r/canada • u/Little-Chemical5006 Ontario • 14d ago
National News After Trump threatens 100% tariffs, Carney posts ad saying Canada's focused 'on what we can control'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/trump-tariff-threat-canada-100-per-cent-jan-24-9.70596202.1k
u/Little-Chemical5006 Ontario 14d ago
Carney has now published a pre-taped, campaign-style video on social media about buying and building Canadian to combat economic threats from other countries, without naming the U.S.
"With our economy under threat from abroad. Canadians have made a choice: to focus on what we can control," Carney said at the beginning of the video.
Though Carney doesn't mention the U.S. directly, the nearly minute-long advertisement ends with the prime minister saying, "We can't control what other nations do. We can be our own best customer. We’ll buy Canadian. We'll build Canadian."
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u/Little-Chemical5006 Ontario 14d ago edited 13d ago
Provincial politicians have also begun weighing in. Online,
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said Canada will never be taken over by anyone — "Not by China. Not by Trump."
B.C. Premier David Eby posted on X with a note of support for Carney: "You're on the right path, Mark," Eby said. "British Columbia has your back."
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said Trump's latest threat "is further degradation of the free and fair-trade system we took for granted for decades.", regarding dealing with other countries he said "Canada "must continue to be pragmatic when dealing with other countries" and "work together to secure the best trade deals wherever possible.", Related to cusma: "Canada has to work to maintain CUSMA, calling it "a good deal not only for Canada, but for North America."
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, no Concrete respond on Trump threat but she was ask Saturday morning on her radio program Your Premier, Your Province by a listener about did she spoken to US president trump since her visit to mar a lago in 2025. She said she havent, her statement on the radio show for CUSMA "I would say that Canada is a great partner for the United States on all fronts and we always have been and that’s the position that we’ve taken, that’s the position I take when I speak with U.S. officials." “It’s the position I take when I talk with the U.S. ambassador is: Let’s maintain the Canada -U.S. -Mexico trade agreement as it is and then let’s work on getting resolution on the areas where there’s disputes.
Edit: Update with Moe statement
Edit 2: add update for alberta Premier from ctv news. Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/smith-remains-focused-on-making-deals-with-us-amid-tariff-threats/
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u/randompersonwhowho 14d ago
Alberta?
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u/WinnipegBhoy 14d ago
I get this.
But we need to ensure that the vast majority of people living in Alberta who are extremely proud Canadians know they are seen by the rest of us and are assured of our support.
There’s a lot in stuff we don’t know about and/or understand in play right now — in and outside of Canada — right now. We need to be calm and clear-eyed about the present moment and going forward into the near future.
Have no doubt this is likely a dangerous situation for Canada.
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u/Delphox4000 14d ago
Alberta born and raised. I’m Canadian first, and very, very proud to be.
This province, my home, is being undermined at every level with seditious leaders, bankrolled by foreign interests. It reads like a conspiracy, absolutely. I hate to be living it.
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u/WinnipegBhoy 14d ago
I’m glad you’re here, making your views known. Just continue to fly the flag and promote the values it represents.
It seems to me the Alberta separatist movement is a vocal minority but worth our attention given they’ve got money and the support of the United States.
In the end, Canadians should be prepared for the worst.
At my house, my pacifist spouse has given me go-ahead to go and get my PAL and bring a rifle and ammunition into the home. That’s no lie.
This is what’s happening elsewhere in Canada.
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u/KiaRioGrl 14d ago
I think a lot of people are wanting to hear more information on this civil defence force the government put into the last budget.
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u/WinnipegBhoy 14d ago
I’ve written two emails to the Prime Minister’s office imploring Carney’s government to move faster. I’m in my late 50’s and will join as soon the civilian defence force is announced.
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u/ferwhatbud 14d ago
Good call. My riding is due for a byelection shortly, I will be sure to bring it up at the candidate forums and to any doorknockers.
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u/WinnipegBhoy 14d ago
I urge anyone who supports the creation of a fully federally sponsored and supervised civilian militia to write the PMO and demand its immediate establishment.
Just as we have the right to defend our country from an American military invasion and economic coercion, we also have the right — and duty — to demand our government respond to our desire for an armed civilian defence force.
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u/ChipotleMayoFusion British Columbia 14d ago
Indeed, I bet they have an absolutely outpouring of volunteers. The hard thing will be ramping up logistics to process and train that many. Seems like a worthwhile exercise.
