“Canada – USA Tariff Wars” – Page 47

GM’s Boss Isn’t Thrilled About What Canada Has Agreed To

Not long after Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Unifor union leader Lana Payne voiced their concerns over Canada’s recent trade agreement with China, GM CEO Mary Barra weighed in as well. Given what’s at stake, especially the potential arrival of low-cost Chinese EVs in North America, her stance was as expected.

Barra made it clear she sees the deal as working against efforts to bolster a strong North American manufacturing base. The underlying concern is one of both economic and strategic security.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2026January 31, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Carney’s speech makes Canada a threat to Trump

As an illustration of Canada’s relative irrelevance on the world stage, I always liked the story about external affairs minister Lester Pearson’s visit to president Dwight Eisenhower, an avid golfer.

Pearson emerged from a meeting in disbelief that Ike hadn’t even heard of a pressing Canadian issue. “You’d think,” he muttered to an aide, “his caddie would have mentioned it to him.”

There have been moments when Canada popped up for a day or two on American news, but by and large we’ve been a marginal force. That changed with Mark Carney’s speech in Davos.

by Blazingcatfur•January 30, 2026January 29, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Trump targets Canadian aircraft in latest tariff threat, says he’ll ‘decertify’ Bombardier jets

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to slap a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian aircraft and says his administration will “decertify” planes made by Canadian aerospace company Bombardier.

In a post on his social media site, Truth Social, Trump justified his latest trade war escalation by accusing Ottawa of blocking the certification of a series of jets made by U.S.-based Gulfstream.

by Blazingcatfur•January 29, 2026January 29, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

The Golden Dome, a Trumpian con job, is a waste of money for Canada

Golden Dome is back in the news, albeit in an unusual way.

It’s not because Russia or China are building new intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, but because U.S. President Donald Trump worked himself into a corner promising he’d acquire Greenland one way or another, and the inevitable result was economic turmoil, the possible end of NATO, and Prime Minister Mark Carney telling the world the Pax Americana is effectively over.

by Blazingcatfur•January 29, 2026January 29, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Why Mark Carney was wrong to provoke Donald Trump in Davos speech

Canada is making a costly mistake in managing its relationship with the United States. Mark Carney’s Davos speech, widely praised abroad, is the clearest recent example.

Canadians have been rattled by the aggressive approach the Trump administration has taken over the past year. There is no question that Canada needs to diversify trade and take concrete steps to protect its sovereignty.

But there is a growing tendency to treat antagonism toward Washington as a substitute for sovereignty. Publicly needling the U.S., or provoking its president, is increasingly framed as proof of strength or moral superiority. Those who question this approach are often treated as naïve at best, disloyal at worst.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Mark Carney:

“He rose to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump message, and that's not a great place to be when you're negotiating with an economy that is multiples larger than you are.”

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— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) January 28, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•January 29, 2026January 28, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

GM Canada layoffs hit Oshawa plant, putting up to 1,200 autoworkers out of work Friday

The day Oshawa, Ont., autoworkers have dreaded for months has arrived, as GM Canada is poised to cut a shift at the city’s plant, costing over a thousand workers their jobs.

Up to 1,200 workers throughout the auto supply chain are expected to complete their final shift on Friday as the company scales back its Canadian operations, according to the union president who represents them.

GM Canada confirmed Thursday approximately 500 of those people are its employees.

by Blazingcatfur•January 29, 2026January 29, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

John Ivison: Sources say Ottawa considering Swedish jets over F-35s for half of fleet

The petulance displayed by the U.S. ambassador to Canada is exactly what you might expect from Pete Hoekstra if he had just been informed that Canada intends to spend half the money earmarked for new F-35 fighter jets on the rival Swedish Gripen.

Hoekstra apparently skipped the class on diplomacy being about saying the nastiest thing in the nicest way. Instead, he threatened that there would be consequences for the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), if Canada did not buy 88 F-35A fighter jets, as the Trudeau government said it would in December 2022 (after initially cancelling the project in 2015).

by Blazingcatfur•January 28, 2026January 28, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", WTF?

Scott Bessent warns Carney not to ‘pick a fight’ with Trump

The Trump administration is once again ramping up its rhetorical pressure on Canada, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issuing a fresh warning to Prime Minister Mark Carney over looming trade negotiations.

Bessent was at an event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to launch what U.S. President Donald Trump has dubbed “Trump Accounts,” an investment vehicle for children.

