So, the acrimonious end of trade negotiations was the electoral blessing for Mr. Carney that it was widely expected to be, right? Three by-election wins, each delivering more than 50% of the vote to the Liberals, including a surprise flip of a Conservative seat and the whole event giving the prime minister an absolute majority of one in the House of Commons.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has dismissed a series of recent comments by U.S. cabinet members that challenge the Liberal government’s explanation for walking away from trade talks last month.
“I don’t think, with all respect, appointed, unelected cabinet members in the United States are experts on Canadian politics,” he said in Thunder Bay, Ont., on Thursday.
Ever since he pulled Canada’s negotiating team back to Ottawa late on Friday, Aug. 21, Carney and Canada’s chief trade negotiator Janice Charette have maintained Canada left after the U.S. introduced last-minute changes the government deemed unfair and uneconomic.
I don’t believe a word that comes out of Carney’s mouth.
The Americans have been consistent and offered up specifics while Carney and his coconspirators just lie through their teeth knowing their media will never demand proof.
With the stroke of a sharpie last week, President Trump moved to re-designate Lake Ontario, the long-established name for the freshwater lake that lies between New York State and the Canadian province of Ontario, to “Lake America.”
The executive order came amid an escalating trade war with Canada after negotiations over tariffs fell apart, followed by new tariffs and tough talk between Washington and Ottawa.
OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump warned Prime Minister Mark Carney Thursday that Canada’s economy would collapse and threatened him with political consequences “worse than anything that has ever happened to a Canadian politician.”
Stop making memes. Leave Mark Carney alone. pic.twitter.com/xBQbkSPXiH
— RPN Entertainment (@rpnenter) September 2, 2026
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There has been no greater gift to the Liberal Party’s powerful pro-Beijing comprador caste than U.S. President Donald Trump’s exasperating bellicosity and exhausting trade-relations vandalism. Even after nearly a decade of scandals involving China’s Uyghur slave camps, its “hostage diplomacy,” mass espionage, intellectual property theft, forced corporate co-ventures and clandestine election-interference operations, by this summer the Pew Research Centre found that Canadians had come to view China more favorably than the United States.
You could say the American president can be thanked for that.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick accused Canada’s Liberal government of deliberately derailing the trade agreement with the Trump administration for political gain.
“This is the Canadian Liberal Party using their economy to get themselves elected, even if they’re selling their own citizens down the river. It’s sad and disappointing,” Lutnick told Bloomberg, speaking of the failed negotiations.
Lutnick: "If you are gonna mess with the United States of America and its economy and you're right adjacent to our northern border, it was really disrespectful. When you treat Donald Trump disrespectfully, he knows it. And that's what happened. It's just sad the way Canada has… pic.twitter.com/7j7wnP5jFu
— Sigurdur Nordal (@essenviews) September 2, 2026
I believe Carney sabotaged the talks to hasten our demise. He's not on our team and he's not on Trumps but both are fighting for the spoils of Canada's remains. Unseen hands are at work. I will take Trump over Xi, Ursula and the WEF any day.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) September 2, 2026
The reason it’s unrealistic for Canada to curtail or tax the flow of Canadian oil to the U.S. in retaliation for U.S. tariffs, is our lack of practical alternatives to sell it to any country other than the U.S.
This is one of the legacies of the previous Liberal government of Justin Trudeau and its failed climate change policies, which not only cost federal taxpayers more than $200-billion, but failed to achieve any of its promised greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
Some negotiations are easy; others are destined to fail given intractable issues, including the personalities of negotiators, their values, style, character, and other difficult issues. Was it ordained that a negotiation between Donald Trump and Mark Carney would be successful?
Trump lays it on
.@POTUS: "We're fighting for our country. Canada has taken advantage of us, they have ripped us off for years, and now we're turning the tables — very easily turning the tables." https://t.co/sxGnD4lfOy pic.twitter.com/nPY5NlrUYk
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 2, 2026
Republican members of Congress are publicly backing U.S. President Donald Trump in his trade war with Canada and blaming Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government for walking away from negotiations.