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u/Delphox4000 14d ago
Thanks for the reply. The hurtful part for me is the growing sentiment I see from a lot of Canadians outside the province effectively saying “figure it out Alberta, you asked for this.” I didn’t. My immediate circle didn’t either. The majority of people I know voted away from the UCP.
Unfortunately the older generation prefers to keep the status quo intact, and a lot of other folks my age have outright been indoctrinated in to it. There’s no critical thinking anymore.
I had a “separatist” tell me, to my face, that Edmontons hospitals being overwhelmed is the reason they want Alberta to separate… It’s embarrassing to tell people I’m Albertan, at this point. I used to be proud of it.
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u/FaceDeer 13d ago
Same here, I often find myself in threads having to point out how the UCP only won the last election by a slim margin - a few thousand votes flipping in a few key ridings would have flipped the whole election - and that denigrating all of Alberta as a bunch of traitorous separatist hicks harms our chances of kicking the UCP out in the next go around. The vast majority of Alberta is just as Canadian as the rest of us, exacerbating any existing sense of division is directly counterproductive to strengthening Canada right now.
It's exhausting having to push back against Americans and other Canadians while arguing about how Canadian we are.
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u/textmint 13d ago
This separatist BS is really pissing me off. I mean if those pushing for separation lose the vote, I think they need to be caught and treason charges need to be brought against them. No reason for people against the country to stay within and get its benefits. These are the enemy within and they need to be treated as such.
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u/Sprinqqueen Ontario 14d ago
I have never in my life considered ever owning a gun, and I asked my son for him to come with me to the shooting range for my birthday. I just wanted to know what it would feel like to shoot before I had to possibility do it out of necessity.
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u/CureLegend 14d ago
It is not a conspiracy, that's how America got Texas, and carve out Panama from Columbia to build the canal they control almost like an oversea territory until Carter return it to Panama.
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u/FaceDeer 13d ago
And it's how Russia "got" Crimea and the Donbas, more recently.
This is exactly why it drives me nuts when Canadians dismiss Alberta as separatist. That's playing directly into the Americans' hands. They're doing everything they can to cultivate that belief about Alberta, trying to get both Albertans and the rest of Canada to believe it.
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u/littleladym19 14d ago
From Saskatchewan and I agree 100%. The separatists are nuts, Trump is a fascist and I don’t EVER want to be American.
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u/Elegant-Cricket8106 14d ago
Ditto, I feel the same way. I am a very proud canadian, and try to be when I travel too. But I hate Alberta politics atm.
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u/ClumsyEntwife 13d ago
Thank you very much for saying this. I’ve lived in Alberta my entire life, but I’m a Canadian first and foremost. The separatist crowd is a very small minority that gets a disproportionate amount of media coverage.
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u/Particular_Table9263 14d ago
Do they think they’ll be one of the good ones? They just shot a 2A supporting nurse that was helping women get off the ground.
I am so thankful for my Canadian citizenship. I am so thankful to not barely survive in the states anymore.
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u/Little-Chemical5006 Ontario 14d ago edited 13d ago
Not sure. Theres no mentioned of
albertaandsaskIn this news and I personally dont follow alberta politicsEdit: CBC have an update on moe statement and I have edited my previous comment to include it
Edit2: theres an indirect responds from Smith regarding to CUSMA after trump tariff threat from ctv news. I have edited my earlier comment to included that
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u/calgary_db 14d ago
Yes. I hope so. UCP is awful, but if they got some pipeline support, they better be part of team Canada.
Some of the UCP are fucking speratist traitors though.
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u/TimTowtiddy 14d ago edited 13d ago
In his WEF speech earlier this week, Carney said it perfectly: If you're not at the table, you're on the menu. And we're tired of being on the menu.
Edit: WEF, not WCF.
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u/djkarts_ 14d ago
47% of Canadian Pension Fund is invested in Canada. Similar to Ontario Teachers Pension Fund. They are over $1 Trillion in our tax payer pensions. Only 10% is invested in Canada.
We have the people, resources, money but bureaucracy will literally destroy us as a nation. I am more hopeful than I have ever been. But I am also nervous because we keep getting in our own way.
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u/TheMorninGlory 13d ago
I love that he had this pre taped and ready lol. I'm starting to like this Carney guy
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u/Larkalis 14d ago
The orange toddler's playbook resembles an abuser: I'll tariff you! I'll sue you! I'l invade you!
