Canada

Early elections are the best solution to tariffs, says Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet

Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet believes that early elections remain the best way to negotiate with the Donald Trump administration, which has just carried out its threat to impose customs tariffs on Canada.

Blanchet said he had not changed his position regarding the possible overthrow of the Liberal government on March 24. According to him, elections “as quickly as possible” will allow for a new Parliament that will be able to negotiate “in a sustainable manner” with the United States.

Someone has to beat this idea into Trudeau’s head.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

BARBER: Liberal Party decides to entertain Canadians with a Kabuki play

“Trump is trying to deal with border issues; the Liberal Party wants a trade war.”

President Donald Trump has put tariffs on Canadian goods just as he said he would before being elected. No surprise. Despite calmer, more thoughtful minds calling for diplomacy, the leaders of the Liberal Party have been calling for a trade war for weeks. You can only have a war if two sides fight. Trump told Canadian authorities what needed to be done beforehand. He has now published the full text of his Executive Order where he informs us what he sees the problem being. The order is consistent with his earlier explanation.

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

The Trump shock: A trade war that will reshape North America

It didn’t take long for U.S. President Donald Trump to let slip that the 25-per-cent tariffs he imposed on Canada to demand action against fentanyl and migrants weren’t really about that.

On Saturday, he signed an executive order stating tariffs were needed to respond to a border emergency. On Sunday, he posted a blast on social media falsely claiming the U.S. is subsidizing Canada by hundreds of billions of dollars and it should become the 51st state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canada in Perilous Position After Trump Cuts Tariff Deal With Mexico

Some Canadian politicians previously suggested tossing Mexico from a three-nation trade agreement with the United States.

Canada found itself in a precarious position on Monday morning after Mexico cut a deal with President Trump to postpone tariffs in exchange for a major deployment of forces along the border between the two countries.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada spoke to President Trump on Monday morning but no such compromise was reached between the two. A senior Canadian government official with knowledge of the call said the situation was still in flux ahead of a second phone call between the two leaders scheduled for 3 p.m. Eastern, but did not express optimism that a compromise could be reached.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Mexico, USA

Anthony Furey: Canada needs to deal with its fentanyl problem

American President Donald Trump has made it clear both in rhetoric and writing that the drug crisis is one of the key reasons why he’s implementing 25 per cent tariffs on all imports from Canada.

We as a nation can’t ignore this aspect of the tariff issue or try to argue our way out of it. We have to address it with eyes open. And now is the time to look more at some of the concerning aspects of drug production in our country that U.S. policymakers seem to want to address more than our own do.

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

Trudeau Caves: Trump will pause tariffs on Canada for 30 days

Canada and the United States appear to have avoided a costly tariff war for now after leaders of both countries found some common ground during a call on Monday.

The tariffs have been delayed for 30 days, according to a post on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s X account.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

As birth tourism rises again, will Trump’s citizenship moves send more Canada’s way?

RICHMOND, B.C. — Vancouver-based birth tourism operator Liga Lin says her phone has been buzzing with inquiries from expectant mothers since U.S. President Donald Trump moved to end American birthright citizenship.

Lin’s business, New Joy Postpartum Care, arranges accommodation and services for non-resident women — mostly from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong — who want to give birth in Canada, granting their children automatic citizenship rights.

The industry also exists in the U.S., but Trump’s executive order seeking to end the right to citizenship at birth on American soil has thrown it into disarray, even as the measure was blocked by a U.S. district court judge who called it “blatantly unconstitutional.”

We are a doormat nation thanks to Trudeau.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Danielle Smith: How Team Canada can overcome Trump tariffs

Like most Canadians, I was very disappointed with U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to place tariffs on all Canadian goods. This decision will harm both Canadian and American consumers, workers and businesses alike, and strain the historic and important friendship between our two nations.

Although the U.S. president has valid concerns regarding the need to address the fentanyl crisis and illegal migration, we, in Canada, share those same concerns and have been working hard since his election to partner with the Americans to crack down on those illegal activities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The NDP used to be the party of labour. What happened?

Jagmeet Singh’s Maserati – a sign of solidarity with the working class!

With the Ontario and federal elections on the way, we will soon see if working-class voters in Canada are turning to the populist right. That is certainly the case in other countries. The recent U.S. election saw a major class realignment as those without a college degree overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump. So did union households. Will we see something similar play out here?

Canadian politics of course differs from the U.S. in many respects. One obvious difference is that we have a social-democratic party that has been historically anchored in the working class in some regions of the country.

Working people don’t want what the “intellectual commies” are selling they tuned out long ago. The public service unions are predators and do not represent the working class. It’s that easy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Communism, Communists, NDP

Neil Sharma: This is what Poilievre’s Canada First movement should look like

 

… Whatever a “postnational state” is, it was neither Canada pre-2015 nor is it Canada today. Trudeau’s words were a harbinger of a corrosive agenda to upend western societies and supplant local issues with raucous foreign grievances. Canada is hardly alone; Britons were brazenly insulted recently when a radical ideologue suggested iconic Remembrance Day poppies become Poppies for Palestine.

338 Canada | CPC 220 (-15), LPC 63 (+19), BQ 44 (+2), NDP 15 (-6), GPC 1

A small gain for the Libs and a big dip for the NDP. Wait till the Libs elect a “puppet” to see where public opinion falls.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party, USA

Doug Ford to end Ontario’s Starlink contract over Elon Musk ties

Doug Ford says his provincial party will terminate Ontario’s contract with Starlink due to its connection to Elon Musk, saying his government won’t do business with people “hellbent on destroying our economy.”

Ford issued a statement regarding Ontario’s move to ban American companies from provincial contracts, including the $100 million Starlink deal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trudeau, Trump spoke this morning — will speak again this afternoon on eve of trade war

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump early Monday morning about the forthcoming trade war that has the potential to inflict economic pain on workers and businesses on both sides of the border — and they are expected to speak again later today.

Looks like that went about as well as you’d expect. h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

WTF?

Why are Canadian tax dollars given to a racist “middle income” country?

South Africa is an upper middle income country. In 2022-2023, Canada provided $88.6 million in international assistance to South Africa, with approximately $5.0 million of this amount channelled to Canada’s dedicated bilateral assistance program focused on two Feminist International Assistance Policy action areas: inclusive governance and empowerment of women and girls.

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, South Africa, USA, WTF?

Freeland says cutting off energy shouldn’t be taken off the table, insists she can get provinces on board

Liberal leadership contender Chrystia Freeland says everything should be on the table when it comes to Canada’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, while insisting she can get provinces united on that response.

“We have to be prepared to use every single tool in the toolbox,” Freeland told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview Sunday, when asked whether she, as prime minister, would block energy exports to the U.S. or add an export tax to them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

It’s time to end our obsession with bloated big cities, like Vancouver and Toronto

Douglas Todd: The future of housing affordability in Canada lies in providing support to mid-sized centres, such as Kamloops and Kitchener-Waterloo

For a vast country like Canada, the second largest in the world by land mass, we are a strangely urban place.

Our biggest cities continue to grow larger — and more unaffordable — while populations in our rural regions dwindle and many smaller cities struggle.

Canada, oddly, is far more urban than countries like Italy, where more people reside in rural areas, often in elegant towns that are the envy of North Americans.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada