudeau poisoned the well and Carney did nothing to clean up the mess.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/ford-says-canada-could-dismantle-the-us-if-we-wanted-to-as-premiers-gather-in-pei/ar-AA28mlkX?ocid=winp2fp&cvid=a03eb65d2c8d421ff8a766bf5bdaca8c&ei=20
I think Blubber Dougie is drunk again.
“Drunk” would only be an excuse if it was stupidity of the transient variety.
Fat Doug is just following orders and playing his little, fat role.
By now, as I write this, the fat one is likely drunk at his cottage in Muskoka.
I hope he is enjoying the smoky skies and blackflies.
He has also committed the grave sin of wasting whiskey.
Dumb animal.
“With more tariffs hitting Canada, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there is no trade war to win. “Elbows up” won’t work. You cannot outmuscle a country that represents roughly a quarter of the global economy. You need to work with it—even if you despise its leader. Mexico chose engagement and is now in a better position because of it.
As for Canada, we chose pain.”
No wiser words could be spoken than this.
https://x.com/foodprofessor/status/2079335737011671075?s=61
Rule #1 of negotiation is “Separate the people from the problem “. Trump knows this and purposely rankles Canadians because he knows we will get upset, get petty and petulant, overreact, and do stupid things BECAUSE Canada doesn’t know how to follow Rule #1.
Other important rules are ‘use signaling’, ‘invent options for mutual gain’, and most important, ‘Know what your BATNA is’.
“BATNA” is Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement. In simple terms, it’s your best possible choice if you can’t come to agreement. Frankly, Canada’s BATNA sucks. We will no longer be in a technical recession; we will be in a full-blown recession if we don’t get an agreement. You can’t replace three quarters of your exports overnight, and many firms have indicated they are leaving if CUSMA fails.
When Canadian unemployment hits 20-25%, the clamour for Conman Carney’s head will be deafening. He will of course dig his heels in and ask his Euro pals to bail us out. They of course have problems of their own, and so we will get nice words and promises but zero actual help. When unemployment hits 30%, the number of people asking Trump to save us will be massive.
I’m drinking more Asian booze. Their doing.
It amuses me that the whole “51st state” business was just a joke but proved so effective in causing Canadicide.
Heh. That wasn’t the cause – it was just an accelerant.
It is not the business of governments to decide what is bought and sold anywhere. When it is, the first thing that is bought and sold are politicians (Bad Cat).