When the Liberal backroom boys start to admit that the rest of the world couldn’t care less about Canada, you just know that your chances of “sticking it” to Trump are somewhere between slim and zero.
Clow said that while the world should have stuck together 18 months ago, it would be the wrong approach for Canada to unilaterally retaliate now.
“The ship has kind of sailed here,” he said. “For Canada to now move on its own and implement a whole bunch of retaliatory tariffs, I think, would leave us even more exposed to further escalation and further pain from the Trump administration.”
I wouldn’t try to “stick it” to Trump.
First, a lightweight shouldn’t box a heavyweight. Second, Trump’s already sticking it to the US. His economic policies are so misguided that he’s dolng serious damage. Tariffs are ultimately self defeating.
No, Canada should just expand its trade away from the US as best it can, and otherwise weather the storm. No retaliatory tariffs of any kind, as that hurts us as well. Trump won’t be president forever, and his economic policies might be even more short lived.
Canada has a consistent 60 billion annual trade deficit with China, so there’s that.
But geography is destiny.
Carney has often followed Juthtin the Idiot’s playbook by saying one thing to Trump’s face and another to the world.
This is called sucker-punching the heavyweight.
Its a Liberal thing – they can’t be trusted, they can’t be honorable, they can’t not be immoral.
I don’t think we know what Carney says to Trump when they’re together.
But Trump is the least honorable president I ever recall, including Nixon. The Gordie Howe Bridge fiasco would have made a mob boss blush.
That’s not a proper response by your own standards. You well know he’s as obsequious as a puppy.
Trump’s honor isn’t the topic.
When you’re dealing with an Elephant in the room, you dont complain about the manure.
How would we know what Carney and Trump say when they’re together?
Really KM?
I think I have more respect for you than vice versa.
When you don’t want to answer a question, you really don’t want to answer a question.
And yet you claim to know Trump’s innermost thoughts. His “obsessions”.
Trump isn’t damaging the US economy at all. Canada can’t expand its trade away….aligning with the EU is as dumb as it gets. The EU GDP has a percentage of the world GDP has been cut in half over the last 20 years. Aligning with China is unbelievably stupid. The smartest thing Canada could do is align itself with the U.S. economic direction as tightly as possible because they are on the right track.
The only economic indicator that’s significantly improved under Trump is the stock market. The rest — inflation, unemployment, GDP growth, government debt, business investment — is either flat or worse than when Trump took office. If it weren’t for the AI boom, things would be outright bad.
So what was the point of starting a trade war? When does the winning start?
And that is false. The U.S. GDP growth is vastly superior to that of Canada. Inflation is fine, unemployment is fine and business investment in the U.S. is increasing. You are as clueless about the economy as you are about COVID “vaccines”. Say, are you going to watch Fauci get roasted tomorrow? The little prick needs the Mussolini treatment.
It’s better. It’s not “vastly superior”. And Canada at least has a reason — it’s biggest trading partner is trying to impoverish it, perhaps in an attempt to force annexation.
Initial estimates by the Federal Reserve for the US Q2 GDP growth is 1.6%, which is not exactly a barn burner. And again, much of that is due to the AI boom. The “reshoring boom” from Trump’s tariffs didn’t happen:
https://iot-analytics.com/us-manufacturing-reshoring-boom-what-the-data-says/
Given the massive hype by Trump over his tariffs, Americans expected far more.
wrong about that KM, the ’51st state’ thing the Donald was just being provocative.
‘getting a rise out of them’. and AB does not have to and will not ‘join the USA’ there is utterly no need for any of this. the west is NO LONGER a vast wilderness now is it? the land masses are *already* part of some description of national territory.
no need to ‘become’ part of a nation when you already are and likewise based of historic examples, hive off and become independent.
And how about Greenland? Is he just being provocative there when he says he wants to annex it?
given that l am unawares of any substantial moves by the US administration to annex the glacier, nd, it hasnt come up since l wd categorize the Greenland quip same as 51st state thing. what the USA *really* needs to do is give Puerto rico statehood.
If Trump is kidding when he says he wants to annex Greenland, it’s a joke that has destroyed trust in America throughout NATO and beyond. The damage will take years to repair, even after Trump is gone.
I don’t think he is joking about Canada or Greenland. I never heard anyone laughing.
You can be quiet now. The adults are talking.
When you have something of substance to say, do get to us.
“You can be quiet now. The adults are talking.”
He can’t, though…his pathetic craving for attention always wins out.
To say nothing of the fact that Europeans are outright less prosperous than Americans and therefore have less to spend. Perhaps Carney can find another, yet poorer nation with which to ally himself.
How are you going to expand your trade away from the United States when your infrastructure won’t support it? As that wine maker video pointed out: it’s harder for producers to expand their markets within your country compared to trade with the United States.
This isn’t some new thing; it’s been baked into the cake.
If you tariff yourselves, then why shouldn’t we tariff you? If you allow other countries to tariff or restrict trade with you, then why shouldn’t we do it? We have given you some military security and viable markets for your goods — and trade agreements that benefitted you.
Yet, you are a very good example of a certain mindset in your country that seemingly believes you are somehow entitled to more special treatment from us even after some of your citizens’ and politicians’ more outrageous stunts. All it took was a joke about making you the 51st state to send many of you into an apoplectic fit (I notice that there was some joking between Americans and Japanese online about roughly the same thing; the Japanese were far better at the joking; they appear to be made of stronger stuff.)
