“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

The United States had offered to reduce its tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos, and eliminate a recently imposed tariff on Canadian lumber, before negotiations suddenly collapsed last night, Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said Saturday.

In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Greer detailed previously confidential and unreported elements of the U.S. trade offer to Canada, saying those measures would have given Canada the most preferential treatment of any trading partner.

In responding to the breakdown of Canada-U.S. trade negotiations late Friday with dollar-for-dollar matching counter tariffs against the U.S. starting on Sept. 8, Prime Minister Mark Carney is embarking on a strategy he said was unrealistic a year ago.

This actually marks the second time he has reversed policy on the issue of dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs.

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— Roro (@rorotrader) August 23, 2026

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer entered a meeting with Canadian officials Friday afternoon with a frown.

For more than a week, Greer had been in wall-to-wall negotiations with Canada’s top trade officials, and the two sides were tantalizingly close to striking a deal that would break through more than a year of icy diplomatic and economic relations. The two North American neighbors had agreed on the overarching framework. Industry groups and stakeholders had been briefed. A deal seemed imminent.

Hours later, it fell apart.

Under President Trump, Canada has had the lowest tariffs for its exports to the U.S. market.

At the last minute, Canada walked away from a nearly completed deal that would have lowered these tariffs even further. pic.twitter.com/3pQ0iVfCI4

— United States Trade Representative (@USTradeRep) August 22, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from a U.S. trade deal Friday night. In doing so, he has cemented his post as the leader of the international resistance to U.S. President Donald Trump.

That may be of little consolation to Canadian alcohol, dairy and automobile producers who are now facing new 50 per cent tariffs on goods exported to America, or indeed to any other tariff-hit industries and companies struggling through the trade war.

But it matters to Canada in a longer-term calculation.

I don’t trust Carney to tell the truth on any matter.

“‘No idea what he’s talking about,’ the US official said of @CanadianPM Carney. ‘It was Canada that repeatedly made last-minute demands beyond the scope of what had been agreed upon’… ‘There were no “eleventh hour” measures that the US introduced,’ said a second US official.”🤔 https://t.co/DJsqDcZgbZ

— Mark Warner (@MAAWLAW) August 23, 2026

Canadians may owe Howard Lutnick a debt of gratitude.

It was a final-hours intervention by the U.S. Commerce Secretary, who’s peculiarly belligerent toward Canada even by the standards of Donald Trump’s White House, which seemed to coincide with new American demands that scuppered the tentative trade agreement between the two countries.

If so, he did Canada a service by reminding Mark Carney and his negotiators who they were dealing with — and saving us from a bad deal that probably would’ve only looked worse down the road.

Trade deal restrictions with other partners like communist China are nothing new, Canada the US and Mexico all agreed to abide by them in CUSMA.

Grok says – Yes, in a limited way: Canada agreed to specific restrictions and conditions under Article 32.10 of CUSMA (also known as USMCA or T-MEC) regarding free trade agreements (FTAs) with “non-market countries i.e. China” There is no general ban on partnering with other nations.

I think word has gone out to the LPC’s media that Lutnick is to be the preferred whipping boy.

Good choice but not the cause of Canada’s woefully poor performance.

More … U.S.-Canada trade talks have collapsed. Carney says these 3 issues torpedoed them

The changes to Auto tariffs are a head scratcher.

Leaks during negotiations said a 15% tariff was agreed upon. A number many have pointed out would be slow suffocation to the auto industry but one Team Carney seemed willing to live with.

A slow death is preferable to sudden shock I agree and that seems to be the collateral damage Carney could accept because ChiCom EV’s!

And I don’t care about Quebec’s culture, the province is a drag on Canada.

Stop being so uptight. Drink your bourbon. Or don’t. That’s up to you.

But provinces should put American liquor back on the shelves of their liquor stores, especially if it helps end or limit U.S. President Donald Trump’s petty and punitive tariffs on Canada.