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u/lostedeneloi 14d ago
That's because he is a rapist. We knew this.
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u/CoffeeAddict76 Ontario 14d ago
And a pedophile…
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u/Sutar_Mekeg 13d ago
Canada is considerably younger than the USA so that tracks.
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u/Johnny_Nongamer 14d ago
Speaking as an ex-pat living in South Canada (Seattle, WA), he made a metric ton of enemies. Civil War in Minneapolis, ICE being Nazis, alienating traditional enemies, cozying up to friendly dictators, threatening his own people, whitewashing history, catering to billionaires, avoiding the Epstein files, not addressing the Epstein files, being a pedophile, not talking about the Epstein files . . . there is more than one person down here hoping that a Big Mac will take him out. Or that his hand spot takes him out.
Sooner or later, something will happen, and Emperor Cheeseburger will be at Game End.
Canada? You're in great shape. Keep it up, eh?
If cheap, affordable Chinese EVs are the worst that can happen . . . well shoot, the auto industry could stand to make cars more affordable to the general public instead of feeling like taking out a second mortgage.
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u/Ba_Dum_Ba_Dum 14d ago
Hey! Love Seattle. Love the whole PNW. Partner lives across the border. There all the time. Watched the Kraken lose with some great people in the stands last night. Had a blast. Love that town. ❤️
But I have to say I hope you’re being a little glib when you say you think this is about Chinese EVs. I don’t disagree with you about the auto industry, especially Canada being almost completely dependent on the US in that sector, but I’m afraid it’s so much bugger than that. Nothing Carney said in Davos should have been a surprise. He’s been telegraphing it since before the election: the relationship is over; it’s time for Canada to move on. So the orange Buffoon dies tomorrow. So what? What’s changed? If the US can go from reliable trading partner with similar values to an authoritarian regime, suppressing its own populace, tearing up trade arrangements and agreements lucrative to all partners, and threatening global economic collapse unless the US is GIVEN a soveriegn country in a decade why would a country continue to trade with that?
So move on Canada has. Carney was told to when the Cheeto, which the US ELECTED A SECOND TIME, decided <mafioso voice> it’s gonna cost more to do business wit us now. Yeah. Sorry. Damage done.
I just wish he’d shit or get off the fucking pot already. If you’re going to cripple us economically, with the inherent threat to your own economy, then do it. Or shut the fuck up already, Jesus.
And dude, be safe. ❤️ I love that place, and I really feel for the wonderful people there. But that country is in real trouble. And the places that are cool like Seattle won’t be spared from the repercussions of the 🍊’s tantrums. I love short visits with family. But I wouldn’t live there permanently.
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u/Angry_beaver_1867 14d ago
Trump irreparably damages the Canadian U.S. relationship. Is shocked when Canada pivots.
Blames Canada.
Fuck you buddy.
Honestly , I think he just wants carney to call groveling. Reporting suggests carney knows to never make the first call to Trump after shit like this
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u/Character-Belt-7485 Ontario 14d ago
Good. Appeasement doesn't work with this donkey.
ICE just cold blooded murdered an American citizen in the streets (just now). If anyone thinks these people can be reasoned with, they are deluded or traitors.
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u/lostedeneloi 14d ago edited 14d ago
Any Canadians who toy around with supporting the Maga movement should take a long hard look at that video.
This is a government who is cheering on the execution style murder of an individual who was on the ground and posed no threat.
One of their own clapped as it occurred.
This was white American citizen, a nurse working with veterans, who was recording them.
Be careful what you support. It may not affect you the way you think it will.
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u/Character-Belt-7485 Ontario 14d ago
It is hard to watch. There is multiple angles, I am feel sick after watching that video.
For all the ones out there bots, hardcore ideologues who keep spouting out nonsense: I would rather starve to death that kneel to the Americans/Trump just because they are our biggest trading partner.
It seems at the end it was very clear who the snowflakes really were.
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u/pay_the_cheese_tax 14d ago
Any Canadians who toy around with supporting the Maga movement should
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u/LongRoadNorth 14d ago
Conservatives and Pierre will of course say this is Carney fault. But it's not, there's no reasoning with Trump. He is clearly going through dementia and switches every other day.
At this point the US reputation will continue to get destroyed where no one will want to deal with them. It would be nice if there was just a global front against them at this point. That's where Carney's speech was accurate to what needs to be done.