Related …

Andrew, since you work for a newspaper, you should ask for the transcripts of the call with the Prime Minister’s Office. There are two conflicting versions, and the PMO is notorious for not being fully forthcoming—especially when it comes to the United States. Counter-tariffs are… https://t.co/5gomaHTGCb

— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) January 28, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•January 28, 2026January 28, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Canada, California, and Chinese Electric Cars

Driving down an uncertain road.

On his recent trip to Beijing, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney praised the leadership of Xi Jinping and announced plans to bring 49,000 Chinese electric cars into Canada. In several ways that escaped notice, Carney was following in the footsteps of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

As David Frum notes, Trudeau “traveled to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities,” a reference to the Moscow Economic Conference in April, 1952. Stalin’s USSR came billed as a workers’ state based on the “scientific” principles of Marxism-Leninism, as opposed to the “bourgeois” nations with their market economies. The regime’s admirers assumed that the Communist regime’s products would be superior, but it didn’t turn out that way.

by Blazingcatfur•January 27, 2026January 27, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada, USA

Nexus applications have plummeted in another sign Canadians are avoiding Trump’s America

The number of Canadian applications for the Nexus trusted-traveller program has fallen off a cliff since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year.

Applications had been steadily increasing following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

by Blazingcatfur•January 27, 2026January 27, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Carney Says He Regrets ‘Not a Word’ of Davos Speech That Drew Trump Response

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has no regrets about his speech at the World Economic Forum last week, which drew a sharp response from U.S. President Donald Trump and was followed by tariff threats tied to Ottawa’s push to deepen ties with Beijing.

When asked by reporters on Jan. 26 whether he regrets certain sections of his speech, or if he thinks he might have gone too far, Carney responded in French, “Not a word. Not at all.”

Why would he have regrets? He’s well insulated and never has to suffer the consequences of his own grifts.

And he’s got an election to win!

Update: Oops … Trump’s Team says Carney walked back many of his Davos comments. Carney denies it but then Carney’s memory is suspect.

by Blazingcatfur•January 27, 2026January 27, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

China says Canada deal not aimed at U.S. after tariff threat

China said on Monday that a preliminary trade deal with Canada “does not target any third parties” after the United States threatened to impose 100-per cent tariffs on Canadian products if the agreement were finalised.

Under the deal, announced this month, Beijing is expected to reduce tariffs on Canadian canola imports and grant Canadians visa-free travel to China.

But over the weekend, the United States — Canada’s traditional ally — threatened to impose 100-per cent tariffs on Canadian products if the deal were to go ahead, saying it would allow China to “dump goods”.

I totally trust Xi!

by Blazingcatfur•January 27, 2026January 26, 2026•0•"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Note to Mr. Carney, China is not our friend

Well, who saw that coming? Yesterday’s threat from President Donald Trump – that Canada would face 100% tariffs on all exports to the United States (US) if it “does a deal with China” – was widely reported and widely derided in Canadian political circles.

Yet if you strip away the hyperbole and the social media grandstanding, Trump’s response was both predictable and in a narrow strategic sense, reasonable. Think about it; to establish a continental security perimeter against Russia and China, he’s trying to get his hands on Greenland. But even as he’s doing that, the Government of Canada is opening up a backdoor entry point to China.

(Incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•January 26, 2026January 25, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Adam Zivo: Carney put Liberals first, even though Trump tariff threat was predictable

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose crippling tariffs should Ottawa and Beijing sign a trade deal is unacceptably coercive and mimics China’s behaviour. Yet, at the same time, Prime Minister Mark Carney could be navigating this situation better, and seems to be prioritizing political theatre over Canada’s interests.

Throughout his second presidency, Trump’s approach to foreign policy has been erratic and disruptive. While his interventions in Venezuela and the Middle East have been commendable, their benefits have been outweighed by his bullying of traditional American allies, as well as his threats to punish western economies should they fail to obsequiously follow his agenda.

I honestly believe Carney’s theatrics are a deliberate ploy designed to ensure a deal with China and the personal enrichment of he and pals.

by Blazingcatfur•January 26, 2026January 25, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Reality Behind a “U.S. Invasion” War-Planning Story That Landed Amid Heated Arctic Defence Negotiations as Carney Went to Davos

OTTAWA — Recent headlines have sensationalised reports that the Canadian Armed Forces modelled hypothetical U.S. invasion scenarios, framing them as evidence of deteriorating alliances or impending conflict. This narrative not only fuels unnecessary alarm, but misrepresents how serious militaries operate.

Having worked on modelling and contingency planning for highly improbable scenarios in both government and the private sector, I believe it is important for readers to understand the broader context behind scenarios that appeared on the front page of Canada’s “newspaper of record,” The Globe and Mail, on January 20.

by Blazingcatfur•January 26, 2026January 25, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"