Mark Carney has bet that no deal is better than a bad deal – and Canada is about to find out whether that gamble pays off.

By walking away from negotiations with the Americans, Canada now faces 50% tariffs on a long list of goods.

By the sound of what was on offer, the proposed deal with the Americans isn’t one the Prime Minister could sign and sell to the Canadian public.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer blames Canada for the collapse of trade talks: "New demands and walkbacks of other commitments by Canada have upended the careful balance reached in the past days." pic.twitter.com/acQ3jtVFL4

— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson_) August 22, 2026

OTTAWA — Outspoken Ontario Conservative MP Jamil Jivani says that Prime Minister Mark Carney is erring in trying to “accelerate conflict” with the U.S., after cross-border trade talks broke down late Friday night.

Jivani told National Post that Carney struck the wrong tone in a fiery missive, sent just before the midnight deadline, vowing to match imminent 50 per cent tariffs on some Canadian goods “dollar for dollar.”

This is incredible propaganda. There’s something very wrong when you go from being “this close to a trade deal” to repeating lines from a propagandistic speech from April of 2025.
This Party saw the writing on the wall, not having Trump to fear would bring support crumbling to… pic.twitter.com/wDrQ76PvSt

— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) August 22, 2026

Read Mark Carney’s full speech after trade talks with the U.S. collapsed

The only good news on a terrible day is that Canadians are united.

The bad news is bad, though. Canada is entering an asymmetric trade war with the largest and most powerful country in the world. If Donald Trump wants to drive us into a recession, he can do so, and there are other horrible things he could do if he wants.

United? Nope. Just the Star ratcheting up the fear.

Midnight came and Canada got the bill it earned.

After weeks of talks and a last-minute scramble that looked promising even to President Trump, the 50 percent tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods took effect early Saturday. Wine. Hockey sticks. Cement. Plywood. Liquor. The list is long. Energy and critical minerals are exempted. Everything else that Canada has been shipping south while playing games with American producers is now more expensive by half.

h/t patthedog

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said he walked away from a “bad deal” with the United States and that Canada is now “at war” after being “attacked” by steep tariffs on $29 billion worth of Canadian goods going south of the border.

“We were attacked. You’re at war when you get attacked. We got attacked,” Carney told reporters gather in the West Block foyer on Parliament Hill.

The problem is we’ll be the collateral damage for General Carney’s folly.

In the end, Canada and the United States didn’t get a trade deal. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter.

Yes, a deal would have prevented further economic woes imposed on Canada in the short run. But what matters is that the Carney government didn’t give in to the Trump administration’s economic coercion.

Our right to suffer the Laurentian Elite’s economic coercion has been preserved!

OTTAWA – The United States is imposing a 50 per cent tariff on a range of Canadian exports starting Saturday, after the two countries could not reach a new deal before a deadline imposed by President Donald Trump.

Trump threatened the new tariffs in July to pressure Canada to move on a number of issues that were flagged as irritants to the U.S., including provincial bans on alcohol imports, tariffs on some American made auto exports and quotas on tariff-free U.S. dairy exports.

Crisis Carney’s big moment: selling “no deal is better than a bad deal” after Canada really, really wanted a deal

Catherine Cullen on CBC just admitted the quiet part out loud: Mark Carney now has to explain to premiers, businesses, and Canadians why the crisis he was elected to… pic.twitter.com/YHUUlvydSe

— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) August 22, 2026

OTTAWA – The head of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce calls the breakdown in talks for a Canada-U.S. trade deal a “self-defeating” body blow for continental competitiveness.

Candance Laing, Canadian Chamber of Commerce president, says in a statement no deal means American costs will go up and some Canadian firms will close.

Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, said on social media that walking away from a bad deal “is the right choice for Canada.”

I haven’t seen the Chamber of Commerce this upset since word of the massive abuse of the TFW program broke … Oh wait a minute they’re cheerleaders for that evil.

As well as Mass Immigration.