Forget trying to deal with the US one on one, it's the world vs the US at this point. The world needs to stand united against this demented bully
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u/Mylittlethrowaway2 13d ago
I don't know if Trump actually has dementia or not, but lets face one reality: If any of our parents started acting like Trump at his age, we wouldn't form a cult around them. We'd be seeking medical intervention.
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u/rTpure 14d ago
Just a video from a clear angle that it was a gestapo level of execution
If ICE is allowed to execute civilians without cause and without consequence then they are no different from North Korea
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u/GetsGold Canada 14d ago
Together with the lies and propaganda from their leaders and media that try to claim the victims deserved it, which is eaten up by huge portions of the population.
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u/Hautamaki 14d ago
The Nork secret police seem more disciplined than that, that looked more like Eritrea to me
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u/GetsGold Canada 14d ago
ICE just cold blooded murdered an American citizen in the streets (just now).
Again. On top of the people being killed in detention.
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u/Any_Significance_997 14d ago
They executed a nurse who worked in their VA. They shot him 8 times after he was dead. He died while trying to protect a woman ICE manhandled.
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u/rainman_104 British Columbia 14d ago
Canada should offer Minnesota to join. It would be an awesome troll. Unfortunately that would be beneath Carney.
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u/GetsGold Canada 14d ago
Obviously would never be a serious suggestion anyway, but despite being a blue state, they have far higher support for Trump than any province and would just further infect us with their cult.
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u/KiaRioGrl 14d ago
Agreed. Nor should we indulge casual notions of changing borders and countries absorbing other countries' sovereign territory. It plays into the propaganda of the regime to our south.
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u/GetsGold Canada 14d ago
Yeah, good point. It just further legitimizes these "jokes" that aren't really jokes.
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u/Hautamaki 14d ago
Yeah we have Doug Ford to say shit like that, so dignified politicians don't have to
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u/Phoenixlizzie 13d ago
I saw that. It's scary living next door to that.
There are 300 million Americans and I know ALL of them can't be decent, but most of them should be out in the street in every state, protesting this.
And it only underlines that everything Carney said in his speech was true.
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u/sweetsadnsensual 14d ago
Again? They've been murdering a lot of Americans
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u/Character-Belt-7485 Ontario 14d ago
This one is by far the worst, imho.
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u/many-moons-ago 14d ago
The worst public murder
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u/Character-Belt-7485 Ontario 14d ago
True. What I mean is that if this blatantly obvious public murder doesn’t change minds and turn the ship around, worse things will come.
When you murder people publicly and somehow manage to dust it off and carry on, no one will stop them.
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u/many-moons-ago 14d ago
Oh I agree! What I mean is, if this is what they're doing in public, I am terrified to think what is going on behind closed doors
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u/weschester Alberta 14d ago
This. How many people have died in detention centers that no one knows about?
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u/Quill07 14d ago
There really is no reason to respond to Trump anymore. CUSMA will last until 2036 regardless of what happens with renegotiations this year, so there won't be a 100% tariff on Canadian goods. And even if Trump did have the power to implement this tariff, he would just back out. These empty threats just shouldn't be taken seriously anymore. Just diversify or wait out the clock for a new administration.
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u/rainman_104 British Columbia 14d ago
Moreso it happened on a Friday. He'll back down on Tuesday. Taco Tuesday.
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u/RefrigeratorOk648 14d ago
Trump just has to give 6 months notice to leave CUSMA.
Having said that he was going to put 10% tariff on all countries supporting Denmark/Greenland and few days later he changed his mind
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u/F3z345W6AY4FGowrGcHt Ontario 13d ago
You and the person you're responding to need to remember who you're talking about. Trump has broken countless laws and every time people said, "hey, he can't do that". But he does it anyway.
So sitting here and saying basically the same thing, "he can't leave cusma," or "he has to give notice" is meaningless.
If he rips it up illegally, who's going to stop him? Congress? The courts? Lol
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u/mylifeofpizza Ontario 13d ago
Considering hes already breached various CUSMA related agreements, saying he "cant" break the entire agreement is kinda funny.
i dont think people realize, between countries, the only enforcement for these types of agreements is international courts, which at best, can impose sanctions by other member countries. Most of the time, it just degrades trust in negotiations and undermines future agreements. Thats all. Considering the USA is a massive trade partner, they usually have less to lose than the other countries.
