Posted on 07/23/2025 6:23:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Following a day of talks focused on domestic issues, such as bail reform and health transfers, Canada’s premiers are wrapping up their three-day gathering in Muskoka presenting a united front in the ever-looming threat of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
“We can walk and chew gum at the same time,” New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt said during a post-meeting press conference. “What’s happened is that the pressing threats that Donald Trump has made to our economy have meant that instead of occupying all of our meetings and squeezing out conversations about bail reform and immigration, we’ve been meeting a lot more.”
"We’ve spent a lot more time together in my entire tenure as premier in just eight months than I think my predecessor would have spent in six years,” Holt also said.
The premiers are wrapping up three days of meetings in Huntsville, Ont., hosted by Ontario Premier and Council of the Federation Chair Doug Ford.
While the provincial and territorial leaders have covered topics ranging from internal trade barriers to health transfers and immigration, the threat of Trump and his trade war loomed large.
Prime Minister Mark Carney also joined the premiers in Muskoka for a meeting on Tuesday, aimed mostly at giving an update on the state of negotiations with the United States.
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Maybe if they weren’t running a commie welfare state they wouldn’t have economic problems.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we went with 15% generally on both Canada and Mexico. Ontario is kind of screwed. They have both US producers Ford and Stellantis up there making certain models that they are shipping 93% to the US and only 7% to Canadians. I would expect Trump to pressure both of them to onshore that production to the US because those models would be more competitively priced here in the US without the tariff than the few bucks they save assembling them in Ontario but stuck with a 15% tariff. That’s why Ford hates Trump because he knows he will be losing his biggest employers. He may also be losing his Toyota model production as well as they onshore it to Toyoya plants based here,
“We can walk and chew gum at the same time,” New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt said.
It is reported that she said she could walk, chew gum, and fart all at the same time.
They are not “acting like @$$holes”...they are @$$holes.
I will argue they have delusions of if not grandeur then capabilities far beyond reality. Canada pretends to be somebody it simply isn’t
The Canadian spiderweb of special rules pretend to show capabilities but are in truth merely obstacles in restraint of trade.
Canada is being split up as we speak. Alberta and Saskatchewan are going their own way and disregarding the nonsense from Ottawa
Seems to that Ford Fairlane made more than a few threats to the American economy so he’s on pretty shaky ground crying like a little girl.
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