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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is still in B.C., where he’s pitching life sentences for fentanyl traffickers and gunrunners.
Classic.
Any short-term cooperation must not derail the urgent need to sever our economic and defensive dependencies on that nation.
It’s not simply that Trump is unreliable — American voters are as well.
So yes if we can ease some short-term pains felt by our workers and industries that is fine. But that’s where it ends.
Tone shift! U.S. President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social that he’s spoken with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
And Trump actually called Carney prime minister, after repeatedly calling former prime minister Justin Trudeau “governor” — part of his annexation taunting.
Trump called it “an extremely productive call.”
I’m grateful Carney is starting to make progress. Let’s hope it continues.
It’s not worth celebrating if he just stops saying it out loud. Still, unclear if he just understands whatever last person he talked to says, or if it was productive because Carney caved on everything.
What could he have caved on? Carney seems to understand that a country can impose any tariff that it wants and there is nothing he or Canada can do about that. All they can do is focus on the response. Trudeau and Ford rushing over to the US to beg for exemptions didn’t exactly play well.
Carney said he would not talk to Trump until he respected Canadian sovereignty. Trump did not call him governor or refer to Canada as the 51st state. At the very least it’s a step forward in discourse which no one else has acheived up until this point.
What could he have caved on?
Renegotiating security/economic relationship after election, may very well mean fewer Canadian exports/GDP, more US weapons purchases, and continued hatred/divisiveness with everyone US orders us to engage in. The disgusting lie that we need a broken bomber-biased plane, the F35, to defend against Russian Arctic invasion is simply evil treason made by foreign allied puppets that steal from Canada. Also, at issue, whatever new deal is signed will have US for sure commit forever to upholding its end.
just understands whatever last person he talked to says
This seems to be the precident that has been set
“Just a little while ago, before I got involved and totally changed the election — which I don’t care about … the Conservative was leading,” he said last Friday.
Damn I can’t stop going to the 22 minutes skit where Trump is totally not jealous of Carney – every statement he makes has vindicated that.
I don’t care what Trump says, because he’s a lying sack of shit. What did Carney say about the call?
Let’s see how Carney recounts it before celebrating.
Carney/Joli statements:
Negotiate military/trade relationship after election. Retaliatory tariffs still happen on April 2. Lutnick/Leblanc intensive discussions to happen in meantime.
At a minimum, US needs to announce USMCA compliant trade is exempt (nearly all auto trade?). There still hasn’t been retaliation for steel/alumnium tariffs, but permanent USMCA exemption, is path to leverage Canadian cost advantage for future auto plants/shift increases.