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One more, on You Tube, separatist, not USA joiners, channels are springing up all over from Alberta and Saskatchewan about what is going to happen if Carney gets elected and the Liberals continue in Ottawa. Canada has a Red-Blue problem like the USA.

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They have a finance issue. Those Western Provinces are paying the bills for the rest of the country.

I also see a port access issue. There was talk of an East-West rail link to the coasts dedicated to movement of natural resources. So far it remains a concept.

Bringing resources down through the US, where there is existing infrastructure and more on the way, seems a viable choice.

It is another ingredient into the pot, raising further issues about long term viability of the provinces as a single country.

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On account of NAFTA (1994) then the renegotiated USMCA (2020), Canada built its economy and infrastructure to these prosperous trade deals. For the past 30+ years we've busted our humps harvesting our natural resources and delivering them to you in efforts to appease your insatiable consumption of them. We did all this in exchange for US Fed computer digits that the Rothschilds' underlings are instructed to pull out of their butts.

Then Trump declared his unprovoked trade war (against his own trade agreement) telling us that he plans to destroy our economy to weaken us so much that our nation can and will be annexed by him. Nice guy.

Typical Canadian: Sorry.

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Phil, Trump made it very clear the initial tariffs could be mitigated if Canada did more to stop the illegal immigrants and drugs coming across the northern border what did your government do?

As I recall the original treaty was to specifically give our 'partners' a leg up. They (you) could inflict 3 figure tariffs on our products coming into your country to 'protect' your industries and give you time to build up those industries.

What did you do? You became a mule for China and other countries that were not a part of the treaty. In fact they are countries we were trying to protect you from. You let them ship through your country, slapping a made in Canada label on it and took your cut.

So, now, after the hollowing out of American towns I'm sorry, I have no sympathy for you. You took the path Benjamin Franklin warned against. Those who would chose safety over liberty will soon have neither.

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Well, we couldn't do too much because, here in reality, we don't really have illegal immigrants and, according to your own gov't statistics, only 0.2% of your imported fentanyl comes across your northern border. In fact, illegal drugs entering Canada from the USA dwarfs vice versa, hypocrite.

That said, Canada has indeed ramped up billions more of increased border security as per Trump's undiplomatic, trade-war demands. [Ain't it strange how Canada is suddenly supposed to guard YOUR border? I mean, historically countries have always guarded their own borders, eh?]

You were not "giving" us anything with our hard-fought trade agreements. Nice try.

NAFTA (1994) and (Trump-signed) USMCA (2020) were mutually beneficial - as all free trade is. Over 99% (in dollar value) of our trade is free trade (tariff-free) and there very specific trade-dispute resolution protocols and procedures that, obviously, do not include reneging, unprovoked trade wars.

We are not a mule. That's merely a bull shit talking point. 0.2%!

We don't want you to protect us from other nations. Buzz off.

In fact, it is YOUR nation threatening to destroy us to then annex us. We need protection from you - not by you.

What are you talking about? We sell you our oil, gas, electricity, potash, lumber, etc. We harvest and deliver our natural resources for your insatiable consumption in exchange for US Fed bank digits pulled out of your butts. What products are labelled "Made in Canada" but are really not? Dollars to donuts there is some real example of this being true for this new BS talking point but it amounts to ~0.0001% of our cross-border trade and needs to be dealt with law enforcement as opposed to annexation.

Parrot. You are a parrot, you good little sheeple.

WTF? Your capitalists hollowed out your industrial towns so now Canada deserves to be annexed? You have the brain of a 9 year-old boy. Enjoy burning in Hell, bud.

Right, we must exercise OUR sovereignty by living YOUR Founding Fathers' words lest we deserve to be annexed. Good thinking ... and fuck you.

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Oh my. I never intended to imply I would welcome annexing Canada.

Steel coming through Canada from China to avoid tariffs on Chinese steel ring a bell?

Yes, you sell us your lumber, oil, dairy. Thank you very much. What price do you pay for having a market to sell to? We charge you how much on lumber, oil and dairy coming in to US? 2%? 3%?

How much do you charge US lumber, and dairy? 300%?

Please take good care of your self.

Stop taking up space in our medical facilities and good luck with shutting down churches and believing the establishment on covid and it's effects.

I'm sure it will all be fine.

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No. Prior to Trump's unprovoked trade war, it was 0% on lumber, oil, etc. Prior to Trump's unprovoked trade war, I re-iterate, over 99% of the trade between our two nations was free-trade (no tariffs. 0%).

I'm unfamiliar with US complaints of trying to sell lumber to lumberjacks. That's a new one for me. I'll keep my eyes peeled on that bull shit talking point.

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"Ah yes, the тАЬbig scary dairy tariffsтАЭ that people love to scream about.

Yes, Canada has dairy tariffs. But hereтАЩs what they never tell you:

 -The U.S. was given a quota under USMCA. American dairy producers already have a guaranteed amount they can sell to Canada without tariffs.

-The U.S. never maxes out its quota. The tariffs have never even been applied because American producers donтАЩt fill the agreed-upon volume.

-Canadians donтАЩt want American dairy. ItтАЩs pumped full of growth hormones, and heavily subsidized, so the supply is artificially inflated.

So no, this isnтАЩt some great injustice. The U.S. has access to the Canadian dairy market, it just doesnтАЩt use it."

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"300%" is actually 240% but, even more importantly, has never, ever actually been charged!

You are taught "240%" and your brain-washed American brain turns that into "300%" and are horribly misinformed about it all.

Baaaaa ... baaaaaaa

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Your Wall Street-ran medical facilities are available to anyone with money. You'd think that you'd be happy with the economic activity (flights, taxis, hotel, restaurants, doctor bills, hospital bills) but you've been brain-washed "Canada bad" and anything to do with us is another "reason" to hate us and have no pity when you annex us.

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Yeah, thanks a lot for the lying Covid establishment, youse pricks.

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Nicely put, Phil. Living above a continent-sized Meth Lab, run by Trump and his band of insane oligarchs is a dangerous situation, huh...

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