Posted on 09/13/2026 7:43:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
I’d like to offer an update on the Canadian-American trade spat.
Earlier, I had staged it. I said stage one was surprise on both sides of the border that two neighbors who spoke the same language, had the same civilizational origins in Britain, were close neighbors, and had the largest undefended border in the world were at a point of very angry disagreement.
The second stage was that Prime Minister Mark Carney started to suggest that the United States was solely culpable, was a bully, and had forced him to cancel the agreement at the 11th hour late on a Friday afternoon without warning.
And he said that the United States tried to impugn or intercede or limit, prune back, whatever term you use, Canadian sovereignty, both by telling Canada that it couldn’t import cheap Chinese EV vehicles or that it could not import cheap steel and aluminum from China that were really, to be fair, dumped below the cost of production as a way of getting around American tariffs via being used for assembling autos or vehicles in Canada and then shipped into the United States at a cheap price.
And he accused us of trying to squelch Canadian and indigenous Canadian expression. In other words, our digital media companies were so successful in bringing the news and social media accounts to Canada that people who wanted to get the indigenous voice out and the French voice out couldn’t, and therefore he was going to unilaterally tax us 5% on top of corporate income tax, which nobody else does.
We don’t tell Canadian broadcasters or Canadian newspapers we’re gonna tax you so you include the particular culture of the San Joaquin Valley of California.
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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.
VDH ping
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.
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