Summary
Mark Carney, frontrunner for Canadian Liberal Party leadership and potential prime minister, stated Canada will stand up to a bully after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian imports.
Carney vowed to retaliate by matching the US tariffs dollar for dollar, asserting Canada would not cave in despite mounting pressure.
He criticized Trump for undermining trade agreements, warning that the tariffs would damage the US global reputation and economic stability.
Outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau promised a forceful, immediate response, emphasizing unity as Canada defends its economic interests, ensuring national prosperity.
Smith isn’t, and, as an Albertan, it’s goddamn embarassing. Nothing authoritarians like more than a bigger authoritarian.
Ford is also an authoritarian, though, and he’s putting up a fight. Or at least he says he’s going to put up a fight. I’m worried that he’s just making a show of things so that he can roll over after the election’s over and we can’t get rid of him.
Heard an old bitch (Alberta) complaining yesterday in my store about something Joe Biden did.
And Scott Moe in Saskatchewan.
Honestly, all of this “51st state” bullshit has been a gift to Canada. For far too long the leaders on the right have been appealing to Canadian MAGA by emulating and praising everything Trump and his ilk do, and now they’re being forced to either turn on Trump or turn on Canada. In something like a week he’s shattered the alliance between the American right and the Canadian right, and left them absolutely spinning in the wind, searching for some sense of identity.
A smarter version of Trump would have kept his mouth shut until Pollievre was in, and then started to lean on him through back channels for consessions, just like Bush did with Harper. That filthy traitor would gladly give Trump everything he wants without a fight. But for Trump it’s about the fight; slapping tariffs on other countries makes his tiny dick feel a little less tiny.
When your main identity is nationalism it just doesn’t make sense to work together with any foreign leader.
As if the Australian ScoMo wasn’t bad enough, now there’s two of them…