Most of us have heard about the high tariffs that U.S. businesses pay to Canada for the export of dairy and (some) meat products to that country. It is absolutely true that Canada can impose astronomically high tariffs, such as these: milk 250%, butter 290%, whey 208%, cheese 240%, poultry 238%, and some animal meat 265%. However, effective rates can be higher or much lower.
On CNN recently, the hosts of Saturday morning show Table For Five searched for the words to describe Donald Trump’s recent suggestion that Canada should become America’s 51st state. “It boggles the mind,” co-host Abby Phillip exclaimed. “They’re one of our greatest allies!” agreed pundit John Avalon. It was journalist and YouTube host Touré, though, whose comments cut through. “It’s not a serious concept,” the writer groaned, at the idea of America annexing their neighbours to the north. “It’s a South Park idea!”
How seriously are Canadians taking Trump? Some are apparently taking him a little too seriously. Most of us on the right are familiar with Trump’s swagger, his Queens-style approach to negotiation, and his tendency toward acidic one-liners, nicknames, and insults. We know that he means business, but we don’t take him literally. To be honest, most people on the Left know this, too, but it is to their advantage to pretend otherwise.
Politicians and community leaders are warning that anti-Israel rallies planned for Al-Quds Day this Sunday could be filled with antisemitic chants and the glorification of terrorism, and they are asking law enforcement to do more to protect the Jewish community.
“There’s been a long history of concern about Al-Quds Day, which is an annual hateful protest, an event that calls for the elimination and eradication of the State of Israel,” Toronto city councillor Brad Bradford told National Post.
Good luck.
OTTAWA — A new poll suggests Canadians are feeling increasingly alarmed by U.S. tariffs, President Donald Trump and American economic aggression.
The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from March 14 to March 16, suggests 41 per cent of respondents see those three factors as the most pressing threats facing Canada today — a 13 point spike since the March 3 survey.
The poll also suggests that people in Quebec are most concerned about tariffs, Trump and U.S. aggression, with 51 per cent of respondents there citing them as the biggest issues.
On cue the CBC has a HUGE Story on US internet NAZIS! Way Worse than the NAZIS parading in our streets every day which they rarely report on for some strange reason!
This violent extremist network targets kids online
U.S. researchers have found what they say is a late draft of a secret list of more than 700 suspected Nazi war criminals believed to have settled in Canada after the Second World War, prompting fresh calls for the federal government to finally unseal and release the full list.
A research team led by UCLA historian Jared McBride, an expert on war crimes in the Second World War, has unearthed what he concludes is an annotated version of the list of alleged war criminals in this country examined by a 1986 Commission of Inquiry led by retired Superior Court of Quebec judge Jules Deschênes.
Emergence of the New Right and their interest in tariffs was an open secret
Why have Canadian business leaders, policy makers and analysts invariably been on their back feet making miscalculation after miscalculation in dealing with the second Trump administration?
It’s not as if we haven’t been here before. And more to the point, it’s not as if what is now occurring was not clearly telegraphed months if not years in advance.
Why would our “Super Patriot Captains Of Industry” change anything?
They got to flood Canada with cheap foreign labour to depress wages and profit off the ensuing shortages in housing etc.
They got to orchestrate “free trade” deals that shipped your jobs offshore to low wage states making it impossible for domestic competition to succeed.
They got to profit off your back on the “Green Energy Transition” scam which was just a way to siphon your tax dollars into their wallets.
Do you really think our Oligarchs are ready to give up the protection racket that lines their pockets?
That’s why “Orange Man Bad“
Canadians Turn on Tesla, and It Becomes Physical
Elon Musk has said that “Canada is not a real country,” just one of his social media jabs at the U.S. neighbor.
But people in Canada have done real damage to the vehicles and dealerships belonging to his electric car company, Tesla, according to the police.
More than 80 Teslas had their tires punctured and bodies scratched at a lot in Hamilton, Ontario, the police said on Thursday. Several acts of vandalism against Tesla property have also been committed in the United States.
These pre-fab patriots seize any excuse to raise havoc, for the most part they’re the same useful idiots you see parading with the Mohammedans.
OTTAWA — A Mark Carney government will maintain the cap on emissions from the production of oil and gas, Environment Minister Terry Duguid said in a recent interview.
Under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, the Liberals promised in the 2021 election to cap emissions from oil and gas and began the process to regulate the cap a year later.
Danielle Smith has something to say…
At his request, I met with Prime Minister Mark Carney @MarkJCarney today. We had a very frank discussion in which I made it clear that Albertans will no longer tolerate the way we’ve been treated by the federal Liberals over the past 10 years.
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— Danielle Smith (@ABDanielleSmith) March 20, 2025
And … Energy CEOs Ask Party Leaders to Declare ‘Energy Crisis’, Reduce Oil and Gas Regulations
A group of 14 energy CEOs have written a letter to all major federal parties urging them to declare an “energy crisis” in Canada and use emergency powers to relax regulations within the industry and increase production levels.
The CEOs, who represent the 10 largest oil and gas companies and four largest pipeline companies in Canada, suggest several measures to support oil and natural gas investment and “remove the barriers we have imposed on ourselves over time.”
h/t XC
Some Canadian companies are considering a move to the United States as a strategy to evade tariffs and protect the future of their businesses, a new survey suggests.
Nineteen percent of the 283 Canadian companies that participated in the survey indicated they would consider relocating part or all of their production to the United States to safeguard the sustainability of their operations, the survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Canada found.
Many of the businesses considering a move south of the border were from the industrial and automotive industries.
The ruling Liberal Party has cynically reinvented itself as a patriotic protector of the people.
Once again, Canada is in an emergency. The situation is dire. This will be a difficult time. Canadians are going to suffer enormously. This is because we are at war. We will need to band together and fight back against this unforeseen threat.
This, at least, is what our elected officials have been telling us after Canada began retaliating in the trade war with the US. The same message has been repeated in various ways by leaders across the political spectrum, from Canada’s newly anointed prime minister, the Liberal Party’s Mark Carney, to his main rival, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.
If the Liberals win a majority government based solely on the faint hope Prime Minister Mark Carney will be a better tariff negotiator with U.S. President Donald Trump than Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, then we’re going to get everything we deserve.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called Doug Ford to ask for his help in the upcoming federal election campaign, but the premier told him he would be too busy governing Ontario, the Star has learned.
Federal and provincial Tory sources said Poilievre phoned the premier on Monday to belatedly offer his congratulations for the Progressive Conservatives’ Feb. 27 re-election.
The conversation — 18 days after Ford’s victory, which then-prime minister Justin Trudeau had saluted moments after it was official — lasted almost half an hour.
This week, a Canadian conservative news outlet, True North, reported on an essay written by the daughter of Canada’s new prime minister for Yale University’s feminist magazine. The woman, Sophia Carney, who is now going by Sasha, is 24 years old, graduated from Yale two years ago, and stylizes herself as an activist and writer.
Yet Canada’s journalists are up in arms over True North’s revelations. They are refusing to report True North’s findings and are slamming those who even speak of them.
Why might that be? Why, of course, it’s because True North’s reporting, which discusses Sasha Carney’s (public) transgender identity, touches upon the topic of child “gender transitions.”
Sun Tzu and Machiavelli – two of history’s greatest experts on power – were of the view that countries or leaders could only achieve success if they had self-awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. … If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle,” Sun Tzu wrote.
It is as valid a proposition today as it was in their times, and self-awareness is likely attained as rarely as it was in ancient China or Renaissance Italy. Indeed, neither Canada nor the United States get great marks for self-awareness today.