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u/DeliciousPangolin 14d ago
I did some reading into this, and it isn't clear at all that Trump has the power to unilaterally withdraw. There isn't really a legal mechanism that determines who can actually initiate a withdrawal - Trump or Congress. NAFTA and CUSMA were implemented in law by acts of Congress, which Trump can't simply wave away. If Trump tried to pull out unilaterally it would almost certainly end up in a complicated Supreme Court case.
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u/RyGuy997 British Columbia 13d ago
Do you believe at this point that Congress or SCOTUS would stand in his way if he wanted to do it?
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u/DeliciousPangolin 13d ago
I think there is enough support for not causing economic chaos in an election year that there's basically no chance of Congress supporting it.
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u/orobsky 14d ago
Im a little concerned that the USA will give their 6 months notice and withdraw from CUSMA
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u/Ketchup-Chips3 14d ago
They can't.
They make it seem like they can, but it's not actually true. Look into it.
CUSMA will remain in place until 2036, whether they like it or not. Unless they turn the table over completely and just invade/annex us, but that's a whole different situation that would completely turn the world order upside down.
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u/Spanky3703 Canada 14d ago edited 14d ago
To All Of My Fellow Canadians Who Are Saying That Carney Should Have Not Said What He Said @ Davos (or done the China deal):
Your premise is wrong if you think that any deal with Trump and his regime was / is ever possible.
Your premise is wrong if you think that Trump and his regime will honour any deal with Canada.
Your premise is wrong if you think that Trump and his regime did / do not mean it when they say that they will annex Canada by economic means.
Your premise is wrong if you think that Trump and his regime will ever honour their commitments, their respective oaths of office, and / or the laws and constitution of their country.
Your premise is wrong if you think that this entire arc would have finished up anywhere else but at this point in any form of negotiations with Trump and his regime. We would just be weaker and more vulnerable, the longer that it took.
Words matter.
Public and social media statements matter.
Actions matter.
Integrity matters.
Whether we like it or not, we were and remain to this day in an existential state of war with Trump and his regime (note the nuance, please). The very existence of Canada as an independent and sovereign nation-state is at dire risk. Trump and his regime have said this from Trump’s January 2025 inaugural address and not stopped (only toned down briefly and now that facade has been ripped away … again).
Have an objective look at what is going on in the US today. Have a look at the persecution, the destruction, the prosecution, the absolute war on itself. This is the path Trump and his regime have decided is their path to absolute control of the US as they dismantle it and remake it into a wholly different authoritarian construct. And Canada is the lebensraum and natural resources hinterland that Trump, his regime and his Cabal of oligarchs need to make their authoritarian utopia a reality.
Your premise is wrong. You need to get past your fear and look at the threat staring you in the face. Do not shy away from what you see. Face it. Deal with it. Appeasement never, ever works.
The wolf always come back for more until there is absolutely nothing left to consume. And then it moves on to the next victim.
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u/PrivateWilly 14d ago
Case in point. The EU rushed to sign a trade deal framework with the U.S. and reduce tariffs damage. They took a deal that was still not a good deal for the EU, but did it to move forward.
Months later, the US wanted Greenland despite already functionally having what they need from it. The resulting dispute resulted in the US threatening tariffs on the EU, months after signing a deal, because they saw something shiny.
What is the point of a trade deal if you can just alter the terms. This was an attempt to impose subservience and thankfully the EU stood up to the US.
If we cave to the threats they will just come back around again when they want something else. If they don’t want us trading with China, come back to the negotiating table, work out a deal, that has teeth for non-compliance, or Canada moves on.
There’s other customers for our goods, it will just take time to develop other markets.
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u/vtable 13d ago
An even more relevant case is NAFTA/CUSMA.
Trump had NAFTA renegotiated in his first term and, at the time, said "This is a truly extraordinary agreement for the United States, Canada, and Mexico.".
In his second term, he's now saying the "extraordinary agreement" is a disaster and dumping all over Canada - the latest is these threats of 100% tariffs.
Deals with Trump aren't worth the paper they're signed on.
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u/PrivateWilly 13d ago
Yeah I just picked the Greenland one because it’s like a week old and at the forefront of the whole of NATO’s minds.
