During a portion of an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump responded to Canada’s Liberal Party appearing to gain ground electorally by saying that “I think it’s easier to deal, actually, with a Liberal. And maybe they’re going to win, but I don’t really care. It doesn’t matter to me at all.” And Conservative candidate Pierre Poilievre “said negative things. So, when he says negative things, I couldn’t care less.”
U.S. President Donald Trump may be having a cow over Canadian dairy, but it’s not the first time the U.S. government has complained about the industry’s protectionist policies.
In 2018, during his first term as president, the dairy industry was a target for an angry Trump, who railed against Canada for not allowing foreign competition in.
And he’s not far wrong, according to industry experts.
The line fell silent.
In a phone call from the Oval Office, President Trump had just delivered unwelcome news to three of America’s most powerful auto executives: Mary Barra of General Motors, John Elkann of Stellantis and Jim Farley of Ford.
Everyone needs to buckle up, Mr. Trump said on the call, which took place in early March. Tariffs are going into effect on April 2. It’s time for everyone to get on board.
I’d kiss that Stellantis battery plant goodbye as well as Volkswagen’s.
Fewer than 60 days into his second term, President Donald Trump is determined to expand U.S. dominance across the Americas. His targets are not limited to Canada and Mexico. And while Trump 2.0 is already bending some countries to his will, his presidency also risks triggering dangerous escalation while alienating allies, empowering rivals and unravelling decades of hemispheric stability.
The President envisions a zero-sum world divided between the strong and the weak. He channels the Athenian historian and general Thucydides’s maxim that the “strong will do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must.” In seeking to operate free of institutional constraints and without regard for partners, he is upending the post-Second World War order founded on positive sum rules, trade and alliances.
On the surface, it seems like a surprising split for two powerful unions with decades of shared history and interests.
The United Auto Workers, or UAW, representing thousands of American auto workers, has thrown itself behind U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada and Mexico.
“We are glad to see an American president take aggressive action on ending the free trade disaster that has dropped like a bomb on the working class,” the union said recently.
We had better get used to this.
If the situation were reversed we would expect Ottawa to re-shore jobs just as Trump is doing.
But we don’t live in a normal country. Trump holds his fellow citizens in high regard while our government hates us.
The Liberal Party and their corporate cronies flooded Canada with cheap foreign labour creating a housing and public services crisis while destroying the home ownership dreams of a generation.
The Liberal Party imposed a Stalinesque Net Zero tyranny taxing us to death to change the weather.
The Liberal Party is attempting to normalize the sexual mutilation of children and you can bet Carney is down with that.
The Liberal Party has never let us forget they regard Canada as a genocidal settler state and you as an unwelcome resident.
The people who most fear Trump are the Carney’s of the world.
These ersatz patriots shipped your jobs to China and Mexico and in return you get to enjoy 3rd world customer service at Tim’s.
The Globalists have gotten used to feeding on the working class of both Canada and the United States.
Trump is going to end that ordeal for America. Carney will try to keep you a slave to his Globalist vision.
The United States is treating Canada only a little better than it treats Cuba.
The point is not that Canada and Cuba are similar countries; they are patently not. Rather, it is to note that the U.S. government has chosen purposefully to treat Canada, a vibrant multiparty democracy and the world’s ninth-largest economy, in a similar way.
I thought we already were?
The smart bet is that the ballot box question in the next federal election will be about national survival. Most of the debate will focus on economic choices, productivity, tariffs, trade and foreign policy. But what about culture?
To be a nation, we have to feel that we belong together, that we are more than a string of city lights in the night sky lined up along American border. It’s suddenly popular to be proudly Canadian — to vehemently publicly diss the Americans, and want to buy Canadian. But aside from being justifiably angry at Trump, what is this based on?
How can a multi-ethnic democracy like Canada forge a common identity out of a population with many disparate countries of origin? The Quebec government says that multiculturalism is the wrong model for this tough task, and is blazing a new trail that it calls “integration.” This approach offers a firm but compassionate model for integrating newcomers. English Canada should pay close attention.
The Société de transport de Montréal, the city’s transit agency, says it will no longer tolerate loitering in Métro stations, subways and buses.
The STM is implementing an “obligation to circulate” rule to deal with the growing number of unhoused people who are essentially living in transit facilities. The measure is, in theory, temporary (to April 30) but it’s hard to imagine what will change in that short period.
There is no question that the situation in some of Montreal’s 68 metro stations has become untenable.
While most Canadians recoil at the thought of becoming the US’ 51st state, an increasingly vocal minority are convinced it is essential for the future of their country.
Secessionists in Alberta say they are sick of their oil-rich province subsidizing the rest of the nation.
A dissatisfaction with the status quo, along with avid support for Donald Trump, has led to around 10 percent of Canadians expressing separatist views, the Telegraph reports.
h/t pathedog
March 17, 2025 – A whirlwind first quarter of 2025 has swept up Canadian politics and tossed it back down in an unrecognizable jumble.
Conservatives Crumble: Liberals surge past CPC into majority territory, but Grits’ vote commitment is softerhttps://t.co/D6J0FlkoTy pic.twitter.com/iQdNbluGaa
— Angus Reid Institute (@angusreidorg) March 17, 2025
h/t Mauser
The King should go to Ottawa and open parliament as a reminder to Trump who the head of state is
The news that the prime minister of Canada saw the King yesterday would not normally set the pulse racing, but we live in new times.
Let me go back a bit. As a young journalist in 1982, I remember being faintly perturbed by the Canada Act of that year. This “patriated” the Canadian Constitution, getting rid of the last vestiges of British power over Canadian affairs. It came into effect just after Argentina had invaded the Falkland Islands. I sensed it might be a bad idea.
The Act was perfectly logical, however. It was the final step in the emergence of Canada as an entirely independent country.
I think Charles would receive a warm reception but not overwhelming adulation. The Firm ain’t what it used to be.
On January 11, 2025, Amir Arvahi Azar, 32, of Toronto, was arrested. He has been charged with 29 criminal offences:
Journalists have always had a tendency to treat Donald Trump as a gold medalist in some kind of Olympics of Stupidity. But even for them, the trade war he has fitfully waged over the last two weeks has been dazzling in its illogic and arbitrariness. He has imposed tariffs, both on China and on his country’s nearest neighbors and closest allies. Then called them off. Then reimposed them.
Sowing ill will, repelling investors, decimating the 401(k) plans of those who once thought it was a good idea to vote for him, Trump appears to most newspapers readers as a mad king, or as the crazed naval captain Humphrey Bogart plays in The Caine Mutiny—someone from whom control ought to be wrested, and soon.
Interesting info on the US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency pro and con among other things.
OTTAWA, March 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump must stop making “disrespectful” comments about Canada before the two countries can start serious talks about future ties, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Monday.
Trump, who is promising potentially crippling tariffs against imports from Canada, frequently muses about making the country the 51st U.S. state.
