Carney knows exactly what he is doing with the China pass-through. As a leftist he favors China over the USA. Most Canadians won’t hear the truth through state-controlled media.
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Spot on essay by VDH. Canada will come crawling back sooner or later and the deal they sign won’t be what they were going to get.
That was a good piece. Well worth reading, in its entirety.
Canada has had two very suspicious national so-called leaders in a row. Something smells fishy, in the Great White North.
The Chinese pulling the strings on puppet Carney aren’t doing him any favors with the exception of swelling his bank account. Canada has been sold out just like we were under joe Briben.
We need a northern wall also at this point. Canada is a Chinese proxy.
The old man gets a little feisty!
During WW II the US extended to Canada extensive trade considerations. Canada of course maintained the protections for their industry and and agricultural enterprises. Somehow these considerations were never recinded for close to 80 years. In fact Canada became downright haughty in its attitudes and policies regarding the US. Trump decided the nonsense must end.
All we need to know about Mark Carney is he used to be the President of the World Bank. 🙄
His example of Chinese steel, produced under cost from subsidization from the CCP, being sent to Canada to produce cars more cheaply than America can to get around tariffs is a very good example of the perfidy of the CCP and the willing participation of our formerly good neighbor, Canada have been collaborating in.
It isn’t an outlier. This is in character with the Canadian government. And VDH is correct. They don’t want to go down that road.
That is called “making a deal with the Devil”. And anytime you do that, a price will come due, and you will be forced to choose a side at that point, when it is beyond your ability to make a real choice.
Sad.
In 1776, Ben Franklin led an unsuccessful diplomatic mission to Montreal trying to convince French Canadians to join the American Revolution.
In the 1783 Treaty of Paris negotiations, Ben Franklin pushed for the Quebec and other Canadian territories to be ceded to the US.
He’s right, but for one thing: The American people are clueless about any of this and are likely to stay that way beyond the mid-term elections. If the Slave Party takes over Congress, we may be unable to sustain these pressures on our competitors.
“Victor Davis Hanson: Canadians Feel Real Pain in Stage 4 of Trade War”
they weren’t doing so hot before, either ...
What am I getting at? Canada has 79 jets, and they’re 45 years old. Seventy-nine. Seventy-nine. I think California’s National Guard has almost as many. It has about 30 large, considerable ships rather than speedboats, but 30, 35 maybe. It has no military. It hasn’t kept its promises. It has welched.
Maybe there a method behind the Trump "madness"? Prof Hanson explores the idea. And the Canadian government has sold out.
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Ontario’s 407 ETR toll roads have begun zinging American license plates with outrageous fees. Having an EZ-Pass transponder is not a preventative.
Carney tried to capitalize on what he thought would help him politically, playing against Trump, spouting nonsense and assuming crazy positions.
He’ll try to blame the the US for the misery he creates / created.
Carney is an idiot.
If Trump says the sky is blue, he’ll immediately give a press conference on how it can also be white, or gray.
It’s just go against Trump, even if it make no sense!
For example, the US is asking Canada not to let Chinese cars flood the North American market.
Hint: Canada also has a car industry (Ford, GM, Chrysler)...
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Details and examples:
https://www.gm.ca/en/home/company/operations.html
https://www.sherwoodford.ca/blog/where-are-ford-trucks-made-in-canada/amp/
See this here: https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1.7500783,1743683136000/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C5280%2C2970%29%3BResize%3D860 Let the Chinese in, and this is going away “forever.”
Let these products in, and you can kiss the entire North American automotive market goodbye, including the Euro’s and Japanese that manufacture here.
As protectionist this sounds, it is necessary to survive. The simple honest truth is, no one can compete with them. No one.
Average hourly wage in China for manufacturing: $5.30 an hour. Lower costs for water, electrical power, no OSHA, EPA, nor ridiculous EEO and other labor laws and union crap they have to deal with which ultimately all have costs that get built into the product (the really cool sounding maturity leave, etc). There is just no way to compete with them, not the Germans, US, French, UK, Italians, Japanese, or Koreans.
This is a $57,000 car in China: https://www.nio.com/es9 (absolute premium grade and luxury) You’re not touching something comparable for less than $120,000 made in the US, Europe or Japan. https://www.audiusa.com/en/models/q9/sq9/2027/overview/
On the low end a Geely EV loaded is about $9,000: https://www.geely.com/en/models/geely-ex2 No kidding, a Chevy Bolt (comparable) is ~$28,000.
In a more direct head to head (comparable comparison), a Geely TT costs almost exactly 1/2 of a Tesla (similar vehicles): https://electrek.co/2026/09/11/geely-tt-electric-sedan-launch-price-xiaomi-su7/
Outside those places where we have some control, or they do not have their own domestic car manufacturing to worry about and want to save, the Chinese are eating up market share, FAST.
Either we take Canada, or China will.
5% muslims in canada
2% in 2001
Again, liberal media trash: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-assembly-plant-stellantis-down-pacifica-1.7500644 (negative spin, of course)
And how does the MSM portray Carney making deals with China like this: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/16/china-ev-tariffs-canada-00733086 (neutral spin) https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-fewer-than-16000-chinese-made-evs-have-entered-canada-under-carney-xi/ (positive spin for Carney) The liberal MSM is always the same.
Do the writer's of these article realize that the network for distribution, sales, and advertising is not really in place. What they try to sell as a story downplaying concerns, is actually scary news. Someone selling 16,000 cars in the EV market alone, in 6 months alone, in Canada alone, without being set up for massive sales (not even trying!), no name/brand recognition... That's HUGE!!!
Why? Because humans are rational beings after all (hard concept for a socialist to follow, I know). If you have two options that are directly comparable, but one is 1/3 - 1/2 the cost, where do you think people will go?
Anyone in the automotive business, even in Canada, reading this, should ask themselves if we let the Chinese in, like Carney wants, will I have a job in 5 - 10 years?
What do you think the answer is?
That can change.
