Magical Thinking

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Run the same poll three months from now and you’ll probably get a very different result, but for the time being Canadians seem blissfully unaware of the freight train that’s barreling down the tracks towards them. John Q. Voter is either incapable of understanding basic economics or he’s experiencing some sort of psychotic break just now.

This means items that consumers may not regularly see or purchase, but are often required as part of a manufacturing process or supply chain that ultimately could mean higher prices for a wider variety of goods — even if they’re made in Canada.

Three-in-five (60 per cent) of respondents said they are willing to stay the course on Canada’s current negotiating strategy even if it means paying 10 or 20 per cent more for household expenses, including groceries and clothing.

52 Replies to “Magical Thinking”

  1. “Run the same poll three months from now…”

    …and it’ll be another lie the same as this one.

    Your point is well taken though, your average Canadian Normie won’t react until you take the food out of his mouth. Maybe not even then.

    Elbows up!

    1. As long as the legacy media keeps cheerleading the Elbozos will chant.
      I trued to explain to a libtard why tariffs on both sides will affect Canadians. He refused to even try to understand. Bashing my head against a brick wall would have been more successful. I wouldn’t he surprised if he wasn’t a federal snivel servant.

  2. Q. What do you find where cowardice intersects with ignorance and childishness?
    A. A majority of the Canadian electorate.

    1. ^^^^THAT^^^^ A nation of emoting toddlers, acting out thinking mommy will make their boo-boo’s better. I hope they starve.

  4. This is unsurprising. The majority of Canadians also supported the Liberal government’s shut down of the Trucker protest. The majority of Canadians either believe in the promise of fairy dust and unicorn farts or are entirely beholden to the government that promises them and their newly arrived family free stuff forever.

      1. Oh they’re going to see that wish come true.
        They already have the squeal-on-your-neighbor part, the government-knows-best part, the universally-shitty-healthcare part and the no-guns part, just to name a few.

  5. Oh well, with the Carney government collecting all that extra money from these new tariffs I’m sure they will reduce other taxes.

    Right?

  7. What did anyone expect? You’ve been primed to do exactly what you’re doing for quite some time (generational even).
    The unknown factor in all of this equation was what if the Americans decided to not play along with the role that was provided for them; and that, as everyone is finding out, was a significant oversite.
    Now it’s our turn, and my people are more easy to get going because we’re more mercurial. We’ve only just begun. Looks like we both might be in for some fun (not stated as sarcasm, just to be clear).

    1. ?
      jane, are you saying America ie Trump decided to ‘take their bat and ball and go home’ instead of playing a game with the bully?’
      l actually did this once as a kid. the local bully was alllllllllll disappointed when l did just that.
      l remember thinking (psst: well you reukcf BE NICE and l might stick around) anyway if felt GOOD
      knowing l was completely in the right doing so.
      Trump ‘may’ be ‘right’ and he ‘may’ be ‘wrong’ but the FACT is CanaDUH under Carnage has FAILED to see and accept the *reality* of the situation and instead of *aiming* at a continuing win-win of SOME sort, decides the braggadocio approach will do. BLAT!!! wrong answer you skcufbmud !!!

      so here we are. the pep rally continues, oblivious to the financial hurricane building outside in the REAL WORLD.
      lve formally (university) studied economics, politics (BA) and history enough to see this happening.
      l detest Liberals a wee bit more each day.

      1. In a sense, yes. We are taking our ball and going home; don’t make us come back.
        But your PM was placed where and when he was, your populace ‘encouraged’ to think like they do, as part of the marching orders — in reaction to America’s actions.
        So, with that view in mind, you are doing exactly as you’re supposed to — never put down to stupid what can be explained by evil, and all that. You (Canadians) are the sacrificial sheep at the altar.

        1. Wait until they figure out that they’ve been played by the EU to pay for doing battle with Trump, to weaken Trump so that the EU could make some progress with him.
          Who do they think Carney is looking out for? It sure isn’t Canada.

  8. Wait. Dear Canadian dipshitz… aren’t you already paying an extra 30% because of your devalued dollar? So another 20% … which brings you to paying a 50% penalty for fighting the BadOrangeMan doesn’t bother you!?

    There is no cure for stupid.

    1. I order parts from the USA because even WITH all the extra fees, its still 50% CHEAPER than I can get up here, for DECENT parts, not the white box, jobber special, garbage that comes with a tail light warranty!

