“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

Does striking down Trump’s ‘emergency’ tariffs make it better or worse for Canada?

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld lower-court rulings on President Donald Trump’s use of the International Emergency Powers Act, confirming that Mr. Trump’s usage of such powers to impose tariffs at will is unconstitutional and must end.

Canada’s long nightmare over U.S. tariffs is poised to change. But whether that is for better or worse depends on who within Canada we are talking about – which industry and, by extension, which province.

CBC Live Feed – Canada retains exemptions in Trump’s new order for 10% global tariffs
Backup plan?

The Many Trump Tariffs That Will Remain in Place

h/t Everyone who sent stuff in

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Canadians think Trump’s tariffs are only going to get worse, poll finds

OTTAWA — Canadians fear that tariff threats from the United States are only going to get worse, a new poll found.

Forty-six per cent of Canadians believe that U.S. President Donald Trump will raise tariffs on Canada, which is an increase of 19 percentage points since May 2025. Only 20 per cent of Canadians think that tariffs will be rescinded, a decrease of 20 percentage points from last year.

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Canada will have to accept higher U.S. tariffs and unthinkable concessions

As the renegotiation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement looms, game theory suggests Ottawa may have to accept higher American tariffs and make previously unthinkable concessions.

The calculus has fundamentally changed. In previous negotiations, all three countries shared a commitment to the principles of free trade which ensured co-operative outcomes. Now, the United States sees trade through a different lens entirely, one revealed in recent trade deals and policy statements. And while dismissing anything from President Donald Trump’s administration has become fashionable, the logic of their position isn’t entirely without foundation.

Someone with common sense snuck into the Globe and slipped this in.

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Build it here or buy it there? Canada’s defence plan meets Trump’s new arms agenda

The Canadian government’s long-awaited defence industrial strategy formally landed on Tuesday and arrives in the shadow of a push by the Trump administration to further make the United States the arms-maker of choice among allies.

The new strategy has been in the works for more than a year and promises to use defence investment to leverage the Canadian economy and jobs.

It sets out a series of important, high benchmarks for the country to achieve over the next decade, including buying and maintaining most of the military’s equipment domestically.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada’s reliance on the U.S. for our food is a recipe for disaster

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump mused about blocking the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge – built to ease the movement of products, including food, into our country. It highlighted an existential problem: Canada is dependent on the United States for access to nutritious foods, like fruits and vegetables.

Our research team has been tracking the global flows of fresh fruits and vegetables into Canada to assess our country’s food security, and we now have the numbers that should sound the alarm, and inspire the country to take action. The United States potentially controls as much as 82.9 per cent of all fruits and vegetables that enter into Canada. Not only do we import much of our fruits and vegetables from the U.S. – a whopping 98 per cent of our imported lettuce is grown there – but even produce from other countries largely travels here via American highways and shipping ports.

I don’t know why but I get a “The Choco ration has been increased from 25 to 20 grams” vibe from the authors.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Food Insecurity"

John Ivison: Canada’s pivot to Europe for trade gains traction as Trump loses momentum

One of the most unheralded stories of last year was the increase in Canadian exports to the United Kingdom, to the point Britain has become this country’s second-largest export market, overtaking China.

In the first 11 months of 2025, exports to the U.K. hit $42.5 billion, compared to $31 billion to China. That is a nearly 60 per cent increase, in large measure because of a surge in gold shipments (Canada is a producer; Britain a global hub) but there were solid rises in agrifood, clean tech and aircraft.

Europe is pretty much Canada economically, over taxed, over regulated, hollowed out by mass migration, preyed upon by green scamming elites, criminalized by their governments. I do not see the upside.

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‘It’s a dependency’: Carney touts diversifying defence procurement beyond the U.S. in new strategy

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his government’s defence industrial strategy on Tuesday, promising to build up Canada’s defence industries and seek out partnerships beyond the United States.

“Let me start by acknowledging that there are many strengths to this partnership that we have with the United States,” said Carney during a press conference in Montreal. “But it is a dependency, and it’s a dependency we want to change in a positive way by building up our defence capacities here and our other partnerships abroad.”

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Pierre Poilielbow distances himself from MP’s comments about anti-U.S. ‘hissy fit’

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is distancing himself from comments made by one his MPs who told a right-wing U.S. news outlet that some in Canada were engaging in a “hissy fit” of anti-Americanism, which was counterproductive in trying to deal with the U.S.

Poilievre appeared before reporters on Tuesday and was asked whether he agreed with the assessment provided by Ontario MP Jamil Jivani to Breitbart News, following a visit to the White House where he met with senior administration members, including a brief conversation with U.S President Donald Trump.

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Canada Chooses to Dump Milk Rather Than Lower Prices

In November 2025, Canada’s supply management system deliberately destroyed millions of litres of perfectly good milk in Ontario, even as grocery prices remained high and food banks reported record demand.

That destruction was not an accident or a processing failure. It was the predictable outcome of policy.

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Canadians are ready for Chinese-made autos, but experts note there are security risks

Weeks after Ottawa announced that it would allow a limited number of Chinese-made vehicles into the Canadian market, some have warned that the move puts data privacy at risk. But that might not be a significant turn-off for consumers who are in the market for a new car.

While roaming the Canadian International AutoShow on Friday, Dianne Dougall and Pat Shephard — who were scouting for a new EV to replace their Tesla — said that a Chinese-made EVs would “absolutely” interest them.

Privacy wouldn’t pose any more of a concern than any other connected vehicle, they said.

Given Carney’s policies will likely devastate domestic ICE vehicle manufacturing do you think it’s possible some Canadians may vandalize ChiCom EV’s? 

Gee I hope not for the sake of our Quisling 5th Columnists.

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Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending

Canada Recycles to save on military expenditures – The Sherman Air Superiority Ground Attack Tank Thingy

The Canadian government, faced with increasing hostility from the Trump administration, plans to divert billions of dollars in military spending it long gave to U.S. defense companies and direct it instead to domestic manufacturers.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s wholesale expansion of Canadian military spending was prompted by pressure from President Trump, but with relations between the longstanding allies deteriorating, American companies will no longer reap the benefit.

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PM Carney taps former head of public service to spearhead CUSMA negotiations

Prime Minister Mark Carney has chosen former clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette to head Canada’s trade negotiations as it prepares for a review of the North American trade pact this year.

Charette’s title is chief trade negotiator to the United States, according to a Monday news release from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). She’ll be a senior adviser to Carney and Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc.

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LILLEY: Liberals dead-set on attacking Jamil Jivani over effort to help with Trump

Liberals in this country are going out of their way to undermine a man who only wanted to help the country in trade talks with Trump.

First, they said Conservative MP Jamil Jivani wasn’t qualified to go to Washington. Then he was, according to Liberals, a Nazi sympathizer for going to Washington. And then he was too ugly to help.

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The Quiet Architect of Trump’s Global Trade War

Jamieson Greer, a low-key lawyer from a working-class background, is rewriting the rules of the global economy at the president’s behest.

On Jan. 26, 2025, Jamieson Greer was teaching Sunday school to a group of 9-year-olds when one of his phones started blowing up with calls from the White House. Six days into the new administration, President Trump was already deploying his favorite weapon: the threat of crippling tariffs to bend countries to his will.

This time, the president was threatening Colombia, after it refused to accept U.S. military planes of deported immigrants. Mr. Greer would not join the Trump administration for some time yet, but he was already a key adviser on trade, flying to Mar-a-Lago in the weeks before to help plan Mr. Trump’s agenda.

“Why do you have two phones?” a student asked him.

“I have a kind of crazy job,” Mr. Greer replied.

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