The Great Negotiator

Art Of The Deal New Governor 113 Comments

Global News;

The U.S. said Monday it will be imposing an additional 50 per cent tariff on Canadian imports due to retaliatory and “discriminatory” measures Canada took in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Trump signed three executive orders, each one using a different justification for the new tariff: the provincial and territorial boycotts on American alcohol products, Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S.-made vehicles and auto parts, and quotas on American dairy imports under Canada’s supply management system.

The new tariff will take effect in 30 days and will apply to goods covered by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on free trade (CUSMA), a senior administration official told reporters on background.

“Over the past year and a half, only two countries have chosen to retaliate against President Trump’s tariffs rather than negotiate a deal with the United States: the People’s Republic of China and Canada,” the White House said in a statement on the new tariff.

Via @FoodProfessor;

Canada exports approximately $1.4 billion worth of alcoholic beverages to U.S. annually. U.S. receives roughly 90% of Canada’s total alcohol exports, with spirits.

Canada exports about $360 million worth of dairy products to the U.S. annually.

Could be related.

On Competence And Other Sins

Forward! I, Napoleon If Women Ran The World 11 Comments

From the clown quarter of academia:

According to Dr Donna Riley, academic rigour and the expectation of competence are “exclusionary” and tools of “privilege,” and are unfair to women and minorities, for whom rigour and competence are presumably impossible.

As Dr Riley complains that expectations of rigour generate both inequality and “white male heterosexual privilege,” presumably she would rather we erased distinctions more broadly, between ability and mediocrity, and between diligence and half-arsedness. Though her own so-called scholarship, and indeed her employment, suggest that these wishes may already be coming true.

One of these.

In The Mail

Books 3 Comments

Reader Eddie McTier kindly sent copies of two books a few weeks ago as a “thank you”, and I’ve been remiss in not posting this sooner.

(Hidden Lair link fixed, sorry!)

But it’s not too late for summer reading material. Check them out by clicking on the images.

Thanks, Eddie!

Twitter From Beyond the Grave

Baiting The Left Quackery Turtle Island We Are All Treaty People 67 Comments

You can just imagine how every reporter in the room would be scared silly to push back on what this “chief” is asserting:

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