Sorry to say, my Liberal friends, but when Donald Trump’s air force has to rescue us over a major Canadian city, because our own Air Force doesn’t really work, that’s about as 51st state-ish as it gets.#ElbowsUp https://t.co/apwlhc5wbq
— Ezra Levant (@ezralevant) July 17, 2025
I’m having trouble following Carney’s logic here. I thought Orange Man was bad for hiking tariffs, and here we are doing exactly the same thing. As far as I can tell, these tariffs don’t apply to the US but to a host of countries that presumably we were supposed to establish new relationships with in order to offset the trouble we have with the US. Can someone tell me what in blazes is going on?
A 50% tariff will apply to imports from these countries that surpass the 2024 volumes, though Canada will honor existing arrangements with its United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade partners, Carney said.
Canada will implement additional tariffs of 25% on steel imports from all countries containing steel melted and poured in China before the end of July.
Related, from Kate: I’m old enough to remember Carney asking when was the last time you bought steel. Boy genius eh.
Kate Harrison "(Carney) billed himself during the election as the guy that would get a good deal for Canada."
"And the reality is that our tariffs are higher today than they were on election day."
"So far, the proposal has been to expedite energy projects to, oh my goodness,… pic.twitter.com/tdcVjTlKMI
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 15, 2025
Meanwhile: “This landmark Deal opens up Indonesia’s ENTIRE MARKET to the United States for the first time in History.”
Say what you want about Carney, but he seems to be better at evading those $100 fines than the last guy.
In a scathing statement this week, Democracy Watch urged Carney to fully divest his shares and stock options, arguing that Ottawa’s purported “screen” — which relies on Carney’s chosen staff to supposedly shield the prime minister from conflicted business decisions — actually “allows him to participate in, and hides his participation in, almost all decisions that affect his investments.”
“PM Carney’s so-called ‘blind’ trust isn’t blind at all,” the watchdog said. “He knows exactly what he put in, he chose his own trustee, can instruct them not to sell, and can receive updates at any time. On top of that, he owns stock options in Brookfield that he can’t sell for years, guaranteeing he stays tethered to these corporate interests.”
Democracy Watch cited the landmark 1987 Parker Commission on conflicts of interest, which concluded that top public officials must sell all investments outright and that blind trusts should be banned as ineffective “shams.”
Top food price increases in Canada since Jan 2025 (ranked by % change):
→ Strawberries +53%
→ Oranges +37%
→ Squash +31%
→ Beef +30%
→ Carrots +30%
→ Cabbage +29%
→ Roasted or ground coffee +19%
→ White rice +17%
→ Potatoes (4.54 kg) +16%
→ Frozen broccoli +14%
→ Frozen corn +14%
→ Infant formula +12%
→ Frozen peas +12%
→ Almonds +11%
→ Salmon +11%
→ Apple juice +10%
→ Tea +9%
→ Meatless burgers +8%
→ Orange juice +6%
An internal ArriveCan investigators’ report long sought by MPs has been sealed by Federal Court order. A judge blocked distribution of the findings at the request of Cameron MacDonald, a former Canada Border Services Agency director briefly suspended over the $63 million program: “The allegations each side makes against the other are most serious.”
Good work by Andrew Scheer.
What do a caveman, Napoleon, and you in 2035 all have in common?
Not owning a car.
This is going to be a long one. So grab a drink and settle in because you won’t believe what Mark Carney is doing. pic.twitter.com/pAhAuYxPvh
— Andrew Scheer (@AndrewScheer) July 4, 2025
Electric vehicle (EV) sales have plummeted in Canada, dropping by a staggering 53% between Q4 of 2024 and Q1 of 2025.
This sharp decline in sales comes at the very moment governments across Canada have imposed increasingly aggressive EV sales mandates requiring consumers to switch to EVs.
An immediate course correction is required before government mandates wreak havoc on consumers and the auto industry, jeopardizing the livelihoods of the hundreds of thousands of people it employs.
This is the one thing the 'Elbows Up' crowd never understood—and still doesn’t. We’re not in a trade war with the U.S.
There’s no war to be won.
For Trump, this is about a realignment of the global order, plain and simple—one centered entirely on American supremacy. https://t.co/cE1e9F7G4C
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) June 29, 2025
@kevinolearytv — This mess started with Trudeau, the idiot king, who rammed through Bill C-69, a policy so anti-development it basically banned pipelines and choked off energy revenue. Now, Carney inherits an economic wasteland and thinks taxing U.S. tech is the fix?
June 27, 2025.
Paul Viera: @mgeist tells WSJ it is “shocking” how Canadian officials — under former PM Trudeau and current PM Carney — dismissed the risks of irking the U.S. and face severe retaliation with a digital services tax.
