Monday, February 03, 2025

How It's Going

While Mexico has read the writing on the wall, Justin, the coward who taunted truckers when they were far away and then ran and hid from them the moment they arrived in Ottawa, will drag out the ineffectual tariffs against the US because it buys him and his band of robber-barons time and - for him - it burnishes that enormous ego he has been dragging around for the fifty plus years on this planet.

That's right.

He will rule over the ashes of Canada rather than do what he is paid to do - build the economy, secure the border and stop crime.

Justin Trudeau is a worthless son-of-a-b!#ch and is entirely to blame for what is happening now and what will happen:

For there really is a moral case for tariffs. In a protectionist state, goes the argument, there is less need for welfare because jobs are plentiful; less incidence of social unrest because wages are high.
Prices might go up – though they barely did in Trump’s first term – but that’s the whole point. While income taxes penalise effort, tariffs, by hitting consumption, encourage frugality and saving. Citizens grow their own food, make their own products and defer pleasure, all critical ingredients of the Protestant-capitalist ethic. The rhetorical link between addiction and free trade/open borders is apt. Trump wishes to make his country not just great but sober and independent, weaned off the opium of cheap Chinese imports.

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Canada’s main stock index was down nearly 600 points after Trump announced over the weekend that the U.S. would impose tariffs of 25 per cent on Canadian goods and 10 per cent on energy. 

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Managers of the Canada Pension Plan, largest in the nation, yesterday would not comment on whether they’ll follow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s directive to buy Canadian. Almost half the fund’s $675.1 billion is invested in the United States, from shares in American fast food chains to ownership of Dallas apartment buildings, San Diego shopping malls and industrial parks in Florida: “Now is the time to choose Canada.”


HA!

We are China's vassal state and have our money (I never agreed to that) invested in the US.

What a joke!

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Should we sign in blood, Charlie?:

Labour and cultural groups are asking that Canadians sign a public pledge to “reduce our dependence on the United States.” New Democrat MP Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay, Ont.), the only Commons member to sign the Pledge For Canada to date, called it a “plan of resistance.”

 

To wit:

He said gold demand from China and central banks accounted for 85 per cent of mine supply through the first three months of 2024 and 70 per cent on average during the prior two years. That’s up from 25 per cent during the three-year period from 2019 to 2021.

That shift in demand is evident in Canada’s gold exports to China, which have steadily risen to $589 million in 2023 from $189 million in 2020, according to Statistics Canada data.

That is more than a 200 per cent increase in value during a time period when the average price of gold rose nine per cent to US$1,940.50 in 2023 from US$1,769.6 per ounce in 2020, according to World Gold Council data.

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In 2023, shipments from Canada to China increased by +25.4% y-o-y to 10.5 mln tonnes. In fourth place was India, with a 6.2% share of Canada’s coal exports.

 

Where is Team Canada on this? 

Or this?:

“We will take back control of immigration, take back control of spending, take back control of our borders, take back control of inflation, taxes and interest rates,” Poilievre said.

“The choice will be simple: either the NDP-Liberals, who tax your food, punish your work, double your housing costs, unleash crime and chaos, and weakness on the world stage, or the common-sense Conservatives who will axe the (carbon) tax, build homes, fix the budget, stop crime, and put Canada first.”

Indeed, it’s high time for the Canada First movement. Consider Justin Trudeau’s interview with New York Times Magazine just days after he was sworn in as Canada’s 23rd prime minister in 2015:

“There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,” the then-tyro PM said. “There are shared values — openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice. Those qualities are what make us the first postnational state.”

Whatever a “postnational state” is, it was neither Canada pre-2015 nor is it Canada today. Trudeau’s words were a harbinger of a corrosive  agenda to upend western societies and supplant local issues with raucous foreign grievances. Canada is hardly alone; Britons were brazenly insulted recently when a radical ideologue suggested iconic Remembrance Day poppies become Poppies for Palestine.

A cogent Canada First movement is long overdue — and we enjoyed a taste in February 2022 when the Freedom Convoy, a proto-Canada First movement, proved Canadians aren’t torpid by descending upon Ottawa to peacefully protest pandemic restrictions on liberty and advocate for the country’s working people.

The convoy’s uniquely Canadian energy was so strong that it inspired the world.

However, insofar as Poilievre has elucidated his Canada First vision, it’s largely focused on inchoate, if low-hanging, economic policies like eliminating the carbon tax, a poverty-inducing globalist instrument, and minor amendments to make housing more affordable, at least putatively.

