Trump attacks Canada again after saying he’ll end trade talks

… In Mr. Reagan’s original speech, the late president defended imposing duties on Japan during a trade dispute over semiconductors; he alleged Japan was failing to enforce Japanese companies’ violations of a trade agreement with the United States.

Mr. Reagan explained why tariffs are bad for the U.S. and hurt free trade, which is largely what the Ontario government quoted in its ad. However, Mr. Reagan also argued that his duties on Japan were justified “to stop unfair practices against American products,” while extolling the virtues of free trade overall.

The bottom line is Trump is more right than Ford and most nations have historically applied stiffer tariffs against the US than vice versa. 

“Free Trade” is really managed trade that has done great harm to the working class of both Canada and the USA as well as gutting the industrial base of both nations.

There is no such thing as “Free Trade” with low wage nations despite the insistence of our corporate class and no benefit to working people unless becoming a citizen of an aspiring low wage 3rd World state is on your wish list.

These captains of Industry are the same people who insist they can’t operate in Canada without importing millions of unskilled 3rd World economic migrants to depress wages.

They’re liars, they broke the social contract. Feck em’ they destroyed your children’s hopes and dreams.

Shitty if true …

h/t Auntie Polly

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

The shocking details behind another fatal illegal alien truck crash

A crash on Tuesday in California involving an illegal alien truck driver resulted in three deaths and the hospitalization of several others.

Authorities identified the commercial truck driver allegedly responsible for the deadly collision as Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old Indian national in the United States illegally.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Carson Jerema: Chairman Carney is here to take over the economy

Mark Carney announced his “ambitious goal” to double “non-U.S. exports” on Wednesday night, but he didn’t mean it, and no one should take it as a serious government objective, no matter how many professorial hand gestures the prime minister makes.

There is a relatively straightforward way for Canada to increase non-U.S. exports — by clearing the way for the construction of pipelines to both coasts, as well as building LNG export terminals. But Carney shows little sign of being interested in what Canada actually has to offer, only in the ways he can exert greater control over the economy.

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

Rosenberg: Trump abandons carrot and wields stick over Putin in Ukraine talks

One week ago I had the distinct feeling it was Groundhog Day, or as the Russians call it, Dyen Surka.

Amid US threats to pressure Moscow – by supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine – Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump held a telephone call. The result: the announcement of a US-Russia summit in Budapest.

Last August, amid threats of additional US sanctions against Russia, Putin met Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff. The result: the announcement of a US-Russia summit in Alaska.

Déjà vu.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

$15B and No Guarantees? Rick Perkins Breaks Down the Stellantis Deal

For weeks, Canadians were told, confidently, smugly, that the $15 billion handed to Stellantis and Volkswagen was protected by “job clauses” and “performance-based contracts.” That’s the line Industry Minister Mélanie Joly repeated in interviews, press releases, and on social media. It’s a lie.

Yesterday, we sat down with former Member of Parliament Rick Perkins one of the few people who actually read the unredacted contracts in question and he laid it out plainly: those job guarantees don’t exist. Not in the way you were told. Not even close.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

The Church of England’s plan to pay £100m in reparations explains exactly why its pews are empty

Given Lenny Henry wants the British state to pay £18tn in slavery reparations, perhaps we should be thankful that the Church of England wants to cough up “only” £100m as part of its Project Spire, the Church Commissioners’ proposal to invest in “communities affected by historic transatlantic chattel slavery”.

Not only does the Church want to spend this money, but a parliamentary response to a question asked by the Conservative MP Neil O’Brien this week highlighted how its leaders are jumping through a series of legal hoops to do so, including applying to register a new charity they propose to call The Fund of Healing, Repair and Justice.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSlavery and Reparations

A Visit With Occam’s Razor

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

Smith tables bill allowing Alberta to ignore international agreements that impact provincial jurisdiction

The Alberta government has introduced new legislation aimed at clarifying how international agreements signed by the federal government apply within the province.

Titled the International Agreements Act, the proposed law would ensure that international treaties or accords negotiated by Ottawa only take effect in Alberta if implemented through provincial legislation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta

Migrant Avoids Deportation Because Rape of Swedish Girl Didn’t Last Long Enough

The headline seems ridiculous, but it is true.

After arriving in Sweden as an asylum seeker when he was a minor, Eritrean migrant Yazied Mohamed raped Meya Åberg in September last year, when she was just 16 years old, while she was on her way back home from work.

According to the Court of Appeal for Upper Norrland, this attack was not “extremely serious”—and so does not warrant deportation—because of its “duration.” This prompted commentator Ian Miles Cheong to note that “the suffering of a 16 year old is now measured in minutes”—a sign of “how far the system has fallen.”

h/t kiki9

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

For bailing on promises to Canada, Stellantis and GM will have to pay duty on U.S. vehicles and parts, Carney government says

OTTAWA — Stellantis and GM will pay an immediate price at the border for bailing on their production promises to Canada, the federal government advised the U.S. automakers Thursday.

According to a source with knowledge of a letter sent Thursday to Stellantis and GM, the federal finance and industry departments notified the companies they are no longer considered eligible to get the full break on Canadian counter-tariff duties on autos and auto parts they import to Canada because the carmakers fail to meet the requirement to maintain Canadian-based production.

Joly is mad. Watch Out Trumpers!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"