“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

Let’s recap.

Everything at the border is Canada’s fault. We’re not a real country and should just become the 51st state. Our economy will exist only to the extent that Donald Trump sweeps unwanted crumbs off his royal banquet table.

If we find any of that obnoxious or insulting or just absurd given that the U.S. looks like it’s about six months away from sinking into the sea under the weight of its own dysfunction, well, we’re just being rude.

In truth Canada is a Banana Republic where out of greed and callous disregard for citizens the corporate class conspired with the Liberal Party to trash the social contract and flood our nation with incompatible cultures each hoping to realize ill-gotten gains at our expense.

And boy did they succeed. Canada is a balkanized mess where the propagandized “Elbow People” perform a Stockholm Syndrome pantomime of patriotism.

But it’s easier to blame Trump than confront the elites who authored our decline.

So is Canada a real country? Not any longer.

Now if you’ll excuse me the Two Minute Hate is about to start.

A top economic adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned Canada’s broadcasting rules requiring Canadian content as a current irritant in trade negotiations.

U.S. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett spoke with CNN on Oct. 31 and was asked if Canada moving closer to China on trade will benefit the United States.

“What is good for the United States is getting Canada to start to adhere to their previous agreements and to follow the rule of law and to stop punishing American companies the way they’ve been,” Hassett said.

Ontario’s Ronald Reagan ad campaign enraged a mercurial American President and torpedoed trade negotiations between Canada and the U.S.

But just across the river from Windsor, Ont., in Detroit, not everyone has noticed the 60-second TV ad that has chilled diplomatic relations with Canadian neighbours they’ve always considered family.

Pausing his bike ride to take a selfie with Caesars Windsor Hotel & Casino in the background, Mike Johnson said he hasn’t seen the clip.

GYEONGJU — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he told Ontario Premier Doug Ford that he didn’t think the province should run the ad campaign that’s being blamed for ending trade talks with the U.S.

When asked on Saturday what Ford’s response to that was, Carney said, “Well, you saw what came of it.”

The prime minister also confirmed he did apologize to U.S. President Donald Trump because Trump was “offended” by the ad.

BOOM Mark Carney DID apologize to President Trump over the anti Tariff ad. So many people said President Trump was lying, maybe they should apologize too pic.twitter.com/j81RQYid9H

— Melissa (@MelissaLMRogers) November 1, 2025

Up to 130 jobs will be lost as furniture manufacturer Holsag Canada will shutter its facility in Lindsay, Ont., in March 2026.

Parent company Mity Inc., based in Orem, Utah, announced earlier this month that the operations in the heart of Kawartha Lakes will be consolidated with its U.S. facilities.

Mity CEO Kevin McCoy says the move comes after a comprehensive review of the company’s global operations and reflects “macroeconomic and operational realities.”

The courts said no, three times in a row.

In May, the Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled Donald Trump had no authority to impose 10-per-cent tariffs on global imports and no authority, in citing trade imbalances and fentanyl trafficking, to impose even higher rates on Canada. The Trump administration had claimed such authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

The latest spat between Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump gives the impression that North America is being run by schoolchildren.

Trump often strikes me as an older, more powerful version of my kids. Like them, he has a habit of making things up and confidently stating them as fact; he’s prone to emotional outbursts whenever he doesn’t get his way; and he thinks he’s the best at just about everything.

Confidential government deals worth billions of dollars to help fund a Stellantis-backed electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., carry dozens of conditions that, if violated, give federal officials the power to end the agreements and even force repayment in some cases, according to copies obtained by CBC Windsor.

It is unclear, however, if the contracts contain guarantees related to the company’s broader footprint in Canada, as elected officials have claimed. Some portions of the documents are redacted, so the full terms of the agreements are unknown.

Stellantis exec sidesteps questions on whether gov’t deals included jobs guarantees

A Stellantis executive was grilled by MPs Wednesday over whether blockbuster subsidy deals reached with the federal government in recent years included guarantees to maintain Canadian auto jobs — as government officials have repeatedly said.

Speaking to a House of Commons committee, the former president for Stellantis Canada, Jeff Hines, sought to underscore the company’s commitment to the Canadian auto sector, but would not directly address whether protections for existing positions had been inked in past deals.

Our lovable protagonist, Captain Canada, is at it again. Like our very own Inspector Gadget, who tries to foil Dr. Claw but invariably ends up tangling himself in his helicopter hat, Ontario Premier Doug Ford spent millions of dollars to try to persuade Americans to turn on their President’s tariffs. But somehow, Canada ended up with a 10-per-cent hike on existing tariffs. Whoops. These damn gadgets never seem to work right.

The latest round in the very syncopated Canadian-American tariff disagreements and discussions has more the air of oversized children in a sandbox hurling mud balls at each other than statesmen of governments of serious countries attempting to resolve a disagreement. In Canada, the second ring level of jurisdiction between the federal government and municipal governments are called provinces and under the Canadian Constitution, provinces have rather greater powers than American states, including a concurrent jurisdiction in direct personal and corporate income taxes.

At the closing news conference after meeting Asian leaders in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Monday, Mark Carney said something curious.

When asked whether Donald Trump really called off trade talks with Canada because Doug Ford broadcast an antitariff ad quoting former president Ronald Reagan, the prime minister said: “I would suggest you take the president at his word for his reasons.”

This doesn’t make sense.

Makes sense if you’re in the bag of the CCP.

Doug Ford urges U.S. ambassador to ‘apologize’ for f-bombs aimed at Ontario diplomat

Premier Doug Ford has denounced the U.S. ambassador to Canada for profanely attacking Ontario’s representative to Washington at a gala reception.

“Absolutely unacceptable. It’s unbecoming of an ambassador,” Ford said Wednesday at Queen’s Park.

The premier said Pete Hoekstra, U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambassador, should “apologize” to David Paterson, Ontario’s Washington point person.

It’s time for Doug Ford to focus on being the premier of Ontario. He’ll be sad to hang up the Captain Canada cape, but the best thing he can do to help this country stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump is to make sure our most populous province is running at peak efficiency. Right now, it isn’t.

Let’s get something out of the way right off the top: I don’t blame Ford for the breakdown in trade relations between Canada and the United States. The blame for that lies entirely with Trump. He blew up the last deal, and he could ram a new one through if he wanted. He doesn’t. The commercial that has so angered the president makes for a convenient excuse. Absent that, he’d have found another one.