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There’s long been an assumption, for about a century anyway, that as a nice neighbour, ally and friend, Canada has had a special relationship with the United States.

You can go through the speeches of almost every American president and find testimony to that. We’ve had lots of quarrels but we’ve remained America’s closest companion. The two countries, as Pierre Trudeau once put it, set the standard for enlightened international relations.

Not now.

Canada’s public safety minister just said less than 1% of ’s fentanyl is from , and ditto for illegal immigrants.

Here’s why that’s a whopper of a lie. Warning: Your opinion of Canada will irreversibly change.

h/t XC

Trudeau, Carney, Freeland, and Karina Gould, based on their past actions and statements, are all globalists. They are the promoters of multinational trade agreements called “Free Trade” but actually–managed trade, wherein a small elite group makes massive profits from knowing the right people, having insider information, and influence markets to their advantage at the cost of the middle class.

If you have been keeping up with the news cycle, Justin Trudeau and Team Canada, Mark Carney, and Chrystia Freeland are all in agreement on a dollar-for-dollar retaliation if President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Canadian goods in February.

Canada’s GDP for 2023 was $2.3 trillion USD, around 70+% of our trade goes to the USA, and the US GDP was about $26 trillion. Signaling to Trump “You’re not so big; we have tariffs too” is not diplomacy but idiocy. Some in the Liberal Party should have sufficient intelligence to know that.

Canadian officials hope diplomacy can stave off the tariffs, while also planning retaliation.

TORONTO — Roughly $900 billion in annual trade between Canada and the United States — and with it, traditionally chummy bilateral ties — is on the brink of upheaval, with President Donald Trump threatening to impose sweeping tariffs on Canada as early as this weekend.

Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said Wednesday she is “cautiously optimistic” that a year-long diplomatic effort to stave off the levies could still yield results. But the U.S. president is “the ultimate decision-maker,” she added, and can be unpredictable.

The fallout for Canada could be profound. Here’s what to know.