Category: Trump

Exorbitant Dairy Farm Debt: Why Canadians will always face high American tariffs

Ian Cumming, writing in the upcoming edition of Ontario Dairy Farmer magazine, describes in detail the insane debt levels of Canadian dairy farmers, ensuring that Canadian consumers will be on the getting screwed hook forever…and ensuring that Trump’s favourite sore spot – Canada’s protectionist dairy market – will remain in place for just as long.

THE U.S. NORTHEAST Dairy Farm Survey released in July 2025 by CoBank and Farm Credit East (US) had some concerns about the increasing debt per cow in New York and New England. It uses data from the year before and projects it into the present. It took 29 years to go from $2,000 (US) to $3,000 debt per cow, then eight years to go to $4,000 average debt per cow, and then another six years to reach $6,000 debt a cow in 2021. The 2024 survey is at $6,514 debt per cow. Intermediate and long-term debt on these farms averaged $5,526 per cow.

A recently published report in Canada on the Australian dairy industry, based on an average size per farm of over 500 cows and total debt per farm as cited, showed an average $1,522 debt per cow. Australian currency is roughly equal in value to the Canadian dollar. It is a country where cattle housing is not required.

In late August, 2024, in St Liborie, Quebec at the Outdoor Farm Show, three respected bankers standing side by side, lending from Ormstown to St Hyacinthe, were asked by Ontario Farmer what their average debt per cow was, with a cow’s production being 1.5 kilos of quota. They all agreed after a brief internal discussion that their average debt was $55,000 per cow…A 2024 dairy farm management club report, which comes out annually, detailing voluntary herd numbers in eastern Ontario and western Quebec, put their average debt at $33,000 per kilo of quota. Translated to the American level of production, that comes to an average of $52,800/cow debt, no matter the herd size.

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Art Of The Loser

Taking advice from Warren Kinsella on Canada-US relations is like buying furniture for your girlfriend thinking your wife won’t find out.

New Governor, Same As The Old Governor

This is a really good explainer.

Threadrolled here.

There Goes The Narrative

@sunlorrieOnly in Ford’s Ontario would Reagan explaining his reasons for imposing tariffs on Japan be transformed into an ad about Reagan defending free trade…

Updates.

Update: To that end, I am pleased to see Ontario’s ad campaign is being suspended…

@LaurieScottPCSee my statement below regarding the announced closure of Holsag’s manufacturing facility in Lindsay, Ontario.

Meanwhile…

Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter


Score another hit for Fat Trudeau.

The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT

Ronald Reagan’s unedited remarks.

Quantum Shift?

If Kamala Harris were proposing that the federal government take ownership stakes in private companies, I can hazard a guess that Republicans would loudly oppose it. What’s going on with a party that has traditionally opposed government ownership of the means of production?

The Trump administration is in talks with the likes of Rigetti Computing (RGTI), IonQ (IONQ) and D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) to take equity stakes in them in exchange for federal funding, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Elbows Down!

I thought our new PM was just the guy we needed to stand up to the Americans. Oh, well…..

American truck maker Paccar Inc. is laying off 300 more factory workers in Quebec ahead of a 25 per cent import tariff to be imposed by the U.S. next month.

The factory in Sainte-Thérèse, a Montreal suburb, manufactures Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks and relies heavily on revenue from the United States.

Don’t Throw Him In That Briar Patch, Br’er Schumer

How the shutdown enabled the Trump administration’s mass firing spree;

The White House is using the government shutdown as an opportunity to fire thousands of people — furthering the aims of Elon Musk’s DOGE effort earlier this year.

Why it matters: This time the stated focus isn’t efficiency or eliminating fraud. It’s all about shrinking the federal government — and doing away with programs that run counter to the administration’s ideologies.

The big picture: This is the first time an administration has used a shutdown to terminate federal workers.

The firings appear to be in line with the overall goal of bringing the federal government under the president’s control and shrinking its size, as OMB Director Russell Vought laid out in Project 2025.

UN Carbon Tax: Dead In The Water

John Ʌ Konrad V;

I can’t share the details on how @michaelgwaltz & @SecRubio have, in just a few days, organized the greatest opposition to UN policy since the Cold War and blocked this UN Carbon Tax.

I can say it was a knife fight to the end.

“I’ve been in this industry for 30 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” one shipping executive told me today. “You just don’t say NO to these guys. It’s unheard of.”

It’s unclear who “these guys” are, but I suspect the European families with shipping investments and net wealth that far exceeds Elon’s.

Absolutely none of the maritime experts I interviewed early this week thought the US could pull this off. Zero. Massive amounts of money, NGO influence, diplomatic threat and media manipulation were behind this… and the American media (except @gCaptain and Fox News) was dead silent.

And yet Trump did it.

“That Trump Truth Social post sent shockwaves through the building,” one UN delegate in London told me. “NOBODY expected it. The Secretary General @IMOSecGen looked like a deer in the headlights this morning.”

Incredible. Simply incredible work by team Trump and a massive blow to the European deep state who planned to use this tax as a slush fund to plug holes in US Aid funding for globalist NGOs.

Promises made. Promises kept!

Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign to Derail Global Shipping Emissions Tax

Nites Ov De Rod

Trump Rule Sidelines 6,000 Truckers Over English Tests

The Trump administration’s enforcement of a strict English-proficiency requirement for commercial truck drivers forced about 6,000 drivers off the road this year amid rising tensions with state governments over compliance, The Washington Post reported.

Under a May 2025 policy issued by Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy, roadside inspections must now begin in English, and drivers suspected of lacking language proficiency may face a two-step evaluation. Failure results not just in a citation but immediate out-of-service designation.

Unexpectedly

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