Well, that didn’t take very long.
Just about 24 hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that U.S. President Donald Trump would be delaying his 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports by at least 30 days, and right after Trudeau proclaimed Canadians are “more united than ever,” Quebec Premier Francois Legault insisted there was no way his province would accept a pipeline being built across its land.
Canada’s last-minute reprieve from crushing U.S. tariffs came after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a series of measures aimed at controlling the trafficking of fentanyl, a key reason President Trump has cited for wanting to impose levies.
Fentanyl has flooded North America’s drug supply over the last decade, killing tens of thousands in Canada and the United States, and generating enormous profits for criminal organizations using basic chemistry skills, improvised equipment and home laboratories to produce millions of doses.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly talked about fentanyl as a major public health threat to Americans and holds Mexico and Canada responsible for allowing the drug to enter the United States. But last year, less than 1 percent of the fentanyl arriving in the United States came from Canada.
That 1% number is disputed and there is no data on the import/export of precursor drugs.
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Canada’s premiers and works with cabinet to craft his government’s response to an unpredictable Trump administration, he’s also batting away repeated demands from opposition leaders to recall Parliament.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh say Parliament must return so that the government can pass new legislation that will strengthen the border and protect workers and businesses, respectively.
The CBC makes Trudeau out to be a great national hero sacrificing all for the sake of the nation.
The nation he spent 10 years trying to destroy.
OTTAWA — Provinces that are sending conservation officers and other local authorities to patrol the Canada-U.S. border are setting up what the president of the union representing border officers calls “history’s most expensive taxi service,” given that anyone caught crossing illegally must ultimately be delivered to border agents.
Man armed with a hatchet arrested after dramatic Kitchener, Ont. takedown
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Man wrestles with cop, attempts to take the cop's side arm, returns to his vehicle and retrieves hatchet. Backup arrives and successfully tazes the suspect.
How would this play out differently in the US? pic.twitter.com/rHapPPc697
— Magnetic Norse (@MagneticNorse) February 6, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Canada faces calls to suspend asylum agreement with U.S., saying Trump orders undermine migrants’ rights
The federal government is facing calls to suspend a long-standing agreement with the U.S. to return asylum seekers at the border, with immigration experts saying the United States should no longer be considered a safe place for people fleeing persecution.
They say U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders that make it easier to deport or detain migrants – including plans to hold 30,000 migrants accused of criminality in Guantanamo Bay – undermine their rights to such an extent that Canada should halt returning asylum seekers to the U.S.
Community groups say Canadians are scared as Trudeau warns hate crimes are rising
Zaid Al-Rawni is CEO of Naseeha Mental Health, an organization that operates a mental health hotline. He said his organization has seen a 600 per cent increase in distress calls in the past year.
“It’s causing them a lot of social anguish,” said Al-Rawni. He added that most of the hotline’s users are Muslim and many are feeling that their faith is being questioned by other Canadians.
No one has any questions about Islam. We know it’s a supremacist murder cult.
Israel’s version of SNL just released this skit about the Red Cross. pic.twitter.com/x7HBfNKV4S
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) February 6, 2025
h/t XC
A Canadian Islamic nonprofit organization, i3 Institute, has invited Mohammed Hijab, a controversial U.K.-based Islamist preacher and activist, to speak at its second “Reviving Roots” conference, titled “Reclaiming the Muslim Identity in a Secular World.” The conference is slated to be held in Burlington, roughly 35 miles from Toronto, in late February. Hijab spoke alongside twelve other speakers at a previous i3 conference that took place in Mississauga in 2023.
Mass deportation practically sells itself.
“Doug Ford lost his reason for an election,” Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie said Tuesday on the campaign trail.
Crombie was trying to take the wind out of the Progressive Conservative leader’s sails given the 30-day reprieve that U.S. President Donald Trump gave Canada on the threat of 25% tariffs. But Ford wasn’t backing away from the issue, saying the tariff threat from Trump will come again.
Trump made a promise to US autoworkers.
“Now everyone knows —
What does it take to make Canada wet its pants? Threaten to shut down the GM plant for 2 weeks and you can get anything you want.”PODCAST: Blacklock’s and @sauga960am host @richardsyrett https://t.co/Cu7ZL6VXe4 pic.twitter.com/G068c3lS7H
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) February 5, 2025
h/t Mauser
On Saturday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted that he and the Liberal party had failed in its negotiations to protect Canadians from 25 per cent tariffs, except that’s not how he framed the situation. Instead, he made it look like his government was powerless to address American concerns about securing our border from potential security threats posed by the crossing of illegal migrants and drugs from Canada into the U.S.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on Wednesday that he will change the Criminal Code if he’s elected so that all drug “kingpins” convicted of trafficking what he’s calling major quantities of fentanyl are hit with a mandatory life sentence in prison.
The policy announcement comes as President Donald Trump presses neighbouring Canada and Mexico to take a harder line on fentanyl to stop the flow of the deadly drug into the U.S. or face big tariffs.
U.S. government data shows comparatively little of the drug is coming over the northern border, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed more money and resources — including the appointment of a fentanyl “czar” — to crack down and satisfy Trump’s concerns.
Free trade is great, except American trade deals are not “free” trade.
One of the better podcasts out there is Patrick Bet David’s Valuetainment show, which I pick up on YouTube a good bit. And, in a segment on Tuesday, Bet David and his guests spent some time talking about the “trade war” with Canada and Mexico that Donald Trump touched off with his demands for cooperation in fighting the scourge of Chinese fentanyl which has poisoned some quarter of a million Americans to death.
Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney recently announced his carbon tax plan and here are some key points.
It’s expensive for Canadians.
It’s even more expensive for farmers.
He ‘s on board with the WEF and the UN. Carney is a carpetbagger.
OTTAWA — The clock is ticking.
Canada now has less than 30 days to convince U.S. President Donald Trump not to trigger a trade war that could devastate the Canadian economy.
Key to that effort will be showing progress on $1.5 billion worth of border security measures Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised Trump in an effort to secure a temporary reprieve from U.S. tariffs.