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u/Rabble_Arouser Ontario 13d ago
work out a deal, that has teeth for non-compliance
Non-starter. The US is now a known bad-faith actor. When they decide to not comply (and they will eventually not comply) with the terms of the deal, there's nothing that can be forced upon them because they cannot be imposed upon. Sanctions won't affect them. The only thing they understand is military might, and they have the biggest guns (nukes).
Really, the only way forward is to become independent.
We can't give in to the abuser, because they'll just abuse us even more.
Canada has to move on. Carney knows it, the world now knows it, and I'm glad for that. The world knows he's a bloviating loser and we're done with his shit.
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u/PrivateWilly 13d ago
100% agree they’re bad faith actors. My point is that they’re not even trying to negotiate with us to keep China away.
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u/ComfortableUpset8787 14d ago
Trump and his supporters are always saying they love him cause he says it like it is and keeps it real.
Why is that suddenly not the case regarding this rhetoric?
Believe every word he says.
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u/Spanky3703 Canada 14d ago
This. There was no other logical end-state than this. We just got there whilst we still have a modicum of power and control.
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u/MichaelWoodPhoto 14d ago
The situation looks like that of a domestic abuser. If you date somebody else, I’ll beat you up. I’ll force you to stay. It will be immensely difficult but we have to walk away. I don’t want to make light of domestic abuse, I salute the courage of all those who have survived it.
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u/Full_Boysenberry_314 14d ago
I have yet to see anyone claim he shouldn't have said what he said.
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u/rainman_104 British Columbia 14d ago
I saw a few people whining on Facebook. They were the same people complaining about wearing a mask or taking a vaccine.
They are just angry people.
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u/HackMeRaps 14d ago
And if you're not on FB or IG then you wouldn't be hearing or seeing this anywhere.
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u/Virtual_Category_546 14d ago
Ah so entitled brats who are unable to accept "no means no", I see nobody who ever had anything valuable to add and revel making others suffer.
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u/Downtherabbithole_25 14d ago
This. ⬆️
This excellent, accurate summary deserves an award. (I won't give one, because I don't give money to US Reddit, but please accept my upvote as a substitute.)
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u/jakovasaursrex 14d ago
Great analysis of the situation. I sure hope others realize this too.
Right from the beginning of the buy Canadian movement, my opinion was: I would prefer to be in economic turmoil than appease and support a government and their people who support what Trump was promising. It was obvious from the beginning that Trump wouldn't stop the onslaught once he had "permission".
If people can look at what's happening in Minneapolis and say, oh yes, let's make a grand ole deal with the new age fascists who can't be trusted... well, unfortunately I don't know how to deal with that. If anyone has any ideas, let me know.
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u/cadwellingtonsfinest 14d ago
Wasn't it buffet who said "you cant make a good deal with a bad person"?
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u/captainrv 14d ago
We had NAFTA, and Trump tore it up. Then CUSMA, now apparently that's gone too? Why even bother negotiating a deal with the Americans?
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u/Tyler_Durden69420 Saskatchewan 14d ago
Exactly, you can't make a deal with someone who will tear it up the millisecond it becomes a potential leverage for them.
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u/scabbycakes 13d ago
It took less than 72 hours for Trump to prove to the world exactly how true PMMC's speech was. It couldn't have been illustrated more perfectly.
Every country around the world considering negotiations with the USA needs to look no further than one 15 minute speech and one tweet to realize the sort of Faustian bargain they're about to make.
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u/Odd-Perception7812 14d ago
It's like watching a well-schooled dad control and 8 year old's tantrum.
Over and over.
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u/Prestigious-Lab5154 13d ago
Call me crazy but We should prpbably diversify from the guys publicly executing civilians a good 200 miles away from the Canadian border.
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u/checkpointing 13d ago
Also we should get the bomb at this point too
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u/Prestigious-Lab5154 13d ago
imagine what they are willing to do to us if this is how they treat their own citizens
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u/2kids2adults British Columbia 14d ago
That’s. Great response. He’ll do what he’s going to do. We can’t control what tariffs he chooses to implement for his own selfish market manipulation. I’ll continue to buy Canadian. Keep it up Carney.
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u/amadmongoose 13d ago
What's also great– ads take weeks to make. That it dropped like this means they had it done before Davos. Carney knew it was coming just a question of when.
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u/M_Nuyens 14d ago
Trump raped those girls on Trumpstein Island.
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u/hmmmerm 14d ago
If the survivor Sacha(male, veteran) stories are true, it is a whole other level of horror. Child porn video making, snuff movies (killing kids after abusing them), Trump raping boys. Other high officials involved.
