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White House says Canada ‘caved’ to Trump on tech tax

The White House said Monday that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had “caved” to President Donald Trump, after Canada dropped a tax on US tech firms that prompted Trump to call off trade talks.

“It’s very simple. Prime Minister Carney and Canada caved to President Trump and the United States of America,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a daily briefing.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Conrad Black: Canada Has Much to Be Proud Of

Upon the approach of July 1, it is always a temptation to collapse into maudlin platitudes and wave the maple leaf flag around somewhat thoughtlessly.

Regular readers will be aware of my frequent remonstrations about the failure of most Canadians to develop much awareness of our history. This is an abundant country with a neighbour that has not seriously bothered us for over 200 years, and did so at that time only because it had a legitimate grievance against the British but had no other way to take it out on them except to attack us. Because of that, it has been easy to think it has been a simple and uneventful progress through the centuries to our present condition. This severely shortchanges previous generations of Canadians and a sequence of our outstanding statesmen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

With digital tax scrapped, U.S. ambassador says he’s ‘confident we will have an agreement’

OTTAWA — With Canada’s digital services tax now scrapped, a free trade deal between Canada and the Unites States is just a question of time, U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra told National Post on Monday.

In an exclusive interview, Hoekstra said he’s not sure if trade talks between the North American neighbours can be resolved by July 21, a target agreed to by the two leaders when they met in mid-June in Kananaskis, Alta. But the ambassador said he’s very confident that a deal will get done.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canadian Pride and Optimism on the Rise, but Still Well Below 1980s Levels

National pride is on the upswing in Canada since last year, yet fewer than half of the country’s citizens report feeling “very proud” to be Canadian, a new survey suggests.

Forty-three percent of those polled by Angus Reid this month say they are “very proud” to be Canadian, up from the 34 percent who expressed the same sentiments last December, but still significantly lower than the 78 percent recorded in 1985.

The survey said that “Canadians have rediscovered some of their national pride” following comments by U.S. President Donald Trump about wanting to make Canada the 51st U.S. state as well as imposing tariffs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Trump Strikes Back at Canadian Digital Tax

Now the cards are on the table. Amid the heated phase of trade talks with the U.S., Canada is introducing a digital tax that will burden American tech giants with billions in costs. In response, President Trump broke off talks with Ottawa and announced new tariffs.

Among poker players, you know the coldly calculating player: He calculates probabilities, weighs risks, and plays his hand with sober precision. Sitting beside him is the gambler — impulsive but not reckless. He acts spectacularly, yet within a strategic framework he masters with virtuosity. Now imagine a pathological exception alongside these archetypes: a player who reveals his cards before the round even begins, only to go all-in immediately after. Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney falls into this category.

Interesting read.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney will have no choice but to kill supply management

For a while there, things were going so well. Prime Minister Mark Carney — aka “the Trump whisperer” — had morphed from critic to texting buddy of the U.S. President. Over the past three months, Carney had been chatting with Donald Trump, building backchannel goodwill. After the successful G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta., hopes were high that Ottawa would strike a deal with Washington in 30 days, and that the rhetoric of making us the “51st state” had finally been retired.

Until last Friday, when everything fell apart.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

ROBSON: Foreign terror threat blind spot is Canada’s gift to our enemies

Canada is dangerously unprepared to identify and counter foreign extremist threats operating just outside — or increasingly within — our borders.

As Western allies sharpen their legal tools to confront modern paramilitary networks, Canada remains behind. For example, a bipartisan bill introduced June 23 in the U.S. House of Representatives calls for the designation of the Polisario Front as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO,) citing its alleged ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah, and the PKK. That debate may seem uniquely American — but the question it raises is not.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada, Terrorism - Domestic

Can Canada Offset Trump’s Tariff War With More Domestic Trade?

Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet his pledge to eliminate the country’s internal trade barriers by July 1. But economists say it’s not a substitute for lost U.S. trade.

When Mark Carney became Canada’s prime minister in the spring, he offered a seemingly simple and obvious answer to the economic threat posed by President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian exports: Trade more within Canada.

To that end, Mr. Carney, the leader of the Liberal Party, promised to eliminate rules and laws that stifle the movement of goods and many workers inside the country by July 1, Canada Day, after decades of national hand-wringing over the issue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Why some Canadians are choosing Trump over their country … or… Ignore my TDS brainwashed daughter

His immigration rhetoric and nationalism are luring some “far-right” conservatives in Canada.

While getting my Ontario driver’s license in 2023, I was asked to write a description of the vehicle and then wait in my car for the examiner to find me. I had to use my mother’s car, so, red-faced, I wrote “Chevy SUV, ‘WWG1WGA’ bumper sticker.” The acronym stood for “Where We Go One, We Go All,” the far-right, QAnon-inspired slogan that became a battle cry of the Jan. 6, 2021, riots.

In mainstream Canada, these slogans were virtually unheard of, and the examiner didn’t seem to notice the sticker’s connotations. My mother and other conservative pro-Donald Trump Canadians, however, were parroting these slogans from online conspiracy-fueled echo chambers and what they saw as enviable nationalism. With a brewing trade war between the United States and Canada, pro-Trump Canadians, like my family, are now being forced to choose between the president or their country — and, disturbingly, some are choosing Trump. In his latest volley, the president on Friday abruptly ended trade talks with Canada, saying he would issue new tariffs soon.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA, WTF?

Jamie Sarkonak: Canadians right to favour melting pot model of assimilation

Below the swell of goose-vs-eagle elbows-up patriotism that continues to gush through the nation lies an undercurrent of worry: half of Canadians feel that we’re losing a collective sense of what it means to be Canadian.

The finding was made by a new Postmedia-Leger poll released in advance of Canada Day, which asked respondents whether they feel, in the last four to five years, that “Canada has been losing a shared, collective identity of what it means to be Canadian.” Fifty-two per cent of replies were “yes,” while only 30 per cent were “no.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Christopher Dummitt: Canada’s long-standing tradition of sweeping its British roots under the rug

I wasn’t expecting a school class trip to invoke despair about the state of Canadian history. But it happened anyway.

It shouldn’t have been a surprise. Canada has a long history of national forgetting and cultural erasure. We know about some parts of this — about the assimilation efforts of residential schools, most notably.

But less often noticed is the weird Canadian tradition of deliberately misrepresenting and then forgetting large chunks of our national story in the interest of reaching out to cultural minorities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

CHARLEBOIS: The globalism hangover: What Trump’s trade war got right

For the past six months, President Donald Trump’s trade policies have been widely mocked, criticized, and condemned.

Some of it is certainly warranted. The Wall Street Journal, for instance, recently likened his tariff-heavy approach to global trade as a direct path toward another Great Depression. But data out of the United States tells a more nuanced story—one that challenges conventional wisdom.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

How Canada’s Digital Tax Exposes Brussels’ Globalist Playbook: A Trump Retaliation

Now the cards are on the table. Amid the heated phase of trade talks with the U.S., Canada is introducing a digital tax that will burden American tech giants with billions in costs. In response, President Trump broke off talks with Ottawa and announced new tariffs.

Among poker players, you know the coldly calculating player: He calculates probabilities, weighs risks, and plays his hand with sober precision. Sitting beside him is the gambler – impulsive but not reckless. He acts spectacularly, yet within a strategic framework he masters with virtuosity. Now imagine a pathological exception alongside these archetypes: a player who reveals his cards before the round even begins, only to go all-in immediately after. Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney falls into this category.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA