Posted on 03/11/2025 2:23:25 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell
Not a bad starting point but given Alberta has entertained the possibility specifically on becoming a state I think it is a bit strong to state no one in Canada wants to be a state.
An even simpler solution would be for Canuckistan to show that they are taking measures to reduce the flow of fentanyl into this country.
“Americans would be similarly upset and displeased if a foreign power leaned heavily on the U.S.A.”
Perhaps Canada should cooperate and drop their high tarriffs.
The Canucks are simply being unfailingly polite.
Greenland and Canada have both set out why they’re not big fans of the idea - they don’t have school shootings, their society isn’t deeply polarised, they don’t get bankrupted by extortionate private healthcare, they don’t mind paying taxes, and they don’t mind paying import tariffs.
Alberta is looking at the offer from the US and saying, very politely, it is worth a discussion. In much the same way that my Dad said he was “open to a talk about it” when six-year-old me said I wanted an ant farm with army ants in it.
I didn’t get one.
I suggest you also include an immediate 50% increase in Canadian defense spending, to the level Canada committed to upon joining NATO.
Or they can pay the U.S. a tribute on all goods exported that amounts to 50% of the current defense shortfall. That won’t begin to cover the tens of billions of spending on freeloading socialist crap Canada has flushed down the toilet, but it would be a pretty good place to start.
I was born in Canada, and am outraged at how pussified it has become.
“The 90-day pause should not be viewed as problematic on either side. “
How many terrorists would come across during that 90 days?
What about Canadian tariffs on American imports? That’s also an issue.
How about zero tariffs.
Canadians buy ir stuff if they want and us theirs if we want.
Otherwise we’ll cut off your Kraft Dinner supply. Take That! LOL
He hasn’t stated it outright, but I think Trump sees Canada as not a fully sovereign nation - it is under the control of EU (particularly London) WEF-style globalist/socialists, ie) globohomo.
Given the destruction Trudeau has caused, and his anointed successor is pure Davos-man, Mark Carney, one could argue that Canada has been “globohomo” testing ground for large-scale multi-culti leftist social engineering. This can not be left on our Northern border, or in Greenland. Many of Canada’s policies, from climate change to Ukraine simply ape policy stated by Brussels/London.
I wonder if Trump’s issues with Canada go beyond merely fentanyl traffic and duties on dairy products....
> A third suggestion is that we consider a renewed economic union based on the lowest set of tariffs, if not a total elimination of all of them, similar to the European Union, but without the political apparatus of the EU. <
Dangerous business. Because the EU started as a simple trade union, too. But it is the nature of any bureaucracy to grow, and gather more power to itself.
And so we have the EU of today.
This why, I think, Trump is focused on tariffs. The money is immediate. It doesn’t matter what is in the warehouses or the pipeline, you have to have the cash to move the product.
Canada has a trade surplus with the U.S. and enjoys higher tariffs. Canada’s government is addicted to this money as if it was USAID. They can’t give it up any more than Hunter can his crack pipe.
I disagree with the overall premise of your opinion, I am in agreement though that Statehood is just not going to happen. Alberta I think is semi-serious though as there is a lot of animosity between them and Ontario and their government currently.
I understand the idea is unpopular, as for everything else they have been wildly naïve and blissfully so. They have lived under the default protection of the US and it is time for them to stand on their own economically and militarily.
No more unbalanced trade, either no tariffs across the board or reciprocal tariffs, they need to own it and find another way to run their country as opposed to on the back of the American consumer.
I can hear Trump laughing at this now.
This guy has no vision. He should have proposed going back to the “norm” and waiting until the next US election.
;)
“I wonder if Trump’s issues with Canada go beyond merely fentanyl traffic and duties on dairy products..”
Terrorists.
Fairness
Canada would have to put tariffs on imports (for example from china) equivalent to US tariffs, otherwise Canada will continue to be a country whose principal industry is the final assembly of Chinese imports to skirt US tariffs.
Drop all tariffs and Canadians clean their own house. We’re cleaning up ours so feel free to take the initiative. I think the whole 51st bs was to awaken an internal Canadian nationalist movement.
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