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Posted on 08/24/2026 4:46:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Central banker Mark Carney is doing that peculiar Canadian thing again — acting tough while exuding weakness. Just before midnight on Friday, the former governor of the Bank of England and King Charles III’s current prime minister in North America announced that trade talks with the United States had collapsed. This was expected, even though the Canadian and American trade delegations had publicly expressed optimism on Wednesday that a mutually beneficial framework for future trade relations was within reach.
The British Empire’s “climate change”-obsessed central banker announced the official start of the U.S.-Canada Trade War on his X account. That’s ironic because the Canadian government considers Elon Musk an enemy, restricts what information Canadian citizens can see on social media platforms, and seeks to tax and regulate all online communication. Because of the Canadian government’s censorship/propaganda machine, most Canadian citizens have no idea how economically vulnerable their British vassal state really is. Carney’s public memorandum makes it sound as if Canada’s economy is the envy of the world, when it is nothing more than a plaything for Chinese smugglers and European bankers who use the country as an entry point into U.S. markets. The average Canadian is about to learn how dependent Canada has always been upon the unreciprocated generosity of the United States.
Canada is a weigh station for moving products into the United States. Its value for other nations lies in its uniquely favorable trade agreements with the U.S. Canadian banks and manufacturers act as middlemen for foreign nations skirting American trade laws. For its trade- and money-laundering services, Canada receives a cut of the profits. China takes advantage of this arrangement by “snow-washing” their goods through Canadian shell corporations and hiding their commercial transactions within Canadian financial institutions. Over the decades, this “Trojan horse” operation
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How long until a federal judge throws the tariffs out.
“Climate Change, Censorship, and China” throw in Perversion as well, and you get CCCP. Go full Soviet.
Canada can keep it’s polar vortexes. I no longer require them.
Carney’s, the Canadian climate collectivist, goose is cooked.
Make them develop their own golden dome.
Canada Chooses Climate Change, Censorship, and China.
Bert is it getting darker real fast or is it just me?.
The "help" of China and the headchoppers has hurt too. All to take down Liberty, Speech and citizens with guns.
I’m tired of some in Canada looking down their noses at the US.
YES
Canada is not an American friend nor Ally
Canada is actually nothingness pretending to be something
Time for a northern wall.
Neither is China, but that didn't stop us from sending our manufacturing, technology, money, and tax base over there.
We were also willing to overlook that we were funding their military and infrastructure while we had to borrow to pay for ours.
All we cared about was cheaper prices and "benefits to the consumer". Well, where are they?
Carney has major investments in the US and everything Trump does makes Carney more money and the more Carney destroys Canada makes Carney more money in the US
My thoughts:
Probably lumber and dairy should have variable tariffs on them.
Dimensioned, kiln-dried softwood lumber tariffs would be based on wholesale per board foot prices received by four leading US mills during two months not more than five months past.
Conifer plywood tariffs would be based on wholesale square foot prices received by four leading US mills during two months not more than five months past.
The dairy tariff might vary based on Canadian region (British Columbia, Alberta-Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, eastern provinces) and be based on three to ten large regional dairy farmer received prices for milk (by hundredweight and cooperative dairy profit sharing by hundred weight) on a monthly expectation schedule adjusted by the Canadian CPI.
A modest tariff for reduced Canadian drug prices would be imposed by the US. The drug pricing tariff is to make for a level playing field for American businesses.
The Canadians might be allowed to export listed amounts of various things tariff free except for the drug pricing tariff in exchange for importing a comparably valued amount of US goods of listed types.
The Canadians would draw up their list first. This might be past yearly amounts in dollars adjusted by American CPI inflation and by 3% per year to adjust for population growth.
The American negotiators would then match by value (and American-set sectoral percentages thereof), largely based on historical exports to Canada.
If there is a shortfall in Canadian imports of US goods, including dairy, compared to Canadian exports of Canadian goods, the US could respond as per the agreement, typically by say imposing tariffs of 20% of the sum of the total amount of the import shortfall plus 10% of the sectoral import shortfalls as the Congress, the President, the Secretary of Commerce may decide. The President would decide when each measuring period starts and ends, the default being close of business the last day of December.
If Canada imports more than the listed amounts of US goods, the Canadians could export more listed goods to the US tariff free except for the drug pricing and lumber tariffs.
In all cases, Canadian basic (unalloyed) aluminum would come in tariff free. Each buyer of it might be required to buy US aluminum in a proportion the President may decide from time to time, and by US time zone, to keep US aluminum producers in business.
Canadian petroleum products would come in tariff free if the WTI intermediate price is above $60/barrel adjusted by the US CPI from the December 2025 amounts. If the WTI intermediate price is less, then a tariff no greater than the percentage shortfall may be levied as the Congress, the President, the Secretary of Commerce may decide.
Canadian exports, except for drugs needing FDA labeling, need only be labeled to meet the statutory requirements generally applicable to Ontario or Quebec. US exports need only be labeled to meet the requirements the statutory requirements generally applicable in three states having Republican governors.
Canada is the cousin on the couch complaining about the selection of snack foods
Get off your duff canucks
This needs to be resolved in a friendly and fair manner.
We don’t need anything from “Oh Canada”. Their own people hate their government. Lets just call it quits.
The Canadians might be allowed to export listed amounts of manufactured products tariff free except for the drug pricing tariff in exchange for importing a comparably valued amount of manufactured products of listed types.
Raw materials such as ore, unalloyed base metals (iron, copper, aluminum, nickel, etc.), and crude oil would not have to be listed or matched.
It’s not Canada it’s the Liberal Party , Carney wants his New World Order and he’s starting with Canada
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