He’s also vowed to fight Trump’s looming tariff war with “fire,” but, considering the American president is an ideological counterpart, there are better approaches, such as reviving Keystone XL make more sense. Not only does Trump already consider the idea copacetic, Canadians and Americans are cultural siblings between whom unity is paramount.

Poilievre could also build better ties with the U.S. by strengthening Canada’s military, as he indicated he’d do if elected, rather than freeloading off its neighbour to the south. Despite Canada’s commitment to NATO of spending two per cent of its GDP on defence, it only spends 1.33 per cent. Although that’s good enough for 14th highest in the world, Canada can climb the ranks if Poilievre follows through.

 

Team Canada would hate this.

It inspires and produces (if attempted) strength, pride, and responsibility, not reactionary hatred and reflexive reliance on foreign powers to survive.

 


That's a good idea, Doug. Destroy your internet connection:

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will rip up a $100-million contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to deliver high-speed internet to remote areas, as part of his response to U.S. tariffs.

 

Doug does not have a timely, affordable and non-American replacement for much-needed internet access.

That will show the Americans! It's as bold as banning American liquor you already paid for.

Such displays of impotent rare are typically Canadian.

 

Speaking of impotent displays of rage:

Fans at a Toronto Raptors game continued an emerging trend Sunday of booing the American national anthem at pro sporting events in Canada.

Fans of the NBA’s lone Canadian franchise booed the anthem after similar reactions broke out Saturday night at NHL games in Ottawa, Ont., and Calgary, Alta.; hours after U.S. President Donald Trump made his threat of import tariffs on America’s northern neighbour a reality.

After initially cheering for the 15-year-old female singer, fans booed throughout “The Star-Spangled Banner” performance. At the end, mixed boos and cheers could be heard before the crowd erupted in applause for the Canadian anthem, “O Canada.”

 

Keep it classy, Canada! 



Oh, look - an adult in the room:

Diplomacy matters. The sustained diplomatic efforts and advocacy of the Government of Alberta and industry over the last couple of months is a primary reason why Canadian energy including oil, gas, critical minerals, electricity, and uranium received a reduced tariff of 10 per cent. This will save tens of thousands of jobs across the country.

Calm logical discussion is far more effective than “tough guy” rhetoric when dealing with a misguided ally who has wronged us.

That is why I am planning to return to Washington, D.C., twice more this month to participate in the Republican Governors Convention and to visit with dozens of elected and administration officials. I will never stop telling Alberta’s and Canada’s story to our friends and allies south of the border. I encourage all elected Canadian leaders to do the same. The Canadian-U.S. friendship with the American people is far more important and enduring than any one person. We would do well to remember that.

I also continue Alberta’s call for the appointment of a border czar to coordinate the securing of our border against illegal migrants and drugs moving in both directions, and to announce that Canada will achieve our nation’s NATO commitment to spend two per cent of GDP on defence by 2027. These things should be done for the safety of all Canadians regardless of our trade dispute with the United States.

Canada is a great nation with a remarkable history and a resolute people. We will get through this challenge if we come together using a Team Canada approach. But those are just words. What does a Team Canada approach really mean?
 It needs to be said that Ottawa’s parade of anti-energy policies, red tape on resource development, lack of investment in our Armed Forces and our soft-on-crime laws have left our country in an incredibly vulnerable and weakened state economically and politically.

As an example, the current government’s blocking of the B.C Northern Gateway pipelines and regulations that led to the Energy East pipeline being cancelled, the dithering on approving LNG terminals and pipelines, and the investment uncertainty intentionally sown by Ottawa have our country almost entirely reliant on our U.S. customers to purchase almost all of our largest export, namely, Canadian oil. As a result, we are vulnerable to this very kind of trade dispute.

If we are going to thrive as a nation again — if we are going to control our own destiny independent of the actions of other countries — we must stop limiting our own prosperity and inflicting economic wounds on ourselves.

 

There it is.

For nine years, Justin, with the help of the current stock of lackeys willing to replace him, stymied growth and investment in this country, something that would project strength to Trump and the world.

Justin won't even recall Parliament to discuss anything:

Parliament will not be recalled to manage a multi-billion dollar U.S. trade war, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Commons trade committee members including Liberal MPs had rated parliamentary hearings a priority in a 2019 tariff dispute: “It is insane that in this great crisis, Parliament is shut down.”

 

Now, what kind of leader (used in the weakest sense of the word) would stall in this situation?

I think we know.

The economy will collapse, consumers (if their dollar still works) will rely on China, and the Liberals get what they want.

We need a revolution. 


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