      A few notable exceptions would be the company in Linden, Alberta that makes heavy duty, lifetime warranty rebuildable ball joints, a set of 4 runs $1000 CAD, but are the last word in durability and reliability..

  9. The country is still in the early stages of grief, basically at Stage 2, Anger. This is where “we” are stuck at this time, and seem determined to stay. This is the cutting our nose off to spite our face.
    It won’t take long to enter Stage 3, Bargaining, or 4, Depression. The tripling down of new sanctions on Chinada will be designed to be devastating, rather than token. Example#1, banning liquor. That will devastate Diageo/Crown Royal, and all the whiskeys that are exported. Example#2, banning the procurement of defence supplies to the US from Chinada, worth approx $50Billion, with a B. And there are others, it’s just getting started.
    The bargaining will be the reconsideration within, depression will occur when they are rebuffed and warned of more, devastating sanctions on the way. It’s called Teaching You a Hard Lesson!
    You wanted it, You Got It, ElBoWZos!

    1. What’s baby formula made out of? Where does Canada get most of its supply of baby formula from? Domestic production? Where does Canada get its supply of a primary component from?

      A while ago I asked that, and not without reason.

        1. No, far more effective. We got them to do it to themselves.
          *most of the baby formula comes from the U.S.; Canada started an initiative to create a domestic production, but it still relies on U.S. dairy whey to make; guess what was one of the things Carney slapped a tariff on?
          I’m sure the Canadians will be able to work out some sort of arrangement with their own dairy producers.

          1. We, on the other hand, are far more humane and caring.
            By banning/restricting Canadian whey into our country (about $70B) through our procurement system, we allow the Canadian milk producers to service the needs of their own people. Think of the children Canada!

          2. “I’m sure the Canadians will be able to work out some sort of arrangement with their own dairy producers.”

            Maybe we could make it out of all the milk we normally dump to keep the price up?

          3. They’ll simply get it from China. Remember the dog food fiasco where Fido’s kibble contained such exotic ingredients like melamine?

          4. I think Eskimo is likely correct. You export the raw products, the Chinese make the finished goods, you assemble the packaging with a nice “Made in Canada” label with a cute little maple leaf. Voila! …a victory for global ‘free’ trade.
            Your consumers will just be paying more for the luxury of that system.
            Probably a very good thing for American babies that my President wants it out of our procurement system (and if I remember correctly, there have been problems in that area before).

          5. Mmmmmmm mmmm melamine … if it’s good enough for my IKEA bookshelves … it’s good enough for me.

          7. Trying to get quota increased to support Canadian industry is impossible. A yogurt company shut down because it couldn’t import and there was no available domestic supply to meet the demand.

          9. 6,000 ChiCom infants with kidney failure from melamine-tainted baby formula! Well … here’s hoping they were all female slave babies … Right?

  10. The crisis is by design, it will speed up the move to UBI.
    The movement from socialism to communism is slow, gradual, mostly unnoticeable, till suddenly it’s communism.
    ,,, and you can’t vote your way out of communism.

    1. Carney’s economic Holodomor.
      Never let a crisis go to waste and if there isn’t one get busy creating one.
      Communism 101.

  11. John Q. Voter is either incapable of understanding basic economics or he’s experiencing some sort of psychotic break just now.

    Two things can be true. Also, most people are math illiterate.

    “Canada’s economy is experiencing uneven and sluggish growth under Prime Minister Mark Carney, marked by a brief technical recession in early 2026 and ongoing trade friction with the United States.”

    The Globe and Mail sparked a debate when it reported that Canada’s GDP per capita has fallen behind Alabama’s. The comparison rattled Canadians and triggered a wave of criticism about the validity of using GDP per capita as a measure of national prosperity.

    But here is what makes Canada’s situation different: We are not just dealing with measurement noise. We are seeing a systematic decline relative to countries dealing with the exact same measurement challenges.

    From 2014 to 2024, Canada’s real GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power parity grew by just 3.2 percent in total, an anemic 0.4 percent per year on average, and the third lowest among 38 advanced nations. Over the same period, the United States posted 20.2 percent total growth (1.9 percent annually), and the OECD average reached 15.3 percent (1.4 percent annually). The measurement shortcomings cannot explain five-to six-fold differences in growth rates.

