“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

Canada to Claim Stellantis, GM Owe Hundreds of Millions to Government

The move could escalate tension between Ottawa and the automakers, who have scaled back production in the country

OTTAWA—Canada estimates that officials will aim to recover “hundreds of millions of dollars” from Stellantis and General Motors after the companies scaled back production in the country, Industry Minister Melanie Joly said Tuesday.

Joly told reporters she would provide more details in the coming days. Seeking compensation of that scale is likely to escalate tension between Ottawa and North American automakers, whose share of automobile production in Canada has declined steadily in the past decade.

Canadian officials and representatives from Stellantis have been in talks since at least November after the automaker said it would shift production of the Jeep Compass from a factory in Brampton, Ontario, to Illinois. Earlier this decade, Canada provided the equivalent of just over one billion Canadian dollars, or about US$731 million, to the automaker to reconfigure the Brampton plant and maintain production in Canada.

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John Ivison: Carney’s diversification plan will turn to disaster if China attacks Taiwan

In his speech at his party’s convention in Calgary on Friday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre expressed his wariness about the “strategic partnership” the Carney government has struck with China.

Cognizant that many western Conservatives welcomed Beijing’s tariff relief on canola provided by an agreement to allow 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into Canada, he did not expand on his misgivings.

The deal is deliberately limited in scope and certainly does not justify the wilder ramblings of some MAGA types like President Donald Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, who mused about Canada and China conducting joint military exercises in the Arctic.

Carney doesn’t care about no Taiwan.

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In the Trump era, the F-35 is no longer the right plane for Canada

For the first time in generations, Canada’s only neighbour is a threat.

The threat exists on two levels.

There are barriers to Canadian exports to the United States, and the possibility of more to come. That economic threat is reversing decades of continental trade and integration.

I bet Carney will announce a China bid.

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Canada-U.S. relationship ‘will not go back to what it was,’ Hillman says

Outgoing Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman says a “loss in trust” among Canadians with regard to the country’s relationship with the United States won’t be easy to undo.

“I think the Canada-U.S. relationship has changed and will not go back to what it was, at least for a very long time, if ever,” Hillman said in an interview with The West Block guest host Jackson Proskow.

Carney is working at it as hard as Trump.

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Harper, Chrétien call for national unity to confront Trump

Former prime ministers Stephen Harper and Jean Chrétien called on Canadians to stand united and help the country become less dependent on the United States to counter economic and sovereignty threats from U.S. President Donald Trump.

The onetime Conservative and Liberal leaders sat down to talk about the country’s challenges Monday at an event held by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, where Mr. Harper was awarded a gold medal for his promotion of Arctic sovereignty and national parks as prime minster from 2006 to 2015.

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Risks of working with China outweigh the benefits, Michael Kovrig warns

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trade deal with China has ruffled feathers, especially in Washington, and left many wondering whether the risk of exploitation and retaliation is worth the reward of increased trade.

National Post decided it would be a good time to share insights from China expert Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat who was wrongfully detained for nearly three years in China in retaliation for the arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. Kovrig has long stressed that China uses economic and political coercion in its dealings with partners.

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Canada Looks an Awful Lot Like Venezuela. And Trump Has Noticed

Recently, the United States of America (USA) successfully completed Operation: Absolute Resolve and, thereby, liberated the Venezuelan people from Nicolás Maduro’s brutal socialist regime.

More importantly, Maduro’s rapid dispatch and America’s open pursuit of democracy’s resurgence have now forced a bevy of corrupt leaders and nations to scurry out and confront their sins in the light of the new American epoch.

Unfortunately, it is clear that even the U.S’s historic ally, Canada, has been badly disfigured by its past decade of Liberal government and transformed into a fortress of hyper left-wing politics that now echoes many aspects of Maduro’s Venezuela.

