Posted on 09/15/2026 3:40:23 AM PDT by texas booster
Mark Carney’s anti-American crusade risks hurting Canada’s economy while strengthening China and exposing the contradictions behind his trade war with the United States.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement—he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonstrate to the world how to stand up to Donald Trump, to force Trump to lose the midterms, and to hurt the U.S. economy to such a degree that Trump will never again bully other nations.
So, at the eleventh hour, Carney stormed out of an apparently completed tariff deal with the United States that would have privileged Canada over almost all of America’s other trading partners. Canada, we recall, has enjoyed a $50 billion goods trade surplus with the United States for years in a supposedly free and equitable North American trade zone.
Carney claimed that American proposals stripped away Canadian sovereignty and quashed Canadian culture, particularly French-Canadian culture. Yet he has not released the documents detailing the bilateral offers he rejected. Nor has he allowed his representatives to explain to the media why Canada blew up the negotiations at the last minute. Carney’s ever-changing excuses, explanations, and invectives about what happened are incoherent and contradictory.
That said, analysts on both sides of the border now concede that American digital-media companies do not customarily pay special taxes, as Carney demands, to promote local, regional, and ethnic culture while operating in Canada—any more than Canadian companies would be taxed for those purposes in the United States.
Canada and the United States both agree that China dumps cheap steel and aluminum into Canada, allowing Canadian manufacturers to use that cost advantage to export assembled vehicles to the vast U.S. market at prices below those of American vehicles.
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But Carney’s ploy goes beyond helping the communist Chinese dictatorship gain trade leverage over his own NATO neighbor. He has eagerly concluded a comprehensive Chinese-Canadian pact involving travel, visas, food safety, energy, and public security. Carney has grandly described these new agreements with Beijing as part of a new paradigm in which “middle powers” like Canada play China against the United States (Canada’s annual nominal GDP is roughly the size of New York State’s).
How ironic that Carney attacks his neighbor, the United States, for trade unfairness while warming to the communist dictatorship in China. Communist China, after all, is history’s greatest violator of trade protocols—guilty of manipulating its currency, dumping products to secure market share, violating copyright and patent laws, and imprisoning a million Uyghurs.
Has Carney learned anything from Panama’s misadventures after naively inviting in a Chinese omnipresence at the American-built Panama Canal? Does Carney recall that the American Monroe Doctrine originally was aimed at foreign intrusion into the North American west?
Canada’s new partner is a totalitarian police state that infected the world with its manufactured gain-of-function COVID-19 virus, which killed more than 1.5 million North Americans. China stonewalled inquiries and never offered details about the pandemic’s origins in its Wuhan lab. It has promised to conquer Taiwan and so terrified its democratic neighbors—Australia, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, and South Korea—that they have joined a defensive alliance with the United States.
So what drives Carney’s hubristic fantasies? Has Canada’s natural wealth in oil, gas, timber, and minerals made it a military and economic dynamo, as it once was? ...
Only in this way, Carney believes, can he stop autonomy referenda in Alberta and Quebec. And only in this way can he openly interfere in the U.S. midterm elections by targeting new tariffs at red and purple border states while working directly with left-wing Democratic politicians to help Democrats regain control of Congress and restore the prior status quo.
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Hurting Canada?
Strengthening China?
Why do I get the feeling that these are the two things Carney wants most of all?
From 2018, behind a paywall but the headline says it all...
Canada’s CPPIB plans to double China asset allocation
The CPPIB is the The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
The thing Carney wants most of all is to please the people who installed him.
Period.
” Carney demands (us)...to promote local, regional, and ethnic culture while operating in Canada”.
What a bunch of bs! Do we expect them to do it for us?
Canada Pension Plan signs new China property JV
From 2008...
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Opens First International Office in Hong Kong
Are you saying ...
“Follow the money?”
Oh, yeah...
From 2021...
CPP Investments to Acquire Ports America Interest from Oaktree
Note the timing of the deal.
tds helped the labour party
so more tds
“The CPPIB is the The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.”
And they put their money into a country that manipulates their markets? That’s either graft or idiocy. OK, likely both.
Who?
Invade the war mongering Canadian gangland, burn their cities and lay waste to their land. Drive the Canadian gangsters into the arctic and scourge them so they are no longer a danger to world peace.
He's just following orders from his bosses in Davos.
He's doing a good job.
Over the last 15 years I have seen a pattern. When you don’t think something makes sense, like when a Prime Minister is willing to destroy his own country and countrymen to do nefarious deals with China. When you assist China with importing products into Canada, then shipping to the US to avoid Tariffs, it’s dirty business. That kind of ‘dirty’ stuff always turns out that someone is getting ‘paid’.
So I am going to say it first, that Carney is personally profiting from this behavior at the expense of Free Nations. Someday, probably long from now, it will become evident that Carney doesn’t work for Canada or the Canadian people.
In only 36 days, Alberta will vote on leaving the confederation
Never interrupt an enemy that is self destructing
The Peter principle is expressed as: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” This leads to Peter’s corollary: “In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.”
Mark Carney is a world-class example of the test of this theory and its corollary.
Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.
Another problem is that 1/4 of Canadians can't afford food. Right now. That's only going to get worse due to rising fuel costs and rising tariffs on Canadian exports to the one market that buys 72% of their exports.
Carney's going to feel the consequences in terms of his popularity at home when the Canadian public starts feeling the consequences of reduced trade with the US which is going to be very soon. The Yurps sure as hell aren't capable of throwing Canada a lifeline nor are they going to choose Canada over the massively larger US market.
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