Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that his administration was directing the Department of Justice to investigate major meat-packing companies for allegedly driving up beef prices through collusion and price manipulation. The move — unsurprisingly — generated headlines, applause from ranchers, and skepticism from economists. Still, it raises an uncomfortable question north of the border: why hasn’t Canada done the same?
Many Canadians continue to boycott travel to the United States, and the U.S. economy is paying the price.
A U.S. Travel Association report forecasts a 3.2 per cent decline in international tourism spending in the country for 2025, a loss of $5.7 billion US compared to the previous year.
The association largely attributes the loss to a decline in the number of Canadian visitors — a trend that has persisted since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office in January, sparked a trade war with Canada and began referring to the country as the 51st state.
Lots of reasons to be angry with Trump & his policies but your anger should not be exclusive to the US.
Canada’s corporate and political class have beat us like a pinata for so long we’ve come to enjoy it.
Reserve a large dose of vitriol for the “ruling class”.
Canadians are cutting back sharply on trips to the United States this year, citing new border rules, safety concerns, and political tensions as reasons to stay closer to home.
New research from the Angus Reid Institute finds that only about one-in-10 Canadians have made multiple trips south in the past 12 months, down from 19% in 2023 and 21% in 2017.
Doug Ford, the Ontario Premier, was moments from taking the stage at a trade conference in Toronto when organisers announced an unexpected guest.
Beaming in from Washington, DC, Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, had joined to speak on the escalating trade rift between the US and Canada.
Mr Lutnick’s tone, those present say, was aggressive and his message clear; automotive manufacturing, the pride of Ontario, was coming back to America.
Countless surveys have told us that Canadians want to buy Canadian.
They say they want to support local farmers and processors, keep dollars at home, and protect jobs. But when standing in front of the grocery shelf, good intentions often gave way to convenience and price.
WASHINGTON – Most Americans — including Republicans — continue to view Canada positively in economic and trade matters even as U.S. President Donald Trump directs anger at their northern neighbour.
That finding comes from new polling by Leger, Maintenant Media and Canada 338 that also says Americans trust that Canada is negotiating in good faith as the countries face an uncertain trade relationship.
“In the American general public, there’s still some general goodwill towards Canada,” said Andrew Enns, Leger’s executive vice-president for Central Canada.
Who says the bromance is dead?
Premier Doug Ford insists his relationship with Prime Minister Mark Carney is as strong ever despite the flap with President Donald Trump over the Ontario government’s anti-tariff advertising blitz.
Asked if his rapport with Carney had been strained over the matter, Ford told reporters Tuesday: “Not at all. We get along extremely well.”
I bet.
So it turns out we really are those people, the ones who say “sorry” when someone steps on our foot, the ones who can’t stop apologizing when we’ve done something wrong or even — especially, really — when we haven’t.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said over the weekend that he apologized to Donald Trump for those Ontario TV ads that used the words of Ronald Reagan to highlight the fact that the U.S. tariff war against Canada will leave both sides worse off.
Amid the tempest over the tariff ads, including U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s indignant response, there’s something else the Ambassador said last week that should worry Canadians more, as well as Americans who are concerned about their country’s direction: His accusation that the ads quoting Ronald Reagan on tariffs amounted to “interfering in the political affairs of a sovereign nation.”
U.S. exceptionalism takes many forms, and one is political openness, including in the way foreign governments are able to wheel and deal throughout the U.S. largely in the same ways as American business entities. This has remained true throughout the years, even though other countries don’t like U.S. diplomats walking their halls of power in the same way. Other nations are sensitive to American authority and influence – Canada among them.
Canada is being pushed into a hard choice between an unwelcome union with the USA or being virtually frozen out economically states the author.
The problem as I see it is that there is very little left of “Canada” to defend.
Canada’s elites have turned our cities into 3rd World Migrant Dumpsters destroying the economic hopes and dreams of a generation of young citizens while benefiting handsomely themselves.
Our heritage has been trashed by the Marxist-thugs allowed to flourish within public institutions enabled by complicit governments and their corporate crony’s.
How many of you voted to rob your children or grand children of their fair shot at a decent life, of owning a home, of having a job and raising a family?
They haven’t just broken the social contract they’ve smashed it to pieces and shoved the shards down your throat.
Make no mistake the mass immigration of incompatible cultures is a deliberate effort to erase the old Canada and replace it with an exploitable underclass.
Anti-Trump ‘Elbows up’ pseudo-patriotism is the codswallop our contemptuous elites dole out to the very people they have been exploiting.
Trump threatens their place at the trough so now you’re their BFF “in this together” ally until you’re not.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he has a different recollection of his conversation with Prime Minister Mark Carney, who said he advised the Premier not to run an anti-tariff advertisement that angered U.S. President Donald Trump.
Mr. Ford also said the Prime Minister called him from his recent trip to Asia asking him to pull the ad, which featured a pro-free trade address from former president Ronald Reagan, but the Premier did not do so until days later.
The Premier added he would “never apologize” to Mr. Trump, as Mr. Carney did during his recent trip to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea.
Between October 24 and 29, 2025, Abacus Data surveyed 2,922 Canadian adults about the current political climate. The findings suggest a political environment that remains remarkably stable despite several flashpoints, including Donald Trump’s abrupt withdrawal from trade talks with Canada and Pierre Poilievre’s controversial remarks about the RCMP’s handling of Liberal-linked investigations.
With the federal budget set to be tabled on November 4, and the U.S.–Canada relationship under deeper strain, Canadians appear attentive, divided, and bracing for uncertainty, but not yet shifting decisively in any political direction.
For Travis McMaster, the general manager of Cocoon USA, an outdoor and travel brand, ordering products from his foreign suppliers this year has been a lot like gambling.
After reading the news of a trade truce between the United States and China last week, Mr. McMaster was relieved to have finally gotten a win. He estimated that President Trump’s decision to lower tariffs on Chinese products would save him roughly $30,000 in tariff costs on a shipment the company has coming in from China this week — enough to perhaps hire another seasonal employee in the small Washington town where Cocoon is based.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney was counselled to push back during an April call with Donald Trump if the U.S. president revived his complaints about border security, fentanyl from Canada or low defence spending, a newly released memo shows.
Federal officials prepared the internal memo to guide Carney’s conversation with Trump following the Liberal party’s April 28 election victory.
A concise Canadian summary of the April 29 call, released that day, says Trump congratulated Carney and that the leaders agreed on the importance of working together — as independent, sovereign nations — for their mutual betterment.
That worked great.
Mark Carney is trying to flex in the Doug Ford-Donald Trump ad controversy but instead of looking strong, he’s looking weak. Now, in addition to saying he apologized to Trump over the ad, he’s also saying he saw the ad and told Ford not to run it but didn’t do anything to stop the premier.
The emerging facts about the imbroglio between the Carney government and the Trump administration over tariffs and related issues are a distressing revelation of how not to conduct such very important negotiations. The Canadian government’s version of events was that President Trump had suspended discussions abruptly and angrily over an advertisement taken by the government of Ontario in which the late Republican President Ronald Reagan attacked tariffs in general. It was presented by Mark Carney’s government as illustrative, although the public was allowed to reach this conclusion for itself, of the churlish nature of the U.S. president and an absurd overreaction to a minor pinprick from a Canadian provincial premier (Doug Ford). The implication was that our sober and seasoned new prime minister would, if the roles were reversed, effortlessly rise above a minor barb from, let us say the governor of Tennessee or of Pennsylvania. President Trump’s initial reaction was good-natured and it was only 24 hours later that the Reagan ad was informally cited as the reason for suspending negotiations.