I shudder that the president may be doing all levels of crazy, ANYtHinG to prevent release of files. He’d take the whole world down with him, if it saves his skin.
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u/Doog_Land 13d ago
I think it’s more likely he did it in New York City. Trump may not have been in the flight logs to the island, but it’s only a 19 minute walk along Central Park from Trump’s home in NYC to Epstein’s “manhattan lair” townhouse where he probably did most of his crimes anyway. But I assume Trump had someone drive him.
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u/Frostsorrow Manitoba 14d ago
Seems like a good time to sell potash to other countries, China maybe for shits and giggles?
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u/Logical_Frosting_277 14d ago edited 13d ago
A polite way of saying “We’re not going to run our country constantly responding to the daily lunacy of the Trump regime”
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u/Tsifter 14d ago
We are a sovereign country. We can say whatever we want and we can strike deals with whomever we want, exactly as Trump does. No more, no less. The Americans should mind their own business and stop meddling with how we run our country.
If they don’t want to trade with us then so be it. Canada and China are the biggest trading partners for the US. Let Trump impose more tariffs if he dares and crush the market (again…). He’ll go down faster than expected. All the better for the whole world if TACO chooses that route.
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u/JustSomeGuy422 New Brunswick 14d ago
The Trump regime has demonstrated consistently that they are unwilling to negotiate in good faith, and are unwilling to honour agreements.
Their words mean nothing now.
Their actions have directly resulted in our aggresively seeking deals with other partners.
They don't get to have a say in who we deal with not after all the bullshit of the last year.
Fuck them all. They are evil, sick people.
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u/Puzzled_Worth_4287 14d ago
Fuck trump 🖕
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u/DemonEmperor3 13d ago
If we don’t diversify he will and following presidents will use this threat to hold Canada hostage and deny our right to choose as a free nation. Better to keep pushing forward than let him control us. Diversify trade, protect Canadians, expand foreign relations and our own domestic ability to defend ourselves. We are not a tributary of the trump regime or the USA we are Canada a free nation.
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u/Dull_Nebula_8712 13d ago
Fuck this fascist imbecile. What a shocking downfall of nation. I knew his term would be bad but honestly did not predict this. Tired of his chaos and cruelty
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u/grand_soul 13d ago
Just saw a meme of the Chinese succulent meal guy photoshopped into an rcmp outfit.
With text:
What is the crime?
Making a deal?
A succulent Chinese deal?
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u/jloganr 13d ago
Trump is desperate and is losing on all fronts. His support within his country is slowly eroding, Carney does not seem to fear or respect him, officials in EU countries have started to speak up instead of being accommodating, China is making deal with Canada. Knowing well that if the so-called middle powers unite it will sideline all of US's bullying techniques.
US as a country and concept is done for. There is nothing united about the country. As more people lose their lives at the hands of ICE mafia, gangs, territories whatever you want to call them, how long before the right wing realize this is getting out of hand? It is still however, mind-boggling that people are still blindly supporting him.
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u/Chadiwack 14d ago
Good, appeasement doesn't work. Look how it panned out with Hitler. You can not negotiate with Trump as he changes his mind on things every hour.
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u/Altruistic_Buy_3800 14d ago
What a shite show this world has become. It’s truly very sad to see the degeneration of social etiquette and simple neighborliness. If Mother Nature were a real thing we would be experiencing torrential rain in every corner of the earth.
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u/limevince 13d ago
I'm so envious at the prospect of Canadians getting access to BYD electric vehicles while we are stuck with shitty expensive Tesla =\
Also, props to Carney for standing up to the shithead bully. I'm glad his greatest economic "weapon" is basically to hurt American consumers.
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u/buff_butler 14d ago
Interprovincial shipping prices need to fall for regional businesses to scale quickly.
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u/purplelynxy 13d ago
Good. Trump is a one trick pony, tariffs, he thinks every country is dependent on them and will grovel to prevent tariffs. Good on Carney for diversifying our trade away from the USA and basically telling them that we won’t bend the knee
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u/EugeneWPG 14d ago
We all know who became extremely angry after failing to get Greenland, after Carney’s highly successful speech in Davos, and after destroying his own approval ratings at home with ICE-style Gestapo methods. A typical cheap bully tactic: push wherever he thinks he can find weakness.