Dozens of GOP House members gathered on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a closed-door meeting with Trump’s point man on tariffs, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
While some Republicans are quietly concerned that an escalation of costly tariffs could worsen their re-election prospects in the midterms in November, those who spoke with CBC News after meeting Greer generally expressed support for the president’s trade strategy.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick continues to accuse Canada’s prime minister of “trying to blow up” a deal with the United States to gain “political leverage.”
“This is about the Liberal Party and Mark Carney trying to use a kerfluffle with the United States to gain political leverage,” he said during a television interview with U.S. network CNBC on Wednesday.
“They’ve got an independent party, the sovereign party vote in Quebec on October 5. They’ve got an independence vote that starts the process (in) Alberta, who always feels ripped off by Ottawa and the left of Canada,” Lutnick said.
Did the US – Canada negotiations collapse on…PURPOSE❓️❓️
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick:
"What are you doing? Are you actually trying to blow this up?
Canadian Minister:
"I'm not allowed to say that." pic.twitter.com/Uad8DjPVX2
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) September 2, 2026
Many Canadians are furious about the US-Canada trade negotiations, now termed a ‘trade war’ by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. On August 22, after trade talks had collapsed, Carney told the media that when you are attacked, it is a war. “War” gives an excuse to be hostile, to walk away, to divorce, to look for other lovers, not to make up, and make a deal.
What is curious to me is that climate policies have not been mentioned, because if they were, the public might know the US was attacked first. And they would know who one of the attackers was. Let us look at the US-Canada trade issues through a climate lens.
As Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. are set to take effect next week, many consumers are anxious about the impact of the surtaxes on affected items.
Experts like Ian Lee, an associate professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, said the federal government’s counter-tariffs will make American items pricier for Canadians.
“If they’re planning on buying them anyways, they should probably buy them before Sept. 8,” Lee said in a video interview with CTVNews.ca on Monday.
Carney’s goal is Beijing’s goal. He doesn’t care that you will be hurt.
"The floodgate is now fully open, and the policy is also designed to grow. Ottawa's arrangement with Chinese authorities calls for the 49,000-vehicle annual quota to increase by 6.5 percent each year, thus lifting the allowance to 52,185 vehicles for the quota year beginning in… pic.twitter.com/VYz1qx8IGy
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) September 2, 2026
“You’re at war when you get attacked. We got attacked,” Mark Carney said after trade talks collapsed and the United States imposed more tariffs on us.
His words caught the mood of the country. Patriotic. Defiant. And ultimately, a cover for a bad policy.
Canada’s growing confrontation with the United States is about much more than just tariffs. Trade imbalances, Chinese goods entering the American market through Canada, taxes on U.S. companies, and Mark Carney’s political strategy have pushed relations with Washington to a new low.
At the same time, Canada faces weak economic growth, enormous immigration pressures, separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec, and continued dependence on the United States for its defense. Picking a fight with America will not solve those problems.
Carney lying? Say it ain’t so! This is an evisceration of Carney and sadly Canada.
Sorry Elbow people but the Liberals are worse than Trump.
NEW: Canadian Foreign Minister Champagne told India's Finance Minister earlier this week that Canada can provide food and energy to India in exchange for workers.
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) September 1, 2026
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On Sept. 8, roughly $30 billion in imports from the United States will face Canadian tariffs of between 15 and 50 percent. This is our response to the 50 percent U.S. tariffs now applied to approximately five percent of our exports.
Overall, I estimate Canada’s average tariff response works out to about 30 percent, on average, across affected goods. That’s roughly 60 cents of response for every dollar of U.S. tariff. While not full dollar-for-dollar retaliation, as the government frames it, it is still a large response. And it comes on top of certain retaliatory tariffs already in place from last year.
