Posted on 04/16/2025 8:30:15 AM PDT by george76
President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports triggered the usual response from Ottawa. First under Justin Trudeau and now under his successor, Mark Carney, Canada’s political class didn’t just protest—they retaliated, slapping on symbolic countermeasures and ...
Outrage as policy—the Canadian default setting when Washington asserts leverage. But beneath the indignation lies a more straightforward truth: Canada had it coming.
Canada has basked in American economic and military protection for years while shirking its responsibilities.
Regarding trade, defense, energy, and foreign policy, successive Liberal governments have treated the U.S.-Canada relationship as a one-way arrangement—Washington provides the muscle, and Ottawa collects the perks. That indulgence is over.
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Canada has dodged NATO spending commitments, neglected Arctic defense, appeased Beijing, and let its military atrophy into a paper force. The Canadian Armed Forces are in such disrepair they can barely police their airspace—much less contribute meaningfully to allied operations abroad.
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Canada remains among NATO’s worst defense underperformers.
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Chinese influence permeates Canadian politics, universities, and critical infrastructure. Intelligence services have confirmed Beijing’s election interference. Huawei lingered long after other democracies cut ties. Yet, Canada’s government has pledged to advance relations with Beijing rather than confront the CCP’s malign reach.
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Canada stopped acting like a reliable partner long ago.
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The Royal Canadian Navy—once a credible force and symbol of national resolve—has withered into a ceremonial fleet. Aging hulls, recruitment shortfalls, and
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The Free Ride Ends Here
Mark Carney may speak with a banker’s composure, but his government inherits Trudeau’s failures—and the runway is nearly gone.
Canada has failed in trade, defense, and alliance credibility. Now, it is being held to account for the first time in decades.
That’s the new reality in U.S.-Canadian relations. And it’s long overdue.
Real allies don’t ride for free.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Replace Canada with Greenland.
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If it wasn’t for USA, China or Russia would have seized Canada by now.
FTA—Canada has basked in American economic and military
protection for years while shirking its responsibilities.
Regarding trade, defense, energy, and foreign policy, successive Liberal governments have treated US-Canada as a one-way arrangement—Washington provides the muscle, and Ottawa collects the perks.
That indulgence is over.......courtesy of Trump’s tariffs.
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Good article! Frankly, I am tired of the people I know from Canadastan throwing all their “free healthcare” and other luxuries in our face while deriding our way of life and how we run things. I also hear the same thing from libs defending Canada making it sound like some utopia. Them days are over thank God.
I get a chuckle out of someone who kind of twisted the words from “O Canada” and changed the phrase “we stand on guard for thee” to “who stands on guard for thee”. THE UNITED STATES you dumbasses... ha ha ha
Not quite over.
The US is still subsidizing Canada’s cheap pharmaceuticals...
They richly deserve it.
6-12 months from now if the tariffs remain, Canada will come crawling back asking for forgiveness because their economy will be in a depression.
Canada’s GDP is slightly higher than Florida’s and 70-80 of the foreign trade is with the USA, take most of that away and Canada’s economy goes into free fall.
After this upcoming election Canada will stop the chest thumping and come to the table as true partners, if not Canada is in real trouble
We in Florida and in other states, get a lot of ‘snowbirds’ from Canada. That’s an ‘import’ of sorts. So, lets tariff those snowbirds too, perhaps with $100 ‘tariff’ per trip into the U.S.
Europe North(Canada) is every bit as arrogant as Europe Proper.
For the first half of the 30+ years I lived in Central Florida my condo community was about 70% snowbirds, but as of 2000 that number approached 0%. So, I’m not sure that “snowbirds” is still a thing in FL(?)
Canada’s problem is everything east of Manitoba.
So yah wanna act tough? Close the F@#$in border. Just for 48 hours. Just to watch the illegals and fentanyl pile up.
Plenty of snowbirds still coming to Florida, especially the beach areas. Even our winter weather is better than the summer weather to them. However, with Florida R/E getting more expensive in the last few year, they’re not coming as often. Florida has become almost NY-like expensive.
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Canada’s problem is everything east of Manitoba.
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And west/southwest of a line that passes from Chilliwack through to Squamish.... Actually, that might be to generous given the drugs that are made in labs out in the boonies.
https://bc-cb.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=2087&languageId=1&contentId=85957
It appears America has been fueling socialism in the entire western world for the past 50 years. Now we’re broke and the bill is due in all these socialist Utopias that have gotten fat off our largess. Socialis has run out of other people’s money to paraphrase Maggie Thatcher.
$100/day! Canadians are parasites.
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