Uh oh! https://t.co/GwWA5nHGjU
— MapleWisdom (@MapleWisdom123) August 27, 2026
The Canadians Are Whining
It’s always cute when Canada thinks it matters.
Cultural Imperialism
Were the latest CRTC mandates, and justifiable American opposition to them, the excuse for claiming a supposed threat to Quebecois culture and ending the trade talks? None of that would surprise me. In any case, it’s an incredibly stupid hill to die on and it sickens me that Canadians seem happy to go along with that.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has said the U.S. put pressure on Canada to adjust its position on rules around discoverability of content online, and that U.S. demands would have affected Canada’s ability to protect its culture, including the French language.
As Fate Would Have It….
American Style Elbows
Why is an American Democratic campaign veteran running the PMO’s operations and U.S. strategy while trade and security tensions escalate?
Johnson is a US citizen. She directed scheduling for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, worked at Michael Bloomberg’s Hawkfish, provided strategic consulting to the Biden campaign in 2020, and has deep Bloomberg network ties. As a non-Canadian, she is barred from Top Secret clearance — yet she is now Carney’s top deputy with unclear access to sensitive material. There was no official announcement on the PMO website
Her path to Ottawa runs through the climate-finance web Carney co-chaired (GFANZ with Bloomberg), Gerald Butts (now advising alongside Carney’s wife at Eurasia Group), John Podesta, and recent private gatherings involving Barack Obama, Alex Soros, Huma Abedin, and senior Canadian officials. These are the same networks that have long treated Canada as a friendly base for opposing a Republican White House
More at Breitbart.
h/t Victor
I Want A New Country
You only think you hate the Carney Liberals enough. You’re wrong.
SHOCKING: The NY Times reveals that the US were keen to move ahead with the Keystone XL pipeline, but the Liberals used it as a bargaining chip to try to change the deal in the last hours.
Side note: Why can’t we get this kind of information from our own government and media? pic.twitter.com/t4lLEoXfAJ
— Peter McCaffrey (@peteremcc) August 25, 2026
Trump Whispering
Comprehensive Summation of the Trade Dispute
Kim Dobranski is a prominent businessman in Kelowna, BC. He recently published two comprehensive X posts that should be mandatory reading for all Canadians, especially the Elbows Up crowd. Here’s #1 and here’s #2.
Hard Truths
Related: Jasmin Laine reports that it was all political with the Canadian negotiators.
Fever Pitching
Given what I know about the Canadian political classes, I didn’t expect any of them to call out Blubber Dougie on his renewed advocacy of economic suicide for Canada. But who put duct tape over the mouths of our captains of industry? Any miner that shut off legally contracted mineral exports to the US would be successfully sued in a matter of hours and go bankrupt within days.
“He underestimates Canada. We’re all in,” Ford said. “Up here, we’re at a fever pitch, everyone’s in for an economic war. They know they’re going to have to sacrifice.”
Ford said “everything is on the table” if the dispute worsens, including cutting off electricity and critical minerals from Ontario. He also called for Canada to consider using oil and potash as leverage.
“I’ll cut them off,” Ford said of critical minerals. “You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario.”
This is What America is Up Against
Some of you will lose your job, your business, your home.
We’re at war.
These are the necessary sacrifices Canadians must be prepared to endure in order to stop Donald Trump.
Elbows up! 🇨🇦
— Brantford Boomer (@BrantfordBoomer) August 23, 2026
Note: It’s not clear whether this particular account is a rage farming parody. Regardless, I do believe this mentality perfectly encapsulates the mentality of the older Liberal Party supporters.
Canadian Boomer on Display
From April 28, 2025:
Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole. pic.twitter.com/DHYuu2tJMm
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 29, 2025
I so would have loved to have been able to ask this woman some follow-up questions, starting with, “Why shouldn’t Donald Trump be the U.S. President today?”
Incidentally, the short interview clip appeared in this video today.
Uncomfortable Truths for the Elbows Up Crowd
Elie Cantin-Nantel has an information-rich interview with Georganne Burke:
Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa
What he meant to say is that his top donors at the Canada China Business Council already own him https://t.co/DXE4prMEPM pic.twitter.com/wslGvJKeCX
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) August 23, 2026
Trump Whispering
Who needs an auto industry anyway? Its not like they want you to drive: trade talks collapse, left elbows hardest hit.
Online News Act Reported Dead
In the name of placating President Donald Trump and his band of oligarchs, the Canadian government may be getting set to kill its last-remaining bit of Big Tech regulation.
I’m told, by sources not authorized to speak on the record, that Ottawa has told publishers to be ready for the death of the Online News Act. It would be just one concession offered up to alleviate — but not end — Trump’s punitive, illegal trade war.
Such a retreat wouldn’t just be bad policy. It would be a surrendering of our sovereignty.
Oh noes! Not our sovereignty! Think of the sovereignty!
The Online News Act requires that major social media, search and advertising technology companies compensate Canadian news outlets for lost advertising revenue. That law has only applied, thus far, to Google and Meta — and the latter hates it so much that they have blocked Canadians’ access to news on Facebook and Instagram for the past three years.
I can’t imagine why anyone would go to the trouble, but whole silly thing is archived here.
Compilation of Elbows Up Cope
If Wishes Were Horses…
As of yesterday social media has been chock full of posts from Carney’s water carriers desperately trying to rationalize a defeat into victory. Good luck with that. All that remains now is to declare than any trade deal is a good deal so that the remaining provinces can safely lift the ban on American booze while hoping that no one remembers their idiocy.
“If I were leading the country, I’d fight. I think we should fight this guy,” he told the station.
Kinew said Manitoba still has to see some details, but if the booze goes back on shelves, his government reserves the right to pull it back off again if U.S. President Donald Trump changes terms.
Canada-America Trade Deal Predictions?
Social media is on fire this evening with all sorts of commentary on the prospective trade deal between Canada & America. The massive change I simply cannot believe will happen is the end of supply-side management in Canada.
Carney staked his entire administration on elbows up against the US. Any kind of trade compromise with Trump won't sit well with his supporters who all have end stage TDS.
Carney will bring out buckets of bullshit to spin this and our media will be happy to carry them for him. https://t.co/mBI6alWigM
— Tokyo Rosie (@RosieRocks28) August 19, 2026
Please do share your predictions about what all is about to happen.
Update: Eric Daigneault shares his thoughts.
Do Canadians Feel They Are More Free Than Americans?
Canadian political pundit, Matt Ross, has published a very thought provoking video. Will it wake up a sufficient number of Canadians? Can ostriches hear anything if their heads are buried in the sand?!