Donald Trump has clearly gotten into the heads of Canadians, leading the country towards a near insane alliance with a stagnating Europe and the Chinese authoritarian super state. This is a bad idea. Trump may strut like a would-be dictator, but he will be gone in two years and his imprint, if anything, will bring on a government that, if anything, will be much closer to Canadian values and norms.
This week’s announcement by Cleveland Cliffs to indefinitely idle certain Stelco operations in Hamilton is a tragedy.
Losing 400-500 well-paid union jobs will impact thousands locally, and losing critical value-added manufacturing capacity makes Canadians collectively poorer.
Unfortunately, members of the United Steelworkers (U.S.W) have seen this before.
Since the beginning of the Canada-U.S. trade war early last year, travel south of the border is still far from recovering.
In January of 2025, the month before U.S. President Donald Trump announced there would be sweeping tariffs on Canadian goods, Statistics Canada found more than 3 million Canadians returned from the United States. That plummeted to about 2.3 million in January of this year, with a return to pre-trade war numbers still far off in the most recent statistics from April.
A normalcy will return.
When Ontario Premier Doug Ford called them Chinese spy cars earlier this year, some foolish people laughed. Now there’s more evidence that Ford was right and more reason why Prime Minister Mark Carney should reverse course.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he “love(s) the Canadian people” but that the nation’s leaders “have taken advantage” of the U.S. for too long in his latest rant about the country.
Speaking at a White House event marking U.S. Hispanic Heritage Month on Wednesday, Trump said that the U.S. was “so stupidly run” in the past because it “allowed” automakers to make cars for the U.S. in other countries, including Canada.
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: The percent of Americans calling Canada a "close ally" has PLUMMETED -36 POINTS
Americans who say Canada is a close ally — AP
2023: 62%
NOW: 26% 🤯Canada is no longer allowed to rip off the United States.
While Donald Trump is president, PM Mark Carney will… pic.twitter.com/k6JLd2CQKv
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 1, 2026
Canada’s Minister of International Trade has met with the U.S. Trade Representative, the first meeting of its kind since talks between the two countries fell apart in August.
Maninder Sidhu spoke with his American counterpart, Jamieson Greer, Wednesday evening on the sidelines of a G20 trade ministers meeting in Milwaukee.
Conservative MP Adam Chambers says layoffs at a Hamilton steel plant should raise questions about Canada forging closer economic ties with China, citing concerns about Chinese steel dumping in the Canadian market.
Stelco Holdings Inc. announced on Sept. 28 that it would indefinitely idle finishing operations at its steel plant in Hamilton, Ont., due to “market uncertainty,” a move that could affect as many as 500 employees.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — If Canada is betting that Trump’s tariff fight and Ottawa’s retaliation will exact political costs on U.S. President Donald Trump and Republicans in November’s midterms, it may be onto something: a senior Trump adviser just signalled that the White House sees the Canada-U.S. trade spat as politically sensitive.
Speaking at an economic conference in Washington on Tuesday, Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro had a few choice words for Canada. He likened the country to a rowboat and the U.S. to an aircraft carrier before asking whether any Canadians were in the room.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s war of words with Canada continued Wednesday as he veered off a prepared script at an event marking Hispanic Heritage Month in the States to chastise Canadian leaders for being what he called “very bad.”
Speaking at the White House, Trump said the U.S. was “stupidly run” before he got the job because past leaders allowed automakers to move assembly plants offshore, including to Canada.
Trump on Canada: "They act like they're totally innocent. They're not. They were very bad. But now they're being taught a little lesson. In fact, we just named a certain lake Lake America. Lake Ontario is now named nake — and it actually passed" pic.twitter.com/zJP6WcUrff
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 30, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada’s federal government will “use all powers that we have” against the U.S. owner of an Ontario steel plant that announced hundreds of layoffs on Monday.
Stelco, owned by Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs, directly linked its plan to cut up to 500 jobs in Hamilton with U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada.
The Trump administration imposed 50 per cent tariffs on foreign steel under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act last year. Canada has retaliated with duties on many U.S.-made steel products.
Back in March, the media was all upset because the Orange Man was killing the Kentucky whiskey business.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reported, “Trump’s trade war cripples Kentucky bourbon. American whiskey exports down $250 million.”
Sales to Canada fell by about $160 million.
Many are starting to realize there’s something else afoot with this guy.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney left the United Nations General Assembly and went directly to the New York Times for a pre-scheduled interview with fellow leftist travelers’ intent on influencing the U.S midterm election.
h/t Hermes
One of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it “interferes” in the upcoming midterm elections — though it’s not clear what he anticipates the country would do to impact the vote.
Peter Navarro, who has lashed out at Canada in the past, made these latest remarks during a talk at an economic conference in Washington on Tuesday.
Navarro was speaking generally about the Trump administration’s trade policy when the conversation turned to the ongoing dispute with Canada. He blasted Canadians on “K Street” — an area in Washington known as a hub for lobbyists — telling them to “get the hell out of our country.”
The world gets it now: tariffs bring countries to the table.
Everyone lined up to negotiate. Canada? They showed up with lobbyists.
Message to them? Get the hell out. pic.twitter.com/JES6qaHZZl
— Peter Navarro (@RealPNavarro) September 29, 2026
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a terse rebuke Tuesday to steelmaker Stelco and its parent company for breaching “legal obligations” to maintain jobs in Canada, saying Ottawa will pursue legal action against the company if it fails to meet those obligations.
The day after Stelco Holdings announced it would lay off up to 500 workers at its Hamilton and Lake Erie facilities, citing the import pressures of the tariff dispute and weak demand, the prime minister laid the blame squarely at the feet of the Trump administration and its corporate allies.
NEW – This Hamilton Steel mill layoff in Canada is a HUGE story —
The owner, Cleveland-Cliffs REFUSED emergency cash (undisclosed amount) from Mark Carney and violated an agreement they signed to not lay any workers off.
Think of how BADLY you want to leave a country to… pic.twitter.com/DKXHD2MhJO
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) September 29, 2026
How many deals have collapsed under Carney?
Distiller James Lester has grown used to the on-again, off-again chaos of the trade war, but he’s now grappling with a new kind of treatment — being shut out of the U.S. market altogether.
“It’s a little sad, to be honest,” said Lester, founder and operator of B.C.-based distillery Sons of Vancouver.
As of Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. ET, U.S. bans are in effect on some Canadian alcohol products, dairy byproducts, motorcycles and molasses, shutting certain producers out of the U.S. market entirely.
