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There’s been very little publicly shared about the progress of Ottawa-Washington trade talks, but what little has been revealed in recent weeks hasn’t been very positive.

Publicly, the cabinet has said the trade talks with the Trump administration are moving along positively, while at the same time stressing that they need to keep the discussions to the negotiating table and that they can’t disclose much more.

But from what can be gathered from public records, whether it’s the state of communication between the two leaders or messaging around the need to accelerate internal efforts to build resilience, it appears Canada isn’t on the verge of a breakthrough.

Road trips to the US decreased for a seventh straight month as Canadians ramped up their American boycott.

Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the neighboring US slumped 36.9% in July from a year ago, Statistics Canada data showed Monday.

Return trips by air from the US also slid 25.8%, while those from other countries grew 5.9% as Canadians traveled elsewhere.

Canada, a country with a smaller population than California, features the second-largest land mass in the world, thousands of kilometres of coastal shoreline, water, and natural resources in abundance, and a huge arctic geography where, for over a century, there was minimal predatory interest from other countries. But most Canadians live and earn a living within a few hundred kilometres of the U.S. border. We’ve enjoyed easy prosperity doing business directly or indirectly with Americans, to whom we’ve defaulted to do the heavy lifting on defence and security.

WINDSOR, ONT. — From boom town to gloom town.

After four years of population growth, as new arrivals to Windsor chased jobs in a manufacturing revival fuelled by the promise of electric vehicles, the influx stalled when U.S. tariffs hit.

The unemployment rate soared to the highest in Canada. Five thousand manufacturing positions were cut in the last five months, according to the local Chamber of Commerce. Roughly 16 per cent of jobs in the area are dependent on Canada-U.S. trade — double the national average. Home sales are down 6.3 per cent this year.

The Canadian government failed to reach a trade deal with the United States before the Aug. 1 deadline. As a result, U.S. President Donald Trump increased the blanket tariff on imports of Canadian goods from 25 per cent to 35 per cent, while tariffs on steel, aluminum and some automotive imports have remained unchanged. Crucially, the so-called “CUSMA exemption” on goods that are compliant with the existing Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement has also remained in place.

They want the arctic protected, natural resources and to sell Quebec to Louisiana. OK maybe not Louisiana.

Annexation or a mix of desirable independent former provinces may be their solution.

Canada was destroyed by our elites through mass immigration.

Does anyone want to fight for our 3rd World GTA?

I have a brilliant idea. Let's bring in more low skilled immigrants, mostly single and sexually repressed men from India. https://t.co/Rh1erGhBHX pic.twitter.com/WLT57varsg

— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) August 8, 2025