    1. “triggered a wave of criticism about the validity of using GDP per capita as a measure of national prosperity.”
      heh heh curious no? all of a sudden metric ‘X’ doesn’t dish the required result and its
      ‘overboard with it’ time.
      another indication of the —– willful self delusion —– that has captured the huge majority of Canaduhians. and THAT is *most evident* certainly from the moment turdeau 2.0 was first elected and more probably long before that.

      1. l once posted on NP (national post) comments a theory that, in order to ‘get the desired result’, pollsters need only do the poll over and over and over again so that odds are ‘1 in 20’ the results are actually way off, but voila!!! its a legitimate poll, soooo thats what gets PUBLISHED!!!
        the comment was repeatedly deleted, the last time l prefaced it with a threat to call NP and demand to know what was so ‘offensive’. that time it stayed.
        welcome to CanaDUH

  13. 10 or 20 per cent more? I think that’s lowballing it.

    Canadian sheeple will support it because they never actually believe it will impact them personally in more than a very minor way. Until it does. And even then it takes a long time to sink in.

  14. Darn poor negotiating Liberals!

    There goes all those pipelines, ports, nuclear plants, manufacturing plants, mines etc that the Liberals lied about as usual but Trump was going to make happen.

    Yay!
    Welfare for all!
    Sorry. Social spending.
    Especially for Liberal connected companies.

    1. No, they’re more like the dancing ants in that ants / grasshopper (or whatever they were) story.

      1. I think you got that backwards.
        The ants were hardworking and planned ahead.
        The grasshopper was a lazy asshole.

  16. l just posted this on a YT vid regarding the tariff situation: (caps lock mine l hope this is posted here)

    WAKE THE HELL UP CANADUH CARNEY HAS TAKEN ON THE MOST POWERFUL NATION IN HISTORY IN A ‘SHOW OF FORCE’ INSTEAD OF REALISTICALLY ACKNOWLEDGING THE POWER IMBALANCE AND CREATING A ‘WIN-WIN’ SITUATION. ITS ALL OPTICS AND PROPAGANDA AND C-A-R-N-E-Y EITHER DOESNT GIVE A S**T OR CANT HANDLE THINGS OR ITS ALL D—E—L—I—B—E—R—A—T—E WAKE THE HELL UP

    1. Kanada is role playing the Masque of the Red Death. Just keep waltzing until every last one drops dead.

  17. Those who work for, off government and the rest of the elbows up yours comfortable cabal willing to pay more, are also willing that the growing working poor, stretched thin small businesses and those of us want no part of this Trump tantrum jingoistic anti-patriotic bullshit, therefore who are not willing to pay “more,” get to anyway.

    Personally I question Carney’s ability to pull this thing together even if he wanted to, which he’s proved he doesn’t, because he simply doesn’t have any experience, just as a back room boy, with zero time as an MP, in the politics of balancing Liberal fortunes and Canada’s, played easily by the velvet of patriotic protectionism, a top down globalist elitist whose never handled others’ money that didn’t come from government or pensions, pretending to care about our sovereignty, who has demonstrably been at the fiscal helm since 2020, spouting all’s well since his coronation.

    He’s trying to out macho man Trump – whom he should erect an altar to for getting larcenous Liberals and him elected last year, but he’s becoming a miserable failure, frozen like a dystopic deer in his hegemonic headlights.

    1. ” for getting larcenous Liberals and him elected last year”
      aaaaaaaahhhhh . . . . . . ummmmmm . . . . . . well, like lve said before ‘played us like a fiddle’
      jeezuz you gotta admire a guy that PEGGED the sit’n so well. same way he PEGGED the fact, play the hand right and he’s in the white house.
      same way he PEGGED the lies that got the attempted impeachment and prison bla bla bla.
      he PEGGED it all. and survived and THRIVES. as does the nation. which in my estimation
      *is the core reason he bothers with all this nonsense in the first place* the ‘ego trip’ is merely
      a sideshow. a windfall. distant secondary. that’s my take on his presidency.
      more power to him. gawdalmighty at least he provided a sensible and timely alternative
      to the Demoncraps.

  19. I think Canada should be grateful to Trump for increasing what is purportedly our most valuable resource: the enrichment of our culture thanks to the millions of skilled migrants that flock to our shores.

    I mean, think of the selfless sacrifice: Trump closing his immigration gates knowing full well that the treasures will go entirely to us!

    1. You aren’t just getting the people who can’t get across the US border now.

      From what I have read many of the various groups that have finally had their “temporary” legal status in the US ended after many years or even decades are heading north rather than back to where they originally came from.

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