Proactive disclosures filed after June’s G7 summit in Kananaskis show the round table world leaders huddled around last weekend cost taxpayers $258,300.
The table, designed and built by Calgary-based furniture maker Möbius Objects, consisted of a beige finish and included a number of surrounding desks for staffers.
According to the disclosure, Möbius Objects was awarded the Global Affairs Canada table tender in a two-bid competition, chosen on Jan. 15 by Public Services and Procurement Canada due to a “highest combined rating of technical merit and price,” with a June 4 delivery date.
Inquiries to Global Affairs Canada by the Toronto Sun went unacknowledged.
Sounds like Mark Carney is doing some favours for his Chinese friends.
Canada borrows money to subsidize China, to compete against our own ship-builders.
All while they have 100% tariffs on our canola.
Brutal summer job market for young Canadians as unemployment for students aged 15-24 hits 20%.
Why is the federal government still approving new foreign worker visas? pic.twitter.com/OizBMUwGkO
— Riley Donovan (@valdombre) June 25, 2025
It never made sense that Trudeau, a classic tax-and-spend Liberal who wasted hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars on pet projects, couldn’t meet the NATO defence-spending target.
After the previous Liberal government doubled the national debt in a few short years, one would have hoped that Carney would have taken steps to get federal spending under control, especially while looking to increase defence spending by a whopping $9.3 billion this year.
Yet his massive spending plan, detailed in the government’s main estimates, which were tabled late last month, shows he plans on spending at least $486.9 billion — more than Trudeau spent in his final year. And that number will likely increase when it’s updated to include the $24 billion worth of spending promises Carney made during the election.
Making matter worse, Carney told an audience at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs that, “We will ensure every dollar is invested wisely, including by prioritizing made-in-Canada manufacturing and supply chains,” and that, “We should no longer send three-quarters of our defence capital spending to America.”
While the Liberal Kool-Aid drinkers will lap up this political rhetoric, his strategy will only serve to increase costs and ensure we get less bang for our buck. After all, the U.S. is far more advanced militarily, and its defence industries have significant economies of scale.
And fewer opportunities for graft.
Update, complete with body language tells: Watch Mark Carney not answer the question regarding if Canadians will see tax increases to cover his excessive spending.
@cbcwatcher – Anand is asked about getting to NATO targets, she rambles for 3 minutes and then says “it would be imprudent for me to opine on Canada’s position prior to the conversation that the leaders of the NATO countries are going to have over the next two days.”
While McGuinty’s recent public commitment to grant the Canadian Armed Forces a “20 per cent pay increase” won praise within the defence community, it has also led to confusion — and some experts are saying they want to read the fine print.
Military pay scales are complicated and are based on rank, profession, deployment and other conditions. There are many ways to roll out a boost in compensation.
Charlotte Duval-Lantoine, a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, said she thinks this will not amount to an across-the-board pay hike.
“What is clear to me from this statement is that they are looking at all the options,” she said. “We’re still in that big question about what it looks like because a pay raise versus specialty pay versus an adaptation of the compensation package overall — not in salary — are not the same thing.”[…]
If CAF members don’t see a 20 per cent pay bump after the minister’s announcement, he said, it will be “déjà vu all over again” for military personnel who have been let down in the past by lofty promises followed by implementation that “sucks big time.”
Well after a grueling 20 days back to work our Government during “the biggest crisis of our lifetime” will adjourn for 12 weeks after today only to come back & work for 53 more days. That’s 73 days sitting in Parliament for all of 2025. Ya they sure are worried about us. pic.twitter.com/BTwquyaNyi
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) June 20, 2025
Tristan Hopper: If Iran collapses, regime officials likely to flee to Canada
That’s according to security analyst Casey Babb, and it follows a lengthy track record of Canada serving as a covert haven for Iranian regime officials.
“We know that over the last several years, many, many senior officials of the Iranian regime, despite inadmissibility laws, have already made it in here,” Babb, a senior fellow with the MacDonald Laurier Institute, said in an interview this week with The Ben Mulroney Show.
As such, Babb said that if the Islamic Republic’s ruling class finds itself sent into exile, they “know how to get into Canada.”
As recently as April, the Canada Border Services Agency reported that 20 Iranians who had served in high-level positions with the Tehran government have been found to be living in Canada. According to Global News, only one of those has been successfully deported, although others have left voluntarily.
That ought to help those trade negotiations.
Meanwhile, across the pond The “Lebanese grill” in London is using footage of Iranian missile strikes on Israeli civilians to promote its restaurant.