Our media is actually worse than Venezuela’s

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And that’s also why Canada sucks!

h/t Mauser

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Canadians now prioritize trade with China over human rights concerns

A growing majority of Canadians now view economic engagement with China as more important than focusing on the country’s human rights record, a new Angus Reid Institute poll shows.

Three-in-five respondents (59%) said trade and investment opportunities should be Canada’s main priority, marking a sharp shift from recent years when human rights concerns dominated public opinion.

(Incognito)

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OLIVER: Playing to Davos and domestic audience, Mark Carney recklessly provoked Donald Trump

Prime Minister Mark Carney recklessly provoked President Donald Trump, with the predictable result of a hyperbolic overreaction — a 100% tariff threatened on all goods and services exported to the United States — which, taken at face value, would have a devastating impact on Canada’s economy.

Although we should not accept his threats at face value (take him seriously, but not literally), it was irresponsible for Carney to have indulged his ego for domestic political purposes.

Maybe Carney is working a con stoking the base for an early election while privately walking back his public comments?

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Tom Flanagan: Too bad Harper isn’t the one dealing with Donald Trump

Stephen Harper’s ten years as prime minister began on Feb. 6, 2006. Twenty years later is a good time to assess his achievements in office and the legacy he left behind. I worked closely with Harper when he was leader of the Opposition, but not when he was in government, so this is a view from the outside.

The first thing to remember is the constraints under which he laboured. He led a minority government until he finally won a majority in 2011. Even then, he was still hemmed in by a Liberal Senate, a left-leaning judiciary, and a federal civil service that tends to tilt Liberal or NDP. Thus, it is not surprising that his greatest accomplishments were in areas where he could exercise his executive authority without impediment.

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WARMINGTON: Trump’s Bombardier threat latest play in plan to hollow out Canadian business

With one press of a button on a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through Canada’s aerospace industry and raised questions about its very future.

It caught many by surprise – but not Unifor National President Lana Payne, who has warned Canadian workers are in the “fight” of their lives.

Related …

Big revenue, trade leverage, and industrial perks: Why Trump’s $264B tariff haul will be hard to give up

WASHINGTON, D.C. — “‘Tariffs’ is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary,” President Donald Trump liked to say early last year, calling it his favourite word and promising they would help usher in a new “golden age” for America.

He was serious.

Bombardier is what’s wrong with Canada, a corporate welfare parasite like so many others whose main business is robbing the public treasury to enrich the elite.

Mass immigration? The elite engaged in a human trafficking scam on a grand scale to line their pockets without care for the profound harm ordinary Canadians would suffer.

Multiculturalism and diversity? Bludgeons used to beat your very existence into the ground.

The media? A bought and paid for elite megaphone serving up a daily dose of propaganda purposely designed to humiliate.

The China Pivot? A villainous effort to keep Canada the elite’s ATM.

I fear Trump far less than I do our “betters”.

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Trump and Ottawa’s take on TACO will determine Canada’s fighter-jet strategy

In Ottawa, various cabinet ministers are praying that TACO – the “Trump always chickens out” theory – is still valid. Or largely so, or at least somewhat so, for they are on the verge of gambling big on the U.S. President’s rage factor.

TACO is high on their minds because Prime Minister Mark Carney and several of his cabinet ministers, including Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, are thought to be embracing the idea of Canada building the Saab Gripen fighter jet and Saab GlobalEye military surveillance plane. They are both Swedish creations whose construction in Canada would create 12,600 jobs, Saab has said.

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The Golden Dome is where Canada’s F-35 debate and Trump’s Greenland threat meet

It’s not much of a stretch to say that in terms of Canada-U.S. relations, we are — metaphorically speaking — at the point where we’d prefer to shoot the messenger, rather than listen to the message.

In the view of some experts, the political and economic discourse is so distorted, so angry, so mashed up that important points of strategic and defence policy that would have been mundane — even eye-glazing — less than a decade ago are lighting enormous rhetorical and political fires.

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