Oh, and by the way: my President’s initial comment wasn’t “I want Canada as the 51st state.”. No, he said: “I think Canada would be better off as the 51st state.”, and it was within the context of your PM’s admission that your country was heavily reliant upon U.S. trade and military protection, an existential issue for your country.
He was completely correct. Words matter.
Shrug. The Canadian electorate has repeatedly demonstrated that it prefers strutting over substance. And our country’s leaders have painted themselves into so many political corners that they have no choice but to continue to oblige.
yes. in the long term THIS is an apt description of political parties, policy, campaigns
the whole wazoo (emphasis on zoo) in Canaduh. how we change direction, l cant see it happening.
He said while looking at the barn door and wondering where the horses where.
“Brian Clow, who served as deputy chief of staff in Justin Trudeau’s Prime Minister’s Office and ran the Canada-U.S. war room during Trump’s first term.”
I’d let one of the crackheads in my neighborhood give me advice before listening to this clown.
And, if that wasn’t bad enough, he was Chrystia Freeland’s right hand peoplekind. And before that he was Wynne’s executive director of issues management.
That is some shitastic pedigree!
Whoa. Brian’s last name should be “Cloy.”
I bet he can’t wash out the smell.
His backing band. the Clown Act.
Most Canadians are exceptionally ignorant, but for those in the know, the “Laurentian Elites” are the Canadian chapter of the “Global Elites”.
Canada has long had a highly controlled economy, with a tiny number of banks, supermarkets, breweries, restaurant chains, drug stores, lumber companies, mining companies, and a whole host of other businesses in virtually ever sector of the economy.
For this reason, Canadians are pretty much bred to be employees of large companies or the government. Put another way, most Canadians are followers, not leaders. Those with an entrepreneurial bent often leave the country, most frequently to America.
So, the Laurentian Elites, knowing that most Canadians are sheep rather than shepherds, used this to full effect to control people during the Covid years. That was highly effective (until the freedom truckers destroyed their narrative), so they used exactly the same playbook to win another election in 2025; different incompetent jackass than the one over the past 9 years, but the new boss was the same as the old boss.
Donald Trump inadvertently gave them another tool to use in their Propaganda Toolkit, that being the lifelong passive aggressive hatred of many Canadians towards Americans. As I’ve frequently said, the April 28, 2025 federal Canadian election was proof positive that the Canuck Sheeple hate Donald Trump specifically and Americans generally MUCH MORE than they’ve ever loved Canada.
Every political operative throughout time has known that if you have nothing of substance to offer, then the most effective thing to do is get people to hate your opponent. With the “Elbows Up” crowd, little to no effort was required to gin up the age old jealousy towards Americans.
Unfortunately, the Canadian politicians this time consumed their own propaganda, spoke out too arrogantly, and did nothing of substance to find agreement with the American government after last year’s election. Now the Canadian people are about to pay a very heavy price for it and will stay convinced that they are the noble & smart ones.
The 8 Canadian Families That Secretly Control Most of Canada’s Wealth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLPtK58Lia8
Family Compact and Chateau Clique. Same as it ever was.
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You nailed it, Robert!
absolutely!!! a VERY complete and VERY accurate description. if we ever were inclined in Canaduh towards a strong entrepreneurial and self sufficient spirit it is LONG gone. a nation of teat suckers, freeloaders, sycophants and smarmy self righteous. we have NOTHING to boast about as a ‘post national state’ promoting a death cult and butchering kids having drenched them in the propaganda of the day. ‘human rights tribunals’ with frightening UNELECTED power.
l dont need to go on, you all here know how bad it is.
Reminds me of a trip we made to Hungary a few years ago. We were touring a pleasant little church and shrine in the countryside. There were some stalls set up outside selling souvenirs, etc. One of the vendors asked me if I was from Germany. No, I replied, Canada. This drew a complete blank. Not only did she not care about Canada, she had never heard of Canada. Our impact on the world is probably less than some would have you believe.
If indeed he said those things, Clow admitted something very smart, then immediately afterward, contradicts himself.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda. The words of a loser.
“The world should have stuck together……”
No, it was a case of which countries immediately recognized that making a new deal with Trump, in short order, would minimize any tariffs and disruption to their economies and show goodwill. SMART and they recognized its strategy vs “personal attack” as Snow Mexicans take it.
Instead, Chinada gets all bent out of shape.
Classic ART OF THE DEAL.
Throw your opponent off their game, and they never recover.
Something the swamp creature doesn’t want to understand.
He and his Thinskinned Liberals want all foreign trade and relations to be like an afternoon tea at Harrods. All prim, proper, stuffy and pretentious.
In other words, being fake and haughty, faking friendship while being an upper class snob.
Yes, Chinada is now on its own, classic mistake isolating itself into a position of WEAKNESS.
This country has no leverage, as I’ve said for the last year, and I’m just as correct today as then.
Or maybe, like the swamp creature suggested, Chinada can deals with such economic powerhouses as Fiji, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, St Lucia, and many other tiny welfare states……..replacing that 85% of our GDP the US provides will be no problem for the PhD Economist from Ireland/England/Redmonton to do in less than a year.
Meanwhile, Chiner is smacking its lips at the havoc it’s created in Chinada, by manipulating the useful idiots that we call politicians.
This is a parody piece. Right?