Posted on 04/03/2025 2:33:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spins a tale of Automaker Stellantis temporarily shutting down auto plants in Canada and Mexico as an outcome of President Trump’s tariffs. Unfortunately, the gaslighting by Carney might work on less intellectual SnowMexicans, but it fails here.
Stellantis, an EU centered auto company who sell Dodge, Ram (made in Mexico) and Dodge, Durango (made in Canada), have been in a deepening crisis for over a year as a result of poor brand management, poor development and weak North American sales. In short, their cars and trucks are not selling, that’s why the CEO quit in December, and they fired and replaced the North American leadership team. It has nothing to do with Trump’s auto tariffs against Mexico and Canada.
That said, Mark Carney used the Stellantis plant closing (Windsor) as cover to announce that Canada would match the auto-tariffs with a 25% countervailing duty against all U.S. made cars and trucks. [Prompted]
This approach only raises the ceiling for the U.S. tariffs against Canada. Quite frankly, I’m not sure why President Trump would continue to play this game with Carney and should (for the sake of simplicity) just cancel all trade with Canada and begin an immediate embargo and border blockade.
Tell the Carney clown to stay at home, shut it all down and let the Canadians live as a sovereign nation under the rule and regulation of the EU while they continue to destroy their energy resources and import foreign workers. It’s silly to keep entertaining Canada as if they really matter.
If it wasn’t for the national security threat they could represent on our border, Canada would likely get little policy attention from any administration. The Trudeau/Carney’s of the world are just annoying now. Sorry...
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Enjoy driving your new Skodas and Tatas, dear Canucks.
The fastest way out for a new Liberal PM is a trade war with the US.
Just making it easier for Trump.
Who knows, 51st state soon…….
Do we have to admit Quebec?
Can we send Neil Young back? Don’t need him around anyhow.
Insidious globalist who hates his own people. The party he now leads imported insane amounts of immigrants and locked Canadians down longer than most countries.
Why not just drop the tariffs altogether. Tomorrow.
Somebody has underaged rape in his past.
They’ll do fine eh.
Canada has a monstrous big GDP and their economy is robust...
Works for me
... Won’t that be a decrease?
… and Ladas.
Don’t worry Mr. Carney, China will be happy to help you out.
Love It BIGBOB
Lynyrd Skynyrd
I think Canada has 540K auto and auto parts workers, most located in Ontario
My crystal ball says:
All Ontario plants will idle within 2 weeks
Ontario 18+% unemployment
UAW Wins! Unifor Loses!
Unifor starts laying off Union HQ staff before May
UAW will vote MAGA for 20 years
GO MAGA
Canada makes cars???
ISWYDT 😉
Yes! More Tatas!
Tatas?
(o)(o)
“I’m not sure why President Trump would continue to play this game with Carney and should (for the sake of simplicity) just cancel all trade with Canada and begin an immediate embargo and border blockade.”
I would think the embargo and border blockade relates to goods and services, not Canadian citizens.
If so, PDJT needs to to put $100/person border crossing fees in place to keep our grocery stores from being raided.
Fee would be waived for medical services, don’t want to see Canadians suffer due to their socialized medical care
Marx Carnage cannot hope to win on his government’s record. (Sure, he is not elected and claims to be an ‘outsider’, yet for four years, he was True-dolt’s unelected ‘economic advisor’.)
His only hope is instilling ‘fear’ amongst low intelligence voters, fear of ‘bad orange man’. He pretends to be a ‘big man’, talking tough. Like True-dolt, he too, likely squats to relieve himself.
True-dolt was an evil buffoon. Carnage is pure WEF/ChiCom evil, in Canaduh to finalize the takeover of Canaduh, to bu the PRC’s principle resource colony.
It would seem that the right hand and the left hand are not talking to each other in Canada. Carney is full of bluster threatening all sorts of tariffs at the same time as Doug Ford the Ontario major domo is claiming that he is ready to remove all Canadian tariffs if President Trump will do the same. He said that yesterday on TV but has he phoned President Trump? After so many years of Trudeau screwing up the country, Canadians should be voting the Liberal party out and going with the Conservative Party. It is hard to believe the Conservatives could make more of a mess than the Liberals have done.
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