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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Canadian petroleum products would come in tariff free if the WTI price is above $60/barrel adjusted by the US CPI from the December 2025 amounts. If the WTI 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.
Well said.
I don’t think that Americans have any real friends in this world.
Trump announced a 50% tariff - starting January 2027...
for later
“Their own people hate their government.”
Well...we have that in common.
Canada’s trade policy is like the Avon gal neighbor down the hall you have allowed to sell you their trinkets that you used to make in your own kitchen and sell to the entire neighborhood and they now make in their kitchen to sell to you, solely because they are down the hall. You have put up with it for quite a while because you don’t need the grief of a confrontation. But now they have been putting their buddy’s trinket sh*t at your doorstep you already told them you don’t want because you don’t like their buddy under the guise they made it in their kitchen.
Canadian “politeness” is a mask these nasty little self-important people have worn while they told themselves and the world that they are better than their greater neighbor.
The mask has slipped and the true nature has been revealed. There is no gratitude for the protection we gave or the standard of living we made possible, only envy and hate.
Most of The best tasting baked goods at Walmart will go up in price even more. Yes, I buy scones, brioche, cakes there.
Walmart+ substituted an American baked cake for my usual Canadian baked one recently. It tasted like sawdust, and the ingredient list read like a lab experiment.
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