“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

Canadians are ready for Chinese-made autos, but experts note there are security risks

Weeks after Ottawa announced that it would allow a limited number of Chinese-made vehicles into the Canadian market, some have warned that the move puts data privacy at risk. But that might not be a significant turn-off for consumers who are in the market for a new car.

While roaming the Canadian International AutoShow on Friday, Dianne Dougall and Pat Shephard — who were scouting for a new EV to replace their Tesla — said that a Chinese-made EVs would “absolutely” interest them.

Privacy wouldn’t pose any more of a concern than any other connected vehicle, they said.

Given Carney’s policies will likely devastate domestic ICE vehicle manufacturing do you think it’s possible some Canadians may vandalize ChiCom EV’s? 

Gee I hope not for the sake of our Quisling 5th Columnists.

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Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending

Canada Recycles to save on military expenditures – The Sherman Air Superiority Ground Attack Tank Thingy

The Canadian government, faced with increasing hostility from the Trump administration, plans to divert billions of dollars in military spending it long gave to U.S. defense companies and direct it instead to domestic manufacturers.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s wholesale expansion of Canadian military spending was prompted by pressure from President Trump, but with relations between the longstanding allies deteriorating, American companies will no longer reap the benefit.

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PM Carney taps former head of public service to spearhead CUSMA negotiations

Prime Minister Mark Carney has chosen former clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette to head Canada’s trade negotiations as it prepares for a review of the North American trade pact this year.

Charette’s title is chief trade negotiator to the United States, according to a Monday news release from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). She’ll be a senior adviser to Carney and Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc.

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LILLEY: Liberals dead-set on attacking Jamil Jivani over effort to help with Trump

Liberals in this country are going out of their way to undermine a man who only wanted to help the country in trade talks with Trump.

First, they said Conservative MP Jamil Jivani wasn’t qualified to go to Washington. Then he was, according to Liberals, a Nazi sympathizer for going to Washington. And then he was too ugly to help.

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The Quiet Architect of Trump’s Global Trade War

Jamieson Greer, a low-key lawyer from a working-class background, is rewriting the rules of the global economy at the president’s behest.

On Jan. 26, 2025, Jamieson Greer was teaching Sunday school to a group of 9-year-olds when one of his phones started blowing up with calls from the White House. Six days into the new administration, President Trump was already deploying his favorite weapon: the threat of crippling tariffs to bend countries to his will.

This time, the president was threatening Colombia, after it refused to accept U.S. military planes of deported immigrants. Mr. Greer would not join the Trump administration for some time yet, but he was already a key adviser on trade, flying to Mar-a-Lago in the weeks before to help plan Mr. Trump’s agenda.

“Why do you have two phones?” a student asked him.

“I have a kind of crazy job,” Mr. Greer replied.

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Most people view U.S. as a possible threat to Canadian sovereignty: Nanos survey

Nearly two thirds of Canadian survey respondents say they are concerned about the U.S. being a potential threat to Canada’s sovereignty, according to new data from Nanos Research.

According to the survey, 64 per cent of respondents say they feel concerned, while 19 per cent say they are not concerned, and 17 per cent say they are neutral, about the U.S. being a threat to Canadian sovereignty.

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To have any chance of becoming prime minister, Poilievre needs to say Trump’s name

Silence is a decision.

And this is, effectively, where Pierre Poilievre now finds himself on the issue of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Among some Conservative party faithful, there has been a quiet hope, wishful thinking actually, that this issue would cease to be the dominant one. That crime and affordability would re-emerge as ballot-box drivers. That the Trump circus would recede to the periphery.

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Data suggests most Canadians believe U.S. would support Alberta separation

As discussion around Alberta separation continues, a new survey suggests many Canadians believe the United States would back the province if it chose to leave Confederation.

A Nanos Research survey commissioned by CTV News found four in five Canadians believe the U.S. would support Alberta separating from Canada. Respondents in the Prairie provinces reported the highest levels of that belief at 58.2 per cent, whereas less than 30 per cent of Quebec residents believe that it is likely that the U.S. would support Alberta separating.

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U.S. senators express support for trade pact as Trump questions CUSMA’s future

WASHINGTON – United States lawmakers expressed support for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade during a Thursday committee hearing after President Donald Trump floated the idea of ending the critical continental trade pact.

Republican Sen. Mike Crapo, from Idaho, told the Senate finance committee that the trade agreement, better known in Canada as CUSMA, has protected American jobs, strengthened manufacturing and helped to expand the economy.

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Amid ‘Buy Canadian’ fervour, Canada’s top pension funds still heavily invested in U.S.

For all the fear over the U.S. trade war and President Donald Trump’s threats to Canadian sovereignty, this country’s biggest pension funds remain heavily invested in the U.S.

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP), the largest pension fund in the country, announced this week that it has grown to a record $780.7 billion in assets, with 47 per cent invested in the U.S., compared to only 13 per cent in Canada.

That level of U.S. ownership hasn’t budged in the year since Trump retook office, according to third-quarter results released on Friday.

But it gets better … kidding

h/t handy n handsome

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Dennis Molinaro: Diversifying trade with China is a losing play

I wrote the following in my book Under Assault: Interference and Espionage in China’s Secret War Against Canada:

“An economic slump in the U.S. was going to affect Canada’s financial health, and so trade diversification again became a driving consideration. But instead of diversifying trade with like-minded democracies, Canada went begging at the doorstep of the Communist state that had been engaged in foreign interference and espionage against Canada and the U.S. for the past 30 years.”

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‘We’re so vulnerable’: How Canadians can cope with anxiety in the face of existential threats from the U.S.

Under law Miss Canada should be a gay Muslima person of colour but I’m a rebel

U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term has threatened Canada with annexation and economic ruin and destabilized much of the international order that has governed the world since the Second World War, leaving many Canadians feeling anxious and concerned.

The barrage includes comments about Canada becoming the 51st state, warnings not to challenge Trump, job insecurity because of the existing trade war and threats of increased tariffs.

“Any talk of assaulting my country in any way, whether it’s economic or territorially … I mean, I could cry right now,” said Lili Wexu, a French Canadian originally from Montreal who’s living and working in Los Angeles as a bilingual voice actress.

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Canada’s trade with U.S. at risk over Chinese EV deal, auto rep says

Mark Carney’s deal to allow Chinese electric vehicles to enter Canada with a low tariff rate will make trade talks with the U.S. tougher, the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association says.

Brian Kingston, the organization’s chief executive officer representing Canadian auto plants of the Detroit-based General Motors, Stellantis and Ford, said the Prime Minister’s decision last month to remove the 100% tariff on EVs and replace it with a 6.1% most-favoured-nation rate “further complicates” trade talks later this year.

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Trump Trade Adviser Peter Navarro Says USMCA Has ‘Significant Flaws’

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro says there are “significant issues” with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), but he stopped short of suggesting U.S. President Donald Trump wants to scrap the deal.

“I can tell you this, that USMCA has some significant flaws in it, and it’s going to be reevaluated in July,” Navarro said during a Feb. 12 interview with Bloomberg Radio.

Navarro was asked about media reports citing anonymous sources that said Trump had inquired of his aides about fully withdrawing from the USMCA, the trade deal he negotiated during his first term to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Navarro did not answer the question directly, but replied that “nothing ever happens” in the White House without the input of Trump, particularly when it comes to trade.

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