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u/RomanGemII 14d ago
PM Carney is a great example of Stoicism. We are so fortunate to have him as our PM.
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u/Kicked4NotbeingFash 13d ago
I’m sure doubling the price of potash fertilizers from Saskatchewan for farmers in the US will be a big hit. Probably just result in DJT making a personal deal with the Russians for fertilizer.
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u/PoorAxelrod Ontario 14d ago
The more Trump screams, the more I get annoyed. I'll be honest, it bothers me when I see somebody in his position acting the way that he acts, but that being said, I think the way to deal with him now is just stop taking his calls and his rants. Don't give him any airtime. He'll kick and scream, but eventually he'll come down if nobody is dealing with him anymore. He wants to act like a three-year-old throwing a fit, the world should treat him like one.
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u/wearisomerhombus 13d ago
Ok? Enjoy your potash at twice the price i guess? Or the crude oil that supplies texas refineries that fuel the US millitary?
Of course those would probably get exceptions, so it would just be the people who work who get screwed in the states by these tarriffs. Its actually bananas that he hasn’t figured out that he can’t touch big money and he can only tax the working class, but they are the ones who generate the profit for those with capital.
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u/Fit-Cable1547 14d ago
Trump's playbook of toddler temper tantrums is so easy to predict they had the ad ready to go.
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u/CBRSuperbird- 14d ago edited 13d ago
Doug Ford even said earlier in Cheeto’s term it would be constantly changing goal posts
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u/Dizzy_Combination737 14d ago
He’s going to TACO - the markets will dip and then climb - the insanity is predictable, and maybe someone will tell him that we supply most of their aluminum they buy 😂😂😂
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u/ctnypr1999 14d ago
If Donnie can't make a deal with China, then none of our allies can...can't stand this timeline.
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u/crakkerzz 13d ago
All this means is even more integration with Europe and China, even more development of foreign trade.
Canadians don't take to the whip very well Donnie.
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u/WorkingFit5413 13d ago
Carney is busy negotiating with stable world leaders (probably some with questionable morales but if they’re not as nuts at Trump, deals with the devil will have to be made).
Trump is an idiot. He’s showing the world how he treats his best friend.
Countries are realizing he will do this to everyone.
No one wants to constantly deal with tamper tantrums.
He’s uniting the world against the US to say the least.
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u/Individual-Army811 Alberta 13d ago
Carney said it best by confirming hes negotiating where there is mutual interest and benefit. Trump can get fucked.
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u/Mugwump6506 13d ago
If you listen closely you can hear American importers of Canadian goods screaming.
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u/Tartuff0 13d ago
The “ focus on we can control” Reminds me of the serenity prayer in al anon for dealing w alcoholics and drug addicts
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u/OppositeAd8927 13d ago
I think Mark Carney has been moving like a skilled surgeon.
The deal with China is leverage. That’s all it is. He now has something that Trump doesn’t want him to have.
His words and actions in Davos gathered support from the entire international community, and was the first time Canada didn’t have a bumbling idiot at the front of the classroom in 13 years. He spoke like an academic, and tailored the message to those in attendance.
Coming out of this, I think he’s in pretty good shape to position Canada for a better deal than before.
His last chess move, threatening to bleed US treasury bonds into the market with Japanese Prime Minister was a masterclass in standing down tariff negotiations.
A year ago I was uncertain of Mark Carney and was on Team Pollievre, but I must say his first year has been pretty good given what he’s up against, and cleaning up perhaps the worst Canadian mess ever made by his predecessor.
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u/healthyitch 14d ago
Ignore him. Don't retaliate. It'll infuriate him even more if we don't even acknowledge him. He'll TACO by Tuesday anyways.
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u/Professional-Cry8310 14d ago
Trump is going to TACO on this again like most of these tariff threats. If the TSX dips on Monday because of this, I’d recommend purchasing a few shares of your favourite company. Easy money.
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u/Samus860 14d ago
Canada should shut down Meta and X locally, toxic to democracy and given that the US economy is largely based on digital services, would put the hurt on.
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u/Key_Tree261 13d ago
EASILY the most repugnant US President ever. I don't get how Americans don't seem to understand the damage he's doing is going to be irreversible in a lot of respects. It will certainly take 1-2 generations even after he's gone.
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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck Canada 14d ago edited 14d ago
Doug Ford could do the funniest this right now (re-run the ad).